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Doug Lorimer "Shiite Muslim religious leaders ratcheted up their rhetoric against the United States during Friday prayers", the April 1 Los Angeles Times reported, adding that "Shiite religious leaders throughout the country ... condemned a March
Sarah Stephen Soon after the federal government's decision to grant 42 West Papuan asylum seekers temporary protection visas, an April 2 national day of action in solidarity with West Papua welcomed the decision while urging the government not to
SYDNEY — On April 4, NSW Greens MP and infrastructure spokesperson Sylvia Hale moved in the NSW parliament to stop the state government from selling off the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme. Hale said: "This government's record on public
Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter, Caracas "I think it is possible to build socialism. We are demonstrating it already", Lilibet Sira Torres, Caracas director of the Frente de Francisco Miranda, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly. The FFM is a revolutionary youth
Allen Myers, Hanoi The International Conference of Agent Orange/Dioxin Victims, held in Vietnam's capital on March 28-29, drew some 150 participants, about half of them from outside Vietnam. After two days of discussion and a visit to Friendship
Natalie Lowrey "Lake Cowal is our heartland and we'll never give up fighting for it, or let go of our culture ... They tell us gold will be poured soon, but we are keeping up our campaign here and overseas." These fighting words are from Wiradjuri
Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising during the Second World War, has accused the conservative religious broadcaster Radio Maryja of "xenophobia, chauvinism and anti-Semitism" and has called on Prime Minister
WaterDirected by Deepa MehtaStarring Seema Biswas, Lisa Ray, John Abraham and SaralaDendy FilmsScreening from April 13 REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM "There are three options from which widows may choose, according to our texts. They may burn with
Rachel Evans & Arthur Randell, Sydney The federal government's attempt to silence students with their mis-named "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) is being resisted by students campaigning on various campuses for secure, well-lit spaces that are
Allen Myers, Hanoi Mai Giang Vu was a conscript in the Saigon regime's military from 1968 to 1973, when he was wounded, losing his left eye. In 1968 he accompanied an infantry patrol on a week-long defoliation operation. In 1970 and 1971 he was
Graham Matthews Barely one week after the federal government's anti-worker legislation became law on March 27, and following a spate of sackings nationally — the most publicised being the Cowra Abattoir workers in NSW — the new power that Work
On March 25, a million-strong march of immigrants made its way through the streets of Los Angeles in protest at proposed laws that would further entrench the oppression of undocumented workers in the US. Tens of thousands have joined protests in