Sam Watson is a well known Aboriginal leader and community activist based in Brisbane. Sam first became politically active as a high school student during the late 1960s, when radical students from across Brisbane used to gather outside the post
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When the US government, with its British and Australian allies, launched its invasion for Iraq's huge oil resources in March 2003, they claimed it was necessary to stop the Saddam Hussein regime handing over "weapons of mass destruction" to Saudi
Doug Lorimer
"Occupation ends", "Iraqis now in control". These will undoubtedly be the sort of headlines that the corporate press carries on July 1, following the nominal handover of "sovereignty" in Iraq at midnight on June 30 from Coalition
Sarah Stephen
The seven crew members on two boats that made up the Flotillas of Hope spent 28 days at sea, travelling a distance of 4000 kilometres, only to be threatened with arrest and turned away from Nauru on June 20, World Refugee Day, by six
Alison Dellit
In the first week of June, the German cabinet decided to equip the army with "riot control agents" when abroad. Article 1 of the Chemical Weapons Convention explicitly prohibits the use of "riot control agents as a method of warfare".
Politicians grilled about refugee policy
CANBERRA — A jam-packed forum on June 22 of 220 people organised by the Refugee Action Committee grilled politicians and activists on their policy and actions towards refugees.
ACT MLA Kerrie Tucker
Peter Boyle
A little while back, Green Left Weekly received an email along these lines: "One question. Will the Left be as outraged by the Paul Johnson beheading pictures yesterday, as [they were by] naked Iraqi prisoners? Put it into perspective
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Afghan refugee and Free the Refugees Campaign activist Riz Wakil spoke to a 3000-strong rally in Sydney on June 20, World Refugee Day. The following is an abridged version of his speech.
This year, the refugee-rights movement in this country has
A victory for women's rights was won on June 1 in the continuing battle for abortion access in the United States. A federal appeals court in California ruled that the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 was unconstitutional. This law made a
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