Three of the world's top bands have joined forces to highlight the frame-up
of radical journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal. Rage Against the Machine, rap group
Beastie Boys and Bad Religion have scheduled a benefit concert on January
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East Timor: is a breakthrough looming?
By Max Lane
Speculation on the future of East Timor is rife in Jakarta. There have even been unconfirmed reports that the Habibie-Wiranto military regime may allow East Timorese resistance leader Xanana
By Claire Konkes
HOBART — Last November, members of the Antarctica and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC), the international environmental lobby group trying to keep fishing "honest" in the southern seas, left Hobart's Wrest Point Casino on a yacht
National Action is racist, court rules
By Jessica Rose
ADELAIDE — The leader of National Action, Michael Brander, has lost a defamation action after a magistrate ruled that he is a racist. Brander's claim for damages over a 1995 column by
Rage against the regime: students fight for democracy in Indonesia
By Chris Latham
Last May mass demonstrations toppled one of the most brutal dictators in the world — President Suharto of Indonesia. Having held power for over 32 years, with
More cops + more jails = more injustice
By Sue Boland
It has become predictable that state elections begin to resemble an auction, both major parties vying for the title of being the "toughest on crime". The New South Wales election campaign is
Review by Geoff Francis
UnAustralian SongsBy David Beniuk and the UnAustraliansTo order, write to PO Box 29, Wollongong East 2520. Many contemporary Australian folk artists have fallen into a rut of churning out a succession of bland "feel good"
Cop of the world
It didn't get a lot of media coverage — being nowhere nearly as interesting
as the ongoing Washington soap opera, Monicagate — but US
President Bill Clinton has proposed an increase in the US government's
military
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