Leila and the Wolves — Heiny Srour's controversial film draws on Arab oral tradition to explore the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in the history of Lebanon and Palestine. SBS, Friday, March 31, noon.
Taxi Driver —
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PERTH — "These are the worst breaches of workplace health and safety conditions that I've seen. Anywhere", said Peter Carter, an organiser with the WA Electrical and Engineering Union (AEEFEU). He was referring to Austal
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Liberals stop blood donorsADELAIDE — Only a minister lacking sensibility would make the ludicrous move to stop public sector workers donating blood. Prisons minister Wayne Matthew succeeded in doing this on March 22.
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Envirospasm — A new youth environment program has begun on Melbourne community radio, 3CR (855 AM). It airs every Thursday at 1pm. Envirospasm's producers are asking environmental groups and others to let them know about news, actions and events.
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ADELAIDE — The usual Saturday morning sea of cars was held back on March 18 as 400 cyclists and walkers took to the streets, reclaiming the road for a sustainable transport future. Mike Parnell from the Australian Conservation Foundation opened the
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As this is written, the people of NSW are going to the polls to elect a state government. Whichever of the two parties wins the elections, the voters will be the losers. Both Labor and Liberal are committed to cutting services, persecuting youth and
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A word's history"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content ... according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." —
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Feeding the backlash beast There's a lot of feminist-bashing going on these days. You expect it from the usual quarters — the religious right, the establishment media. But some of the most strident newcomers to backlash rhetoric are women who
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Hemingway Phil Shannon's review of James R. Mellow's Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences (GLW #180 22/3/95) is an unwitting regurgitation of the strategy of the reactionary literati to try yet again to defame their old enemy: Ernest
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Scientists are pessimistic about the survival of the albatross. The general belief is that population extinctions will occur within a decade and that whole species will be gone in 30 to 40 years, unless immediate action is taken.
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MELBOURNE — A new anti-privatisation group, Public First, was launched here on March 6. About 30 different organisations, including trade unions, church groups, welfare groups and environmentalists, are involved in the campaign to prevent the sale
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Partners in Turkey's crime The US and its NATO allies are displaying extraordinary hypocrisy in their support for Turkey's massive military incursion into southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq). US officials have justified the Turkish operation as
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Adolf Hitler deserves a smileAdolf Hitler was no arsehole. It's true. He had a sweet tooth, was fond of eggs and neither smoked cigarettes nor drank alcohol. He loved Wagnerian opera and refused to eat meat. So what's a
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Waste disposal 'out of control'BRISBANE — Queensland's natural environment is being degraded at an accelerating rate despite all attempts to halt the damage, senior Environment Department officials told a Local Government
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Goss cuts Aboriginal controlBRISBANE — Les Malezer, the former head of the Goss government's Aboriginal Affairs Department, has resigned in protest at its restructuring. On March 16, he warned that the new Office of
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In the debate over export woodchipping, the argument promoted by the loggers seems to be one of either jobs or forests. Most reporting on the issue has been highly emotive, and few facts have been available to the general public.
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ERA, operator of the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu, announced on March 20 that it was abandoning for the present its plans to release radioactively contaminated water into Magela Creek. The week before, Aboriginal traditional owners of land likely to
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Conservationists have condemned the federal government for failing to come up with a concrete greenhouse gas reduction strategy before an international conference on climate change in Berlin beginning on March 27. Recent
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Central Jakarta police on March 16 detained without warrant several journalists at a party celebrating the end of the Muslim fasting month. The party was hosted by AJI (Alliance of Independent Journalists), which was formed in the
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Women's peace action setAround 300 people are expected to attend the National Women's Peace Action and Festival at the Australian Defence Industries factory in the north-east Victorian town of Benalla April 14 to 16. The
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More than 15,000 students and academic staff across the country rallied, marched, struck and occupied against university fees on March 23. The demonstrations were part of a National Day of Action called by last December's No
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And kneecapping "Egyptian archaeology and the US primary campaigns in 1952." — NSW Labor leader Bob Carr on what he and ALP federal president Barry Jones discussed in a telephone conversation after Jones said on national television that the
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Brisbane rally against woodchippingBRISBANE — More than 400 people braved 30 degree temperatures on March 25 to rally in King George Square against woodchipping. The rally was organised by Resistance, HEMP, Brisbane
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Kraft strike in fourth weekMELBOURNE — Seventy-three members of the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and the Automotive, Food, Metals and Engineering Union (AFMEU) have entered their fourth week of strike action
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"Australia is becoming more and more a part of Jakarta's war effort in East Timor", Max Lane, national coordinator of Indonesia Solidarity Action, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly at a demonstration protesting against Australian military ties with Indonesia in
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SYDNEY — What are the prospects for socialism today? Is Marxism still relevant — either in theory or as a guide to action for grassroots campaigners? How are movement activists around the world relating to and using socialist
World
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In the German elections in October, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) nearly doubled its vote and won 30 seats in the Bundestag (parliament). Earlier this year, Sarah Stephen and Chow Wei-Cheng spoke to Dr Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, deputy
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JOHANNESBURG — South African prisoners, represented by the South African Prisoners for Human Rights (SAPOHR), will embark on a national strike on April 10 unless the government responds to calls for the establishment of an Amnesty
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There is a popular Nicaraguan song which says, "Cocibolca and Xolotlan are our two silver legends", referring to Nicaragua's two great lakes. But now Xolotlan, as the indigenous people called Lake Managua, which has
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China is plagued by high inflation, an overheated economy, growing budget deficits, a crippling debt service burden, a destabilised rural population and dwindling food production. The just-concluded National People's Congress (NPC)
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Protests are escalating across the Philippines over the hanging of Flor Contemplacion, 42, overseas worker, in Singapore on March 17. The body of Contemplacion was flown to her home town, San Pablo City, where it lay in wake
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If someone told you that the leaders of 125 nations had agreed to let 1000 or so transnational corporations take over the world and legitimise forced child labour, industrial home work, sweat shops and maybe even the "foreign
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DHAKA — In Bangladesh, the awareness about women's rights and the need to fight for them can be seen by the variety of the women's movement. On March 8, International Women's Day, and beforehand, a number
Culture
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Bhaji on the Beach Written by Meera Syal Directed by Gurinder Chada Starring Kim Vithana, Lalita Ahmed, Zohra Segal At Mandolin Cinema, Sydney Reviewed by Pip Hinman and Peter Boyle Bhaji on the Beach is Gurinder Chada's first film
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Childe and Australia: Archeology, Politics and Ideas Edited by Peter Gathercole, T.H. Irving and Gregory Melleuish University of Queensland Press, 1995. 245 pp., $16.95 (pb) Reviewed by Phil Shannon Vere Gordon Childe is renowned as the
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile By Steve Martin Directed by Neil Armfield Return Season Director Andrew Tighe Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney Reviewed by Allen Myers Picasso at the Lapin Agile is set in a Paris cafe in 1904 — or possibly
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HOBART — The state attorney general, Ron Cornish, has banned 12 films that were due to be screened as part of Tasmania's inaugural Queer Film and Video Festival. The films have the go-ahead of the federal attorney general
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Hazed By Phil Monsour and Sue Ferres Reviewed by Lynda Hansen This tape is a refreshing collection of songs penned by Monsour, well known for his passionate political lyrics, accompanied by Sue Ferres on harmonies and violin. The tape
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The Fifth Celebration of Irish Music Sydney State Theatre, March 17 Reviewed by Gail Lord Unable to buy a ticket for this years's Celebration of Irish Music concert, I was lucky enough to be given a ticket while selling 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly at
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The Cutting Edge: The Metals — Anatomy of a union SBS, Tuesday, April 4, 8.30pm (8 Adelaide) Reviewed by Jennifer Thompson This documentary seems to represent largely the viewpoint of the AFMEU (Automotive, Food, Metal and Engineering
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Space, the last frontier. Although we've moved beyond this well-known catch phrase, not much changes in the spirit of true trekking. Star Trek Generations has tried to meld the trekky cultures of the original Star Trek with Star
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A poem em = By Sophie Villig The sky used to be the limit Now we've limited the sky I don't know why I don't know why Reaching but I can't find the sky Heat is rising and the sky is falling I reach losing