Kamala Emanuel, Hobart
Twenty people attended an "Iraq pre-election fire sale" on the Salamanca Lawns on January 29.
The Peace Coalition organised the action to draw attention to the massive privatisation of Iraqi assets that has been prepared or
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Jon Lamb
Cuba's shining example
A nation that has been forced to endure major economic upheavals and constraints, Cuba is a shining example of what can be done to diversify agricultural production and meet energy needs in a sustainable way.
Rohan Pearce
The cartoon on the letters page of the January 26 Sydney Morning Herald featured an Iraqi casting his vote in the US-engineered January 30 election saying "Give me liberty or give me death", while behind him a masked suicide bomber
More than 500 prisoners of some 35 nationalities are being held at the US Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The prisoners are denied basic rights under international law and most have been held without charge or trial.
Many of the prisoners
On January 25, Israeli troops rolled into the town of Saida and placed the whole village under curfew: since then, no-one has been allowed to leave his or her home. One of those in the town is Australian aid worker Donna Mulhearn, who sent the
Message Stick: Bob Maza — Profiles Bob Maza — an actor, writer, director, activist and mentor — who campaigned tirelessly for Aboriginal rights and reconciliation and for a better understanding between black and white Australians. ABC, Friday,
The leaders of the more-than-30 unions that make up the Central American Common Union met on January 18 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to establish the next moves in their campaign against the US-Central America Free Trade Agreement. They slammed CAFTA
Raul Bassi
In the early hours of December 31, more than 4000 people were enjoying local rock band Los Callejeros in Buenos Aires when suddenly joy became misery. A fire ripped through the Republica Cromagnon nightclub, killing 190 people, and
Max Lane
"The death toll in Aceh from the tsunami is closer to 300,000 people", Thamrin Ananda, chairperson of the Aceh People's Democratic Struggle Front (FPDRA), told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly by phone from Jakarta on January 27.
The FPDRA has been
Dale Mills, Sydney
The renewal of the Terrorism (Police Powers) Act 2002 by the NSW parliament looks certain after a review. The law allows a senior police officer to give special powers to police that will suspend civil liberties. This
Jim McIlroy, Brisbane
Around 400 Aboriginal protesters and their supporters rallied in Roma Street Forum and marched through city streets to Musgrave Park to mark Invasion Day, January 26, the day white settlers first arrived in Australia.
The
Ruth Ratcliffe, Newcastle
When residents of several Newcastle suburbs received offensive leaflets in their letterboxes demanding "humanitarianism for local Australians, not gang-banging Sudanese" and advertising a January 22 "meeting" in Islington
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