US band Spearhead are one of the most radical voices in popular music. Spearhead's Michael Franti talked to MARK BROWN and JO HARVIE about the politics behind Stay Human, the band's critically acclaimed new album.
Stay Human is a powerful attack on
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By Danny Fairfax
On November 30, 1999, 75,000 people converged on Seattle to successfully stop the World Trade Organisation trade talks. Taking inspiration from that momentous event, similar actions have taken place around the world in opposition
BY BILL MASON
BRISBANE — The Australian Services Union (ASU) has called on the Queensland Labor government to make state subsidies for airline companies taking over the routes of collapsed regional airline Flight West conditional on guaranteed
BY SEAN HEALY
Two of the world's largest oil multinationals have admitted that they hired a London private investigation agency with links to the British secret service to spy on the protest activities of Greenpeace, the Body Shop and other
Student Environment conference
NEWCASTLE — More than 500 students have registered for this year's Students and Sustainability Conference to be held at the Newcastle University, Callaghan Campus, from July 2 to July 6. Students from around the
BY PAUL BENEDEK& TAMARA PEARSON
SYDNEY — Five Parramatta City Council officers, accompanied by two police, on June 15 ordered a display, which featured graphic photographs of the conditions inside one of Australia's concentration camps for
By Kerryn Williams
[On June 8, 2001, Indonesian police broke up the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference at Sawangan, near Jakarta, arresting 32 foreign participants. Kerryn Williams was one of those detained.]
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BY SARAH STEPHEN
On June 14, the Fairfax company's Melbourne Age and Sydney Morning Herald each ran a three-page expose detailing the stories of four women who allege that they were raped in the 1970s and '80s by
BY PIP HINMAN
The federal government is secretly trying to return to the widely discredited "special relationship" with the Indonesian government, developed by both Labor and Liberal parties during the 32-year reign of Suharto. And it is doing it
BY GARY MEYEHOFF
DARWIN — The Top End Users' Forum has voiced concerns at the Northern Territory government's efforts to pass new laws expanding police powers, calling them "vote-grabbing".
The Country Liberal Party has introduced draft
BY IGGY KIM
Renowned Russian Marxist writer and political commentator Boris Kagarlitsky will speak at the Second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference, to be held in Sydney, March 29-April 1, 2002.
Kagarlitsky was jailed for his
By Kylie Moon and Chris Atkinson
Since the November 1999 siege of Seattle a new movement has come
onto the world stage, the movement against corporate globalisation. This
was sparked by the victory in Seattle of stopping a new round of
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