International Women's Day in Guatemala
By Robyn Marshall
and Robynne Murphy
GUATEMALA CITY, March 8 — More than 5000 women converged on central Guatemala City today, stopping traffic everywhere. Many different indigenous women's groups
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The Sorrow of War
By Bao Ninh
Secker & Warburg, 1993. 217 pp., $24.95 (pb)
Reviewed by Phil Shannon
The one voice rarely heard from the Vietnam War is that of the Vietnamese, drowned by the babel of Hollywood, official Western historians
Return of the boom bap
KRS-ONE
Jive Records through BMG
Available on cassette and CD
Reviewed by John-Paul Nassif
Rap philosopher and metaphysician KRS-ONE (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone) is back with a new album. Return
By Frank Enright
SYDNEY — As the 1994 Rugby League season got under way, players, through their union, registered their first dispute with the clubs in the Industrial Relations Commission. On March 17 the commission declared that a dispute
By Emma Webb
There is a view amongst a section of the green movement that Australian immigration levels must be slashed. The idea that solving Australia's environmental crisis means closing off our borders from the rest of the world is a
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — There's land for sale at Forest Lake. On the outskirts of Brisbane's south-west, you too can settle in "the living forest" and pick up a piece of the continent for as little as $35,000 — or $78,000 if you are after
By Pip Hinman
Private armies of wealthy landowners in Chiapas state are attempting to block a settlement between the Mexican government and peasant rebels. Round one of negotiations between the government and the Zapatista National Liberation
Building workers on picket line
By Geoff Spencer
MELBOURNE — Police were used to break a picket at a Department of Planning and Development (Ministry of Housing) building site on March 16. The picket was put on the Crown Street,
Four generations
A dance event directed by Norman Hall
Performance Space, Surry Hills
Wednesday-Sunday until March 27
Reviewed by Gary Boyle
Four Generations is a poetic dance event which lives up to the designer's claim of uniqueness.
By John Tomlinson
[A response to the Committee on Employment Opportunities report, Restoring Full Employment, released in December.]
The Committee on Employment Opportunities is made up of four senior Commonwealth bureaucrats, two
VIVIENNE PORZSOLT of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly spoke to Amos Wollin, an Israeli political commentator, on the Israeli response to the massacre at the Ibrahimi Mosque.
"In large numbers, Israelis have said they understand the murderer", Wollin reported.
ADELAIDE — Activists have begun a campaign to re-establish the Rape Crisis Centre as an autonomous service. (The state Labor government closed the centre last year.) Initially Rape Action Link Up will provide a phone service aimed at offering
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