John Gauci
Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange have lodged the first ever lawsuit of its kind in a US court. Six victims initially filed the lawsuit against a consortium of petrochemical companies on January 30, however, the Viet Nam Society for
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When The World Said No To War is a project to organise a photographic exhibition, education forum and book about the anti-war protests that took place around the world in February 2003. The project was conceived as a tribute to the spirit of the 30
Lizzie Nagy& Kylie Moon
The Senate sat an extra day on August 13 to enable the passage of the Marriage Amendment Act, which declares that marriages between same-sex couples in other countries will not be legally recognised as such in Australia.
Control RoomDirected by Jehane Noujaim83 minutes
Distributed in Australia by Rialto Entertainment
REVIEWED BY VANNESSA HEARMAN
Control Room is a moving account of life inside the Qatar-based Aljazeera satellite television station, during the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
If you try to recall the Coalition government's most outrageous attacks on asylum seekers, chances are you would recall the Tampa Affair, the children overboard incident, and the isolated, madness-inducing, detention centres. But
James Vassilopoulos
Is this the way to "celebrate humanity": to evict Roma families from where they have been living for 30 years in order to build car parks? To allow poor safety to claim the lives of 13 workers? To launch a major attack on civil
Luke Fomiatti, Sydney
UWS students declared victory after the University of Western Sydney Board of Trustees voted against increasing HECS fees on August 12.
With only two days' notice, 100 students blockaded the secret meeting, which was called
Ben Cavalli& Fred Fuentes, Perth
The highest decision making body of academics at University of Western Australia (UWA), the academic board, narrowly voted on August 11 to recommend that the UWA senate reject the current proposal to introduce
Pip Hinman, Sydney
"The August 8 statement by 43 former service chiefs and diplomats, accusing PM John Howard of lying about the reasons for Australia going to war on Iraq, underlines what most Australians already know", Anna Samson from Sydney's
I have just spent three months living in Venezuela, an oil-rich Third World country with a population of 26 million, of whom 80% live on or below the poverty line. But there are exciting events taking place in this country.
In 1998, left-wing
REVIEW BY JESS MELVIN
The CorporationDirected by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott.Written by Joel Bakan, with narration written by Harold Crooks and Mark Achbar.Produced by Big Picture Media CorporationReleased by Zeitgeist Films.145 minutes.
The
One of the most famous writings in the history of
socialism is the Junius Pamphlet, written by German
socialist Rosa Luxemburg in 1915 while she was in prison for
opposing the first world war.
Obviously, many things have changed in the world
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