The following report is by a correspondent in Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe鈥檚 political situation has suddenly become pregnant with the possibility of uprisings, as ordinary people begin to defy police brutality. Unlike in the past when people were very scared of the police, now the situation seems to be different, with events bearing testimony to the mood of resistance. Just a drive around Highfield Township on February 18 was enough to see the return of the late 鈥90s fighting spirit among the poor people.
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Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine
Free Press, 2006
274 pages, $39.95 (hb)
by Judith Levine
Free Press, 2006
274 pages, $39.95 (hb)
On February 17 聴 one day after the US House of Representatives approved a non-binding, bipartisan resolution opposing President George Bush聮s plan to increase the size of the US occupation force in Iraq by 21,500 combat troops 聴 the commander of US forces in Baghdad announced he had filed a request for even more soldiers.
Death of a President
Written, produced & directed by Gabriel Range
Hopscotch Films
In cinemas from March 1
Written, produced & directed by Gabriel Range
Hopscotch Films
In cinemas from March 1
The Gates of Egypt
Written by Stephen Sewell
Directed by Kate Gaul
Company B, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
Until March 11
Written by Stephen Sewell
Directed by Kate Gaul
Company B, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
Until March 11
I went down to the mine to black diamond country
So the face of the earth would be warm comrade
For years I silently waved a pick in this prison
So that my children would smile comrade
But there is no one smiling in our home
So the face of the earth would be warm comrade
For years I silently waved a pick in this prison
So that my children would smile comrade
But there is no one smiling in our home
Sydney has long endured right-wing shock jocks taking cash for comment from corporate sponsors, but a new radio program is providing a refreshing change with a focus on working families, strong communities and industrial rights.
In an interview printed in the February 19 London Financial Times, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the UN聮s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Iran could be as little as six months away from being able to enrich uranium to fuel-grade level on an industrial scale.
February 23 marked the deadline for submissions to the federal parliament鈥檚 Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) on the new Australia-Indonesia 鈥渟ecurity鈥 pact. If there is any uncertainty about the hypocrisy that underlies Australia鈥檚 neo-colonial foreign policy, then this treaty 鈥 a 鈥渕ending the fences鈥 exercise after the federal government granted asylum to 43 pro-independence West Papuan refugees in 2006, and, before that, Canberra鈥檚 reluctant 1999 intervention in East Timor 鈥 should end it.
Many Australians would assume that death squads, disappearances, harassment by the military, violent dispersal of demonstrations and political prisoners were features of the Philippines that vanished when Ferdinand Marcos聮s dictatorship was overthrown in 1986.
Australia by Numbers: Sydney 2000 鈥擳races the birth and life of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs. Features interviews with Chicka Dixon, Gary Foley, Joyce Clague, Esther Carroll and Ray Carroll, combined with previously unseen archival
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