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Waiting for the fire

James Baldwin: A Biography By David Leeming Henry Holt & Co, 1995. 442 pp., $26.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Australian censors, in their own perverse way, have guided many Australians to good, challenging writers. James Baldwin,

Action updates

Action updates AGL strike NEWCASTLE — Employees of the AGL natural gas company in the Hunter region struck from June 22 to 26 in response to company plans to shed 53 of its work force of 163 by June 30. A redundancy plan offered by

The well-meaning racist

The Color of Fear A film by Lee Mun Wah Reviewed by Chris McLean Arthur Tunstall's anti-Aboriginal jokes, National Action's anti-Asian campaigns and the widespread verbal abuse of Aboriginal footballers have been loudly condemned in the

Write on

A prisoner's view As a prisoner in the planned to be closed Pentridge Prison in Melbourne, I found Catherine Gow's article "Prisons for Profit" (GLW, May 17) to be refreshingly honest and open as opposed to the uninformative white-washes with

Watch out for the Stupid Old Man

Moving the Mountain Directed by Michael Apted Sydney Film Festival Reviewed by Eva Cheng The pro-democracy student protests in China in 1989 are the best-documented people's movement, audio-visually, in Chinese history. This rich

Report on human rights abuses in Tibet

By Kath Davey A new report from Amnesty International, titled Persistent Human Rights Violations in Tibet, indicates that repression of dissent there has increased. Hundreds of Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns, some of them child novices, are

International appeal

This week Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly received a postcard from a subscriber. The card expressed the subscriber's concern that she hadn't received a copy of the paper for some time. The reason? She has moved to Japan, and wanted to know if we could send her

Radio highlights

Radio highlights A Swag of Yarns — A special program to mark National Aboriginal and Islander Day of Celebration. Some of Australia's leading storytellers, songwriters, actors and performers present the stories, yarns, legends and myths of the

Foundation stories

By Jeannine Purdy PERTH — Non-Aboriginal Western Australians commemorated the founding of the Swan River Colony on June 5. They have learned the story of the "settlement" of their state, of Perth in particular, as one in which Aboriginal

New union-environment coalition in SA

By Emma Webb ADELAIDE — The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) Building Division and the Conservation Council formally established the Coalition of Unions and Environment Groups (CUE) on June 5, World Environment Day.

Message to Vietnam forum

Message to Vietnam forum A Democratic Socialist Party forum in Sydney on June 6 celebrated the anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War and discussed the lessons of the struggle against it. The following greetings to the forum were presented by

Anti-nuclear conference plans campaigns

By Anthony Benbow PERTH — A one-day "nuclear showdown" conference, focusing on anti-nuclear campaigning, was organised here on May 27 by People for Nuclear Disarmament (PND), the Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) and Critical