On the box

Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. Includes the Green Left news. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Sunday, 9pm. Phone 9565 5522. Visit <http://www.channel31.org> for program details.

Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31, has excellent coverage of industrial, environmental and community actions throughout Victoria. Access News broadcasts every Monday, 8pm. Phone 9633 6976.

Frontier: 1788 1830: They Must Always Consider Us As Enemies — Examines the start of the European invasion of Australia and the beginning of the colonialists' dispossession of the Indigenous people. ABC, Saturday, September 21, 5pm.

Promises — Award-winning documentary looks at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the eyes of seven Palestinian and Israeli children aged 9-12. SBS, Sunday, September 22, 8.35pm.

Australian Biography: Charles Perkins — Pays tribute to the life of the Aboriginal leader. SBS. Tuesday, September 24, 4pm.

The Secret War: Bio-Weapons and the CIA — Examines the controversial circumstances around the death of former CIA scientist Frank Olson in 1953. SBS, Tuesday, September 24, 8.30pm.

Death Row, USA — The small Texan town of Huntsville, where the state penitentiary is housed, remains the execution capital of the US. SBS, Thursday, September, 26, 1.30pm.

From Green Left Weekly, September 18, 2002.

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From GLW issue 509