The reason for the existence of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) can be summed up in just two words: corporate greed.
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PM John Howard and US President George Bush are in trouble over their “war on terror”. Two things help illustrate why this is the case, and how we can hasten them both into the dustbin of history.
During May-June this year, QueenslandÂ’s Shoalwater Bay will host tens of thousands of Australian and US troops engaged live-fire, large-scale military exercises that will pose grave risks for the environment and peopleÂ’s health. The Shoalwater Military Training Area (SWMTA) is located inside the Great Barrier Reef National Park.
One of ResistanceÂ’s main campaigns is to strengthen the movement across Australia to end the occupation of Iraq. As well as building the biggest possible protests on March 17-18, the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we are helping to organise contingents from around the country to join the mass convergence in Sydney when US President George Bush comes to the APEC meeting in September.
A satirical website created by climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle (RTN) has twice been shut down by the powerful coal industry lobby group, the NSW Minerals Council.
Every week since February 3, around 60 people have gathered outside the office of federal Liberal MP Kerry Bartlett to call for Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks to be brought home. The initiator of the vigils, Kevin Hardwick, told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly that the vigils would continue until the Hicks issue is resolved.
Becoming socially aware in Townsville, a city of One Nation voters, was not ideal. It was politically isolating and hard to find information that shed any light on the pressing questions on my mind: why is the world so screwed up and how is this sustainable?
The organisers of the Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum, “Fighting and organising globally against neoliberalism”, are calling on all activists, organisations and communities who are committed to building a better world to join together in Melbourne on October 11-14.
The Blue Team appeared to regain some advantage after the leader of the (mislabeled) Red Team was forced to admit he’d made an “error of judgement” in meeting up three times last year with convicted fraud and former WA premier Brian Burke (now a professional lobbyist).
Commenting on the natural disaster that has left large swathes of Bolivia’s lowland east underwater after months of flooding, and much of the Andean region covered in ice, in late February Bolivian President Evo Morales called for a global debate on the effects of climate change and environmental destruction on poor nations.
The situation remains tense in East TimorÂ’s capital, Dili, in the wake of the Australian Defence Force-led operation on March 4 to capture renegade East Timorese army officer Major Alfredo Reinado.
Four years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the country is wracked by ongoing and escalating violence. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died, according to a study published in the respected British medical journal The Lancet in October.
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