Norman Brewer, Bremen
The number of people taking part in the weekly Montagsdemonstrationen (Monday demonstrations) across Germany has been tripling from week to week. On August 16, more than 100,000 people marched in more than 100 cities,
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Review by Paul Benedek
The President Versus David HicksWritten and directed by Curtis Levy & Bentley DeanScreening nationally
"When we took on this film project we were going to follow the legal proceedings around the arrest of David Hicks",
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
The Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela is an "unprecedented revolution in participatory democracy", Leonel Vivas, Venezuelan ambassador to Australia, told an audience of around 70 people on August 7.
When Hugo Chavez was
Raul Bassi & Federico Fuentes
On June 29, under the headline "US concerned by piqueteros advance", Argentina's main daily newspaper, Clarin, quoted an anonymous "high level source from the US state department" voicing "concern" over the
Sarah Stephen
The Justice Project was launched in early July in front of a crowd of 4000 in the Melbourne Town Hall. Its members include barrister and refugee campaigner Julian Burnside, academic Robert Manne, former Liberal prime minister Malcolm
Roberto Jorquera
Thousands of Venezuelans gathered outside the Miraflores presidential palace on August 16 to hear radical left-wing President Hugo Chavez claim victory soon after the National Electoral College (CNE) released the results of a
Chris Latham, Perth
On August 17, 40 police broke up the six-week-old Forest Rescuers' protest camp in the Ludlow Forest near Busselton in south-west Western Australia, evicting 70 protesters.
The move against the camp followed the granting of
Rohan Pearce
"Few people doubt that US military forces have the ability to overwhelm Iraqi rebels. But as was the case in Fallujah earlier this year, the need to balance force with politics has stripped away many of their advantages", observed an
Alex Milne, Melbourne
On August 16, a public forum held in the Melbourne Town Hall heard speakers address a variety of nuclear-related issues, including the new nuclear reactor being constructed at Lucas Heights in suburban Sydney and the
Compassionate
On August 18, I received a letter from [immigration minister] Amanda Vanstone. She says: "We should not allow the debate about failed asylum seekers who arrived unauthorised by boats to detract from Australia's generous and