Workers on all of Argentina's railroads, except the Buenos Aires subway network, went on strike on August 4, together with other sectors, demanding a salary rise. Engine-driver guild representatives warned that if there was no agreement in a week,
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Marcus Pabian, Ciudad Bolivar
On August 3, our solidarity brigade group ventured out early to visit 16 young Indigenous students at the National Experimental University in Ciudad Bolivar.
As we arrived, a veteran indigenous leader was addressing
Norm Dixon
The Australian government's policy on global warming could be summed by a verse from Bobby McFerrin's facetious late-'80s hit song "Don't worry, be happy": "In every life we have some trouble/ But when you worry you make it double/ Don't
Bernie Stephens, Harare
The finding by UN Special Envoy Anna Tibaijuka that Operation Murambatsvina (drive out rubbish) — the bulldozing of informal settlements — has left up to 3.3 million Zimbabweans "deeper in poverty, deprivation and
In some countries, marriage-like laws recognise "registered partnerships" rather than "marriage" for same-sex unions. This is the case in Denmark, where, in 1989, same-sex couples were able to "marry" with the same rights as heterosexual couples.
The House of Saud — Covers the period from late 1973 when the Saudi Arabian oil embargo was affecting US military capabilities and its war in Vietnam, to the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and then the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. SBS, Friday, August 12, 2pm.
The Howard government is using the recent terrorist bombings in London as a pretext to reintroduce the idea of a national identity card. If this idea became reality, it would spell the death of civil liberties in Australia.
Coalition and Labor
John Pilger, London
The latest bombings in London have produced a strange political atmosphere here; I cannot recall anything like it. A truth is struggling to be heard. It is being said guardedly, apologetically. Occasionally, a member of the
The Israeli government has cancelled a course on multiculturalism because of the inclusion in the curriculum of articles by Palestinian writer and activist Edward Said. The course, initiated and funded by the Jerusalem Foundation, was designed to
Sue Bull, Ballarat
At a meeting on August 5, 90 National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members employed at Ballarat University vowed to fight any attempts by their administration to stand them down for bans imposed as part of a dispute over a new
Speaking at an event in New Mexico on July 23 to promote her new book My Life So Far, actor and activist Jane Fonda announced that she was joining the movement to oppose the war in Iraq. "I've decided I'm coming out. I have not taken a stand on any
Sibylle Kaczorek, Sydney
On August 2, Sister Susan Connelly, assistant director of the Mary MacKillop Institute for East Timor Studies, said that "fairness" should be the overarching principle in the David versus Goliath stand-off that
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