On March 15, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, spruiking his plans to revamp Australia鈥檚 ailing health care system, was told by Queanbeyan Doctor Jeannie Ellis, who has spent some time in Cuba, that he should look to the Caribbean island for ideas on how to develop a decent public health system.
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An arepa is a Venezuelan food staple. It is a round type of bread made from corn flour and water and slapped into shape with both hands. Venezuelans say they cannot live without eating an arepa each day.
In an indication that the global climate justice movement is becoming broader, there is now intense opposition to a climate-destroying energy loan for South Africa.
>Jude Conway, whose book Step by Step: Women of East Timor, Stories of Resistance and Survival has just been released by Charles Darwin University Press, gave the Andrew McNaughton Memorial Lecture at Gleebooks, Sydney on February 12. McNaughtan was a Sydney medical practitioner and a leading East Timor activist who died in late 2003.
Residents in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah have named a street after Rachel Corrie, a US solidarity activist crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in 2003 while protesting against Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes in Gaza.
Three thousand heavily armed Israeli security service forces locked down large parts of the Old City of Jerusalem on March 16 as battalions of police fired rounds of tear gas and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied eastern part of the city.
A year after a murderous Israeli assault, the war on the people of Gaza continues. Gaza is still under siege 鈥 still surrounded by walls and checkpoints. Its people are denied the necessities of life and the right to rebuild and shape their future.
Gaza is still under siege 鈥 still surrounded by walls and checkpoints. Its people are denied the necessities of life and the right to rebuild and shape their future.
Hundreds of thousands of "Red Shirt" pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets of Bangkok and other cities over the weekend of March 13-14. This was a show of force to prove the strength of the movement and to dispel any lies by the
On March 16, tens of hundreds of Palestinians of all political persuasions took to the streets, alleys and sidewalks as widespread rioting and protests spread across occupied East Jerusalem, the rest of the West Bank, Gaza and into Israel proper.
鈥淎t least 11 people have been injured by Israeli air strikes targeting Gaza's airport, Palestinian officials say鈥, BBC News reported on March 20.
It was common during the opening of the Iraq war to see slogans proclaiming 鈥淣o blood for oil!鈥 The cover story for the war 鈥 Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein鈥檚 links with Al Qaeda and his weapons of mass destruction 鈥 were obvious mass deceptions, hiding a far less palatable imperial agenda.
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