On the box

Message Stick — Inside the lives of Indigenous Australians across the country, in their own voices. ABC, Friday, February 17, 6pm.

The End of the World as We Know it — Writer Marcel Theroux examines the issue of global warming. SBS, Friday, February 17, 7.30pm.

None Without Sin — Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, the House Un-American Activities Committee and the Hollywood blacklists against suspected communists or their sympathisers. SBS, Saturday, February 18, 2.30pm.

Political Assassinations — Assassination Colonial Style: Patrice Lumumba — Patrice Lumumba was the Congo's first elected prime minister after independence from Belgium. His nationalist and pan-African stand was seen as a threat. SBS, Monday, February 20, 2pm.

Habibi Jammin — Takes us beyond the headlines and into the lives of four young people from the Arab community in the Western Sydney suburb of Bankstown. SBS, Tuesday, February 21, 2.35pm.

Israel's Generals: Ariel Sharon — Sharon's path is chronicled from an army commander who crushed dissent with an iron fist, to prime minister of Israel. SBS, Tuesday, February 21, 7.30pm.

The Celluloid Closet — An entertaining look at the way Hollywood has portrayed homosexuality over the last hundred years. ABC, Tuesday, February 21, 11.05pm.

From Green Left Weekly, February 15, 2006.

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From GLW issue 656