On the box

ICAM — Julie Nimmo takes to the streets of Sydney's Waterloo to speak to Indigenous kids living rough. SBS, Thursday, May 23, 7.30pm.

Unreported World: The Philippines — A look at the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. Will the US "war against terrorism" deter or encourage them? SBS, Thursday, May 23, 8pm.

Birth Of A Nation: East Timor — Examines how the East Timorese people are building their future. ABC, Thursday May 23, 10pm.
Echelon: The Secret Power — The surveillance network set up during WWII by the US and British governments has evolved into a global electronic spy system. SBS, Saturday, May 25, 7.30pm.
Freedom Highway — The role of protest songs in the fight for civil and religious rights around the globe. SBS, Saturday, May 25, 10.05pm.
Village Of Widows — All but a handful of the elderly men of the Sahtu Dene people in Canada, who worked as "coolies" transporting the uranium ore used in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, have died from conditions related to radiation poisoning. SBS, Sunday, May 26, 10.30am.

Writing the Wrongs — Compelling story of how a small group of sacked Liverpool dockers wrote their own feature-length television drama, Dockers. ABC, Sunday May 26, 10.35pm.

Black Sheep — Louise Glover discusses growing up in a racist, homophobic environment before coming out as gay and learning about her own Aboriginality. SBS, Monday, May 27, 12.15am.

Dockers — Tommy and Macca have worked on the docks all of their adult lives; Tommy's son Andy has been there less than five years. But when Andy and his colleagues walk off the job, Tommy, Macca and 500 other dockers walk out in support. ABC, Tuesday, May 28, 11pm.

From Green Left Weekly, May 22, 2002.

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