Rihab Charida, Saida
Ain El Helweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. In this tightly packed camp the only playgrounds available for children are the narrow alleys where dirty water flows. The only place for the elderly to gather
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AMERICAN GULAG: Inside US Immigration PrisonsBy Mark DowUniversity of California Press, 2004413 pages, $55 (hb)
"You African monkeys should go back to your country", was how the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service
Message Stick: Marjorie Woodrow — Marjorie Woodrow made a name for herself fighting for "stolen wages" (compensation for the unpaid labour of Aboriginal people). ABC, Friday, August 6, 6pm.
As it Happened: Watergate Plus 30 — Presents how
Bronwen Beechey, Adelaide
On July 28, a public meeting attended by at least 400 people called on all political parties to commit an extra $500 million to save the Murray River.
Organised by the Australian Conservation Foundation and the
Traffic to the Green Left Weekly website hit an all-time high on July 19, when a total of 19,650 visitors came to the site and a total of 86,243 articles were read. Previously, the highest number of visitors on one day had been around 14,000.
Most
Karen Fredericks
The Coalition government will start deploying Australian police to Papua New Guinea from early September. This follows the Papua New Guinea parliament's decision on July 27 to finalise legislation giving the 230 Australian police
The following are abridged speeches to a June 22 Refugee Action Committee forum in Canberra, given by Kerrie Tucker, Greens Senate candidate in the ACT; Carmen Lawrence, ALP president and MP for Fremantle; and James Vassilopoulos, Socialist Alliance
Marcus Pabian, Melbourne
On July 28, the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) scored another victory in its ambitious campaign to institute a 36-hour week, improve working conditions and increase the number of apprentices in the Victorian power industry,
Iraq
Yet again, it appears that senior Coalition of the Willing politicians have fed the public grossly false — but politically convenient — information about Iraq. On November 20, 2003, Tony Blair declared: "We've already discovered, just so
Jonathan Strauss, Sydney
Discussion at the Marrickville Socialist Alliance's July 25 Politics in the Pub probed the significance of the demand for same-sex marriage rights.
Rodney Croome, a spokesperson for the Equal Rights Network, and Bernard
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