SAN FRANCISCO — In a recent news release, the Canadian Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC group) announced that the biotechnology industry continues to aggressively pursue the development of genetically modified seeds
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BY MICHAEL KAMBER
As dusk falls in Kabul, the streets fill with a choking gray smoke, despite the city's near-complete lack of industry. Nearly every family in this capital of one million is cooking its evening meal and trying to keep the bitter
Michael Franti, formerly of the legendary US rap outfit Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and now with Spearhead, is not been afraid to tackle the key political issues of the day, such as Third World debt, the HIV-AIDS crisis or the death penalty.
BY SAM WAINWRIGHT
Only one day after an angry March 14 meeting of State Transit Authority (STA) bus drivers voted to strike for 48 hours in pursuit of their wage claim, the executive of the Rail, Tram and Bus Union has deferred the action.
The
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY — Over the last two weeks, Socialist Alliance branches in Sydney have been attempting, without success, to get clarification from the Palm Sunday 2002 committee of why alliance members have been banned from attending Palm
BY ROHAN PEARCE
On March 12, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan made a speech that contained some of the harshest criticisms of Israel by any UN representative since the second intifada began in September 2000.
Annan said: "Large-scale military
BY NORM DIXON
On March 13, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was officially pronounced the winner of the March 9-11 presidential election with 55% of the vote. Mugabe's "victory" over opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate
The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman
Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, 2000
$29, paperback
BY RJURIK DAVIDSON
In August 1967, 15 or so hippies took a tour of the New York Stock
Exchange. There, at the Mecca of global commerce, the
BY GARY MEYERHOFF
DARWIN — "No votes for ratbags" was the headline of the editorial in the March 7 Northern Territory News. The News was referring to the Socialist Alliance and its candidate for Lord Mayor of Darwin, Ruth Ratcliffe.
The same
BY ALISON DELLIT
It would be easy to think, watching Channel 10's ever-so-hip coverage of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, that homophobia in Australia was in retreat. But the March 12 attack, under parliamentary privilege, by cabinet
BY JOHN PILGER
LONDON — Almost 30 years after the violent destruction of the reformist government of Salvador Allende in Chile, a repeat performance is being planned in Venezuela.
Little of this has been reported in Britain. Indeed, little is
BY SIMON TAYLER
SYDNEY — Since the federal election, the campaign against the government's policy on refugees has grown dramatically. Dozens of new refugees' rights groups have formed. Labor for Refugees groups have formed in a number of states.
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