August 28 is National Landmines Day. One in three nations has been mined, and up to 70 people a day are being killed as a result of landmines. The number of individuals maimed or killed by landmines in peacetime is as high as 2500 per month. For
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Toxic tour highlights radioactive danger
By Shane McArthur
ADELAIDE — On July 23, more than 50 people joined a "toxic tour", organised by the environmental group Praxis, to highlight the dangers of long-term radioactive
ACT students against nuclear tests and Francophobia
By Tony Iltis
CANBERRA â On July 19, 100 students marched from Parliament House to the French embassy, chanting "Non aux essais! Oui la paix!" (No to testing! Yes to
By Jennifer Thompson
The latest deadline for Palestinian elections and Israeli redeployment from occupied Palestinian territories, July 25, has passed without any agreement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian National
@9point = Actively Radical TV — Community television's progressive current affairs program tackles the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Friday, 10.30pm.
@9point = Movie Matinee: Rising to the Bait
@9point = The Story of Pop: Young, Loud and Snotty — Britain's youth by the late '70s found traditional rock music devoid of rebellion, so when the Sex Pistols burst on the scene with what became known as punk music, it was an overnight sensation.
By Philippa Smith
SYDNEY — The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras (SGLMG) is coming under fire for a controversial proposal to restrict its membership to gays and lesbians prepared to be "outed" or named publicly. SGLMG is the
Les Parents Terribles
By Jean Cocteau
Sydney Theatre Company
Drama Theatre, Opera House until September 2
Reviewed by Helen Jarvis
It is a strange coincidence that at the very time that the perfidy of the French
By Renfrey Clarke
MOSCOW — On June 29, a flash flood overwhelmed a large sewage treatment plant near Kharkov, Ukraine's second-largest city. Sewage backed up, choking equipment and putting the plant out of action. Raw waste began pouring
Democratic Socialists: End the arms embargo!
By Peter Boyle
The United Nations should lift the arms embargo on Bosnia, turn over the weapons of the UN "peacekeepers" to the government of Bosnia and get out of the country,
In Darkest Hollywood: Cinema and Apartheid
ABC TV, Monday, August 7, 11pm
Previewed by Norm Dixon
"Just to sit in this dark place and see magic take place on the wall. For a moment we forgot there was apartheid. We forgot there
By James Balowski
For almost a week, thousands of workers from a garment factory, PT Great River Industries (GRI), in Bogor, West Java, have organised a wave of strikes and rallies in pursuit of better wages and conditions.
The
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