By Melanie Sjoberg ADELAIDE — The largest demonstrations against Pauline Hanson's racist agenda occurred here on June 12 as 3000-4000 people protested outside her One Nation party meeting in Findon and 10,000 attended a rally and march in the
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More than 100 activists, researchers and government officials from some 40 countries gathered in Santa Clara, Cuba from May 18-22 for the fourth meeting of the Pesticide Action Network. PAN is an international coalition of over 400 activist groups.
By Ivars Reinfelds and Peter Johnson
WOLLONGONG — Two hundred and fifty angry residents packed into the Warrawong Community Centre on June 1. They heard barrister Tim Robertson describe how the Carr government, on May 29, rushed legislation
For the Hell of It: The Life and Times of Abbie HoffmanBy Jonah RaskinUniversity of California Press, 1996. 315 pp., $45 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
High up the league ladder of US '60s icons is Abbie Hoffman. Co-star, with Jerry Rubin, of the
By Norm Dixon
More than 2 million South African workers participated in a general strike on June 2 in support of demands for better conditions of employment. The strike was called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 10pm and Saturday, 7pm.
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UN$W to charge up-front fees
By Helen Jarvis
SYDNEY — The council of the University of NSW decided on June 2 by the slimmest of margins (10 votes to eight) to accept fee-paying local undergraduates from 1998, and so to join the
IdentityIdentity
Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I mean that. I am determined to become the person I always wanted to be.
When I woke this morning from troubled dreams I decided to transform myself. I was lying on my
'Why we are protesting against Hanson'
@box text intro = 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to people at the anti-Hanson rally about why they were publicly protesting.
Sarah, 15, high school student: "I just think racism is wrong, and we need to
Homeless Aborigines evicted
DARWIN — At sunrise on May 29, police raided a camp of homeless Aboriginal people occupying bush land at Lee Point. The group — who had camped there for 18 days in defiance of eviction orders from the minister of
By Nicos Yannopoulos
The Albanian insurrection is on the defensive. Since March 10, the insurrection has been waiting. Unfortunately, this is probably not a "war of position", but a significant decline in the movement. This is partly due to
By James Vassilopoulos
91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly has obtained documents from the Electrical Trades Union which indicate that the union is not serious about campaigning against the $22 billion privatisation of the NSW power industry. The ETU is
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