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Nicer @lctext = "We want to make nice nuclear weapons, more efficient nuclear weapons." — Jean Lichere, director of the French Atomic Energy Commission. Geography lesson @lctext = "Where is our test site? In the middle of the
Understanding the unforgivable Mad Turk Napier Street Theatre, South Melbourne, August 9-September 2 Previewed by Bronwen Beechey At 10am on May 9, 1989, a man entered a kindergarten in Hawthorn, a middle-class
Consultation by Zapatistas The Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee — General Command of the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) on June 8 called for a national and international consultation around five questions
In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave Hill cattle station owned by Britain's Lord Vestey, staged a landmark struggle for Aboriginal justice. The campaign, Australia's first successful Aboriginal
Rally for Bosnia By Jon Lamb ADELAIDE — More than 1500 Bosnians and their supporters marched and rallied here on August 5, calling for an end to the arms embargo and the ethnic genocide being carried out in their homeland.
@9point = Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm. @9point = The Price of Gold — One million
Stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal! The following is an abridged version of a statement circulated by the Committees of Correspondence in the United States. The governor of Pennsylvania [has] signed a death warrant to set the
In good conscience By Brandon Astor Jones @outdent = "My sense is that a majority of Southern Baptists would approve of capital punishment." — C. Ben Mitchell, Southern Baptist minister. @outdent = The Southern
By Pip Hinman The very public attack by the leader of the Democrats, Cheryl Kernot, on the Queensland Greens following the state election last month surprised some. Kernot lashed out at the Green Party, accusing it, among other things, of
Six deaths in custody in six weeks By Sujatha Fernandes The deaths of six Aboriginal prisoners in the last six weeks "dramatically and sadly highlights the problem of deaths in custody nationally", says Aboriginal Deaths in
Time is running out @edit = Public opposition to nuclear testing is rapidly gaining strength, here and around the world. The huge rallies to mark Bastille and Hiroshima days, and the trade bans and boycotts of French goods by unions and
Brisbane International Film Festival By Kerry Vernon The Fourth Brisbane Film Festival, screening at Hoyt's Regent with a festival of short films at the State Library, runs until August 14. This month is the centenary