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Adelaide: Coalition Against War and Racism. Thursday September 27, 6.30pm, Trades Hall, South Terrace. Ph 8231 6982. Canberra: Community peace forum. Wednesday September 26, 7.30pm, Griffin Centre, Bunda Street, Civic. Ph 6247 2424. Hobart:
Museworthy: Burnt Things eyes widening into screens where animals-run-in-herds, someone shootingthe scene from a helicopter (one is always shot), the split-secondof a blink, and darkness becomes the sort of sleep analogous to death,all we can
BY MATT RICH MELBOURNE — Australian students have begun to organise protests and anti-war and racism coalitions around the country. On September 19, 200 students attended a speak-out in La Trobe University's Agora condemning the US-led military
BY NORM DIXON The Zimbabwe government has unexpectedly agreed to prevent further occupations of predominantly white-owned commercial farms, reinstitute a "fair, just and sustainable" land redistribution and to restore the "rule of law". In return,
UNITED STATES threats to launch a war in the Middle East in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have prompted an outpouring of anti-war sentiments across the country, with peace vigils and protests taking place and
and ain't I a woman...: The struggles are interlinked "They are eight, we are six billion!", proclaimed the masses of demonstrators outside the July G8 summit of world leaders in Genoa, Italy. We are living in exciting times — the growth of
BY TIM STEWART & MIKE BYRNE BRISBANE — Spurred on by the threat of US military strikes, the CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has decided to add the slogans "No to war!" and "No to racism!" to the October 6 march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government
Simon Butler, co-ordinator of the Globalise Resistance contingent for the "People's March on CHOGM". "The Globalise Resistance contingent is designed to draw anti-corporate youth together in the protest. We took our model, in particular, from the
BY ALISON DELLIT On September 17, the Australian Senate passed a motion invoking the ANZUS treaty and endorsing the government's decision to "support within Australia's capabilities United States-led action against those responsible [for the
BY CHRIS LATHAM PERTH — Anti-racists and refugee rights advocates have rebuffed police threats and special branch investigations following a counter-demonstration they staged against a September 16 rally by a group called Citizens Against Illegal
BY AZIZ CHOUDRY Leaders of Pacific island states met August 16-18 at the 32nd Pacific Island Forum on the island of Nauru to discuss the creation of a regional free-trade area. Facing imminent depletion of the high quality phosphate reserves on
BY SEAN HEALY What do you call it when someone regards the lives of people with one particular skin colour and nationality as being worth more than the lives of those with another skin colour and nationality? US President George Bush professes