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One False Move Directed by Carl Franklin Written by Billy Bob Thornton and Tom Epperson With Bill Paxton and Lynda Williams Reviewed by Gabrielle Carey This is a powerful movie from a new African American director, Carl Franklin. It's
Delivering According to George Campbell, national secretary of the Automotive, Metals and Engineering Union, "we can never again allow the trade union movement to become so weak that large sections of it are dependent upon a Labor government
By Karen Fredericks The planned launch of War of the Sexes, a book on how to find and marry a Filipina woman, was thwarted by the angry response of Filipina women in Perth last month. The author of the book, Kenneth Morgan, was inundated with
Handbook for activists By Stephen Bavaro SYDNEY — The Activists Defence Network (ADN) will soon be launching the Activists Defence Handbook. A spokesperson for the ADN says that the handbook will be available by late March or early
South Africa fuels Rwanda civil war Copies of two invoices received by the Oslo-based World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa reveal that arms and ammunition worth around US$6 million were sold to the
Campaign for jailed publisher An international campaign in solidarity with South Korean publisher Ilbung Choe is being stepped up with the launch of an international petition. Choe was jailed for two years in October merely for publishing
EYA pedals against pollution By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — The next generation of young people faces tremendous problems of pollution and environmental destruction because of the neglect of the past, Phoebe Clark, a 13-year-old high school
Peltier frame-up highlighted By Norm Dixon Amnesty International is highlighting the case of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier in this Year of the Indigenous Peoples, AI's US chairperson, Rick Halperin, told Green Left
By Igal Avidan On February 28 exactly 50 years ago, a few hundred women began a historic demonstration in Nazi Germany — perhaps the only public protest against the Holocaust ever to be staged under Hitler. Yet the demonstration is
ALP and preferences Re Steve Robson's article, "WA election results and preferences (GLW, March 17). As was published at the time, I resigned from the (WA) ALP in protest of the Serious and Repeat Offenders Sentencing Act 1992 and the WA
By Michael Rafferty Recessions have always had a direct and obvious impact on the working class, and the current downturn is no exception. Mass unemployment, wage cuts and an intensification of work are all features of this recession.
By John Hutnyk SYDNEY — In various community media, activists have written recently about the planned three-university "advanced technology park" (ATP) targeted for Redfern. The communities involved called, among other things, for a