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Screen: Three Black Filmmakers — Featuring John Akomfrah from the London-based Black Audio Film Collective, veteran USA director William Greaves, whose film from the '60s, Symbiopsychtaxoplasm has been revived as a classic, and Australian
By Emma McDonald SYDNEY — A Federal Airports Corporation discussion paper proposing to demolish the suburb of Sydenham because it will be severely affected by noise from the new Sydney airport third runway, "is just another case of jumping
By Frank Noakes "A major new effort to develop jobs which protect the environment", was how the January 18 joint statement by the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Australian Conservation Foundation described their joint Green Jobs
Pham Thanh's continuing war Connections: Thanh's War 8.30 p.m. Friday, February 5, SBS Television (8 p.m. Adelaide) Reviewed by Stephen Robson Pham Thanh was 12 years old in December 1968, when his family were killed as US soldiers
BRISBANE — Fifty women attended the International Women's Day Collective meeting on January 19. The theme this year will be around the Year of Indigenous Peoples, with Murri women taking a strong role in the collective. It was also suggested
By Max Lane Students from major campuses around Java and farmers from the Blangguan area of East Java were arrested on Saturday, January 23 during protest action against the local marine base. A marine battalion which wants the area is
Leading us down the garden path By Darin Huddy ADELAIDE — South Australia's national parks and wildlife reserves are heading for a crisis, battling feral animals, weeds and a lack of funds from the Labor government. Although land
By Norm Dixon Four giant US oil companies stand to make a killing in Somalia if US troops can pacify the strategic African nation, the Los Angeles Times has revealed. The report further undermines US claims that the invasion was a
By Norm Dixon Thousands of Angolans have been killed since National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) contras launched a military offensive following their decisive defeat by the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of
By Malik Miah It's 12 years since a Democrat last occupied the White House. In that period of Reagan and Bush, the super-rich became more wealthy. The rest of us became poorer. Working people are paying the price. Class divisions are
By Vannessa Hearman The human rights situation in Indonesia in 1992 did not improve, according to the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH). The foundation, one of Indonesia's foremost non-governmental organisations, held a press conference
By Anne Pavy PERTH — It is not just a matter of getting people into parliament: "We need to change the way people think and view and operate within the world", Stewart Jackson, secretary of the WA Greens, told Green Left Weekly. The