On the box

As It Happened: Cuba — An African Odyssey — From Che Guevara's military campaign to avenge Lumumba in the Congo, up to the fall of apartheid in South Africa, 300,000 Cubans fought alongside African revolutionaries. SBS, Friday, July 27, 8.30pm.

Message Stick: Sacred Ground — Quenten and his family fight to save the sacred Dreaming sites from multi-million dollar property developments. ABC, Sunday, July 29, 1.30pm.

Keep Safe — According to this program, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are three times more likely to die from injury than other Australians. SBS, Monday, July 30, 5.30pm.

Cutting Edge: Spying on the Home Front — In a permanent war against a hidden enemy, how far has the government gone in hunting terrorists by watching us? SBS, Tuesday, July 31, 8.30pm.

Out of Place, Out of Time — Introduces us to some of the people Australian filmmaker Stefan Markworth met when he spent six months in the Bourj el Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon in 2003. ABC, Wednesday, August 1, 12.35am.

If You Were Me — These six short films explore different human rights issues. SBS, Wednesday, August 1, 1pm.

Dying to Leave: Slaves of the Free Market — Looks at human trafficking, which includes a new kind of indentured servitude, where impossible debt is combined with brutal working conditions. SBS, Thursday, August 2, 1.30pm.

From GLW issue 718