BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — Protesters picketed Sussan's fashion store in Pitt Street
Mall on February 8, chanting "this sweat goes with clothes at Sussans".
The picket was part of the campaign, an initiative of Fairwear, aimed at
protecting
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Los Angeles Times ran a cartoon that graphically shows the situation California's consumers find ourselves in today: two big pulley wheels sucking in a consumer. The top wheel says, "power suppliers" and the bottom wheel,
You peer insensate from the parapetlike some myopic gargoyleone eye blinded by the futurethe other averted from the pastAnd from your twisted spout- regretDeep and sincere, no doubtbut, not sorrow: yetGabbling grotesque glyphdistorting the story of
BY SEAN HEALY
Ecuadoran President Gustavo Noboa has been forced into a partial backdown on International Monetary Fund-mandated prices rises on fuel and transport after massive countrywide protests by indigenous people and unionists reminiscent of
BY NICK SOUDAKOFF
DARWIN — Two hundred people have marked the first anniversary of the death in custody of a young man sentenced to a 28-day jail sentence for stealing textas, in an emotional rally here on February 9 calling for an end to
BY VIV MILEY
Labor leader Kim Beazley launched his plan for a "knowledge nation" at the National Press Club on January 24. At its core is a proposal to establish a University of Australia Online which would enrol an additional 100,000 undergraduate
BY MICHELE JONES
SYDNEY — The Democratic Socialist Party and Resistance started the year off in a big way with a well-attended opening of the eastern suburbs Resistance Centre on February 3. Around 50 members, supporters and political activists
BY SEAN HEALY
Leaked internal correspondence has revealed a deep crisis of morale in the World Bank, with staff fearful of being humiliated by top executives or of being made redundant, incensed at being forced to compete against each other in the
I see the struggle of my people in a land so unjust
I try not to revert to racism
But there's very little you can trust
The governments make all these promises
Assuring us it will all be OK
Most of which are broken after election day
BY TRISHA REIMERS
GEELONG — So heated were the different opinions that police had to be stationed at a February 6 meeting of 200 people to discuss the future of the Offshore Music Festival, which has been a regular occurence in the seaside town
BY MAX LANE
During 2000, only the People's Democratic Party (PRD) championed the political slogan: "Smash the remnants of the New Order, leave behind the fake reformers". But now, following attempts by the party of former dictator Suharto and the
BY ABBY SCHER
NEW YORK — Over the past 12 months, the US government has intensified its crackdown on political dissidents opposing corporate globalisation. With the Secret Service taking on extraordinary powers designed to combat terrorism,
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