BY RICHARD PITHOUSE
Reggae has been an important world music ever since the release of Bob Marley's Catch a Fire back in 1973. For obvious reasons, it has always had a particular resonance in Africa and in marginalised communities and countries
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Message from Indonesian peasants' union
Fransisca Christianti, secretary-general of Indonesia's National Peasants Union (STN), sent a message to Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor thanking all the Australian and international
Pilger online
Hidden Agendas: The films and writings of John Pilger<http://pilger.carlton.com> Award-winning journalist and film-maker John Pilger has waged a moral war against Western governments for the past three decades. Unrelenting
BY KIM BULLIMORE
SYDNEY — On the July 14, Isobel Coe, an elder from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra, established a new embassy in Victoria Park, opposite the University of Sydney. The embassy was established to highlight how Aboriginal
Write on: Letters to the editor
Unemployment
The never-ending chant that social security recipients should not receive "something for nothing" is astonishing.
Payments to disabled and unemployed people constitute compensation for their
When the oppressed express themselves
The Filth and the FurySex Pistols documentaryDirected by Julien TempleAt major cinemas REVIEW BY STUART MUNCKTON
Julien Temple's documentary on legendary British punk band the Sex Pistols, The Filth and the
Social action conference planned
SYDNEY — YOUTH RIGHTS ADVOCATES and community development groups will come together here in November for a major international conference, Education and Social Action. The conference, to be held at the University
SEOUL — On July 29, more than 13,000 workers and students amassed in the city centre to mark one month since the Kim Dae-Jung regime violently cracked down on striking workers from the Lotte Hotel and the Public Health Insurance Office. Using
Global Sisterhood Network dinner planned
MELBOURNE — A women's dinner will be held here to raise funds for Piglas Kababaihan (Women Breaking the Chains) in the Philippines. The dinner is planned for Thursday, August 10, 7pm, at Il Gambrero, 215
Police: selling 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ is 'suspicious behaviour'
BY TONY ILTIS
LISMORE — A local activist was accosted by police on July 26 and subjected to a public search and questioning for selling 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in the street. The activist reports
Valuing humanity and nature
Being and WorthBy Andrew CollierRoutledge, London, 1999136pp., $42.95 (pb) REVIEW BY NEVILLE SPENCER
The field of ethics is possibly the least developed area of philosophical debate. This is even more the case in
High school walkout against N-dump called
ADELAIDE — The socialist youth organisation Resistance has called a high school walkout for 11am on August 16 against the proposed nuclear waste dump at Lake Eyre in central South Australia. The walkout
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