An official European Union report issued on February 20 revealed that one in six people in the EU live below national poverty thresholds. The February 21 British Morning Star reported that according to the European Commission鈥檚 social inclusion report 10% of people in the EU 鈥 one of the wealthiest regions in the world 鈥 live in households in which no-one has a job.
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Many Australians would assume that death squads, disappearances, harassment by the military, violent dispersal of demonstrations and political prisoners were features of the Philippines that vanished when Ferdinand Marcos聮s dictatorship was overthrown in 1986.
Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping
by Judith Levine
Free Press, 2006
274 pages, $39.95 (hb)
by Judith Levine
Free Press, 2006
274 pages, $39.95 (hb)
Australia by Numbers: Sydney 2000 鈥擳races the birth and life of the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs. Features interviews with Chicka Dixon, Gary Foley, Joyce Clague, Esther Carroll and Ray Carroll, combined with previously unseen archival
On February 17 聴 one day after the US House of Representatives approved a non-binding, bipartisan resolution opposing President George Bush聮s plan to increase the size of the US occupation force in Iraq by 21,500 combat troops 聴 the commander of US forces in Baghdad announced he had filed a request for even more soldiers.
Death of a President
Written, produced & directed by Gabriel Range
Hopscotch Films
In cinemas from March 1
Written, produced & directed by Gabriel Range
Hopscotch Films
In cinemas from March 1
The Gates of Egypt
Written by Stephen Sewell
Directed by Kate Gaul
Company B, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
Until March 11
Written by Stephen Sewell
Directed by Kate Gaul
Company B, Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney
Until March 11
I went down to the mine to black diamond country
So the face of the earth would be warm comrade
For years I silently waved a pick in this prison
So that my children would smile comrade
But there is no one smiling in our home
So the face of the earth would be warm comrade
For years I silently waved a pick in this prison
So that my children would smile comrade
But there is no one smiling in our home
Sydney has long endured right-wing shock jocks taking cash for comment from corporate sponsors, but a new radio program is providing a refreshing change with a focus on working families, strong communities and industrial rights.
In an interview printed in the February 19 London Financial Times, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the UN聮s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that Iran could be as little as six months away from being able to enrich uranium to fuel-grade level on an industrial scale.
February 23 marked the deadline for submissions to the federal parliament鈥檚 Joint Standing Committee on Treaties (JSCT) on the new Australia-Indonesia 鈥渟ecurity鈥 pact. If there is any uncertainty about the hypocrisy that underlies Australia鈥檚 neo-colonial foreign policy, then this treaty 鈥 a 鈥渕ending the fences鈥 exercise after the federal government granted asylum to 43 pro-independence West Papuan refugees in 2006, and, before that, Canberra鈥檚 reluctant 1999 intervention in East Timor 鈥 should end it.
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