A 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ seller in Sydney reports she was given an anonymous donation last week. While she was selling to another buyer near Town Hall in the centre of the city, the unknown man slipped a $50 note into her hand, took a paper and quickly
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By Max Lane
SYDNEY — "I hope people will be active and participate in the May 13 protests around Australia", Elino Santos told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly on May 3. For Santos, being "active and participating" has been a way of life in East Timor. From
ADELAIDE — Streets were filled with the sound of honking horns at 4:30pm on May 4 as drivers supported the Resistance "Honk for East Timor" which linked up with the activists from the No Fees Tent City. With Resistance placards demanding that the
By Wang Dan
On July 14, 1994, all the major newspapers in Beijing published the "Detailed Implementations Regulations for the State Security Law." This law had been passed by the 13th session of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National
Caribbean warmth in Birmingham
Jamaica by Night
Andy Hamilton
World Circuit through Larrikin Entertainment
Reviewed by Norm Dixon
Hailing from Port Maria, a little fishing village on Jamaica's north coast, and a resident of industrial
Book documents abuses on Bougainville
By Roberto Jorquera
SYDNEY — Sixty-five Bougainville solidarity activists gathered at the state parliament theatrette on May 1 for the launch of Human Rights Abuses Against the People of Bougainville
Police called in ALP preselection brawl
By Shane Bentley
NEWCASTLE — Police have been asked to investigate allegations of fraud after an ALP preselection battle for the federal seat of Newcastle. The sitting member, Allan Morris, called
By Pip Hinman
The right to demonstrate is under threat. May 12 is the deadline for submissions to a parliamentary committee investigating "the right to legitimately protest or demonstrate on National Land and in the Parliamentary Zone".
In
By Chow Wei Cheng
Four years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the economic crisis that followed in Cuba, the Cuban economy is starting to grow again. Cuba's real GDP grew 0.7% in 1994, marking what is believed to be the beginning of a
4000 march for May Day in Brisbane
By Bill Mason
BRISBANE — Some four thousand unionists and members of political organisations marched here on May Day from the Trades and Labour Council to Albert Park in the annual Labour Day parade on
Radio National celebrates 100 years of commercial film making — Over the May 13-14 weekend, film buffs and others will have a field day (field weekend?). Programs include: The declining importance of the local cinema in country towns, May 13, 6am;
By Max Lane
On a historic occasion for the Indonesian labour movement, workers and students took to the streets to demonstrate on May Day for the first time since General Suharto seized power 30 years ago. The actions were initiated by the
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