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BY PAUL BENEDEK SYDNEY — "We are a mass movement, we need to look like one" is the idea behind a broadly supported initiative to hold a National People's Refugee Summit in early 2003. The proposed summit, tentatively scheduled for February 1-2
BY DOUG LORIMER HONG KONG — Seventy pro-democracy protesters staged a rally outside in the Chater Garden Square next to the local Legislative Council building on November 17, defying a police warning that the gathering was illegal
BY STEPHEN BENNETTS FLORENCE — “Non ho mai visto Firenze cosi bella. Che bello vederla cosi piena di gente; di solito ci sono solo le bancarelle d'oro e le cartoline. E che palle!” (“I've never seen Florence looking so beautiful. How
BY SARAH STEPHEN The ALP shut down its working party on refugee policy on November 12, after only two meetings. This is a substantial blow to Labor for Refugees, which agreed to its membersÂ’ involvement in the working party in return for a
BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — The Members First rank and file group in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is challenging the ALP-aligned Progressive Caucus in elections for department-based section and local region positions in the ACT,
Telling Lies About Hitler: the Holocaust, History and the David Irving TrialBy Richard EvansVerso, 2002326 pages, $37 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON If a self-styled "geographic revisionist" should ever step up to a witness box to sue the Royal
Episodes directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Sean Penn, Denis Tanovic, Mira Nair, Shohei Imamura, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Idrissa Ouedrago Now showing at the Nova and Cinema Europa,
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS MELBOURNE — "On November 30, a vote for the Socialist Alliance is the clearest possible vote against war and racism", said Arun Pradhan, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Melbourne. Pradhan, who has been an
Regular readers of 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly in Sydney's western suburbs can pick up the latest issue at the new Resistance Centre, 7/29 Macquarie Street, Parramatta. From 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly, November 27, 2002. Visit the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly home page.
BY KAREN FLETCHER MELBOURNE — Community lawyer Amanda George, well-known for years of work against private prisons in Australia, is standing as an independent candidate in the Victorian election. She is opposing the Labor minister for police and
BY JEFF SHANTZ TORONTO — Greenpeace door canvassers are used to pounding the pavements. Every evening, they walk kilometres to spread the Greenpeace message of environmental care. However, the organisations' canvass workers never expected
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE DARWIN — “I'm here because I don't like injustice, and I don't like being ashamed of my country”, declared Jack, one of the 250 people who attended a public meeting in support of the East Timorese asylum seekers on