CANBERRA — US President George Bush's one-day visit to Canberra and the protests against him received widespread coverage in the international news media.
The October 23 protest in Canberra was covered by the three main
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BY PAULA ABOOD & ALISSAR GAZAL "I've always maintained that [we women] have a more fair approach to the truth and to the integrity of other human beings, because we serve life and peace" — Hanan Ashrawi on ABC Radio, October 22, 2003. "Ashrawi
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In GLW #559, the photograph of the Hobart protest against US President George Bush on page five was incorrectly credited to Alex Bainbridge. The picture was taken by Duncan Meerding.From Green Left Weekly, November 5, 2003. Visit the Green Left
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SYDNEY — Around 350 people attended the Sydney Social Forum, held at the city campus of the University of Technology Sydney, on October 24-26. The forum was launched with a plenary, titled "Is the American empire unstoppable?",
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SYDNEY — Former nuclear physicist and social justice campaigner Dr Vandana Shiva was the guest presenter for a forum at Sydney University on October 20, entitled "Beyond Corporate Globalisation, towards Earth Democracy". Shiva,
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MELBOURNE — US left journalist David Barsamian explained, denounced and ridiculed the US President George Bush's "war on terror" to a full house at RMIT's Horti Hall on October 30. Barsamian, a veteran activist and radio
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BRISBANE — Twenty-five years after Australians first marched against sexual violence, women and children again took to the streets on October 31 to Reclaim the Night, which is an international event held on the last Friday in
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SYDNEY — Against considerable opposition from right-wing members of the local Turkish-Australian community in the western suburb of Auburn, the Youth and Solidarity Group held a local protest rally against the war in Iraq on
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MELBOURNE — On October 27, 10,000 construction industry workers marched through the city centre to protest against the first prosecution of a unionist by the Howard government's building industry task force. In a powerful
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BRISBANE — "As socialists, we ignore our own history at our peril", Jim McIlroy, author of a new pamphlet by Resistance Books, Australia's First Socialists, told a book launch sponsored by Green Left Weekly on October 29.
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CANBERRA — Parliament House was beset by protesters again on October 27. The 100 Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) members chanted "What do we want? Aussie jobs!" while marching up the hill to join a 250-strong
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SYDNEY — More than 10,000 unionists, mostly members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), marched from the Sydney Town Hall to NSW parliament on October 27 to demand tough industrial manslaughter laws to