"I never imagined that I would stand in an election, but given the Iraq war of lies, and the torture and massacres committed in our name I feel that we all must take a stand."
Annolies was a co-founder of the Hills No War Alliance at the beginning
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Eva Cheng
If you believe the corporate media's spin, on July 31 the World Trade Organisation's 147 members agreed democratically on a "framework" that will help revive negotiations on world trade rules that were scuttled last September. Poor
Amanda Zivcic, Wollongong
Wollongong Resistance and Illawarra Socialist Alliance have embarked on a joint campaign to lower the voting age to 16.
Raffaele Fantasia, a year-11 student at Edmund Rice College, told Green Left Weekly: "Young people
Susan Austin, Hobart
"The issue of old-growth forests has been dominating the political debate in Tasmania", the Wilderness Society's Geoff Law told 500 people who turned up to the University of Tasmania on August 3 to hear him debate Forestry
Alison Dellit
Cuban President Fidel Castro Ruz used his July 26 speech commemorating the 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks to refute US State Department allegations about prostitution in Cuba.
On July 16, US President George Bush described Cuba
Sue Bull, Geelong
On July 31, militant unionists from Melbourne and Ballarat converged on Geelong for a day of discussions with local unionists about how to build unions that are fighting instruments in defence of their members' economic and
Tax
No wonder the government can give back family payments of $600 per child. For struggling separated parents who are trying to do the best for their kids, the government takes 50 cents in every dollar of the family assistance paid by the
Indonesia: Art, Activism and Rock 'N' Roll — The members of Taring Padi use art as a medium for education and liberation to empower the working classes of Indonesia. SBS, Friday, August 13, 3.30pm.
Message Stick: Bob Maza — Profiles Bob Maza,
Norm Dixon
For at least 18 months now, Western governments have quietly stood by as the non-Arabic-speaking black farmers of the Darfur region in western Sudan have borne the brunt of a vicious ethnic-cleansing campaign carried out by
Kiraz Janicke, Perth
Two-hundred people heard Ali Kazak, head of the Palestinian delegation to Australia, speak at public forums in Perth, Fremantle, Darlington, Curtin University and the University of Western Australia (UWA) during the first week
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