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Life of Riley: Life's a beach in Haiti

By Dave Riley Uncle Sam says: I want you. I want you in khaki. I want you in Haiti. I want you doing your bit for democracy. I want you at one end of a gun barrel. I want what I want — you better believe it — or bang bang you're

Radio highlights

Open Learning — American Music and Popular Culture — Jazz: Part 1 — New Orleans, Chicago, New York. The Dixieland style dominated jazz for the first three decades of the 20th century. In New Orleans and Chicago, Dixieland was the music of

Amnesty slams Australia's human rights abuses

PIERRE SANE, secretary general of Amnesty International, addressed members of the human rights community in Australia at the Regent Hotel in Sydney on October 9. We reprint here major portions of his talk. Subheads have been added. In 1989

Kicking the habit

Kicking the habit Allen Carr's easy way to stop smoking Penguin Books Reviewed by Eric Earley For the 71 years of my life I have been an active and passive drug addict, an indoctrinated, brainwashed and willing

Chipping away the forest's future

Chipping away the forest's future By Zanny Begg Timber giant Boral's export woodchipping licence was renewed on October 11. The licence allows Boral to export a further 500,000 tonnes of woodchips from native forests in NSW.

Thriller with a message

The Exposurist By P.P. Craney Junction Theatre, cnr George St & South Rds, Thebarton Until November 5 $15/$10, group bookings available. Phone (08) 43 6200. Reviewed by Chris Spindler Set in the Philippines, The

International news in brief

Loyalist cease-fire Six and a half weeks after the Irish Republican Army laid down its arms and declared a cease-fire the Unionists of Northern Ireland have followed suit. On October 13, the Combined Loyalist Military Command,

Write on

Women in Politics conference The Women in Politics conference in Adelaide over the past week has been hailed by the establishment press as "the revival of the women's movement". But seeing these women sipping champagne in cocktail lounges

Looking out: Sheba and Zoe

Looking out: Sheba and Zoe By Brandon Astor Jones "Kids lead a tough life ... Kids and my people have a lot in common ... Only our problems aren't solved by getting older. — Dick Gregory Young people have a tough go

Repression tightens in Jakarta

By Max Lane Already last month in Jakarta, the Suharto dictatorship had increased surveillance and repression in the lead-up to the coming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) heads of state meeting. When visiting human rights,

Directions for the No Fees campaign

This is an abridged version of a discussion paper by Alison Dellit, Jorge Jorquera and Natasha Simons on behalf of the Resistance National Executive. The No Fees campaign on campuses has a number of challenges before it. The ANU occupation

Loose cannons

Remember them? "The trouble is, the interest in Afghanistan has waned." — A UN official on the civil war that has raged in Afghanistan among US-backed "freedom fighters" since they overthrew a leftist government two and a half years ago.