Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
Directed by Julien Temple
Dendy Films, 123 minutes
Directed by Julien Temple
Dendy Films, 123 minutes
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Twenty-five years ago this September 聴 after its 1982 invasion of Lebanon had achieved its military objectives by forcing an evacuation of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) to Tunisia 聴 Israel unleashed the Lebanese Christian Phalangist militia on the defenceless civilians of Beirut refugee camps Sabra and Shatila. Under the Israeli occupation of West Beirut, the Phalangists, armed by and in liaison with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), carried out a three-day spree of killing and rape, massacring an estimated 3000 Palestinian and Lebanese civilians.
Earlier this year, three workers on 457 鈥済uest worker鈥 visas died on the job in separate incidents. Both the construction union (CFMEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) are calling for an independent judicial enquiry into the treatment of all of the 50,000 workers on these visas. In many cases, these workers are underpaid and given heavy manual labour, rather then the skilled work that is stipulated in their visa conditions. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Andrew Martin interviewed AMWU Queensland state secretary Andrew Dettmar, about the 457 issue.
Saturday September 8 was another red banner day for people鈥檚 power.
On September 7, the weekly demonstration in the Palestinian West Bank village of Bilin against Israel聮蝉 apartheid wall became a celebration. Protesters danced and sang as they marched to the wall. Three days earlier, the Israeli Supreme Court had ordered the Israeli defence ministry to re-route 1.7 kilometres of the 703-km wall, which has been declared illegal by the International Court of Justice.
Seventy-two Tamils from Sri Lanka who have been held in detention on the Pacific island of Nauru for more than six months were granted refugee status by the immigration department on September 12. But that does not mean they will be able to live in Australia.
Bethlehem connection
Your article "Marrickville and Bethlehem twinned" (GLW #723) made two inaccurate statements which it is important to correct. It claimed that the visas of the Bethlehem delegation were delayed "due to complaints" made by me.
During the last week of August, more than 3000 workers at the state-controlled Chengdu Power company went on strike at their diesel engines producing plant in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, and protested at the city government offices. The action was a bid to pressure the factory management to honour the original agreement under which working conditions would be changed while the company is restructured for privatisation.
91自拍论坛 Weekly聮蝉 Graham Matthews asked a number of protesters at the Stop Bush rally in Sydney what motivated them to take part.
US President George Bush will add Sydney to the long list of cities that have greeted him with mass demonstrations demanding an end to the war on Iraq. PM John Howard will remember APEC as the summit that failed to bolster his domestic support.
For Bolivia鈥檚 indigenous majority there is no going back. The election in 2005 of Bolivia鈥檚 first indigenous president, Evo Morales, marked a watershed 鈥 a before and after in Bolivia鈥檚 history 鈥 after more than 500 years of struggle against imperialism and colonialism. It marked a conscious step forward by Bolivia鈥檚 indigenous majority in its struggle for justice and equality.
聯Mission accomplished!聰, boasted NSW Premier Morris Iemma at the end of one of the most aggressive policing operations in Australia for many years. The last public official to use that phrase was US President George Bush, who had just invaded Iraq. Did Iemma mean to link the thousands of protesters in Sydney with the enemy population of Iraq?
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