Green Left Weekly <http://www.greenleft.org.au/index.htm> RSS feed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/rss/glw.xml> Green Left Weekly #617, March 2, 2005 No more troops to Iraq! Bring them all home! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p12.htm> Bush's super-loyal ally Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced on February 22 that his government would double the number of Australian troops in Iraq by sending an extra 450. Now's the time for the anti-war movement to do what it can to convert the large passive opposition to the Iraq war to active opposition, making it a ``tilting point'' in favour of peace. [Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p12.htm> * Our Common Cause: Bring the troops home - don't send more! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p7b.htm> * IRAQ: Is there a threat of civil war? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p13.htm> * Martinkus: 'Iraqis fighting to free their country' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p14.htm> * UNITED STATES: Imprisoned soldier: Regaining my humanity <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18.htm> # Habib's treatment `reminiscent of Abu Ghraib' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p5.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Click here to join the GLW discussion list <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GreenLeft_discussion/> visit the Socialist Alliance website <http://www.socialist-alliance.org> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Close the Baxter prison! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p24.htm> On March 24, former Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Palmer will deliver the findings of his inquiry into how Cornelia Rau was mistakenly held in Baxter detention centre for 10 months. Palmer's re****t won't mention the way Rau was treated while she was in detention. It won't mention that she was kept in solitary confinement for 18-20 hours a day, that it took six guards in full riot gear to get her back into her isolation cell. Full article] <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p24.htm> * Judicial inquiry into SIEV X drownings still needed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p4.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ International News # INDONESIA: US to resume military ties <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p20.htm> # INDIA: Reweaving ****va's robes <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p20b.htm> # IRAQ: Is there a threat of civil war? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p13.htm> # Martinkus: 'Iraqis fighting to free their country' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p14.htm> # ISRAEL/PALESTINE: Sharm-el-Sheikh - a fake peace festival <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p15.htm> # URUGUAY: Frente Amplio readies for government <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p16.htm> # ****TUGAL: Right thrashed, left surges in elections <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p16b.htm> # VENEZUELA: Chavez accuses US of assassination plot <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p17.htm> # VENEZUELA: Unionists call for international sup****t <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p17b.htm> # UNITED STATES: Imprisoned soldier: Regaining my humanity <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18.htm> # PALESTINE: 4 months for killing a Palestinian <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18b.htm> # Eyewitness Palestine: <http://redapril.blogspot.com> # UNITED STATES: Pollution agencies threatened <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18c.htm> # UNITED STATES: Mentally ill man killed by Taser <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18d.htm> # PHILIPPINES: Subanen tribe faces eviction <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18e.htm> # BRAZIL: Indigenous children starve <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18f.htm> # NEW ZEALAND: Nurses win pay increase <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18g.htm> # UNITED STATES: Mother told `learn English' or lose custody <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18h.htm> # BOTSWANA: Academic freedom under threat <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p18i.htm> # INDONESIA: Death, lies and 'humanitarian aid' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p19.htm> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enjoy reading Green Left Weekly? 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Why not make an online donation <http://www.greenleft.org.au/fogl.htm>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comment and Analysis # Victorian unions call mass delegates' meeting <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p9.htm> # Free Craig Johnston, Australia's political prisoner! <http://www.defendcraigjohnston.info> # A woman's place is in the struggle: Women against war <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p8b.htm> # Calls for a Timor Sea trust fund <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p7.htm> # Our Common Cause: Bring the troops home - don't send more! <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p7b.htm> # Justice for East Timor <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p7c.htm> # Open letter to Israel's president <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p7d.htm> # ****t Augusta Indigenous community resists racist attacks <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p6.htm> # EDITORIAL: Howard aims to break union power <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p3b.htm> # Forest campaigners vow to fight Gunns <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p10.htm> # This week in history <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p10b.htm> # Students and the anti-war movement <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p11.htm> # War profiteers targeted <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p11b.htm> Australian News # Lismore welcomes Freedom Ride <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p6c.htm> # Letty Scott fights on <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p6d.htm> # Premier faces bribery probe over Palm Island <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p6b.htm> # Protest opposes troops increase <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p4d.htm> # Habib's treatment `reminiscent of Abu Ghraib' <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p5.htm> # Political censor****p on campus <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p5b.htm> # Parliament bans poor protesters <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p5c.htm> # Memorial service remembers TJ <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p3c.htm> # Judicial inquiry into SIEV X still needed <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p4.htm> # New uranium mine for NT? <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p4b.htm> # Back to jail for Opera House two <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p2b.htm> # Indigenous rights rallies to demand justice for TJ <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p3.htm> # Protest opposes bay dredging <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p2.htm> Regular Features # Write on: Letters to the editor <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p8.htm> # Loose cannons <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p4c.htm> # Cartoon <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/toonk.jpg> Cultural Dissent # Pirates: proletarian outlaws seeking liberty <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p21.htm> # Art for social change <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p22.htm> # Terror begins at home <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p22b.htm> # Children in detention as caged birds <http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/617/617p22c.htm> Click here for Green Left Weekly's copyleft details. <http://www.greenleft.org.au/copyleft.htm> About Green Left Weekly <http://www.greenleft.org.au/what.htm> Authorised by K. 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