BY STUART ROSS
The Ulster Defense Association (UDA) — also known as the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) — has announced that it will be withdrawing its support for the Good Friday Agreement.
"We can no longer remain silent in our criticism of
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BY JODY BETZIEN
MELBOURNE — Having arrived at his St Kilda press conference more than an hour late, Michael Franti was quick to break with the convention and respectability of the expensive surrounds of the Astor Hotel.
Sitting on the back of
BY KYLIE MOON
MELBOURNE — It was standing room only when Naomi Klein came to town on July 16, packing out both the Atheneum Theatre and the Trades Hall Council auditorium.
Hundreds crammed in to hear the Canadian activist and author speak about
BY NOREEN NAVIN
SYDNEY — Some 400 people attended the Now We The People conference over the July 14-15 weekend to discuss the negative impact of economic rationalism and corporate globalisation on ordinary people's lives.
Sponsored by a wide
BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — Under the banner of "Save our state!" more than 5000 people marched through the city on July 14, demanding that Adelaide's live music venues be protected from inner-city residential development.
The rally demanded
Anti-Howard protest
SYDNEY — One hundred protesters converged on Prime Minister John Howard's electoral office at Gladesville on July 19 to protest his government's attacks on workers, students, pensioners and the unemployed.
Organised by
BY LARA PULLIN
CANBERRA — On July 14, the conflict between police and protesters at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy site turned violent. A police car ran into indigenous custodian Daryl Bloomfield, knocking him onto its bonnet in full view of TV
BY JULIA HALDANE
The murder of a security guard at a Melbourne abortion clinic has prompted right-to-choose campaigners to step up pressure on state governments to scrap anti-abortion laws.
In Queensland, feminist groups, including the Brisbane
On July 9, in a 2-1 decision, the Sixth Chamber of the Santiago Appeals Court ruled that Chilean ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet suffers from dementia that makes him mentally unfit to stand trial on charges of covering up the murders of 75 leftists.
Corporate advisor
"Maybe it's time for [moderate anti-globalisation] groups ... to go further and suspend large-scale demonstrations, like the one scheduled for Genoa." — Time magazine correspondent Romesh Ratnesar writing in the July 23, 2001,
By Stephen Marks
Workers at a maquiladora (foreign-owned assembly plant) in Nicaragua's Las Mercedes Free Trade Zone have defeated an attempt to break their union after a year-long struggle.
On May 10, as the result of a court order, the
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The campaign for safe abortion access has begun again after Steve Rogers, a security guard, was shot dead at the Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne on July 16.
Anti-choice groups such as Right to Life have attempted to
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