BY RAY FULCHER
MELBOURNE More 100 people attended the 'War on Terrorism': Democracy
Under Challenge conference in Melbourne on August 9. The conference was
hosted by the Victoria University law school and supported by the Federation
of
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The days are getting colderThey stretch before me all in a lineEach night gets a little bit longerAnd these stars that once were strange now I call mineOh, it's been so long since I saw her faceAnd I just can't find my way out of this placeI took the
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to
Be So HatedBy Gore VidalThunder's MouthPress/Nation Books, 2002160 pp., $29.20 (bp)
REVIEWED BY ROLAND SHEPPARD
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war to whip
the citizenry into a
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BY ROBERT FISK
Tamim's family live in Joee Sheer, which means "stream of milk". But, outside his slum home, a stream of warm, reeking sewage flows. Never was there more reason to take off your shoes at a wooden door.
Inside, you climb a narrow
BY NICOLE HOYE
BRISBANE Construction of Steritech's food irradiation facility
at Narangba has resumed after police broke a protest picket on August 13.
No work had been done at the site since 200 people picketed on August 7.
The
Solidarity with Craig Johnston
MELBOURNE The Socialist Alliance is organising a public meeting in solidarity
with the elected Victorian leader of the Australian Manufacturing
Workers Union Craig Johnston and the Skilled Six on September
BY IAN BOLAS
In the present period we have Labor governments in all states and yet nothing much seems to be different.
The NSW government sends mounted police against pickets, the Victorian government collaborates in victimising the "Skilled Six"
The human cost of the 'Pacific solution'
On August 26, 2001, 433 asylum seekers aboard an Indonesian fishing
boat, the KM Palapa 1, overloaded and sinking, were rescued by the
Norwegian freighter, MV Tampa. On August 27, the Howard
Fish farm protested
BRISBANE Around 500 people took to the water on August 14 in the biggest protest yet against plans to build a fish farm the size of four football fields in Moreton Bay. The protesters, representing 50 environment,
BY VIRGINIA BROWN
PERTH "Today, men are the only standing target. It is no longer permissible to take potshots at women. A few decades of lobbying by women activists has taken care of that. But men are still fair game for television
BY MALIK MIAH
SAN FRANCISCO Once again an amateur's videotape is spoiling the
lawful deeds of cops in Los Angeles county. In 1991 it was Rodney King.
Today it is a teenager. Unbeknownst to the cops, these videotapes exposed
the men in
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