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Kelly to exhibit at National Museum

Green Left Weekly cartoonist Chris Kelly with his collection of sculptures “The Subterraneans”, modelled on members of the Howard cabinet, and Kelly's stand-alone piece titled “John Howard — Desert Warrior — the Poor Man's Napoleon” (above).

Pilger attacked for Palestine documentary

BY ROHAN PEARCE John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS TV at 8.30pm on October 8. A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle

PALESTINE: Between siege and 'reform'

BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH — Israel's siege of Yasser Arafat's presidential compound has brought the Palestinian plight back into world headlines alongside the impending US-led invasion of Iraq. While the mainstream media has largely

PALESTINE: Israel's illegal occupation

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON — Last October, in the early hours of the morning, a young expectant mother called Fatima Abed-Rabo awoke with intense labour pains. She and her husband Nasser set out in a friend's car for the hospital in Bethlehem, in

CFMEU's Kingham could be jailed

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — Martin Kingham, the Victorian state secretary of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), faces the possibility of six months' imprisonment. Kingham was formally charged with being in contempt of the

McCulloch: Please appeal for justice in Aceh

[This letter was received from Lesley McCulloch via an email from the Acehnese human rights activists working for her release from Indonesian custody. It was written on September 27.] Those of you who know me personally can confirm I am

Resistance adopts 'call to action'

BY ROHAN PEARCE MELBOURNE —"We want to draw the link between war and corporate globalisation, and win people to the perspective that a movement against neo-liberalism and imperialism in a time of war needs to become an anti-war movement", Kylie

Brenner's popularisation of 'Global Turbulence'

BY ROHAN PEARCE John Pilger has come under attack in Britain for his documentary Palestine is Still the Issue, to be screened in Australia on SBS TV at 8.30pm on October 8. A September 20 article in the British Jewish Chronicle

Poor Indonesians scapegoated in people-smuggling trial

BY SARAH STEPHEN A Perth District Court judge on September 27 sentenced two Indonesian fisherpeople to jail for their role in transporting 438 asylum seekers to Australia in August last year. The people responsible for organising the journey and

GERMANY: Anti-war rhetoric puts SPD-Greens coalition back in office

BY JIM GREENThe German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic-Greens coalition government was narrowly re-elected in the September 22 national elections.The Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the conservative Christian Democratic

Let Timorese stay!

Let Timorese stay! The immigration department's September 25 announcement that it had rejected 168 asylum claims made by East Timorese refugees is a national disgrace. These are the first of more than 1700 applications which have been

Activists plan to shut down the WTO meeting

BY MARINA CARMAN& DALE MILLS SYDNEY — A meeting initiated by the No WTO network was held on September 21 to discuss protest actions against a World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting of trade ministers to be held on November 14-15. Around 100