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Write on: Letters to the editor
sector workers, whether in state, foreign-invested or registered private firms, some 12-15% of the ... other nations that practice apartheid go unnoticed. The "genocide" of blacks in Sudan by Arab ... Health care in Vietnam Contrary to the assertions of Pham Minh (Write On, GLW #623), in Vietnam, ...
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Australia's role: Mining giant's war on West Papua
Arwaa valley were to be removed by the government in the next three months. Some of the indigenous ... genocide. "It is better they [ABRI] kill all of us [Amungme] here in Kwamki-lama, than to allow this to ... number of other West Papuans were arrested, beaten and tortured. Houses had been burned and gardens ...
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Rapper Felon makes arresting hip-hop
us, just trying to take me off him. One day after fuckin' months of it they came round and he ... They come around my house- trying to take my babies "From about the age of six to 12 I grew up on ... clutches of government. "At 12, we moved. Because I did correspondence school, they stuffed that up, ...
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Funkoars super-producer Trials instils Black pride
from Wales. "I went back around 12-ish, I reckon," he says. "It was kind of weird again, ... back around 12-ish, I reckon, it was kind of weird again because I was still like, 'I'll be ... of unhinged lunatics, start roaring like they've been freed from the asylum. Who could it be? ...
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The case for boycotting Sri Lankan cricket
a magnificent document; one destined to save the world from the horrors of war, repression, and genocide. My ... a genocidal Government that continues to 鈥渄isappear鈥 and murder Tamil people and create the massive wave of ... Australia has a sordid history of being a denier, or passive follower, rather than a leader in protecting ...
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Write on
Newsagents I have submitted some resolutions for the forthcoming conference of the Socialist ... restriction of the best left-wing newspaper in Australia not being easily accessible to the general public. ... room of the Municipal Library, and in offices of left-wing unions. I am strongly of the opinion that we ...
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Waiting for justice
Between 1982 and 1989, the number of Aboriginal prisoners nationally jumped by 31.9%, from 9826 to 12 ... Aboriginal people the right to run their own lives. From the official policy of genocide to assimilation, the ... had offered no assistance. Yet within a month of her leaving the man who had been treating them badly, ...
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Aboriginal activists speak on Tent Embassy 40-year milestone
our movement as we mark this historic 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy this month ... lasting as the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. First set up on the lawns of Old Parliament House in ... imagination of Aboriginal activists and their supporters around the country. The Aboriginal Tent Embassy ...
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Write on
including a metal head clamp for 4 days a week, 3-4 hours a day for a period of 5 months. As well as being ... "disappeared", never to be seen again. Their aim is the same: genocide of the indigenous people. Please, anyone ... Pacific and Indigenous people. The response to my protest stated that this was due to a lack of financial ...
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WikiLeaks cables show how Australia works with the US to get Iran
and threatened to take him to an international tribunal on charges of inciting genocide against ... Linda Pearson Barely 10 years after false claims about weapons of mass destruction were used to ... justify the invasion of Iraq, a similar narrative is being used by politicians in the US and Israel to ...
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Parents Lady Lash and Provocalz rap about new stolen generation
disorders in the years and months before most of the deaths it investigated. "It also highlighted the ... 'What the fuck is that?'" AA's founder, Bill Wilson, based the 12-step program on that of ... thorough study of the effectiveness of the 12-step program ever conducted concluded that AA's ...
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New stage in Israel's war on Palestine
liberation Jason Farbman In the early hours of July 1, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bombed dozens of sites ... kidnapped in Gush Etzion, a group of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank considered illegal ... suffered relentless collective punishment since the boys disappeared on June 12. Israel has portrayed ...
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Protests meet Gillard's asylumn seeker policies and rhetoric
Immigration Dept, Lee St, Sydney) Brisbane protest Friday July 9, 12.30pm Outside Department of Immigration ... adopting Tony Abbott鈥檚 鈥淧acific Solution鈥 policy which, only a couple of months ago as deputy PM, she ... Timor Offshore/Regional processing and detention Last updated July 7: What a difference a month and ...
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John Pilger: Breaking the Palestine taboo
entire people. Recently, on the website of the Times of Israel were the words: 鈥Genocide is Permissible.鈥 ... Russia September 12, 2014 1026 'The attack on Gaza was an attack on all of us.'. An Israeli ... Palestine and the great destructive force behind Israel. Only when this truth is out can any of us be free.鈥 ...
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Deaths in custody increase: interview with Ray Jackson
extrapolated to give a 12-month figure which is obviously false. The chance of going to prison is 18 times ... Despite the 339 recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, handed ... have been a further two deaths of Aboriginal people in custody. On New Year's Day at Townsville ...
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VIETNAM: The pauper among the 'tigers'?
and shanties surrounding cities (1.2 million on the periphery of Bangkok) is the driving of millions ... a decade of protecting the Cambodian people from the genocidal US-backed Khmer Rouge, freely operating from ... illiteracy and death from preventable diseases that afflict most of the capitalist Third World, ...
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Cuba: Breaking corporate power allows sustainable development
communities and employ hundreds of thousands of people thanks to government support. These farms provide about ... 80% of the fresh fruit, vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants consumed by urban residents. They are ... energy-saving compact fluorescents and to ban the sale of incandescents. It has also pioneered the ...
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Israel boycott sparks furor, death threats
Israel. A month later, they have belatedly become the subjects of vilification in the Rupert Murdoch-owned ... Middle East Sarah Irving The councillors of Marrickville, in Sydney鈥檚 inner west, voted by a 10-2 ... media, and of death threats from Australia's lunatic fringe. "What does the desert theocracy of ...
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Council defeats attempt to overturn Israel boycott
Middle East Pip Hinman It was ironic, but only supporters of Palestine were clapping after ... a majority of Marrickville councillors decided on March 15 in favour of hiring a venue to a newly-formed ... chambers was packed with supporters of the council鈥檚 stand on the global Boycott, Divestment Sanctions ...
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Rapper Briggs takes his homeland to the nation
Now touring www.iambriggs.com Briggs is 598 kilometres from his hometown of Shepparton- and he's ... got to get out of the house," says the rapper, sitting on his hotel room's balcony in ... Victorian town of Shepparton- famed, as one socio-economic report puts it, for its "bogans, rednecks ...