The International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM) has reported that Milton Dabibi, general secretary of the ICEM-affiliated Nigerian oil and gas workers' union PENGASSAN, has been arrested in Lagos and is being
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Unconditionally In the highly acclaimed work The Color Purple, poet and novelist Alice Walker wrote, "... it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it". Today, I envision myself in a field somewhere
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Coal miners in Ukraine returned to work on February 16 after one of the hardest-fought strikes in the former Soviet republic in recent years. The resumption of work followed an agreement by the government to negotiate
Because ... BECAUSE our work is never done and underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get the sack and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get bashed we must
By Marcus Greville A public rally is being organised by the Aboriginal History Committee (AHC) on March 9 to protest against the planned demolition of the historically significant Cyprus-Hellene Club building, the site of the 1938 Day of Mourning
Women Travellers Accommodation DirectoryKaye Johnston & Andrea LofthouseA Moonraker Productions publication, 1995P.O. Box 186, Berry, NSW 253588 pp., $9.95 postage paid in AustraliaReviewed by Kath Gelber This project began when Johnston and
NTEU dispute CANBERRA — Fifty ANU staff and students gathered on February 28 to hear speakers condemn the Labor government's handling of the NTEU pay dispute. While all speakers were defiant and stood with the NTEU line, there were many who
Sexy Bodies: The Strange Carnalities of FeminismEdited by Elizabeth Grosz and Elspeth ProbynRoutledge, 1995. 303 pp., $36.95Reviewed by Jen Crothers Sexy Bodies is a collection of 15 essays. Each crosses a wide variety of disciplinary streams,
Choices — A four-part documentary series produced by 2SER-FM, Sydney, that will be broadcast on 28 community radio stations around NSW, Choices looks at the many decisions women face while juggling work, children, leisure and their partners. The
By Katrina Dean CANBERRA — The CPSU national leadership organised a candidates' forum here on February 28. Only three candidates for the seat of Canberra were invited to speak — Senator Bob McMullen (ALP), Gwen Willcox (Liberals) and Gordon
ANC minister calls for limits on human rights A senior member of the ANC-led government of national unity, justice minister Dullah Omar, has called for key Â鶹´«Ã½ of South Africa's current interim constitution that protect individual rights to be
By Norm Dixon US President Bill Clinton on February 8 signed into law the Telecommunications Reform Act. Tied to the bill is another law which contains sweeping restrictions on the use of electronic communications called the Communications Decency
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