A convoy of trucks from Britain carrying tonnes of goods and spreading a message of international solidarity has passed through Slovenia on its way to Tuzla in Bosnia.
The convoy left the Timex factory in Dundee on August 9. The trucks were sent
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Ethan Frome
Directed by John Madden
At the Kino, Melbourne, from late October
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Forbidden passion seems to be a sexy topic among independent and art house cinemas these days — or perhaps it always was. John
Mabo made understandable
Mabo — its meaning for Australia
A Community Aid Abroad Background Report
30 pp. $8 (plus $2 for postage and packaging)
Reviewed by Lachlan Anderson
Community Aid Abroad recently released a compilation of
Rainforest banner a winner
By Cam Walker
MELBOURNE — Thirty activists from the Boycott Mitsubishi Coalition leafleted the National Basketball League's finals at Flinders Park on October 1. The action was part of the campaign at events
Drumming
For my Australian readers' benefit "drumming" is the word I will use in place of the word campaigning. I am trying to drum up support for men of colour all over the world, and in particular for the much maligned African-American man.
Inside Indonesia turns ten
The tenth anniversary of the important Australian publication Inside Indonesia was celebrated in Melbourne on October 3 with the release of issue number 36.
The celebration was held together with the opening of an
BRISBANE — The Boycott Mitsubishi Campaign continued on Friday, October 1, as the Rainforest Information Centre, Environmental Youth Alliance and other rainforest activists gathered at Boondal Entertainment Centre for the Mitsubishi-sponsored
Breaking the norms
By Sabina Nowak
ADELAIDE — Two short plays by David Paul Jobling, The grip and Grown-up's playroom, were performed together at the Space Theatre from September 21 to 25.
The grip, previously performed at the South
Academic defends group named as cult
By Michael Collins
How free should academics be to lend the authority of their positions to doctrines which have not been subject to academic evaluation? The question arises in regard to the group Kenja,
Unions plan struggle to defend wages
By Boris Kravchenko and Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Defying heavy government pressure, Russia's main union body went ahead on September 28 with a conference that had been intended to map out a campaign of
Shooting at the Moon
Shooting at the Moon: Peace Workers in Cambodia Tell Their Stories
A photographic exhibition at the Sydney Town Hall October 9-16 and from October 18 in Canberra at Old Parliament House.
Heide Smith's photographs
Democrats arrested, beaten
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Three leaders of the Party of Labour were arrested and savagely beaten as the regime of Boris Yeltsin moved to suppress the democratic opposition.
Around 11 p.m. on October 3,
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