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Jakarta detainees demand answers from Downer

BY SUE BOLAND The 21 adult Australian residents detained by the Indonesian police June 8-9 have sent an open letter to foreign minister Alexander Downer, demanding that the Australian government issue a statement condemning the Indonesian

Emergency demonstrations helped free detainees

BY SUE BOLAND Once the news broke in Australia about the police and militia attack on the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity conference in Indonesia on June 8 and the detention of conference participants, friends and relatives of the detainees in

JAPAN: Activists to ATTAC capital

BY AARON BENEDEK TOKYO — Activists here are preparing to launch a Japanese chapter of ATTAC, Action for a Tobin Tax to Assist the Citizen, which calls for a tax on speculative capital flows. Thirty socialists, unionists and non-government

Asylum seeker: 'Our conscience dictates that we must protest'

BY QAMAR NASEEB KHAN PERTH AIRPORT DETENTION CENTRE — I was born in Kashmir, which has been disputed territory between India and Pakistan for 54 years. Since 1989, 70,000 people have been killed, 12,000 women have been raped and 200,000 are held

On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Ph 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for

Love lost and found

REVIEW BY MARGARET ALLUM Lost and DeliriousDirected by Lea PoolWith Mischa Barton, Piper Perabo and Jessica PareScreening at the Sydney Film Festival, State Theatre and Dendy Opera Quays, until June 22 Mary "Mouse" Bradford (played by Mischa

Southwood activists score a victory

BY GEOFF FRANCIS HOBART — Environmental activists have chalked up a significant victory by forcing the state government to announce on June 5 that it is “shelving its plans for a deep water port at Electrona in south-east Tasmania”. The

Loose cannons

Glowing in the dark is also handy "If you set aside Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, the safety record of nuclear is really very good." — US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, quoted in the June 12 New York Times. No snuggles for Little Johnnie

JUNE 8:'Like a scene from The Year of Living Dangerously'

BY PIP HINMAN For one and a half days, from the morning of June 7, the Asia Pacific People's Solidarity Conference, held a holiday resort outside Jakarta, had been proceeding relatively smoothly. Eighty Indonesian democracy activists and more than

Write on: Letters to the editor

German Greens Since your paper didn't get much feedback on your provocative April 11 front page headline “German Greens betray anti-nuclear movement”, and the accompanying article, I better let you know what I thought of it. As an

For a politically effective, mass protest action at CHOGM

BY SIMON BUTLER BRISBANE — Activists are preparing the ground for dynamic protests directed at the October 6-8 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Brisbane. At a city-wide meeting on June 14 it became clear that a number of different

Media tour backfires on Ruddock

BY SARAH STEPHEN The Curtin Immigration Detention Centre was on show to the media for the first time on June 10, a move the immigration department described as being part of an effort to change public perceptions, created by three riots in close