GLW issue 577, published 2004-03-31.

Channel 31 fights to stay on air

Simon Tayler, Sydney Sydney's community TV channel, Channel 31, will remain on air for now, after a win in the courtroom for the many supporters of the station's current broadcasters. On March 18, the Australian Broadcasting Authority announced

VENEZUELA: A win for Chavez

Robyn Marshall & Alison Dellit On March 23, the constitutional chamber of Venezuela's Supreme Court overturned a ruling of the court's electoral chamber regarding the validity of 876,017 signatures submitted as part of a campaign to unseat

Write on: Letters to the editor

Poverty I The Howard government stands condemned for its callous dismissal of the Senate committee's report on poverty in Australia. The government's cynical response displays contempt for the two-year inquiry process and for the 260 organisations

'Yes, Latham, bring them home!'

Cass Ilia ALP leader Mark Latham's promise to bring the troops home has been welcomed by many anti-war organisations and parties, including the Socialist Alliance. Lisa Macdonald, who is the alliance's candidate for Reid in the federal election,

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Australian News

Fight to save the Ridge escalates

Paul Oboohov, Canberra The campaign to save the O'Connor and Bruce Ridge from the Gungahlin Drive extension escalated on March 22, when up to 100 protesters blockaded the work site. Nine people were arrested over two days of protests, organised by

Socialists gain 3.5% in council election

Jim McIlroy, Brisbane Socialist Alliance candidate Coral Wynter gained 3.5% (533 votes at the close of counting on polling night) in the Central ward in the March 27 Brisbane City Council election. The Greens won 17.5% in the same inner-city

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International News

IRAQ: US to retain control after June 30

Doug Lorimer A top US official in Baghdad, who asked not to be named, has admitted to reporters at a dinner meeting on March 21 that the planned June 30 hand-over of "sovereignty" from the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to an "interim

The anti-war movement in a military town

Lou Plummer, Fayetteville, North Carolina On the day after his 19th birthday in 1966, my father received his commission as an officer in the same North Carolina National Guard unit that took his father to Europe in World War Two. By 1969, having

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Editorial

US, Israel's war = terrorism

On March 23, federal ALP leader Mark Latham told Sydney radio station 2UE that a Labor government would bring back the Australian troops currently in and around Iraq, as soon as possible after the planned June installation of an interim Iraqi

Cultural Dissent

Cast work their underwear off

The Secret Death of Salvador DaliBy Stephen SewellStables Theatre, SydneyMarch 24 to April 17 REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE In the foyer, a violinist in dinner suit and angel wings plays sitting in a suspended picture frame. You climb the stairs into

An American icon

Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark PrinceBy Marc ElliotAndre Deutsch, 2003305 pages, $30 (pb) Review by Phil Shannon "Who's afraid of the Big Bad Walt?", read the placards of striking Disney cartoonists in 1941, mocking the popular lyric from Walt

Further Cultural Dissent

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