Eighty supporters of Solidarity for the Acehnese Peoples Movement, mostly non-Acehnese, held a protest in Jalan Thamrin, a central Jakarta thoroughfare, on August 7.
The demonstration, which included supporters from the People's Democratic Party,
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BY SEAN HEALY
While they undoubtedly thought that brutality would fix everything, things are only getting worse for Italy's authorities, with ever more condemnations coming from ever wider circles of their violent attempts to put down anti-G8
Students fight casualisation
NEWCASTLE Resistance is supporting a campaign to save the fine arts
faculty at Newcastle University. Eighty students from the faculty attended
a meeting to oppose the forced casualisation of teaching staff and
Who's Afraid of the Working Class?Written by Andrew Bovell, Patricia Cornelius, Melissa Reeves and Christos TsiolkasDirected by Tanya DennyNew Theatre, Sydney
Playing until September 1
REVIEW BY BRENDAN DOYLE
"Strong language", the program
BY CYNTHIA PETERS
Type "teen jobs" in the findinfo.com search engine, and a good portion of what it turns up will have something to do with teens and blow jobs.
The few actual links to job listings talk in glorified terms about "career planning"
Feminists on the University of Tasmania need to begin a fight to defend the women's officer position, following a proposal by the Student Representative Council to integrate the post's functions into the duties of a general welfare officer.
The
Fascinating bore
"In a boring way, he's fascinating" — comment on Prime Menzies John Howard by "one of his closest advisers", reported in the August 4-5 Australian Financial Review.
Prefers being hostage to financiers
"I would imagine that if
BY SAM FROST
Oil giant ExxonMobil's operations in the Indonesian province of Aceh are to be examined by a US court, after 11 Acehnese filed a suit against the company, claiming to have suffered human rights abuses at the hands of military units
BY NICK EVERETT
SYDNEY — The 350 workers employed by the Marrickville-based car components maker TriStar Steering and Suspension won victory on August 8 in their dispute over pay and the protection of their entitlements. Militant action forced
BY MAX LANE
Militant trade union leader and former political prisoner Dita Sari has been awarded the Raymond Magsaysay Award, considered an Asian Nobel Prize, for being a "leader of new forces in Asia".
The chairperson of the Indonesian National
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