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GLW issue 462, published 2001-08-29.

Race & class in the US: Bush threatens to boycott World Conference Against Racism

SAN FRANCISCO - The New York Times, the most authoritative newspaper in the United States, ran a lead editorial on the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, taking place in Durban, South Africa, from August 28 to September 7. The headline

Write on: Letters to the editor

Abortion access In my article "How and why abortion access is limited" (GLW #460), the prospect of Tasmanian health minister Judy Jackson investigating the possibility of public funding for a new abortion clinic was hailed as "a significant victory

and ain't i a woman?: Are men really the new silent victims?

Men are the new, silent victims of the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest. A "lazy and insidious" culture has taken hold within feminism that revels in flailing men. "Men seem to be so cowed that they

Labor to guard the coasts

BY SARAH STEPHEN Opposition spokesperson Con Sciacca has stated that the latest influx of asylum seekers showed the government's approach was not acting as a deterrent. "For all their bravado and chest-beating, Prime Minister John Howard and

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Australian News

Resistance contests ANU elections

BY STUART MUNCKTON CANBERRA — The socialist youth group Resistance will be contesting the Australian National University Student Association (SA) elections during the first week of September. Resistance is running for the positions of president,

Protest supports refugees

BY PAUL OBOOHOV CANBERRA — Protesters gathered outside the Belconnen office of the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs (DIMA) on August 20 to call for the freeing of the refugees. Many participants had been shocked by the August

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International News

EAST TIMOR: Elections mark new step toward independence

BY JON LAND The August 30 election for East Timor's Constituent Assembly signifies an important step towards the conclusion of the United Nations transitional administration. As the UN starts to gradually wind back operations and hand over more

COLOMBIA: Indigenous people beat Big Oil

The news long awaited by Colombia's U'wa tribe and its thousands of supporters around the world has finally arrived: the Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) has announced that it has failed to find oil at the Gibraltar 1 well site on the

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Editorial

US backs apartheid Israel

@box text intr = The United States government's threat to boycott the UN-organised World Conference Against Racism, being held in South Africa from August 31, raises the question why the self-proclaimed "land of the free" would want to avoid a

Cultural Dissent

'Every person is an artist'

BY JULIA PERKINS In the hands of a people's movement, culture can be a fine weapon. That was certainly proven the case on August 17 when the Indonesian military repressed a people's carnival organised by the national cultural network, JAKER, in

Would politicians survive Big Brother?

BY SEAN WALSH & SARAH PEART MELBOURNE — Would politicians survive Big Brother? This was the contentious and very important question posed at a Green Left Weekly fundraising evening held in the Brunswick Town Hall on August 23 and attended by 100

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