Victoria Stead sees an attempt to depoliticise protest behind the extraordinary charges brought against the G20 arrestees.
Tag Archives: World Bank
G20 — The Legal Aftermath
April 2, 2008 – 1:16 pm
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Also tagged APEC, Arena Magazine issue 94 April-May 2008, Carnival Against Capitalism, Christine Nixon, G20, global protest movement, Paul Wolfewitz, Victoria Stead
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Food Riots: System Breakdown
April 2, 2008 – 1:13 pm
John Hinkson on food shortages, population growth, climate change, and why neo-liberalism as an untenable social order
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Also tagged 2020 Summit, bio-fuels, capitalism, climate change, commodity consumption, ethics, food availability, food prices, food riots, food shortages, global market, global population, global trade, global travel, International Monetary Fund (IMF), John Hinkson, neo-liberalism, oil and gas shortages, peak oil, water availability
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In Terror and Hope
October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm
Guy Rundle
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Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, colonialism, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, International Monetary Fund (IMF), IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Hinkson, John Howard, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising
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Addicted to War
February 2, 2001 – 9:03 am
Jospeh Raso The New US Aid Package Fuels Colombia’s Counter-Insurgency War
Posted in against the current
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Also tagged Andrés Pastrana, atrocities, Bill Clinton, biological warfare, Carlos Castano, Colombian military, Colombian security forces, counter-Insurgency, Edward Herman, Egypt, El Salvador, George Bush, George W Bush, Guatemala, Gulf War, human rights monitors, Human Rights Watch, Indonesian armed forces, inequality, International Monetary Fund (IMF), international relations, Israel, José Napoleon Duarte, Joseph Raso, labour unions, Latin American militias, National Liberation Army (ELN), new world order, paramilitary groups, poverty, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), School of the Americas, state terrorism, transnational corporations, United States, US aid, US corporations, Vietnam Syndrome, Vinicio Cerezo
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Media Violence
November 2, 2000 – 6:50 am
Anita Lacey and Damian Grenfell
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Also tagged Abbie Hoffman, active non-violent protest, activism, Anita Lacey, child labour, corporate media, Crown Casino, Damian Grenfell, decentralisation, Defence Legislation Amendment (Aid to Civilian Authorities) Bill 2000, exploitation by capital, globalisation, IMF, Indigenous Australians, Media Violence, neo-liberal economics, Olympics, police violence, protest movement, protests, S11, Seattle protests, state violence, state-owned media, state-sanctioned violence, terrorism, The World Economic Forum (WEF), theatrical protest, Third World debt, violence
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Prague Autumn
August 2, 2000 – 6:38 am
Guy Rundle Pollyanna politics and global social movements
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Also tagged affinity groups, anarchism, anarchists, Bakunin, churches, civil disobedience, class, consumers, Earth First, free trade, G8, genetically modified foods, global economy, global protest movement, Guy Rundle, J18, Pat Buchanan, Reclaim the Streets, Rousseau, situationists, students, subcultures, technology, unions, United States, World Trade Organisation (WTO)
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From Colony to Global Prize
June 2, 2000 – 4:38 pm
George Aditjondro Timor Loro Sa’e Under a New Wave of Economic Transformation
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Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, agriculture, aid workers, annexation, Asia, Australian Defence Forces, banking, Cambodia, capitalism, cartel, Catholicism, coffee, coffee plantations, collaboration, colonialism, construction, corruption, deportation, East Timor, East Timor independence, economy, energy management, environmental policy, environmentalists, fertility control techniques, forced deportation, genocide, George Aditjondro, grants, guerillas, health workers, hotels, human rights violations, humanitarian aid, indigenous people, Indonesia, inequality, information technology, International Monetary Fund (IMF), investment, Japan, land appropriation, loans, Malaysia, militia, mining, monopoly, nationalism, NGO, Nobel Prize, North Korea, Northern Territory, oil, oligopoly, peacekeeping, political elite, political prisoners, Portugal, post-colonial states, prostitution, protesters, reconstruction, referendum, self-determination, Singapore, South Korea, squatters, state property, Suharto, Taiwan, teachers, telecommunication, Timor, tourism, trade unions, United Nations (UN), United States, uranium, West Papua, Western Australia, Xanana Gusmao
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Mapping the Political Terrain
April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm
George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e
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Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao
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