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Money and FriendsBy David WilliamsonDirected by Sandra BatesEnsemble Theatre, SydneyReviewed by Brendan Doyle If you have the money ($35 for a regular ticket) and friends who are equally well-off, or are Ensemble subscribers, you can join the north
Actively Radical TV — Sydney community television's progressive current affairs producers tackle the hard issues from the activist's point of view. CTS Sydney (UHF 31), every Thursday, 7pm. Access News — Melbourne community TV, Channel 31,
By Eva Cheng Some 80 representatives from over 40 organisations from 20 countries met in the Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok over October 29-30 for the Alternative ASEAN Meeting on Burma. The meeting denounced both the persistent gross
Looking out: Gushing with gratitude By Brandon Astor Jones and Karen Illingworth "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat [in much the same way that friendship] ... is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house.
What Makes Women Sick: Gender and the Political Economy of HealthBy Lesley DoyalMacmillan Press, 1995. 280 pp., $34.95 (pb)Reviewed by Karl Miller Lesley Doyal and her partner Len Doyal have, separately and together, written several books critiquing
By Melanie Sjoberg and Jennifer Thompson The appalling alliance between the small business-minded Democrats and the free marketeer Liberals will bring significant changes to working conditions and ordinary people's ability to organise. The
Inside the Cerra Hueco penitentiary in Mexico, 47 prisoners are in the fifth week of a hunger strike to draw attention to their unjust imprisonment. The penitentiary is located in Chiapas, the state well-known as the source of the Zapatista movement
By Joan Lockwood Here are some ideas, expressed by two different people, from two different hemispheres, 70 years apart. Pauline Hanson in her inaugural speech to parliament, September 10, 1996: "I am fed up to the back teeth, with inequalities that

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