By Melissa Butcher In a new twist of thinking globally, acting locally, a group is proving that non-violence in action is effective. It's a practical experiment in peace making. Peace Brigades International began in Canada in 1981 and has
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Pornography Tracy Sorensen's centre spread on pornography (GLW #23) disturbed me. I have been following the pornography debate fuelled by the film Silence of the Lambs and the novel American Psycho, and feel uneasy over the uniformity of debate
By Tom Jordan and Steve Painter "We ran at the tanks and they ran away", 19-year-old Moscow engineering student Kostya Borodyenko told Green Left Weekly by phone last week. The fact that relatively small demonstrations around the Russian
WA Aborigines oppose mine By Leon Harrison PERTH — Aboriginal people in the Eastern Goldfields area are opposing the proposed Yakabindie Nickel Project, a Dominion Mining operation approved by the state in 1990. Approval for the mine
Comment by Pat Brewer "The last thing the green movement needs is the back-stabbing and party political game you have in the Liberals, Labor and, now, the Democrats", says Bruce Welch, who was the South Sydney Greens candidate for Marrickville in
By Norrian Rundle MELBOURNE — Teachers voted unanimously for a campaign against budget cuts and a breach of their award restructuring agreement at a stop-work meeting here on August 20. The campaign will include bans on school closures, new
By Phil Shannon Vietnam Days: Australia and the Impact of Vietnam Peter Pierce, Jeffrey Grey, Jeff Doyle (eds) Penguin, 1991. 323 pp. $19.95 Reviewed by Phil Shannon "The struggle of people [against power]", wrote the Czech author Milan
A Harvard University medical team has confirmed findings of an earlier United Nations delegation to Iraq. The Harvard team, which visited 11 Iraqi cities recently, says it expects around 170,000 deaths of children under five as a direct result of war
'Apartheid still practised' The council of the International Amateur Athletic Federation has refused to allow South Africa's return to international competition, saying that apartheid is still rampant in sport in South Africa. The meeting was
SYDNEY — An exhibition of pottery, including the work of several of Sydney's top potters, ran over the weekend of August 24-25. The Potters for Peace exhibition was a fundraising event for People for Nuclear Disarmament. Special guest Jane
By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — While the Western media hail Boris Yeltsin as a democrat following the defeat of the old guard's coup attempt, many citizens of the Russian federation may have cause to doubt this as an attack on the trade union
Gulf War casualties continue WASHINGTON — Eighty-seven per cent of civilian deaths caused by the Gulf War have occurred since the war ended, according to casualty estimates released by Greenpeace on July 23. Greenpeace also estimates that
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