On March 1, federal Judge Henry Floyd ordered the federal government to release Jose Padilla within 45 days, or to charge him with a criminal offence. Padilla, a US citizen, was arrested in May 2002, when he arrived back to the US at Chicago airport.
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"The insurgency in Iraq is not likely to be put down in a year or even two since history shows such uprisings can last a decade or more, the United States' top military commander says. Air Force General Richard Myers says that in the
CANBERRA — The daily struggles of life in the Occupied Palestinian Territories were the focus of International Women's Peace Service volunteer Kim Bullimore's address to a Socialist Alliance forum held on March 3.
Also addressing the forum was
Dave Riley
The Green Left Weekly email discussion list was set up two years ago as an adjunct to this paper's publishing venture. It has now reached the 500 subscriber mark, making it one of the largest open discussion lists on the left.
Over
On March 4, the US State Department confirmed that it had denied a visa to Dora Maria Tellez, one of the leaders of the 1979 revolution in Nicaragua, and the first health minister in the post-1979 Sandinista government, because of her involvement in
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
Multi-campus stop-work meetings of the Victorian University of Technology (VUT) branch of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) on February 9 resolved to strike on March 8 and to hold a 48-hour strike on March
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart
The Tasmanian Labor government has spent $30,000 organising a bus to tour the state to bolster support for Gunns' new pulp mill. Gunns Limited is Australia's largest woodchipper and the company behind the lawsuit against 20
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Opposition to Prime Minister John Howard's decision to send an additional 450 troops to Iraq was the main theme of a speak-out sponsored by the Stop the War Collective (STWC) on the steps of King George Square on March 4.
Paul Oboohov, Canberra
Members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) are currently debating the future direction of the union in response to yet another round of proposed restructuring.
Under the proposal, decision-making power will be
Pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru was elected president of Tahiti on March 3, with the support of 29 of the 57 members of the semi-autonomous parliament that governs France's "overseas territory". Until last year, Tahiti had been governed for 20
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