All out on M1!
Something special will happen on May 1. For the first time ever in Australia,
thousands of people will take action, simultaneously across the country,
against the stock exchange, the symbolic heart and soul
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BY MAX LANE
Spread the word now! John Pilger's vivid and evocative writing and film-making, and the voices from the Third World that he brings onto the screen, will make his new documentary New Rulers of the World a landmark event in explaining the
BY ANGELA LUVERA
SYDNEY — High school students all around Australia are preparing to strike on May 1 to join the blockades and protests against corporate rule.
Students will be striking for many reasons — for the cancellation of third world
SYDNEY — "Naw?", asks the woman at the big desk. "Nawi to ciea?", she waits, pen poised above a sheaf of papers. "Walamai prsirako bdarawa!", the man next to her barks, "Nawi kasakaw sabay ziarat ciea?". Someone in the queue behind comes to the
BY IGGY KIM
SEOUL — Hundreds of riot police have attacked 400 workers laid off by the troubled Korean car manufacturer Daewoo, injuring 70, in an attempt to prevent the workers gaining entry to their own union office. But their assault may have
M1: Our world is not for saleCompilationAvailable from activist centres and independent music stores.
REVIEWED BY DANNY FAIRFAX
The fact that this CD's proceeds go to funding the May 1 blockade of the Australian Stock Exchange building in Sydney
The REAL: Life on Film documentary festival provides a dynamic forum for documentaries exploring issues of cultural identity, human rights and provides a voice for those otherwise muffled by bigotry, poverty and war.
The not-for-profit festival,
BY SEAN HEALY
Authorities in the mid-west city of Cincinatti have lifted a week-long night-time curfew, imposed after the city's black residents rose up in anger at the police's April 7 killing of 19-year-old Timothy Thomas.
Thomas was killed as
Citigroup protests in 12 countries
Students in 12 countries and 80 cities protested against the US-owned Citigroup banking corporation on April 11. Activists attacked the banking giant's funding of environmentally destructive projects.
In New
A national day of action to free the refugees has been called for June
3. It has been endorsed by the ACTU, the Victorian Trades Hall Council
and refugee rights campaign groups around the country and is calling for
the closure of the detention
Geelong M1 sets up web site
GEELONG — The collective organising a regional contingent for the Melbourne M1 blockade has established a web site of its own.
Its designer, Camilo Jorquera, said the web site
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