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Film reveals Saharawi people's long struggle REVIEW BY NICK EVERETT The Forgotten War, a documentary about the struggle of the people of Western Sahara against the occupation of their country by Morocco, premiered to a packed audience in the NSW
BY SEAN HEALY The federal Coalition government has received seven private tenders to conduct a "human rights" training program for 43 members of the Burmese military regime. Burmese democracy activists have protested that the program will
Corporate mobsters to meet in casino BY SEAN HEALY If their rackets were heroin and prostitution, their meeting would be called a Godfathers' convention. But their rackets are more legitimate, or at least more legal, so their
Please help me' As promised, from time to time in this space, I am sharing what a day in the life of a man on Georgia's death row is like. I spent the day writing the letter below; it speaks for itself. Be advised that, on June 5, 2000, Mr
Anyone for lobotomy? Suddenly Last Summerby Tennessee WilliamsCompany B, Belvoir St TheatreSydney, until July 23 Review by Brendan Doyle Suddenly Last Summer, written by Tennessee Williams in 1957, assaulted US theatre-goers with a nightmarish
BY PETER BOYLE Rupert Murdoch's Australian newspaper has been running a series of articles on the impact of economic deregulation in Australia. Entitled “Advance Australia where”, it analyses the results of studies commissioned from the
Bloated "Twenty per cent of greenhouse gas emissions in Australia are the result of flatulence from cows and sheep [therefore] ... restrictions would have a dramatic impact on the farm sector." — National Party senior federal vice-president David
BY DANIEL JARDINE & ALEX BAINBRIDGE "Australians and New Zealanders rarely have any valid basis for questioning the safety of foods on the supermarket shelves for human consumption", Senator Grant Tambling claimed when he launched the
World Development Report author quits BY SEAN HEALY The World Bank has been embarrassed by the June 13 resignation of Ravi Kanbur, the chief author of its flagship World Development Report 2000, after Kanbur claimed unacceptable pressure had been
BY BECKY ELLIS TORONTO — Twelve hundred people demanded entry to the Ontario parliament building here on June 15, saying they should be allowed to address the provincial legislature about poverty and homelessness in the city. The protesters were
A mild-mannered proposal Running on Empty: 'Modernising' the British and Australian labour partiesBy Andrew ScottPluto Press, 2000330pp., $29.95(pb) Review by Sue Boland In the 1980s, Britain's Labour Party (LP) officials were forever scurrying
Âé¶¹´«Ã½ is taking a break Many of the activists involved in producing Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly will be in Melbourne attending the Resistance national conference on June 29-July 2 (see article on page ?). We are therefore postponing the next issue of