Sarah Stephen &Aaron Benedek, Sydney
Consider this scenario: an Australian citizen travels to another country, is kidnapped by the military of a third country, receives absolutely no assistance from the Australian government, is imprisoned for
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According to the January 30 London Sunday Telegraph, a 25-year-old German woman faces cuts to her unemployment benefits after turning down a job as a prostitute at a Berlin brothel. When prostitution was legalised in Germany just two years ago,
Federico Fuentes
A manifesto proposed by 19 intellectuals created a stir at this year's World Social Forum. The 12-point platform of proposals is designed to make concrete the slogan "Another World is Possible".
Circulated in order to gain the
January 10
1879: Ned Kelly's Jerilderie letter recounting his reasons for revolt is published.
2000: Blockades temporarily halt logging on the Errinundra Plateau, Gippsland.
1932: CNT general strike in Spain leads to insurrection.
1990: 800
Rohan Pearce
For most activists in the global anti-war movement, it's obvious that the US-engineered January 30 elections in Iraq have not ushered in a new era of democracy nor fundamentally changed the nature of the brutal, US-led occupation. But
Norm Dixon
After four months of virtual silence and tens of thousands more deaths, the January 31 release of the report of the United Nations International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur has prodded US spokespeople into repeating the charge that
Lorenz Gonschor, Honolulu
On February 13, voters in Tahiti will once more go to the polls, less than a year after the last general elections on May 23, 2004. Even though this upcoming assembly election is only called a "by-election", it will be
Message Stick: Crossing the Line — Two non-Indigenous medical students work in a remote Aboriginal community where their precepts and ideas are deeply challenged. ABC, Friday, February 11, 6pm.
Compass: Prom Fight, the Marc Hall Story — Young,
Federico Fuentes
The spirit of two familiar figures, one old and one new, dominated this year's World Social Forum. The old was the ever-present Che Guevara whose spirit not only lives on in the form of his images plastered across buildings and
Paul Benedek, Brisbane
On February 1, refugee-rights activists picketed Emirates Airlines in several cities. The airline is directly involved in forced deportations.
On January 11, the federal Coalition government forcibly deported two asylum