BY BEA BREAR
HOBART — Just 13% of University of Tasmania (Hobart campus) students voted in the recent student union elections. Those that did overwhelmingly favoured tickets which promised an end to Student Representative Council involvement in
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PRAGUE — 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly's SARAH PEART spoke to protesters at the rally on September 26 about why they were there and what they hoped to achieve.
Raul, 24, from Slovakia: I am here to protest against the exploitation of the Third World and
A report, released to coincide with the S26 protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Prague, has revealed the global scale of resistance to the two institutions.
The World Development Movement's States of Unrest:
PRAGUE — This city was deliberately chosen as the venue for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank to showcase what IMF managing director Horst Kohler triumphantly called "the new Prague", the jewel of a capitalist
Greens and front parties
Geoff Ash's letter (GLW 422), responding to my article about David Oldfield's attempts to register front parties, focuses on one small inaccuracy, but fails to address the main issues raised.
Ash correctly points out that
PRAGUE — The 15,000-strong demonstrators who took action against the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meeting, held here from September 26-27, defied the claim of the September edition of Newsweek that the protesters would be
BY SHANE BENTLEY
SYDNEY — Two hundred people chanting "Refugees yes, racism no; Detention centres have got to go!" marched through the streets of Parramatta, in Sydney's western suburbs, on September 23. The rally was organised by the Refugee
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 Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
Access News — Melbourne community TV,
BY JIM GREEN
ABC television's Media Watch program on September 11 took Channel Seven to task for "taking sides" in the debate over the proposed national radioactive waste dump in northern South Australia.
The story was initiated by the federal
Zero interaction
“Television, drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation”,
sang the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy a few years ago. From its early
days in the first decades of this century, television has been a
Campesino coca growers (cocaleros), public school teachers and other labour sectors in Bolivia joined together during the week of September 18 to press their demands with a coordinated series of strikes, protests and roadblocks that had the country
It was the movement which finally toppled the dictator Suharto in 1998 which made Romawaty Sinaga realise that workers and students had to unite to achieve any lasting fundamental change. IN that year, she left her position as an assistant lecturer
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