Campus calendar
Adelaide: Flinders University, Wednesday, March 2, 1 p.m., Art Gallery behind refectory. Visiting Filipino activist Sonny Melencio speaks about the left in the Philippines today.
Brisbane: UQ, Thursday, February 24, 12-3
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By Robyn Marshall
Leoncio Sanic Simon is president of the Guatemalan peasant organisation People of Corn, or Achim Ixim. Achim Ixim was founded by Sanic and others in 1990 to help indigenous peasants who have been displaced from their homes by
Needing a few more cuts
Fine cut: All out comedy
SBS TV
Monday, February 28, 11.15 p.m. (10.45 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Lou Stanley
Being gay doesn't mean that you're happy or for that matter funny. All out comedy is a reminder that
SYDNEY — Thirty people gathered to protest against the war in Bosnia and the role of the United Nations on Friday, February 18, at Sydney Town Hall. The protest, organised by the Democratic Socialist Party, called on the United Nations to lift the
Cognac for some, Claytons for others
Porsche sales are up: evidence, surely, of the the much eulogised economic recovery. Good news too on profit margins: they are forecast to rise 20% this year. And by year's end unemployment is expected to ...
PETER CAMEJO is chairperson of Earth Trade, a San Francisco-based import/export company specialising in environmentally sustainable development. He will be a featured guest speaker at the International Â鶹´«Ã½ Conference from March 31 to April 4
Victorian teachers still waiting for award
By Elisabeth Thomas
MELBOURNE — At a branch delegates meeting on February 12, Victorian teachers voted for a campaign of industrial action in response to a delay in granting an interim federal
Ruling against Colombian president
BOGOTA — Colombian President Cesar Gaviria may have to stand trial for the unauthorised presence of US troops in Colombian territory.
On February 9 Colombia's Council of State unanimously ruled that
Comment by Ruben Montero
MELBOURNE — The campaign centred on the Richmond Secondary College was described by Frank Hardy before his death as one of the most inspiring working-class struggles in Australia since the 1890s strikes.
The true
Zapata, Dead or Alive
SBS TV
Friday, March 4, 8.30 p.m. (8 Adelaide)
Reviewed by Peter Boyle
Even before the surprise Zapatista uprising in Mexico on New Year's Day, there were Mexicans who believed that the legendary revolutionary leader
Bougainville
By Brandon Astor Jones
Yellow Cake, Yellow Cake
Where have you been?
I've been asleep in the ground
Not part of the scene.
But now I'm awake,
I can sing, I can shout,
Innuendo, Crescendo,
As to what it's all
4ZZZ needs a computer
BRISBANE — 4ZZZ radio station is trying very hard. A ZZZ reporter was thrown out of PNG Prime Minister Paias Wingti's media conference for asking about Bougainville, and another was arrested over free speech in the Queen
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