As the government and business lobby for an increased US military presence on Guam, indigenous Chamorro activists have escalated their anti-bases campaign, condemning the government's lack of consultation with the people. "It's a shameful act on the
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BRISBANE — The 16th annual Ecopolitics Conference was held at Griffith University on July 4-6, on the theme of "transforming environmental governance for the 21st century". More than 100 participants from the activist community, academia and
Mobil Oil Micronesia, the sole fuel supplier in Majuro, has been accused of trying to blackmail the local utility company to agree to unreasonable profit margins for Mobil. A diesel supply contract expired late last year, and negotiations for a new
PERTH — Queer Collaborations is an annual conference for queer student activists, and the only regular national queer activist conference in Australia. This year's conference took place on July 3-8 at the University of Western Australia, and was
John Pilger, London
In all the coverage of the July 7 bombings in London, a basic truth is struggling to be heard. It is this: No-one doubts the atrocious inhumanity of those who planted the bombs, but no-one should also doubt that this has been
One-liners — the modern proverbs — can tell you a lot about a society. For example, the put-down, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is comprehensible only in a society where it's assumed that the chief function of intelligence is to help
On July 12, police brutally attacked and opened fire on a peaceful protest at the Frontier Hospital in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. The 700-strong protest, organised by the Treatment Action Campaign, was demanding anti-retroviral treatment for people
Tom Crumpacker, Miami
The administration led by US President George Bush has done an excellent job of confusing the public about its plans regarding Luis Posada Carriles, the former CIA operative who blew up a civilian Cubana airliner in 1976,
On July 12, two busloads of retrenched workers and their families went to Putra Jaya to deliver a memorandum to the prime minister, requesting intervention in their dispute with plantation giant Guthrie. The workers were retrenched in December 1999,
BRISBANE — Around 150 people attended the first Brisbane Latin America film festival at the Activist Centre in Fortitude Valley on July 7-9.
A fundraiser for Green Left Weekly, the new Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network, and Australian
DARWIN — There has been widespread opposition to federal science minister Brendan Nelson's July 15 announcement of plans for a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory.
The plans involve storing nuclear waste from Sydney's Lucas Heights
Pip Hinman, Sydney
In the wake of the London bombings and the decision by Australia to send more troops to Afghanistan, a snap protest on July 15 called by Sydney's Stop the War Coalition drew some 60 people, who gathered to listen to community
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