GLW issue 514, published 2002-10-30.

A Sniper Poem: Metaphor

When using force to secure the peace,and encouraging more shopping to save the economy,and children and teens play video games that rewardfor every person decapitated and limb severed.When old women and babies are pepper-sprayedand rubber bullets

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Weapons of mass destruction Our politicians and other theorists, who will not be at risk at the sharp end of action, talk glibly of the need to eliminate weapons of mass destruction (WMD). We know they are talking about weapons such as chemical,

Howard's lethal hypocrisy

BY JOHN PILGER LONDON � For 40 years, Australian governments have colluded with state terrorism in Indonesia. Now, the Bali outrage allows Australian Prime Minister John Howard to distract attention from his hypocrisy. Howard says

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Women reclaim the night

Across Australia protesters gathered on the evening of October 25 to participate in annual Reclaim the Night marches demanding an end to violence against women. The largest march was in Brisbane. Maria Voukelatos reports that close to 1000 women

Sydney activists ready for big anti-war rally

BY PIP HINMAN SYDNEY � The 45,000-strong anti-war rally in Melbourne on October 14 has spurred anti-war groups here to unite to build the largest possible rally on November 30. A meeting of some 60 people on October 21 agreed to organise a

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International News

ISRAEL: A 'huge warehouse' of nuclear weapons

BY ROHAN PEARCE US President George Bush continues to demand that the United Nations Security Council endorse a massive military attack on Iraq on the basis of tenuous "evidence" that Saddam Hussein might have the capability to develop nuclear

ZIMBABWE: Teachers' leaders detained, tortured

BY NORM DIXON Members of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) are continuing their strike for better pay and working conditions. Takavafira Zhou, PTUZ president, declared on October 21 that the arrest and torture of union leaders, and

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Editorial

353 deaths overshadowed by child that wasn't thrown

353 deaths overshadowed by child that wasn't thrown The Senate committee set up to investigate whether asylum seekers threw their children into the sea last year found that they didn't, and that former defence minister Peter Reith

Cultural Dissent

Students tackle 'border protection'

BY SIMON ABRAHAMS MELBOURNE — Creative arts students from the University of Melbourne have responded to Australia's treatment of asylum seekers with Asylum, a theatrical work that addresses issues of "border protection" and the farce of the

Moving portrayal of the Bloody Sunday massacre

Bloody SundayWritten and directed by Paul GreengrassWith James Nesbitt, Declan Duddy, Tim Pigott-Smith, Mike Edmonds and Nicholas FarrellShowing at Palace Academy Twin and Norton Street Cinemas, Sydney; Nova and Rivoli Cinemas, Melbourne; and the

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