Max Lane
An eight-month election process for village councils has finished in East Timor. Although the village councils have no power and are primarily vehicles through which local people can articulate their opinions, the elections were contested
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Susan Price, Melbourne
On September 30, the National Tertiary Education Union's national council overwhelmingly endorsed a motion to continue to resource a political and industrial campaign that includes building NTEU involvement in the November
Paradise NowDirected by Hani Abu-AssadStarring Kais Nashif, Ali Suliman and Lubna AzabalOpens October 27 at Cinema Nova (Melbourne), Paris Cinema (Fox Studios, Sydney) and Palace Nova (Adelaide).
REVIEW BY KIM BULLIMORE
"Every day in the
Pip Hinman, Sydney
A public meeting to launch a campaign for a human rights act at the Sydney Town Hall on October 4 attracted 1000 people. Hosted by NewMatilda.com, the meeting heard from a range of people about why they supported the idea of a
Shane Bentley
The biggest protests in the history of New Zealand took place in 1991. The focus of this anger was the plan to introduce anti-union laws as harsh as any in the Western world. Hundreds of thousands of New Zealand workers took to the
The article "Police drop investigation into murder of 13 Arab citizens" in GLW #644 incorrectly stated: "In the first week of the demonstrations, some 100 peaceful demonstrators and 13 Palestinians with Israeli citizenship were killed in Umm el Fahm,
City of the long weary revolutioncity with much bread and no brickscity of dancing torsos and all night communistsof police who read and kiss on dutya place where children form conga linesin liberated palaceswhere millions chanted dancedalong the
Sarah Stephen
In recent years, many families who successfully convinced the immigration department (DIMIA) that they should be released from detention found themselves in a new type of hell living on a bridging visa E (BVE).
This visa denies
Rohan Pearce
"The progress we've seen in Iraq has been superb, and we can be confident going forward because the Iraqi people value their own liberty and are determined to choose their own destiny", US Vice-President Dick Cheney declared on October
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the RoomWritten and directed by Alex GibneyDendy Cinemas from October 13
REVIEW BY LACHLAN MALLOCH
"Burn baby, burn!" These malicious, greedy words of an Enron trader, referring to a bushfire threatening power lines
Graham Matthews
In the days following the October 1 Bali bombings, Australians have been subject to a barrage of hypocritical and racist "anti-terrorist" hysteria whipped up by politicians and the corporate media. But activists have stated what
Elizabeth Schulte& Eric Ruder, Chicago
From all 50 states and all walks of life, they poured into the US capital on September 24. On buses and trains and planes, in cars and vans, they made their way to Washington, DC, to take a stand against the
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