Environmental pollution crusader Erin Brockovich and her partner, Ed Masry, have a new cause — allegedly cancer-causing gases they say are leaking into the air in Los Angeles
School officials ordered a 16-year-old student to either take off a t-shirt emblazoned with the words International Terrorist
and a picture of President Bush or go home, saying they worried it would inflame passions at the school where a majority of students are Arab-American
To contemplate war is to think about the most horrible of human experiences. On this February day, as this nation stands at the brink of battle, every American on some level must be contemplating the horrors of war… Robert Byrd, a US senator, appeals to fellow Americans to reject the administration’s outrageous, reckless and inexcusable
foreign policy
Major record companies have instigated a legal battle with Australian universities over students’ alleged use of university networks to engage in illegal file swapping. But while the major music companies may fret over falling revenue, one label saw its business jump 33 percent last year — thanks in part to the recordable compact discs that the industry says are hurting its sales. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is using CD-Rs, to ensure that each release in its extensive catalogue is always available
China has sentenced Tao Haidong, an Internet activist, to seven years in prison for publishing articles critical of the Chinese government
An online civil liberties organisation has raised serious concerns about the implementation of an email monitoring policy for NSW education institutions, while a teachers’ body has issued a guarded response
The Prime Minister insists he will not be swayed by the human tide of protest against a war with Iraq — not by the more than 250,000 people who marched in Sydney yesterday, nor the 10 million who rallied worldwide. While the United States and Britain have vowed to press on with a second United Nations resolution, preparing the way for war on Iraq in spite of unprecedented worldwide peace protests
Close to one million people, from veteran peaceniks to first-time marchers, have packed central London to tell the government and the United States to pull back from war with Iraq in the country’s biggest ever peace march
Net freedom fighter Lawrence Lessig has urged the UK Government to ensure that digital copyright laws are fair
Several Colorado lawmakers are supporting legislation to elevate the status of cats and dogs from property to companions
Ratepayers in the City of Stonnington have helped pay for a booklet by a pro-life group that claims there is a link between abortion and breast cancer. The claim has been condemned by a leading cancer specialist as untrue and scare mongering
Madeleine Rees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Bosnia, has broken ranks to demand that UN officials, international peacekeepers and police who are involved in sex crimes be should be stripped of their immunity and prosecuted in their home countries
The retarded monkey boy‘s plan for a massive antiterrorism database centre, announced in his state of the union address last week, could be up and running within months, from a technology standpoint. But harder to overcome will be privacy concerns of a non-technical nature
The widow of the only Australian to die fighting the war against terrorism has slammed the Federal Government for failing to review a death and injury compensation scheme before deploying more troops to the Gulf
A Bush administration overhaul of decades-old labour regulations could force many Americans to work longer hours without overtime pay
As troops gather in the Middle East and the US hypes up rhetoric for war on Iraq, an army of protesters across Australia is mustering its forces to fight for peace
US trade negotiators are pushing for Australia to sign up to a tough new copyright regime that could hold ISPs liable for breaches. The EFA are less than impressed
Children in the UK who were conceived from donated sperm and eggs will be able to find out limited
information on their genetic parents
If you’ve ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, you’re what prosecutors like to think of as an unindicted federal felon
The Australian Consumers Association claim that a levy on the sale of blank CDs and DVDs may benefit buyers if it locks in a right to copy for personal use
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