Protest targets Kleenex
MELBOURNE — Residents from the Otway Ranges Environment Network and students from the Cross Campus Environment Network staged an anti-woodchipping protest on April 22 outside the Melbourne sales offices of Kimberly
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Concert highlights plight of Timorese asylum seekers
By Vannessa Hearman
MELBOURNE — A free concert and rally in support of East Timorese asylum seekers attracted 5000 people to the Treasury Gardens on April 20. The Painters and Dockers,
Travel on Persian carpet
GabbehWith Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami, Abbas SayahScreening at the Verona Cinema, Sydney Review by Derek Nagle
The gabbeh of the title is a particular type of decorative Persian carpet. In
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — Of the new breed of labour protests, one of the first to make the news took place on February 27 in the town of Salair, in Kemerovo province in Siberia. After going unpaid for some nine months, several hundred
UTS council discusses occupation
By Andy Gianniotis
SYDNEY — The council of the University of Technology, Sydney, met on April 24 to decide who should pay the costs associated with the Easter occupation by students protesting against
Plea to save Japanese bay
The Japanese government has just closed off one of Japan's largest inter-tidal wetlands for a major reclamation project. The following is from a plea for international assistance from the Japan Wetlands Action Network.
By Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
GOMA — I had the chance to meet Laurent Kabila in the official residence, a palatial place that used to belong to Mobutu (one of his many mansions across the country), right by Lake Kivu. The rotund leader of
US bans new investments in Burma
By Eva Cheng
On April 22, US President Bill Clinton approved an order banning new US investments in Burma because of increased repression by the State Law and Order Restoration Council regime. But the decree
By Norm Dixon
South Africa's trade union movement will hold mass rallies on May 12 in protest at the African National Congress-led government's failure to incorporate its "big issue" demands into the draft Basic Conditions of Employment Bill
August 19 activist acquitted
By Sue Bull
CANBERRA — Martin Iltis was acquitted of assaulting police in the Magistrate's Court on April 24. The charge arose from the demonstrations at Parliament House on August 19. Police claimed Iltis
By Max Lane
On April 22, a kangaroo court in Surabaya handed down a prison sentence of six years to Dita Sari, leader of the Indonesian Centre for Working Class Struggle. The prosecution had demanded nine years. Dita's co-defendants, Coen
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