East Timor protests
June 2 — 1500 students take part in a free-speech assembly at the University of East Timor, despite attempts by the university rector to prevent it.
June 3 — 253 prisoners in Becora Jail in Dili begin an indefinite hunger
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Auto workers take on GM
By Barry Sheppard
On June 5, the United Auto Workers (UAW) struck in a General Motors factory in Flint, Michigan. The factory stamps sheet metal into car and truck body parts used in GM assembly plants. Six days later,
Abortion rights pamphlet launched
By Susan Price
MELBOURNE The new Resistance Books pamphlet, Abortion: A woman's right, the case for law repeal, was launched here on June 12 at the Resistance Bookshop. The 50 people who attended heard Lynette
Coward's Way
Your demands for justicefall to the ground at my feetMy ears are deaf to your criesfor profit must come before people— it's a simple factof my political life!I will not utter an apology— to do so would admit to guiltfor although I
Waiting for the BarbariansBy Lewis LaphamVerso, 1997, 230 pp., $39.95 (hb) Review by Phil Shannon
"Satire is humour sent on a moral errand." So writes Lewis Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine, whose new collection of essays is a welcome revelation
By Arun Pradhan
MELBOURNE — The One Nation party here is attempting to step up its activity and profile. New state convener Robyn Spencer is well qualified for the job, with over a decade's experience campaigning against migrants in the group
We were tortured, democracy activist reports
By James Balowski
On June 13, three leaders of Indonesia's outlawed People's Democratic Party (PRD) were released from custody. They were Mugianto (who visited Australia in 1996 under the name Robby
By Natalie Zirngast
DARWIN — Members of the NT Pro Choice Collective on June 12 presented local ALP MP Claire Martin with a petition containing almost 1000 signatures supporting the removal of abortion from the NT criminal code. The collective
A dream come true
The following is abridged from a piece by Melbourne-based East Timorese writer ELIZEBETE LIM GOMES, which she read at an Indonesian cultural night in Melbourne on June 12. "Reformasi!", the Indonesian students chanted in the
Rory all over
Lullabies for Big BabiesRory McLeodCooking Vinyl (through Festival) Review by Alex Bainbridge
Rory McLeod is a British folk singer/songwriter who seems to have tried his hand at just about every form of live entertainment around.
Forerunner
"A lot of the things I'm saying on immigration [John Howard] said in 1988, and he is trying to do something about Wik and native title." — Pauline Hanson.
Different
"People do not spend $3 million on a watch to tell the time.
Campaign building
Paul Petit (GLW #321) provides little detail in his letter implying a "lack of activity" by the Democratic Socialist Party in building campaigns.
When he opens the GLW that arrives in his mail each week, does he notice the
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