NEW YORK — Thousands of people honoured Cuban President Fidel Castro in Harlem during a rally in solidarity with the island organised by the Committee to Welcome the Cuban Delegation to the Millennium Summit.
The packed meeting, described by
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"... and ain't i a woman?" last week said that the National Council of Women of Australia, the YWCA and the Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women would each receive $300,000 in funding from the Office of the Status of Women. This
A planned hydroelectric dam project in south-eastern Turkey will displace up to 78,000 people if international lending agencies and the British government provide financial support, according to a report leaked to British media.
According to the
BY SIMON BUTLER
Nike is the world market leader in sports shoes. Its profits amounted to US$965 million in 1999. This huge figure in part flows from the sales generated from the vast volume of advertising Nike subjects the planet to. But mostly,
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — Pressure on Nike has been stepped up by an "Alternative Opening Ceremony" organised by NikeWatch, which challenged the sportswear giant to live up to the "Olympic ideal of human dignity".
The September 11 ceremony, in
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We must stop succumbing to the rod's guileFor, like strong liquorIt quickly stupefies society's childLured and procuredWhile blindly pursuing cultural bileGrowing up insecureAs grown-up hypocrisies pileJuveniles like
BY TIM GOODEN
GEELONG — A picketing worker at the Godfrey Hirst factory here had his ankle crushed when a manager reversed a forklift through a crowd of protesters on September 13.
Members of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union and the
The Republican and Democratic conventions are now over with absolutely no surprises or revelations to record. George W. Bush and Albert Gore received their party's endorsement, as predicted months ago. The two are now touring the country with their
The United Nations Millennium Summit has been marked by the frequent expression of noble sentiments and lofty goals. Fewer have been the concrete measures proposed to reach those goals, and even fewer the leaders willing to point the finger at those
BY JOHN McGILL
On the morning of Friday, September 8, a railway carriage filled with activists left Adelaide for Melbourne to join the September 11-13 protests against the World Economic Forum. The carriage was organised by John Short, of the
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