GLW issue 553, published 2003-09-10.

Tampa refugees welcomed in Brisbane

BY BILL MASON BRISBANE — Fourteen refugees from the MV Tampa, released from behind the barbed wire of the Nauru detention camp, were welcomed by supporters of refugees' rights when they arrived at Brisbane airport on September 3. The 14 Afghan

A whistle-stop tour through the global justice movement

REVIEW BY DANNY FAIRFAX One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance MovementBy Paul KingsnorthEarthlight 2003$24.95 (Pb) Former deputy editor of the British Ecologist magazine Paul Kingsnorth set himself an ambitious task

Crean's pro-Israel sycophancy

BY NIKOLAI HADDAD On August 30 in Melbourne, opposition leader Simon Crean delivered an address at the Werdiger Family Hall. The event was organised by the Australia-Israel and Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC), the State Zionist Council of Victoria

Free speech under attack at Sydney Uni

BY BRONWYN POWELL In a crackdown on political activists at Sydney University, two people have been arrested and a Resistance stall shut down in the space of two weeks. On August 25, Lian Jevey, an activist in Socialist Alternative, was arrested

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UWS funding protest SYDNEY — Thirty students and staff at the Kingswood campus of the University of Western Sydney protested on September 4 against the federal government's planned cuts to university funding, under which UWS stands to lose over

New WA peace network meets

BY NIKKI ULASOWSKI PERTH — In May, a split occurred in the Perth NOWaR Alliance, the main city-wide anti-war organising body. Since then those who left the NOWaR Alliance have built towards the formation of a WA Peace Network. The first "public"

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IRAQ: Outside extremists bring death and destruction

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — The "liberation" of Iraq is a cruel joke on a stricken people. The Americans and British, partners in a great recognised crime, have brought down on the Middle East, and much of the rest of the world, the prospect of

EGYPT: Anti-war activists may be jailed

Five anti-war activists in Egypt are facing years of imprisonment for the "crime" of protesting against the US invasion of Iraq. Ashraf Ibrahim, Nasser el Beheiri, Yehia Fekri Amin, Mustafa Mohamed el Bassuini and Reymon Edward Guindy have been

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WTO: bad policies or imperialist tool?

WTO: bad policies or imperialist tool? The World Trade Organisation: An Australian GuideProduced by Global Trade Watch40 pages, 2003, Distributed freeDownload from <http://www.greenpeace.org.au/corporate/pdfs/wto.pdf> or email

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