GLW issue 610, published 2004-12-15.

Christmas carols from Timor Leste

Christmas in East TimorSt Cecilia's Choir, DiliMary McKillop Institute of East Timorese Studies$20, plus postage and handling. To order, phone (02) 9623 2847 or visit <http://www.mmiets.org.au>. REVIEW BY SARAH STEPHEN The Mary

PHILIPPINES: BMP organises flood relief

Reihana Mohideen, Manila Thousands of people in the Philippines have been victimis of typhoons that ravaged several provinces in the first week of December. The typhoons swept through Bulakan, Nueva Ecija, Cagayan, Rizal, Quezon, and other areas

AIDS becomes feminised

Mark Stephens The latest AIDS epidemic update released by UNAIDS for World AIDS Day shows that the majority of the 40 million are now living with AIDS will soon be female. Over the past two years, the number of women living with HIV has risen in

Patrick Cockburn: 'When you have an occupation, you have resistance'

Patrick Cockburn has been an invaluable source of information for anyone wanting to know what is going on in Iraq. As a correspondent for Britain's Independent newspaper, he has written regular reports from Iraq throughout the occupation. In

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Australian News

'Justice now!' for Palm Islanders

Jim McIlroy, Brisbane Some 1500-2000 Aboriginal people and their supporters rallied at the Roma Street Forum on December 11 and marched in solidarity with the Palm Island Indigenous community. The rally coincided with the funeral service on the

Freedom Ride to expose racism again

Bronwyn Powell, Sydney In February 1965, a group of Sydney University students called Students for Aboriginal Rights, led by Aboriginal students Charles Perkins and Gary Williams, set out in a bus across regional Australia to expose and confront

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International News

SOUTH AFRICA: Apartheid victims denied repartions

On December 3, a group of apartheid victims vowed to step up their fight for reparations after a New York district court rejected their claim against multinational companies including Barclays national bank, Ford Motor Company, Mobil,

PALESTINE: The threat of a good example

Kim Bullimore, West Bank Israeli occupation forces detained over 40 Israeli peace activists and arrested four at the village of Budrus, west of Ramallah, on December 7. The activists were arrested as they took part in a non-violent solidarity

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Editorial

End the occupation of Iraq!

With the US presidential election out of the way, Washington has now begun the escalation of the war in Iraq — a war that has already cost the lives of at least 100,000 Iraqis and almost 1300 US soldiers. During the year-long US election

Cultural Dissent

The enduring human spirit

Ice RoadBy Gillian SlovoLittle, Brown, 2004544 pages, $29.95 (pb) REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON On the first day of December, 1934, Leonid Nikolayev brought the crisis of the Russian Revolution to a head. Nikolayev, an idealistic communist disillusioned

Leila Murray: source of strength and inspiration

Honouring Leila Murray: Heart of JusticeEdited by Roderic Pitty and Ruth Braunstein$7.95, available from http://www.gleebooks.com.au REVIEW BY CHRIS MARTIN "Leila Murray was a great source of strength and wisdom to all her large family, to all

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