Friends of the Earth
I thank Jim Green for his article on Friends of the Earth (FoE). His analysis is reasonable of FoE Australia and FoE International, and I applaud him for touching on some of the problems with some (not by any means all) of the
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BY NORM DIXON
South African President Thabo Mbeki on March 14 declined to declare South Africa's debilitating AIDS epidemic a national emergency. Such a declaration would have allowed Pretoria to immediately invoke World Trade Organisation
BY ROHAN PEARCE
As the national May 1 blockades of stock exchanges and other corporate targets approach, M1 activists have begun a big push to build the demonstrations. Since universities resumed this year, more than 1500 students have joined local
BY ROBYN MARSHALL
BRISBANE — A meeting on March 19 to discuss decriminalisation of abortion in Queensland attracted interest from many quarters, including sections of the Labor Party.
The abortion issue has come back onto the political agenda
BY SARAH STEPHEN
PERTH Ali Abu Al Chabab, a 22-year-old Palestinian refugee from
Lebanon, will fly back to Beirut on April 4 after his three-year fight
for refugee status in Australia was unsuccessful. Chabab's partner Ana
Kailis will
BY DAVID BACON
RIO BRAVO, TAMAULIPAS — Advocates of the North American Free Trade Agreement promised that free trade would bring a new era of respect for workers rights in all three countries — the United States, Canada and Mexico. Especially
BY JIM GREEN
Rio Tinto chief executive Leigh Clifford said on March 22 that the company was unlikely to proceed with development of the Jabiluka uranium mine on ground excised from the Kakadu National Park without a significant shift in community
BY SUE BULL
GEELONG — People in rural and regional Victoria, hit hard by policies such as privatisation and deregulation, will get a chance to show their anger at corporate globalisation, thanks to plans by local activists to organise a united
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Royal Air Force pilots have protested for the first time about their role in the bombing of Iraq. Pilots patrolling the so-called no-fly zone in the north of the country have spoken angrily about how they have been ordered
BY NORM DIXON
President Fidel Castro on March 18 announced that Cuba has produced versions of anti-AIDS medicines patented by US drug corporations. He said Cuba was prepared to help South Africa, Brazil and other Third World countries to produce
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