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On November 23, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, visiting Madrid, attended a mass meeting of workers. This account of the astonishing event was written by El Militante member Emilia Lucena. It first appeared at
Sarah Fuller & Rachel Evans, Sydney In late July, Mission Australia was granted permission from the NSW Anti-Discrimination Board to ban all transgender women who are not "recognised transgender persons" from its publicly funded homeless women's
Pip Hinman, Sydney The Leichhardt Town Hall was filling up fast on November 22 when federal Labor leader Mark Latham arrived. Five minutes later people were still pouring in, curious about Labor's plans for the next three years. Latham's
UNITED STATES: Skipping the ads to be illegal The new Intellectual Property Protection Act currently before US Congress, has some strange provisions. Among them, is a provision to differentiate between the legal activity of fast-forwarding
Bill Mason, Brisbane On November 22, more than 200 Aboriginal community members held a meeting and marched on the police station on Palm Island, off the north-Queensland coast. They were protesting the death in custody of local man Cameron
Graham Matthews, Melbourne Six-hundred-and-fifty people packed the Capitol Theatre to capacity on November 26 to hear journalist and film-maker John Pilger speak on the power of the corporate media. The public forum was organised by Green Left
Sam Wainwright Imagine working for 19 hours without a single break, finishing at 3am and then returning to work at 7.45am that same morning for another shift. Conditions such as these have been the norm for workers at Oceanic Cruises, a company
"Butchered blond woman found with slit throat" cried the Sydney Morning Herald, in blond coloured tears. But the 100,000s of Iraqis who have died are called "insurgents" and it is left at that. I'll stand on a box and shout at the masses of
SYDNEY — On November 23, Zanny Begg was stopped by police while installing a work, Checkpoint, for the Blacktown Art Gallery's "Out of Gallery" project. Begg explained that she was "creating 10 'checkpoints' for 'weapons of mass distraction' in
Message Stick: Child Artists of Carrolup — Indigenous children discover and excel at art at the Carrolup School of Western Australia in 1945. ABC, Friday, December 3, 6pm. Family Story: Wyrria, Small Boy — Explores the daily realities of a
Bill Mason, Brisbane "Resistance is a just response to occupation; it takes various forms, including armed struggle", Louay Alzaher, representing the Iraq Solidarity Committee, told a public forum on the theme "Iraq in crisis" on November 22.
Rohan Pearce According to a November 24 Boston Globe report, the Fallujah resistance has been led by "an electrician and a mosque preacher, both natives of the community". Yet the wave of violence and terror unleashed by the US-led occupation