The Harvard Corporation, the university's highest governing body, announced on April 4 that it would sell its shares in PetroChina, because the company is "too closely tied to genocide in Sudan". The decision was greeted with jubilation by black-clad
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Around 200 East Timorese protesters were attacked on April 9 by police, including special branch paramilitary forces. The protesters had gathered at the Santa Cruz cemetery, the site of a 1991 protest where participants were massacred by
From March 31-April 30, the US-Mexico border in Arizona will be flooded with dangerous, armed idiots, as an estimated 2000 volunteers join the "Minutemen Project", which describes itself as "Americans doing the job Congress won't". The volunteers
Ewa Jasiewicz is a human-rights activist and journalist from London who lived in US-occupied Iraq from June 2003 to February 2004. For much of her time there, she lived in Basra, working closely with a crucial union for workers in the oil industry.
Limerick City Council is considering a motion to declare Limerick city the world's first Caterpillar-free zone. In 2003, a Caterpillar bulldozer ran over human rights activist Rachel Corrie as she attempted to stop a house being demolished in Gaza,
I saw the pricks pricking balloonsI saw them seizing kitesthey were protecting ignorance for the sake of all uptights.They all wore coppers' uniformsthey all had coppers' minds,barely a brain cell between them,these are John Howard's times.When
Message Stick: Koori Court — "Broken Bones" is a gritty tale of social realism, portraying both the negative and positive aspects of Indigenous family culture. ABC, Friday, April 15, 6pm.
Get Up Stand Up: We Shall Overcome — Identifies the
Roberto Jorquera, an activist from the Venezuelan Solidarity Network in Australia, is in Caracas to help prepare for the solidarity brigade the network is organising from July 25-August 15, and to report on the unfolding revolution there. Regular
On April 2, hundreds of people across Britain joined protests organised by asylum seekers facing deportation from that country. Actions were held in Glasgow, London, Nottingham, Oxford, Canterbury and Manchester, where more than 700 marched. Three
Israelis believe Palestinians should leave
In an April 4 poll of Israelis carried out by the Madar Palestinian Centre for Israel Studies, 42% agreed that the Israeli state should encourage Palestinians with Israeli citizenship to leave the country,
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