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Zero tolerance policing I have just read Norm Dixon's article "Killer cops go free" (GLW #396). I agree with Dixon that Zero Tolerance policing is a disaster, not just in New York also in Sydney. Its application to a small Arabic speaking community
April Fools' Day Since the people seemed to grow cold in their devotion at this time, with human apathy greatly increasing, the venerable leader of the nation, being then in his post of pastoral care, desiring to root out the said
By Sue Boland When the Coalition government announced that it was introducing the "Timor tax" in November, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ Weekly warned that it could be used as a precedent for introducing other "special purpose" levies. It was quite likely, we argued,
Workers' alternative needed, say socialist candidates By Jim McIlroy BRISBANE — "The Democratic Socialists support a city council which truly represents the working people of Brisbane", socialist candidates Graham Matthews and Coral Wynter
Resistance pushes on MELBOURNE — Resistance members here spent their Labour Day holiday on March 30 at the Push On concert at Melbourne's Luna Park. Thousands of young people, mainly high school students, gathered to hear bands play. Resistance
Indonesian art and politics By Zanny Begg From November 26 to January 29, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art in Melbourne hosted an exhibition of Indonesian art called AWAS! — the Indonesian word for "beware". The exhibition will be in
By Rupen Savoulian New, draconian labour laws recently enacted by the Iranian regime will exempt small businesses from the Islamic Labour Law, affecting 2.8 million workers and resulting in 600,000 redundancies, according to a statement by the
New party is 'a half-way house' Patrick Bond spoke with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Johannesburg. Question: How can the MDC's industrial worker and urban community activists persuade the rural folk to abandon Mugabe's "nationalism". We're
Equal opportunity in cyberspace?  In 1995, academic Dale Spender wrote a book called Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace. In it she urged women to join the cyberspace race and avoid being left behind in the multimedia
Nestle targeted for GE food By Daniel Jardine SYDNEY — Protesters outside the offices of food giant Nestle have demanded that the company declare that its products sold in Australia have not been genetically engineered. The March 15 protest,
Sex, drugs and our right to decide Marina Carman The $5 million National Alcohol Campaign has hit our TV screens. In the two advertisements, teenagers drinking alcohol end up either having unsafe sex or beating someone up. The campaign includes
The following is abridged from a statement by MUHAMMAD NAZAR, chairperson of the presidium board of the Aceh Referendum Information Centre (SIRA), to Indonesia's President Abdurrahman Wahid, dated March 5. Violence and human rights violations by the