574

Documentary reveals New Mexico nuclear horror

Do It For Uncle GrahamWritten and directed by Candy JonesFor more information, visit <http://doitforunclegraham.com>. Send a money order of US$24 (VHS) or US$34 (DVD) to JUST-US PRODUCTIONS, L.L.C. 5 BISBEE COURT 109 #218 SANTA FE

Sydney city blues

Six Lane HighwayDamian CoenThrough Black Market MusicOrder at <http://www.damiancoen.com> REVIEW BY NORM DIXON Australian blues and roots music fans are celebrating the return to recording of one of the cream of the NSW blues scene,

Redfern meeting denounces racist police violence

Lachlan Malloch, Sydney "The views of the Aboriginal community in general, and residents of the Redfern Block in particular, have fallen on deaf ears since the death of TJ [Thomas Hickey]", Redfern Aboriginal leader Lyall Munro told a meeting of

Rural Victorians resist toxic waste dump

Marcus Pabian, Melbourne On March 4, 600 rural residents from three shires converged in front of the Victorian parliament to oppose the state Labor government's plans for a toxic waste dump in rural Victoria. On November 12, the state government

PALESTINE: The one-family bantustan in Mas'ha

Anna Weekes, Mas'ha Hani unlocks a tiny gate embedded between an alarmed fence and an eight-metre-high concrete wall, and ushers the Danish television crew across a military road and quickly into his home. Two Canadian farmers, and three

Chomsky helps us understand the world

Hegemony or Survival: America's quest for global dominanceBy Noam ChomskyAllen & Unwin, 2003$24.95 (pb) REVIEWED BY JOHN TOGNOLINI I am lucky enough to have met Noam Chomsky when he was in Sydney, in 1995, when he was defending the East Timorese,

Write On: Letters to the editor

Missed opportunity Alexander Downer's reference to the anti-war movement as a bunch of Saddam supporters is as amusing as John Howard's reference to the February 14-16 protesters as a "mob". No amount of name-calling by the Howard government will

UNITED STATES: Grocery strike ends in defeat

Gillian Russom, Los Angeles After four months and 18 days on strike and locked out, grocery workers in Southern California voted on February 28 to accept a new three-year contract. Voting on the contract was confined to a single day, in which the

UNITED STATES: Protests planned for coming months

Sam Pillay "Bushville" — a shantytown of tents — will greet Republican grandees when they turn up for their August convention in New York. America's poor and homeless families will use Bushville to highlight President George Bush's attacks

IRAQ: UN backs plan for US puppet regime

Doug Lorimer On February 19, UN secretary-general Kofi Annan endorsed of Washington's plan to install a non-elected Iraqi government at the end of June. Iraq's leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, said on February 27 that

HAITI: Washington was behind coup says Aristide

Alison Dellit "The Haitian constitution is working", US President George Bush told the media on March 1. It might seem an odd way to describe a country overrun by armed thugs and, now, foreign troops, and whose elected president has been kidnapped

CANADA: Scandal rocks government

Barry Weisleder, Toronto Despite a very modest recovery in the latest opinion polls, the scandal-rocked Liberal Party remains in a quandary over whether to call the Canadian federal election in Spring, or Autumn, or even later. For now, damage