James Balowski, Jakarta
International Women's Day rallies, held in most major Indonesian cities on March 8, were dominated by protests against fuel subsidy cuts, which were announced by the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on March
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As Olympic officials descended on Paris on March 10 to inspect the city's potential as a games host, a general strike shut much of the country, including subways, airports, schools, bus networks, radio stations and post offices, across 55 cities and
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The March 9 edition of the Sun featured a blazing "Stamp on the camps!" headline, with an article underneath calling for a "war on gipsy [sic] free-for-all", and warning of a "gipsy invasion". The newspaper is campaigning against recent governmental
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On March 3, a Prison Officers Association official told the inquiry into the 2000 murder of 19-year-old Zahid Mubarek in Feltham Young Offenders Institute that prison officers had been engineering "gladiator style" fights between inmates for
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On February 4, 2000, agricultural labourers in the Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu turned what had been planned as a rally into a militant, hours-long blockade. The state assembly had shut down aid relief in the area 40 days after the Boxing Day
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Stuart Munckton Speaking on his television program, Hello President on February 27, Venezuela's popular pro-poor president, Hugo Chavez, explained: "I am convinced, at this stage of my life — I am now 50 years old — after six years as a
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Stuart Munckton According to a February 22 article by Venezuela Analysis commentator Jonah Gindin, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced on February 20 that the recently expropriated paper company, now known as the Venezuelan Endogenous Paper
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Alex Miller Thousands of anti-capitalist and anti-war activists are expected to protest against the G8 summit that is to be held in Gleneagles from July 6-8. The summit will bring together the leaders of the world's wealthiest countries,
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James Balowski, Jakarta Washington announced on February 26 that Indonesian participation in the US International Military Education and Training (IMET) program would restart immediately. State Department spokesperson Richard Boucher said US
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On March 1, Uruguay formally resumed diplomatic relations with Cuba, which had been broken in 2002 by right-wing president Jorge Batlle. Cuban foreign minister Felipe Perez Roque, in Uruguay for the inauguration of new President Tabare Vasquez,
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Five anti-war activists were arrested on March 2, after they forced their way into the Irish embassy to protest the use of Ireland's Shannon Airport to refuel US war planes on their way to Iraq. The activists were members of the Irish group Pit-Stop
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In an email home on September 29, Brayden described how the US multinational Halliburton took over the lucrative laundry facilities at the Baghdad airport. Stationed here at BIAP (Baghdad International Airport) for the past year, we saw the local