New Activist Rights Website Online

From Melbourne Indymedia - Activists: Know Your Rights

Vital legal information is now readily available for Australian activist networks, movements and individuals on the internet thanks to 'Activist Rights'. The new website was launched by the Fitzroy Legal Service at the SKA TV Activist Awards on Wednesday 6 October 2004.

Spending nine months in development, the site is a unique tool for anyone seeking information about their rights. Information available includes: police powers, arrest and imprisonment, common charges used against activists, how to make a complaint about police misconduct, responding to legal threats and the new raft of anti-terrorism legislation and powers.

Downloadable guides and information sheets are also available. 'Activist Rights' is funded by the Reichstein Foundation and the Victoria Law Foundation.

Visit the site at http://www.activistrights.org.au

© Scoop Media

Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>