BY EVA CHENG
"America in the year 2001 faces the most serious energy shortages since the oil embargoes of the 1970s", proclaimed US vice president Dick Cheney's May 2001 national energy policy report to President George Bush.
The Cheney report
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BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY — A concerted campaign for several months by residents and Erskineville Housing Estate tenants forced the NSW state government on November 19 to reject a housing department redevelopment proposal which would have adversely
Following weeks of massive demonstrations, El Salvador's National Assembly voted on November 14 to ratify a decree that prohibits the privatisation in any form of the national health care system (known as the Salvadoran Social Security Institute,
SYDNEY — On November 11, a book was launched in the outer Sydney suburb of Blacktown. It coincided with the 17th anniversary of the killing by police of 16-year-old Angelo Tsakos.
The book, A Mother's Story, details the agony of those 17 years
BY JON LAND
Pressure is mounting against the federal government's moves to deport
1600-1800 East Timorese asylum seekers, some of whom have been seeking
refugee status for up to 10 years. At least 84 may be forced to leave by
the end of
Free enterprise
"Collectible cards depicting portraits of victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center are due to go on sale next month, leading to accusations their manufacturer is trading on tragedy." — Daily Telegraph,
BY ANNE OCASEY
MELBOURNE Arun Pradhan, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Melbourne
district in the November 30 Victorian elections, has called for mass civil
disobedience to stop the controversial Commonwealth Games village planned
BY JOHN PILGER
"What passing bells for these who die as cattle?", asked the great WWI poet Wilfred Owen. His famous line might have been written for those who perish in today's secret wars and terrorist outrages.
Owen's generation never used the
BY LUKE SMITH
ADELAIDE — Around 100 people gathered at the Queens Theatre on November 17 for a refugees' rights forum. The event, part of the Feast Festival 2002, focused on the plight of refugees fleeing persecution because of their sexuality.
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit
BY DALE MILLS
SYDNEY Police will be able to stop and search people without warrants
after the NSW ALP cabinet approved new anti-terror laws in November.
The laws are now being rushed through state parliament.
Among other things, NSW
Just Another Little Murder: A Brother's Pursuit of JusticeBy Phil ClearyAllen and Unwin, 2002$29.95
REVIEW BY ERIN CAMERON
The murder of Vicki Cleary in 1987 shook her family to the core, but what was to devastate them even more was the outcome
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