Malaysian groups support Timorese By Colin Pemul KUALA LUMPUR — Non-government organisations here are carrying out an educational campaign which involves showing the film Shadow over East Timor and organising group discussions. In the
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By Angela Matheson One night in September, 230 asylum seekers and up to 100 Vietnamese and African guest workers were evacuated under police escort after mobs of neo-Nazis laid siege to the apartment blocks where they lived in the east German
Report on Indonesian struggles NEWCASTLE — Green Left correspondent Michael Tardif addressed a forum on Indonesia here on January 29. Tardif outlined the broad progressive movement in Indonesia and the growing grassroots opposition to the
Forum condemns youth crime bill By Leon Harrison PERTH — A public forum on January 29 condemned the state government's juvenile crime legislation, under which children as young as 10 could be detained indefinitely. The 500-strong forum
By Will Firth BERLIN — A public meeting on East German men's identity was organised for late November in East Berlin as a springboard for a range of men's "consciousness-raising" and anti-sexist initiatives. But attendance was very poor,
By David Jagger CANBERRA — In symbolic and tactical moves against what they call Australia's "illegal regime", about 100 Aborigines occupied, then peacefully quit, the old Parliament House in Canberra after the Invasion Day long weekend.
German chemical case goes to court By Bryan R. Thomas BONN — Criminal proceedings have started in Frankfurt against the general managers of two of Germany's leading manufacturers of wood preservatives. This is the most serious
By Sean Malloy Can Ari Ben-Menashe be believed? Just when you begin to think he can't, the powers that be become very nervous at the prospect of revealing evidence that would confirm or contradict his stories. His claim that the Israeli
By Dan Connell KEREN — The road to Keren, Eritrea's second largest city, is littered with the twisted, rusting remains of Ethiopian army vehicles — Fiat transports, heavy-duty Russian trucks, eight-wheeled BRDM-2 armoured cars and T-54 and
By Kevin Healy A week when problems began to be solved for True Blue Aussie workers — and for those True Blue Aussies who don't work because there aren't enough jobs for them, through their own greedy fault, of course — thanks to a