Bosnian women call for peace and justice
By Jennifer Thompson
Sydney — Speaking at a meeting on September 8, a Bosnian woman survivor of Omarska concentration camp at Prijedor, in Bosnia-Hercegovina, called for action by women
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"Prince Ranariddh claimed the King [Sihanouk] told him that he would only retake political power on three conditions: that there be one party, no media freedom, and no human rights organizations." — Sue Downie in the September
Open Learning — Journals and Letters of Colonial Women — Voices not often heard in colonial literature were those of women. Most women's writing was in the form of letter or journal, rather than in the public arena. This program considers a
'Blaming Vietnamese young people'
By Julia Perkins
Vincent Don, a street worker at Cabramatta Community Centre, who was involved in organising the September 17 "peace rally" in Cabramatta and works day to day with young people
The Politics of Belly Dancing: A choreopoem
By Paula Abood
Reviewed by Rosanna Barbero
The Politics of Belly Dancing has concluded at the Performance Space in Sydney, and is now on its way to Wollongong and Canberra. It combats
By Peter Montague
An internal memorandum by an official of the US Environmental Protection Agency has accused EPA of conducting a "fraudulent" criminal investigation of Monsanto, the St Louis chemical corporation.
The 30-page
By Michael Karadjis
English migrant Bernadette Wallace was stabbed to death in her home during a "home invasion" on August 20. The killers were described by her husband as having "short blond hair". On September 5, the state ALP member for
Indigenous festival in Sydney
The second annual Nambundah festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, to be held in Sydney September 26-October 9, aims to present the talent and diversity of indigenous artists to the Aboriginal
Indian homeland in Nicaragua threatened
By Darwin Juarez
A 720,000 hectare forest reserve in north-eastern Nicaragua, home to 95% of Central America's Sumu Indians, is under attack by a Canadian mining company, Nicaraguan
By Lyndall Barnett
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were founded at the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, held in the New Hampshire resort of Bretton Woods in July 1944. Designed to regulate the postwar
By Afrodity Giannakis
Social Security members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) recently voted on the DSS "in-principle" agency bargaining agreement for 1995. Although the agreement was accepted on a national level, in NSW it
As it Happened — Sweet Home Chicago — In Chicago, the delta blues evolved into a city style of hard-driving, electric urban folk blues. By the 1950s, Chess Records succeeded in bringing this music, now called rhythm and blues, to an international
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