I am not usually one for public confessions, but I feel that something must be said. You can imagine how difficult this is for me to admit to. I am just an ordinary Joe Blow trying to make their own way in the world. There's nothing special about me.
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By Max Lane
The dictatorship of President Suharto has occupied East Timor for twenty years and has been responsible for the death of at least 200,000 people. In December 1995, in defiance of the military-backed dictatorship, almost 50 students
By Jennifer Thompson
SYDNEY — Three hundred supporters of Telstra's public ownership gathered in Lower Town Hall on August 15 for the launch of the Keep Telstra Public campaign. Speakers included Democrat Senator Cheryl Kernot; national president
By Agnes Bertrand
The word "globalisation" was given currency by US mass marketing strategists who, from the 1980s onwards, talked nothing but "global products" and "global communication". According to their logic, a product should be able to use
US government's 'environmental racism'
On August 6, Greenpeace activists chained themselves to the entrance of the US embassy in Mexico City to protest against the construction of a low-level radioactive waste dump in Sierra Blanca, Texas, 32
Royal Women's Hospital under threat
By Kim Linden
MELBOURNE — Around 100 people took part in the Royal Women's Hospital 140th birthday celebration and rally on August 11, as part of the campaign to stop the relocation of some of the hospital's
By Trish Corcoran and Chris Spindler
CHICAGO — Solidarity, a socialist and feminist organisation, held its summer school and convention here August 5-11. With members centrally involved in unions and other social and political campaigns
Solidarity
Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) has issued an emergency petition calling on the Suharto government to release all political prisoners and end suppression of freedom of assembly and organisation. More than 100
Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures: The Challenge to Reclaim FeminismEdited by Alison Assiter and Avedon CarolPluto Press, 1993. $32.95Reviewed by Patricia Brien Bad Girls and Dirty Pictures is a collection of essays by women about pornography. The essays
Among those called up on August 12 for interrogation in the regime's campaign against the PRD was Pramoedya Ananta Toer (72), Indonesia's great novelist, himself a prisoner of Suharto for 14 years. Pramoedya accepted a human rights award from the PRD
East Timorese
Kissing with
their wounds
the only
protest
left to them
Denis Kevans
By Jeremy Smith
MELBOURNE — Workers at the ACI Spotswood plant, who have staged a month-long picket, were charged and bashed by mounted police with batons on August 16. The dispute started when ACI-BTR revealed plans to retrench 59 workers,
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