REVITRIYOSO HUSODO and SRI WAHYUNINGSIH of the People's Cultural Network
(JAKER) in Indonesia spoke to Green Left Weekly's JULIA PERKINS
during her recent visit there.
JAKER is sustained by a belief in socialist realist art and
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On May 12, the Indonesian government and the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) signed a three-month "peace accord" at a secret location in Geneva. A government statement said the cease-fire would come into effect on June 2 and would be reviewed regularly.
White House buys TV's loyalty in 'war on drugs'
By Sean Healy
The United States government pays television networks and magazine publishers to promote its "tough on drugs" stance through popular TV programs such as ER, Beverly Hills 90210 and
Dishonest advertising
BY JONATHAN SINGER
"It is hard to accept that the federal government's latest GST advertisements are anything more than political propaganda ... the television campaign is devoid of any information that could plausibly be
Easter forest camp destroyed
BY SEAN MARTIN-IVERSON
PERTH — Police and officials of the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) stormed the Easter forest camp in Western Australia's south-west forests on May 11, evicting
CZECH REPUBLIC: Communist Party's velvet return
A spectre haunted last November's celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the "velvet revolution". After years on the margins, the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) had suddenly doubled
Strikes disrupt government's tax plans
BY CHRIS SLEE
MELBOURNE — In the first of a series of snap strikes over stalled pay negotiations, several hundred Community and Public Sector Union members in the Newcastle branch of the Australian
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 Sunday, 9-11pm. Ph 9565 5522.
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Reconciliation requires justice
On May 27, in the Sydney Opera House forecourt not far from where the attempted genocide of Australia's indigenous people began, the spokespeople for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation will hand their
RAMALLAH â Clashes between Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli troops
broke out in the West Bank on May 15 and 16, the most violent confrontations
since 1998. Four Palestinians were killed; two Palestinian children also
died when they were
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