BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Two hundred people packed the Gaelic Club for a hastily called meeting on September 20 and unanimously endorsed the formation of a Network Opposing War and Racism (NOWAR) committed to stopping the US war drive and
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BY VIV MILEY & SARAH STEPHEN
On the weekend of September 22-23, more than 300 asylum seekers had been sitting in boats off Ashmore Reef and the Cocos Islands for days — some for close to two weeks — and the government has yet to announce their
Que sera, sera
"It happens all the time. People who are your allies at one time turn out not to be when things change. Unfortunately that's the way of the world." — Robert Korengold, a retired senior US information officer, quoted in an
Adelaide: Coalition Against War and Racism. Thursday September 27, 6.30pm, Trades Hall, South Terrace. Ph 8231 6982.
Canberra: Community peace forum. Wednesday September 26, 7.30pm, Griffin Centre, Bunda Street, Civic. Ph 6247 2424.
Hobart:
Museworthy: Burnt Things
eyes widening into screens where animals-run-in-herds, someone shootingthe scene from a helicopter (one is always shot), the split-secondof a blink,
and darkness becomes the sort of sleep analogous to death,all we can
BY MATT RICH
MELBOURNE — Australian students have begun to organise protests and anti-war and racism coalitions around the country.
On September 19, 200 students attended a speak-out in La Trobe University's Agora condemning the US-led military
BY NORM DIXON
The Zimbabwe government has unexpectedly agreed to prevent further occupations of predominantly white-owned commercial farms, reinstitute a "fair, just and sustainable" land redistribution and to restore the "rule of law". In return,
UNITED STATES threats to launch a war in the Middle East in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington have prompted an outpouring of anti-war sentiments across the country, with peace vigils and protests taking place and
and ain't I a woman...: The struggles are interlinked
"They are eight, we are six billion!", proclaimed the masses of demonstrators outside the July G8 summit of world leaders in Genoa, Italy.
We are living in exciting times — the growth of
BY TIM STEWART & MIKE BYRNE
BRISBANE — Spurred on by the threat of US military strikes, the CHOGM Action Network (CAN) has decided to add the slogans "No to war!" and "No to racism!" to the October 6 march on the Commonwealth Heads of Government
Simon Butler, co-ordinator of the Globalise Resistance contingent for the "People's March on CHOGM".
"The Globalise Resistance contingent is designed to draw anti-corporate youth together in the protest. We took our model, in particular, from the
BY ALISON DELLIT
On September 17, the Australian Senate passed a motion invoking the ANZUS treaty and endorsing the government's decision to "support within Australia's capabilities United States-led action against those responsible [for the
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