On March 4, an international day of protest against Coca-Cola's human rights abuses in Colombia, human rights campaigners blockaded the company's Bristol distribution centre for five hours, preventing 30 lorries from entering or leaving the site. The
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Sarah Stephen
On the same day as the immigration department made news headlines around the world for threatening to deport 104-year-old Chinese woman Cui Yu Hu, the corporate media ignored news of a case of grotesque medical negligence.
Greens
BRISBANE — Police arrested five people during a speak-out against the war in Iraq on the steps of King George Square on March 11. The weekly speak-out to oppose the decision by the Coalition government to send an additional 450 troops to Iraq
A report commissioned by the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, released on March 9, has found that at least 105 illegal "outposts" of Israelis in Palestinian areas are established, maintained and expanded with the support of the government. Under
Eva Cheng
Widespread public disgust at the sweeping privatisation process pushed by the Chinese government since 1997 has begun to surface in the Chinese mass media.
Last August, Taiwan-born, US-educated and Hong Kong-based academic Larry Lang
On March 9, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker jumped out the window of her fourth floor flat when she found out that the government intended to deport her. The Home Office resumed deporting failed asylum seekers to Zimbabwe in November, despite a UN
The old saying "He who pays the piper calls the tune" is certainly true of the mainstream political parties in Australia. According to the February 2 Australian Financial Review, "The annual returns from the Australian Electoral Commission for
On March 8, the Home Office announced it was considering making targets for ethnic minority police officers apply only to new recruits, not to the service as a whole, in order to make them "more achievable". The announcement came on the eve of the
On March 8, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers called off its four year boycott of Taco Bell, after the fast-food giant agreed to pay a penny-per-pound surcharge for its tomatoes, the money to go to the indigent immigrant pickers who make up the CIW.
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1827: The Monitor on Sydney indicts Governor Darling on 24 counts.
1968: US marines slaughter 347 Vietnamese villagers in the My Lai massacre.
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1948: Police beat strikers and hospitalise Communist MP Fred Patterson in the St
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