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Release Craig Johnston petition

The following petition, with tens of thousands of signatures, will be presented to the Bracks government at a mass rally in early November. To: The Hon. Rob Hulls MLA, Attorney General of Victoria; The Hon. Steve Bracks MLA, Premier of Victoria.

CMI makes a welcome return

CMIBy the Version 1.0 collectiveOctober 13-17, Performance Space, Cleveland Street, Sydney. October 19-23, The Street Theatre, Canberra. BY SARAH STEPHEN CMI is set to return! The superbly written and slickly acted play about the Senate Inquiry

In brief

HAITI: Disease epidemic looms As the death toll from Hurricane Jeanne's attack on Haiti continues to climb well over 2000, Oxfam health experts in the country have warned of a looming disease epidemic, as hundreds of thousands of people are forced

IRAQ: 'Things are definitely not improving'

Rohan Pearce It's been a frequent refrain of US officials that Washington is winning its counter-insurgency war in Iraq. "It's very important for the people of the world really to know that we are winning, we are making progress in Iraq. We are

Rallies demand 'bring the troops home'

Sarah Stephen The widespread, deep-seated opposition to the ongoing occupation of Iraq and to the Coalition government's lies spilled onto the streets of major cities across Australia on the October 2-3 weekend. "End the lies!", "Troops out of

Living in a new shadowland of uncertainty

REVIEW BY MARGARITA WINDISCH ShadowlandAt the Footscray Community Arts Centre,45 Moreland Street,FootscrayUntil October 10. A close collaboration between Melbourne photographer Viv Mehes and a group of refugees living on temporary protection

Write on: Letters to the editor

Nukes The September 29 issue of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly (#600) offers up Lyndon LaRouche's support for nuclear power as further evidence of his reactionary, fascist views, comparable in nature to his homophobia and racism. Elsewhere in the same issue,

Merlin calls for reality TV in Baxter

Paul Oboohov, Canberra At a September 29 Socialist Alliance public forum on the theme "Truth overboard: war, lies and refugees", Big Brother's Merlin Luck criticised the warped view of reality presented on so-called reality TV shows. Reality in the

SUDAN: Why Washington won't save Darfur villagers

Norm Dixon On September 21, Salih Booker, the director of the Africa Studies Program at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations ruling-class think tank, argued in the International Herald Tribune that the US government has failed to

Put yourself in their shoes

On September 24, refugee supporters placed 80 pairs of children's shoes outside the office of the Liberal member for Dobell, Ken Ticehurst, out of respect for the 80 children still held in detention by the Coalition government. The protest was a

PALESTINE: 'We will never give up our lands or our liberties'

Kim Bullimore, West Bank On the fourth anniversary of the second Palestinian intifada, the residents of the small village of Budrus once again faced off teargas, sound grenades and rubber bullets to protest the wall that is dividing their land. The

Sunrise protest

SYDNEY — Socialist Alliance members protested outside Channel 7's new Sunrise studio in Martin Place on 'Truthful Tuesday', September 28. The activists displayed signs with anti-war and other slogans that could be seen in the background of the