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For women

For women Women in Focus, the only independent women's magazine in the south of NSW, is seeking articles from women for its spring edition on the issue of "How would women like to be portrayed in the media?" If you would like to share your

Write on: letters to the editor

Men's liberation Men's Liberation and Men's Health go together for many men, as it is only when men really look at their health, that they realise how little they care for themselves, and other people. The current health and welfare systems are

Action updates

ADELAIDE — A committee has been set up to support the current peace process in Ireland, in the wake of the recent tour by Dodie McGuinness for Sinn Fein. Called the Australian Coalition for the Peace Process in Ireland, it aims to get motions

Students suspended over hair

Students suspended over hair By Rosalind Carr MELBOURNE — Over the past few weeks, several Melbourne secondary schools have challenged their students' right to education because of the length or colour of their hair. The media have

The Playwright's Audience

The Playwright's Audience The other day I met my audience In a dusty street He gripped a pneumatic drill in his fists. For a second he looked up. Rapidly I set up my theatre Between the houses. He Looked expectant. In the pub I met

'Ninja' terror in East Timor

By Max Lane Indonesian President Suharto's son-in-law, Colonel Prabowo, has been cultivating an image of being interested in trying to reach some form of compromise solution in East Timor. He has visited both Bishop Belo in Dili and Xanana in

Recommend them to the magistrate

Hemp: The True Story Produced by Gary Evans $49.95 Hemp for Victory United States government (which later tried to destroy all copies) $29.95 Both available from Casper Publications, PO Box 255, Narrabeen 2101 HEMP 8 page paper of the

On the box

Actively Radical TV — This week's program, Bougainville: Australia's Genocidal War, features an interview with Moses Havini, representative of the Bougainville Interim Government. A short documentary looks at the history of colonialism in

Coming soon

For some time now, Green Left has been plugged into the information superhighway. Through the Pegasus network, we draw information and the occasional article and upload the text of the paper each week. Those with access have been able to read

Growing up alienated

Only the brave Directed by Anna Kokkinos Starring Elena Mandalis and Dora Kaskanis Reviewed by Jenny Long This film won best film in the Dendy Awards for Australian short films during the 1994 Sydney Film Festival, and I went to it with

Unionists against logging of old growth forests

The statement below is being circulated for signatures in the union movement. Its initial sponsors (as individuals) are Ian Thompson, secretary of the WA branch of the Community and Public Sector Union, Glenn Ferguson, secretary of the Australasian

Two weeks in the hole

By Brandon Astor Jones It is cold in the little cubicle that bears the number 38. It is January 11, and I am in the far end of H-Cell House. Ordering me into the filthy cell, the corrections officer (CO) said, "I'll give you some things to clean