The following is abridged from a speech by Alex Bainbridge to a 800-strong civil rights rally organised by the Council for Civil Liberties in Hobart on November 12.
I want to begin by telling two stories.
The first is about by-law number 418,
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Alex Miller
On November 21, police arrested Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) member of the Scottish parliament Tommy Sheridan after a peaceful direct action that prevented British immigration officials from carrying out dawn raids on refugees' homes.
Sarah Smith, Perth
The WA branch of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has come under increasing attack since the federal Coalition government's Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act was passed in September.
Sarah Stephen
Four years after her unlawful deportation, and six months after its public revelation, Vivian Solon finally returned home from the Philippines on November 18.
Solon's family had listed her as a missing person since July 2003, and
Canto Coro, a Brunswick-based community choir with a repertoire composed of new work and Latin American and Greek choral classics, and the popular Andean band Inka Marka, present the concert ABLAZE, featuring the beautiful music of Victor Jara.
Graham Matthews
The federal government's Work Choices legislation aims to make illegal much of the "bread and butter" work of unions. The threat of a $33,000 fine awaits unions that continue to organise their members. The legislation also threatens
On November 24, Irish Ferries sent union-busting security guards to take over its ferries in the Irish Sea. Guards boarded the Isle of Inishmore at Pembroke as passengers, then informed the Seamen's Union of Ireland that they had been ordered to take
At least 600 people rallied on November 25 in support of 25 doctors who resigned from the public health system on November 16 after striking for more than two months. The doctors resigned when Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi declared they
Pip Hinman
The Melbourne-based Timor Sea Justice Campaign on November 23 described the Howard government's decision to discontinue funding to 13 East Timorese NGOs as "political interference".
Timor Sea Justice Campaign spokesperson Vanessa
Ruddock — no!'
LISMORE — On November 21, federal attorney-general Philip Ruddock was met by 120 protesters when he came to Lismore. The protest was organised by the Lismore Civil Rights Coalition and protesters chanted "Free speech — yes,
Revolutionary Venezuela is challenging the centuries-old prejudices of machismo and homophobia, the legacy of Spanish colonialism in Latin America. Yet as Heisler Vaamonde of the Revolutionary Gay Movement (MGR) told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's Kiraz Janicke
On November 19, Cuban-born Santiago Alvarez Magrina was detained in Miami by federal US authorities. Alvarez is linked to terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who was behind the bombing of a commercial airliner that killed 73 people. A stockpile of
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