SYDNEY — Songs of Protest, Songs of Struggle is a benefit concert for Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly and Actively Radical TV. It will be held on Saturday, February 19, from 8 p.m. at Burland Community Hall, King Street, Newtown. Following are brief
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By Kate Shannon
As the Bosnians in Sarajevo bury their dead from the recent massacre by Serb gunners, NATO has called on the Bosnian army within the besieged city to lay down its heavy weapons along with the Serbs surrounding the city. Both
Protesters confront Indonesian minister
By Cameron Price
MELBOURNE — A picket was organised outside the World Congress Centre on February 8 by Environmental Youth Alliance, the Indonesian solidarity group Aksi and Resistance to highlight
By Paul Oboohov
SYDNEY — Liberal and National Party backbenchers in the state parliament are trying to stop the declaration of 350,000 ha of 11 remaining wilderness areas in NSW, or water them down. These areas were announced for declaration
Luciana Castelina, a leader of the Italian Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) and a member of the European parliament, spoke with Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly's Kate Shannon about the coming national elections. Castelina will be a speaker at the
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — How democratic is a country in which a person who reveals breaches of an international agreement can be put on trial in a closed court, under secret laws and in violation of the constitution? That is the question
By Susan Hollows
How difficult is it to be accepted as a refugee in Australia? Gek Buoi Minh, a 15-year-old Cambodian girl scratching out a living in Song Be refugee camp in Vietnam, has waited over five years for her migration application to be
Adelaide Fringe/Festival
During the next few weeks Adelaide will be inundated with a variety of cultural forms. Listed here are only a few of many highlights.
Aboriginal and Islander Music Festival — Warumpi Band, Mixed Relations, Seven
Stoned Week planned
By Freya Pinney
BRISBANE — The focus of the University of Queensland's O-Week and Recovery Week in 1994 is the decriminalisation of marijuana. This will culminated in the organisation of a Stoned Week, including a
Youth graffiti
BRISBANE — A Resistance "Graffiti for Youth Rights" action was held in the city mall on Friday, February 4. The stall and banner graffiti took up issues such as the Liberal candidate for lord mayor's proposed youth curfew in the
Democrat
"We don't have a problem with people coming from other sides. But if the ANC comes here I will order my people to kill them." — Katlehong Inkatha Freedom Party youth leader Jeffrey Sibiya, quoted in the Sunday Times, January 23.
Multicultural Australia
The January 29 by-election in the safe Labor seat of Werriwa, vacated by John Kerin, witnessed the emergence of the latest front group of the xenophobic extreme-right. That Australians Against Further Immigration did
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