Action updateHemp rally BRISBANE — More than 200 people met in the Botanic Gardens on October 20 for a hemp "tea party" as part of the ongoing campaign to legalise marijuana in Queensland. Tony Kneipp and John Jiggens from HEMP (Help End Marijuana
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intro = ClockersDirected by Spike LeeProduced by Martin ScorseseReviewed by Michael Tardif With Clockers, Spike Lee continues in the tradition that has earned him a reputation as one of America's most significant artists. Lee's films have played an
East Timor, the media and the trutBy Jefferson Lee October 16 marked the 20th anniversary of the murder by Indonesian soldiers of five Australian journalists in Balibo, East Timor. The same day a new report to the British Parliamentary Human Rights,
Protest against Filipina's death sentencBy Jennifer Thompson SYDNEY A group of 30 Filipinos and Australian supporters held a noisy picket on October 27 to protest the death sentence given to a 16 year-old Filipina maid, Sarah Balabagan, in the
The announcement by the governments of Britain, the United States and France that they will finally sign the protocols of the South Pacific Nuclear-Free Zone (SPNFZ) — 10 years after its adoption by the countries of the Pacific — is a cynical
PNG denies UN access to BougainvillBy Pip Hinman The Papua New Guinea government stepped in to stop a special United Nations rapporteur on summary executions from visiting all of Bougainville, including the areas controlled by the Bougainville
CPA A naive attitude to the former USSR seems to have been common to most Communist Parties with the exception of the Trotskyites and those influenced by them. In Australia, Ernest E. Judd, secretary of the Socialist Labour Party in the 1930s,
In February 1994 Australia recognised the newly independent state of Macedonia. However, when the Greek government opposed the new republic's right to call itself Macedonia, the federal Labor government succumbed to pressure from its Greek
By Chris Heazlewood MELBOURNE — The links between more cars, worse air pollution and poorer health are well demonstrated. Yet freeway construction plans continue to be sold as glorious new icons. However, recent court victories of anti-freeway
By Bill Mason BRISBANE — Mike Leach, who visited Mexico in March-April, and toured the Chiapas region during the military crackdown on the Zapatista movement, addressed a Democratic Socialist Party forum here on October 18. In January 1994, the
In Green Left Weekly #207, Rigoberta Menchu was described as a leader of the Guatemalan United Revolutionary Front (URNG), which she isn't. She is a leader of the Guatemalan Peasants' Unity Committee.
By Andrew Watson BRISBANE — On October 19, approximately 200 Aboriginal people and their supporters rallied in Musgrave Park to call for an Aboriginal cultural centre. The Aboriginal community has been lobbying the Brisbane City Council and the
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