Shopping for a Better World Council on Economic Priorities 350 pp. US$6.45 ReviewedWhen we buy a product at a supermarket, we not only purchase an item, but we also support the company that produced it. If you
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US citizen STUART WAX visited Hiroshima last year, on the 45th anniversary of the atomic bombing. Here he describes his impressions of the Memorial Peace Park. Across the street from ground zero is a huge baseball field. A modern
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Bush garden in RedfernSYDNEY — Inner-city Redfern is to be the unlikely location for an organic garden, established by the Aboriginal community. Community leader Margaret Vincent explains that the garden
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Video on Gulf WarSYDNEY — A new video, Consequences of the Gulf War, had its debut at the Trades Hall here on July 4. Film maker John Reynolds told the audience the media was biased and that he wanted to be "biased in the other
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No new mines, says McHughSYDNEY — There is no economic or political logic to expanding uranium mining, Labor MP Jeanette McHugh told a meeting of the Eastern Suburbs Nuclear Disarmament Group on June 12. McHugh, a member of
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Development problems in ThailandEnvironmental consequences of development in Thailand were the topic of a Community Aid Abroad forum in Sydney on May 29. In 1988-9, the Thai economy grew by 10%. The country is looking to become
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Plowshare activists on trialFour young peace activists go on trial in New York on May 20, facing charges that could result in their being imprisoned for 15 years. Two of the defendants, Ciaron O'Reily and Moana Cole, are
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Music I didn't need like thisWhenever I turn on my rented television, I'm confronted with what seems to be the longest commercial on our airwaves. Set to that old song "He ain't heavy, he's my brother", this ad is there to make us