Museworthy: Suitcase
Your joy breaks into many colours when it passes through other people. Pain doesn't pass. It is a suitcase carried inside another and left as if abandoned. Heavy. Unopened. A journey never taken.
BY MTC CRONIN
MTC
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EAST GIPPSLAND — More than 20 logging areas (coups) have been planned for Goolengook, in East Gippsland in Victoria, of which four have already been logged. Much has been lost already, but a lot can still be saved if enough people
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and ain't i a woman?: Raising the alarm about women's health On newsstands advertising the Melbourne Herald Sun on April 11, the banner headline declared a "Women's Health Alarm". This was a reference to the ruling by the Health Insurance
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The April 22 edition of Newsweek magazine reported that the plotters behind the failed April 12-14 coup in Venezuela had revealed their plan to the US embassy in Caracas less than two months earlier. A senior US state
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RAMALLAH — Israel's attack on the Jenin refugee camp will be recorded as one of the bloodiest massacres in the history of the Zionist state. The scenes of devastation go beyond anything describable in words. Friends of mine who
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A new representation of Africa is emerging — Africa, the innocent, hopeless, starving child with big eyes pleading for our help. One of the main propagators of this image is World Vision, a Christian relief organisation. After
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As part of this year's May 1 protest events, protesters will blockade the Sydney offices of Australasian Correctional Management (ACM). Here are some reasons why we will be doing this. ACM, and its US parent company Wackenhut, are
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Villawood detention centre in south-western Sydney is currently the prison of 417 asylum seekers, who are locked behind tall fences and coils of razor wire. Next to the centre are dozens of unused small brick houses, which were
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SYDNEY — “Human capital, the level of knowledge of our people, is the most important type of capital in Cuba.” Otto Rivero Torres, Cuba's minister for youth and the first secretary of the Union of Communist Youth,
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Resistance activists summonsed MELBOURNE — Two members of the socialist youth group Resistance have been summonsed to appear in court in late May for "trespassing" while attempting to visit hunger-striking refugees at the Maribyrnong detention
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BY ANNE WINKLER-MOREY To those of you who would call me a self-hating Jew because I oppose the Israeli government's policy of terrorism and apartheid against the Palestinian people, let me say this right away before you do: I do not go to
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PERTH — Why do we have to destroy a marine paradise just to build a giant man-made paddle pool for the elite? This is the question many ask about a proposal to build a tourist resort a short swim away from Ningaloo Reef.
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Drugs industry The current debate around the use of currently illicit drugs in the Northern Territory provides a perfect opportunity for government and the community to look at alternatives to the current approach of prohibition. Psychedelics,
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Demonstrating the total bankruptcy of the so-called “leaders” of the Arab world, the secretary-general of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, gave an interview to Insight Magazine on April 17 which bears more than a passing
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The simple slogan on a wall in Caracas explained it all: "Yankee, game over. You lost". Within the space of 48 hours, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was overthrown by a military coup, only to be swept back to power by an uprising of the Venezuelan people.
News
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NTEU campaign against homophobia BALLARAT — After the University of Ballarat endorsed a student contingent at the 2002 Pride March, two public emails were sent by staff members condemning "sexual perversion". Although the NTEU responded with a
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Immovable "The Palestinian leader is seen to be just as immovable as his Israeli opposite." — ABC correspondent Jill Colgan, 7.30 Report, April 15, after earlier noting that "Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been held under siege by Israeli
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SYDNEY — Greenpeace is legally challenging the construction license granted for the new nuclear reactor, to be built at Lucas Heights in Sydney's southern suburbs. A Federal Court hearing has been scheduled in May. The basis of the
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SYDNEY — Two thousand people, many of them carrying candles and Palestinian flags, marched through the city centre as part of an Asia-Pacific regional day of action for Palestine on April 19. Simultaneous protests were held in
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HOBART — Unions Tasmania organised the inaugural cross-union delegates' conference, attended by 215 people on April 19. A large majority of the participants were workplace delegates rather than union officials or organisers.
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GLW #488 incorrectly reported that at a Brisbane public forum on April 5, Fernando Duque, Oceania representative of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, had stimated that the illegal US 42-year trade embargo had cost Cuba "US$60
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SYDNEY — Organisers of the April 19 pro-Palestinian protest are supporting planned protests on May 1, arguing that defence of Palestine and demands on Israel to withdraw from the Occupied Territories be a central part of
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MELBOURNE — The city's immigration department offices are almost certain to be closed on the morning of May 1 when protesters against racist attacks on refugees, the US war drive and union bashing will converge on them. The Community
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GEELONG — After travelling to Melbourne M1 protests in 2001, this year unionists and progressive activists here will be protesting closer to home on May 1. Australian Manufacturing Workers Union Victorian secretary Craig Johnston
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MELBOURNE — Two hundred people demonstrated outside mining giant Rio Tinto's annual general meeting on April 18. The action, organised by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), was in protest at the company's
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MELBOURNE — More than 2000 people marched for Palestine on April 20, in a protest mobilising much of the Palestinian community in Melbourne. "I am angry", Rarda Abdel Fatah, speaking on behalf of Young Palestinian Women, told the
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HOBART — Five hundred people rallied to stop logging in old growth forests on April 20. Built at short notice, the sizeable turnout reflected the considerable activism in defence of the forests in recent months. In addition to previously formed
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DARWIN — Four drug law reform advocates handed themselves into the Darwin Local Police Office on April 12 to raise awareness of the Northern Territory Labor government's proposed "drug house" legislation. The four activists,
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Woomera reportback #1 PERTH — More than 100 students from three universities — Curtin, Murdoch and the University of Western Australia — heard reports from the Easter protest outside the Woomera refugee detention centre in outback South
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DARWIN — At 6am on March 20 five international students were woken from their sleep by someone at the door. When one of the students opened it, he was confronted by a team of immigration department officials and NT police
Analysis
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Since the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, First World governments have exploited the fear that was generated to justify the diversion of government funds from programs that benefit working people and the poor to the
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[The following message was sent on April 5, president of the Cuban National Assembly, to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.] In the face of the barbaric acts unleashed in Palestine with the invasion by Israeli
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No Israeli defence of its war on the Palestinians would be complete without a reference to Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat's supposed rejection of "peace" at the July 2000 Camp David summit hosted by US President Bill Clinton. The story is
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More than 10 million workers across India took part in a general strike on April 16. The action was taken to resist the anti-worker, neo-liberal offensive being waged by the Indian government and to oppose the diktats of the
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PARIS — On March 23, the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR, French section of the Fourth International) deposited at the Constitutional Council the 500 "sponsorships" that will enable its candidate, Olivier Besancenot, to
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If it weren't for the horrendous death toll of Palestinians, the destruction of West Bank towns and the fierce repression of dissent of anti-war protesters within Israel, US Secretary of State Colin Powell's tour of the Middle East
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TEL AVIV — One hundred and five years ago, the day after the first Zionist congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary: "In Basel I founded the state of the Jews." Last week, Ariel Sharon should have noted in his diary: "In
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On April 8, Ray Krone, became the 100th person in the United States since 1973 to be released for a crime that put him on death row. Krone, 45, was convicted for the 1991 stabbing death of 36-year-old Arizona bartender, Kim
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The Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee (SECC) will continue to demand free water and electricity, which were promised by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) during its election campaigns, SECC chairperson Trevor Ngwane declared on April 16.
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RIMINI — Since it was launched in 1991 by opponents of the dissolution of the old Italian Communist Party (PCI), Italy's Party of Communist Refoundation (PRC) has not only kept the communist name alive in national politics, but
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On April 3, New Zealand Alliance party leader and deputy prime minister Jim Anderton announced that he and Alliance deputy leader Sandra Lee would not stand under the Alliance banner in New Zealand's national elections, due in
Culture
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REVIEW BY JIM GREEN Running from the Storm: The Development of Climate Change Policy in AustraliaBy Clive HamiltonUNSW Press, 2001176 pages, $35 (pb) Running from the Storm, Clive Hamilton's book on climate change, and in particular climate
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HAVANA — In a welcome interruption to the April 13 Saturday night movie, Cuban TV viewers were able to witness the dramatic uprising in Venezuela live via Venezuela's state-owned Venezolana de Television (VT). Venezolana de
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REVIEW BY PAUL D'AMATO We Were SoldiersDirected by Randall WallaceWith Mel Gibson, Greg Kinnear and Sam ElliotShowing at major cinemas from April 25 Hollywood has released a string of movies lately that claim to give us a realistic portrayal of