BY FEDERICO FUENTES
PORTO ALEGRE This year's World Social Forum (WSF), a countersummit to the corporate elite's World Economic Forum, held in this southern Brazilian city, January 23-28, attracted 100,000 participants, including 20,763
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BY STEVEN THEUNISSEN
Whilst Australians panicked about the attempt by about 400 refugees to find refuge from various forms of misery during the "Tampa crisis", climate change is expected to create a new refugee crisis, as millions of people lose
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BY JENELLE DAVY
MELBOURNE — January 30 brought another Catholic Church attack on Melbourne's queer community: the Catholic Theological College hosted a forum titled "How to be cured from homosexuality".
Around 40 students, organised by the
BY GORIK OOMS
MOZAMBIQUE — "It is very genocidal for one part of the world to have the cure for the AIDS disease while millions of people in another part are dying from the same disease. The developed world is challenged to make antiretroviral
BY DEBRA PAYNE
NOTTINGHAM — On January 25, 500 people gathered here to rally against the impending US-British war on Iraq. The action was organised by the local Stop the War Coalition. There were many banners from the groups in attendance, but
BY ROHAN PEARCE
"HOW IRAQ LIED" screamed the front page of the January 29 Sydney Daily Telegraph. "The case to disarm Iraq, by military force if necessary, is now made", fulminated the same day's editorial in the Australian. "The report to the UN
BY LUKE FOMIATTI
LAHORE — As I watched a 500-strong January 18 anti-war demonstration here, a well-dressed man with a crisp English accent approached me. Believing I was a Western journalist, he asked if I would be interested in interviewing the
BY DIANNE FEELEY
DETROIT — On January 11, a meeting of more than 100 officers of US trade unions and activists from a number of labour anti-war committees met in Chicago to establish US Labor Against the War (USLAW). The meeting reflected the
BY KERRYN WILLIAMS
The vision of V-Day is a world where women are free from violence: a "V-World" where women and girls will be "allowed to be born in China, India and Korea", "safe at parties on college campuses", "keeping their clitorises in
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