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Chechen government appeal

Chechen government appeal The following statement was received by the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) General Secretariat on February 27 from the government of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria. The Government of the

On the box

Actively Radical TV — This week's program looks at the controversy surrounding Sydney's third runway. Activists Ian Fraser, Aline Smith and Col Hesse discuss Labor's legacy in inner Sydney. CTS (UHF 31), Friday, March 10, 10.30pm (Repeated

US pesticide study sounds alarm

US pesticide study sounds alarm Washington, D.C. — A study published on February 27 in the American Journal of Public Health, which finds elevated rates of cancer in children exposed to pesticides, raises yet again the serious and overdue need

CFMEU bans demolition

CFMEU bans demolition By Chantal Wynter MELBOURNE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) has backed a campaign by Broadmeadows teachers and community leaders to stop the government from bulldozing the caretakers'

Anti-abortion terror in California

By Tom Burghardt SAN FRANCISCO — Four California women's health centres were attacked in the first half of February. The latest in a series of arson attacks occurred on February 15 when a fire was started at the Planned Parenthood facility in

Short story: Next time

A short story by Maria Lee I arrive about forty-five minutes early, and park next to the theatre gardens. I walk up to the street and find the building I'm supposed to go to. Along the way, my eyes check for possible parking places for the next

Not the thinking woman's party

Not the thinking woman's party By all indications, 1995 is shaping up to be the year in which the ALP relaunches itself as the "thinking woman's party". Not since the ALP's 1972 "It's Time" campaign has the party placed so much emphasis on its

The politics of sexual separatism

Straight sex: the politics of pleasure By Lynne Segal Virago Press 1994 Reviewed by Tyrion Perkins Male power "authentically originates in the penis", claims Andrea Dworkin in her book Pornography: men possessing women. Such views,

Aboriginal death in Long Bay

Aboriginal death in Long Bay SYDNEY — "The hanging death of Brian Joe Ballard at Long Bay Jail Hospital is the second death to occur this year", said Ray Jackson, public officer of the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee. "How

Merchant bank vanishes into a loophole

By Eva Cheng The creative accounting of a 28-year-old whiz-kid in faraway Singapore blew open a US$1 billion hole into which the British merchant bank Barings fell, never to emerge. Observers fear that other financial "time bombs" are still

NSW Labor hides its agenda for women

NSW Labor hides its agenda for women By Amanda Mitchell Sixty-five women from the Bligh electorate attended a public meeting on February 18 in the Woolloomooloo public housing estate to hear Pam Allen, NSW shadow spokesperson on women's

Sunshine Coast students walk out

Sunshine Coast students walk out By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Students at Nambour High School in the Sunshine Coast hinterland walked out of school in late February in support of Honey Marich, a 15-year-old classmate excluded for wearing a