BY ADAM HANIEH
RAMALLAH — Over the last week one topic has dominated conversation in the West Bank town of Ramallah: will tonight be the night? A general consensus holds that it is only a matter of time before Israeli tanks and troops take over
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BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
CANBERRA — More than 350 people packed into the Labor Club on January 29 to express their concern about the treatment of refugees in Australia's detention centres.
The meeting was convened be the Refugee Action Committee
BY IGGY KIM
SYDNEY Refugee rights campaigners across the world have protested
against the Australian governments refugee policy. In Auckland, New Zealand
on January 26, activists picketed the Australian consulate. A similar picket
is
SYDNEY People gathered on January 31 outside Israel's consulate to
protest against the brutal occupation of Palestine. Since the beginning
of the current intifada, 192 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli
troops and
BY KEEANGA-YAHMATTA TAYLOR
Jamil al Amin, the former 1960s Black Power leader known as H. Rap Brown, is on trial for his life in Atlanta. Al Amin is accused of shooting two Fulton County sheriff's deputies, killing one.
Prosecutors claim that al
and ain't I a woman: Abortion access for all women
Many believe the myth that abortion is easily accessible to all women in Australia. It is not. For women living in rural areas, abortion is extremely expensive and disruptive. In Queensland,
BY SUSAN PRICE
The United States and other First World governments are using the "war on terrorism" as a pretext to launch an offensive against the peoples of the Third World. All around the world, governments are attacking working people's living
The following call for a national student mobilisation during the January 31-February 4 meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) was issued by Students for Global Justice. It has been slightly abridged.
Every year, 1000 top business leaders come
Firmly inhuman
"The approach I have taken in relation to these matters requires a degree of firmness, which sometimes people think demonstrates a lack of humanity. But I think your humanity has a greater potential to be evil than if you remain
LISMORE — Twenty activists from the new Refugee Action Collective (Lismore) occupied a roundabout on February 1 and set up a symbolic detention centre. Many passers-by responded positively. In the previous week, the Refugee Action Collective (Byron
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