A Room for Romeo BrassDirected by Shane MeadowsWritten by Shane Meadows and Paul Fraser
REVIEW BY JONATHAN SINGER
The dramatic and comic realism of A Room for Romeo Brass carries an emotional punch, but in the end the blow is only lightly felt.
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Green members of New Zealand's national parliament raised West Papua's Morning Star flag on the steps of parliament on October 18 to welcome Free West Papua Movement (OPM) representative and West Papuan exile John Ondawame.
Ondawame met with New
BY ZANNY BEGG
SYDNEY — Inside the luxurious Westin Hotel on October 20, young business entrepreneurs rubbed shoulders with corporate leaders from such companies as Chubb Security, AMP, Multiplex, Coles Myer and British American Tobacco and then
SEOUL — In a series of lively demonstrations here on October 20 — dubbed O20 — against the Asia-Europe Meetings (ASEM), South Koreans linked up with the worldwide people's movement against corporate tyranny.
The first ASEM, opened in Bangkok
Seattle protesters sue
SEATTLE — Lawyers for anti-corporate tyranny activists sued Seattle officials on October 3 for violating the free-speech rights of hundreds of people arrested for entering an emergency "no-protest zone" during the
South Africa is "not ready" for the introduction of a 40-hour week, African National Congress labour minister Membathisi Mdladlana declared on October 17. Mdladlana was commenting on a feasibility study on reducing the current 45-hour working week.
On October 15, more than 130 Solomon Islanders — representing the rival militia of the Malaita Eagle Force and Guadalcanal's Isatabu Freedom Movement, as well as the central Solomon Islands government and the Malaita and Guadalcanal provincial
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BY BRONWEN BEECHEY
ADELAIDE — The South Australian Labor Party's annual convention on October 13 departed from tradition in two ways, both of which sought to reassure big business that the party will cooperate if it wins the next election.
The
The formula for United States media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simple: Report on the latest developments in the fragile "peace process". Depict US officials as honest brokers in the negotiations. Emphasise the need for restraint
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