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Family members of soldiers now in Iraq have become a central pillar of the US movement against war and occupation. Military families and veterans groups mobilised for a protest on March 20 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the home of Fort Bragg.
SYDNEY — At least 650 residents met at Ashfield Town Hall on March 15, to debate the government's proposed options to extend the M4. The meeting condemned the poor and inadequate information provided by the Road Traffic Authority on key issues
"Today is a day of celebration and vindication for the millions of people across the world who protested against the invasion of Iraq. We didn't stop it, but we came very close when you look at what has happened to Blair in Britain. Consider the
Doug Lorimer US Army Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia became the first US soldier to turn himself in after refusing to return to Iraq when he turned himself in to military authorities in Boston on March 15, saying he would seek conscientious objector
Nick Fredman, Bangkok In the latest of a series of actions against the privatisation of the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand, 6000 public sector workers and supporters rallied on March 13. After widening opposition to the privatisation,
2 Bougainville liberators tour Australia SYDNEY — Bougainville Women for Peace and Freedom (BWPF) representative Josephine Takunani Sirivi, and former Bougainville Revolutionary Army commander Sam Kauona addressed a gathering and film
1 Unions defend Age jobs MELBOURNE — The sacking of 86 printers and maintenance workers at the Age's Spencer Street plant has been stalled by a combination of industrial pressure and legal defence. In an industrial relations commission
Alex Bainbridge, Hobart More than 10,000 forest campaigners took to the streets of Hobart on March 13 in a decisive display of support for preserving old-growth forests. The timber industry countered with a large mobilisation on March 16 — the
Sarah Stephen RA, an Algerian asylum seeker, fled to Australia in 2001 in fear of his life. He had no documentation to prove his claim for asylum, and the Refugee Review Tribunal rejected his initial appeal. By November last year, after three
Sarah Stephen After almost three years of imprisonment, those asylum seekers remaining on the Pacific island of Nauru are trapped in a living hell. They have seen some of their fellow prisoners granted refugee status and taken to New Zealand,
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON The Fate of the RomanovsGreg King and Penny WilsonJohn Wiley & Sons, 2003657 pages, $49.95 (hb) The telegrams from Ekaterinburg to Moscow were brief and to the point — the former Tsar of Russia (Nicholas II) had been
Lee Yu-kyung& Iggy Kim A move by conservative opposition parties in the Kukhoe, South Korea's single-chamber parliament, to impeach President Roh Moo-hyun are galvanising a pro-democracy backlash, leading to mass protests against the attempted