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BY JO BROWN MELBOURNE — The North has an ecological debt to the South that must be paid, Friends of the Earth (FoE) International chairperson Ricardo Navarro told a public meeting here on April 18. The meeting, "Global environmentalism in the
SYDNEY — "Naw?", asks the woman at the big desk. "Nawi to ciea?", she waits, pen poised above a sheaf of papers. "Walamai prsirako bdarawa!", the man next to her barks, "Nawi kasakaw sabay ziarat ciea?". Someone in the queue behind comes to the
BY SIBYLLE KACZOREK In a country oppressed for 400 years by colonial Portugal, then brutalised by 24 years of Indonesian military rule, and now suffering from dire poverty, the issues of women have long been considered secondary. But now East
What the corporate media says: “But worst of all is M1's concerted push to get kids out of school and involved in a potentially dangerous protest. Instead, they should consider joining those kids on May 1 for a high school economics lesson.”
Craig Johnston, the militant leader of Victoria's Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, has been one of the Socialist Alliance's strongest backers since the announcement of its formation. Here is an abridged version of his speech to the
BY PIP HINMAN @box text intr = Activists from around 20 countries will be gathering in Jakarta between June 7 and 10 to discuss regional responses to the neo-liberal offensive hitting the people of Asia. Apart from Indonesia, Aceh and East Timor,
Geelong M1 sets up web site GEELONG — The collective organising a regional contingent for the Melbourne M1 blockade has established a web site of its own. Its designer, Camilo Jorquera, said the web site
BY EVA CHENG It's not hard to understand why the unauthorised landing of a US spy plane on China's southern Hainan island on April 1 sparked an international diplomatic crisis. Just turn the tables. Imagine what Washington would have done if a
BY EVA CHENG Tens of thousands of protesters took various forms of civil disobedience to express their opposition to the US-sponsored Summit of the Americas in Quebec City, April 20-22. Covered by the thin veil of equality and democratic

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