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Radioathon to support 'radio without borders'

Melbourne's progressive community radio station 3CR is deeply committed to fighting injustice. It broadcasts the voices of groups and individuals who rarely have a voice in mainstream media. Most recently, 3CR has given extensive air-time to struggle

ACTU deal ends CSL Yarra sit in

BY SHANE BENTLEY The seafarers' sit-in aboard the CSL Yarra has ended in an Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) brokered deal that was signed by Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) on May 16. The deal allows the CSL Yarra to resume cement

Police Greys

Heads low, grass-cropping idleunder the olive treesundressed of reins, saddle, bridleinoffensive as sheep, yet these were the flesh-tearing hoovesunder which we fell; the fused halvesof the mounted-monster man-horse, ancientoppressor raised tall

PALESTINE: A meeting with Arafat

BY URI AVNERY RAMALLAH — "They want us to enact a constitution? No problem! I shall ask Israel to send me a copy of theirs and copy it word for word!" Yasser Arafat sent me an amused look. Israel, of course, has no constitution. That was on the

Action updates

Students for Refugees launched HOBART — On May 8, students at the Hobart campus of the University of Tasmania launched a Students for Refugees group. Shua Garfield told Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly: "The formation of this group shows that you don't need

John Q exposes holes in the 'safety net'

John QDirected by Nick CassavetesWith Denzel Washington, Anne Heche, Robert Duvall and James WoodsAt major cinemas REVIEW BY MARTHA GRUELLE John Q is a drama about a man's love for his child and his desperate attempt to save the boy. But the

Ruddock sends refugees back to starvation

BY SARAH STEPHEN In response to the Easter protests outside the Woomera and Villawood detention centres, immigration minister Philip Ruddock declared that there were no refugees in Australia's detention centres, only "rejectees". They are not

'Anti-terror' laws threaten right to protest

BY ALISON DELLIT In the mid 1960s, protesters in Australia broke the law just by holding street protests against the Vietnam War. Through persistently defying anti-protest laws, they won the legal right to hold street marches. This is an

Think of Silver

Expensive spoons, some wereborn with; also the worditself sliding as smoothly off the tongue.Then all the substitutes cheap but preciousreflected in eyeshine at Xmas toys, tinselsparklers, stars. But hard glitter of mint-new silver dollarswere

Royal commission secretly taping workers

BY SUE BULL MELBOURNE — The Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry, headed by Terence Cole, was accused on May 16 of using secretly taped evidence to discredit construction workers and their unions. John Cummins, Victorian

Museworthy: Spine-Scar

Museworthy: Spine-Scar Light comes inthrough darkness All yesterday's shedshave fallen Living things squatin destruction's beauty Opening their backsto pain BY MTC CRONIN MTC Cronin has had seven books of poetry published, the most

FIJI: Qarase defies constitution

BY MICHELLE BREAR SUVA — Since the flawed August 2001 general election, which legitimised and formalised the 2000 military overthrow of the democratically elected Fiji Labour Party government, Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase has refused to honour