PERU: 300,000 strike
Hundreds of thousands of people rallied across Peru on July 14 in protest against President Alejandro Toledo's neoliberal economic policies. The 24-hour strike was called by Peru's biggest trade union federation to demand
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Cutting Edge: The World According to BushScreening on SBS, 8.30pm, July 20 & 27
If you're not yet having nightmares about the world being in the hands of a circle of crazed zealots, this should do it. The World According
Pip Hinman
Plans to hold national "End the lies" rallies the Sunday before the federal elections are well underway. Groups in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Hobart have adopted the additional demands, "Troops out! Howard out!"
Andrew Hall told
Sun Jung Hwang
On June 22, Iraqi militants beheaded Kim Sun-il, a Korean employee of a Baghdad-based food supplier for the US army, after Seoul refused to withdraw its troops from Iraq. The South Korean government plans to send 3000 more in
Water, The Drop Of Life — Explores regions which have accelerated their water conservation efforts and communities using new technologies to make better use of the available water. SBS, Friday, July 23, 1pm.
Message Stick: That Ole Mac Blagic —
Peter Boyle
If you were listening to the Australia Talks Back program on ABC Radio National on July 7, you would have heard Tessa Court, from the web monitoring company Hitwise, say: "If you look at the top websites that Australians visited just
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Ita Nian Rasik (Our Own): Songs of East Timor — past, present, futureTeodozio Batista Ximenes$25, including postageEmail orders to <annefor@netconnect.net.au> or phone (03) 5331 1983
Like many who have
Roberto Jorquera
July 26 marks the 51st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada Barracks. The attack, led by Fidel Castro, is regarded in Cuba as the event that initiated the six-year struggle to oust the US-backed capitalist regime of Fulgencio
Tanya Reinhart
ARIEL, West Bank — Along the route of the "separation barrier", in the West Bank, a new culture is springing up: on one side, soldiers and bulldozers; on the other, Israelis and Palestinians embracing the land.
In June, Israel's
Elizabeth Schulte, Chicago
More than 1 million women have died around the world in the last decade because wealthy nations didn't keep their promises.
Ten years ago, at the United Nations International Conference on Population and Development in
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