Mike Stark, Chicago
In 1999, I was driving Ossie Davis around Washington, D.C., during a visit he made to participate in a delegation to the White House in support of Pennsylvania death row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Drawing on his Georgia roots,
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An estimated 200 million people died as a result of war during the 20th century, including:
World War I (1914-18): 15 million
World War II (1937-45): 55 million
Korean War (1950-53): 2.8 million
Vietnam War (1960-75): 3.5 million
Gulf War
James Vassilopoulos, Melbourne
Eighty members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) employed at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology decided on February 8 to continue work bans in pursuit of a new enterprise bargaining agreement.
Lara Pullin
Federal health minister Tony Abbott's push to restrict (and eventually outlaw) women's access to legal abortion services continues to gather momentum, with more Coalition and some Labor MPs joining in the call for a "public debate"
Pip Hinman
Debate over the Defence Amendment Bill — introduced into the Senate in 2004 by the Australian Democrats — continued on February 10, with the Greens again calling for Australian troops to be brought home from Iraq.
The current
On February 14, 2004, a 17-young-old Aboriginal man from Kamilaroi — Thomas "T.J." Hickey — was flung from his bicycle and impaled on a metal fence while being pursued by Redfern police. His death the following day in hospital sparked a community
Graham Williams, Melbourne
Workers formerly employed at ABM Plastics have been picketing the plant since January 21 in an attempt to force company owner Abe Waisman to pay them $2.5 million in redundancy entitlements.
ABM Plastics went into
Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge TribunalBy Tom Fawthrop and Helen JarvisUNSW Press, Sydney, 2005320 pages, $39.95 (pb)
REVIEW BY TONY ILTIS
Commentators of the Gerard Henderson variety accuse the "left" of having
Sue Bolton, Melbourne
On February 2, 40 members and officials from 10 unions in Victoria founded the Defend the Unions Committee to coordinate resistance to the federal Coalition government's planned attack on union rights — its industrial
Jan Lacey, Australia Asia Worker Links coordinator for the Stolen Wages Project, died on January 17.
Jan was born in Melbourne into a working-class family. She started working in retail when she was young and later went to work at Leeds Dyeworks in
Farooq Sulehria
On February 1, Kathmandu witnessed another government dismissal — the 14th government change in as many years.
In May last year, Prime Minister Surya Bahadur Thapa resigned following weeks of street protests by opposition groups
Doug Lorimer
"I call on all religious and political powers that pushed towards the elections and took part in them to issue an official statement calling for a timetable for the withdrawal of the occupation forces from Iraq", Moqtada al Sadr, the
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