The images appear thick and fast: a spaceship, a starving child, a computer, a barefoot peasant. The opening shots of a community TV documentary? No. The "Flash" intro sequence on an activist group's web site? No. This was the
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BY BEN REID
MANILA — The leader of the militant BMP trade union federation and prominent leftist, Filemon "Popoy" Lagman, was assassinated on February 6. Four gunmen opened fire while Lagman was visiting the Diliman campus of the University of
BY NORM DIXON
The eminent barrister Horace Rumpole has often noted that the "golden thread running through the history of British justice" is that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty by the prosecution "beyond a reasonable doubt". Of
BY MARGARET ALLUM
"In his attempt at reinventing himself, Ariel Sharon is claiming supernatural powers — i.e. the ability to accomplish the impossible", wrote Hanan Ashrawi, Palestinian parliamentarian and professor at Birzeit University, in
BY TONY ILTIS
MELBOURNE — A native title claim by the Yorta Yorta people for a small portion of their traditional lands in the Murray-Goulburn region on the NSW-Victoria border was rejected by the full bench of the Federal Court on February 8.
BY GRANT COLEMAN
PERTH — More than 500 issues of Student Underground, a new newsletter produced by secondary students which promotes International Women's Day and the May 1 blockade of the city's stock exchange, have been greeted with enthusiasm
Adelaide: Thurs Feb 15, 6pm. 5th flr, Union Bldg, Adelaide Uni (Nth Tce). Ph 8231 6982 or <m1adelaide@start.com.au>.
Brisbane: Wed Feb 14, 6pm. TLC Bldg, 16 Peel St, Sth Brisbane. Ph 3831 2644.
Canberra: Anti-corporate teach-in. Sat
BY KATH O'DRISCOLL
LISMORE — Plans are underway here to organise International Women's Day, the region's first for two years. Women from different parts of the region having been meeting to prepare a march and rally, multicultural fair day, art
Federal Minister for Community Services Larry Anthony said on January 18 that he was "appalled" by the statistics that reveal one separated man suicides every day in this country. He was emphasising support for the federal government's $16.5 million
BY GEOFF FRANCIS
HOBART — Environmentalist Sarah Bayne turned herself in to the Hobart magistrates' court on February 6 for non-payment of a $5000 fine imposed in 1998 after she was arrested in a protest at Mother Cummings Peak.
Bayne had
BY PETER BOYLE
Following the January 25 call by the Democratic Socialist Party for
a socialist electoral alliance to contest the coming federal elections,
a formation meeting on February 17 has been convened jointly by the DSP
and
SAN FRANCISCO — The Los Angeles Times ran a cartoon that graphically shows the situation California's consumers find ourselves in today: two big pulley wheels sucking in a consumer. The top wheel says, "power suppliers" and the bottom wheel,
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