Many people were shocked that part of the NSW Lands Council's "Racism Sux" campaign which featured huge billboards of an Aboriginal woman with the slogan "They say I am too pretty to be an Aboriginal". Green Left Weekly's SUJATHA FERNANDES and ZANNY
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"The Reconstruction and Development Program and the left: how and what are we reconstructing and developing?" was the theme of a debate recently held in Johannesburg. Sponsored by Phambili Books, the city's only socialist bookshop, the meeting heard
Blue stocking week
By Rosemary Lace
WOLLONGONG — Wollongong University Blue Stocking Week, from August 15-19 was packed with performance nights, public forums, debates and workshops focussing on women's experiences struggling together for
By Jon Land
The Indonesian government has fast-forwarded its plans to construct the first of its 12 nuclear reactors. The head of the National Atomic Energy Agency (BATAN), Djali Ahimsa, announced on August 9 that the schedule for building the
The Solzhenitsyn school of falsification
The Russia That We Lost
Directed by Stanislav Govorukhin
Screening on SBS 8.30pm August 25 and September 1
Reviewed by Doug Lorimer
The promo for this two-hour "documentary" issued by SBS
Keating's privatisation push threatens jobs and environment
When Prime Minister Paul Keating met with state premiers in the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting on August 19 they claimed to be discussing a new national competition
Successful women's cultural night
By Chantal Wynter and Alex Bainbridge
MELBOURNE — More than 100 people attended a lively cabaret of women performers, a benefit for Green Left Weekly, here on August 6.
In her welcome, Shaylee Rose
Just walkin'
Two twelve year olds, Aisha and Mike, discover that they are neighbours as they walk home from school somewhere on Chicago's South Side.
"So how come you don't like rap?"
"Wait a minute homie, I never said I wasn't down.
By Christina Peebles
Following a proposal by NSW electricity supplier, Pacific Power in 1993, to construct a 132 kV transmission line from Lismore to Mullumbimby on the NSW north coast, a large section of the local community questioned the need
By Dave Riley
BRISBANE — The campaign against the eastern tollway has entered a new stage. After a succession of mobilisations protesting the plan, state cabinet has announced a modified route for the $500 million project.
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