Palestine is Still the IssueDocumentary by John PilgerThursday, October 8, 8.30pmSBS
REVIEW BY ROHAN PEARCE
John Pilger's documentary, Palestine is Still the Issue, is a moving and powerful indictment of Israel's illegal occupation of the West
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BY PETER ROBSON
NEWCASTLE After a week
of determined campaigning by students, academics and staff, the refugee
sanctuary referendum on Newcastle University finished at 3pm on September
20. More than 700 students voted in the week-long
No war on Iraq!
LAUNCESTON Thirty-five people attended a "No war on Iraq!" public forum at the Royal Oak Hotel on September 15, organised by Launceston Socialist Alliance.
Vicki Walker of the Socialist Alliance and Debbie Butler of the
BY GABRIEL MOLINA
HAVANA A dispatch from the EFE news agency in July confirmed that a new method of producing the UN report on human development has resulted in Cuba being placed "among the world's least democratic countries, comparable with
BY LISA MACDONALD
SYDNEY At the first such day-long forum in Sydney for years, 50
activists spent September 15 analysing and debating the many facets of
the backlash against feminism that has been gathering momentum in Australia,
and
BY AMIE HAMILTON
PERTH On September 17, the University of Western Australia Student Guild decided at a special council meeting to hold a referendum on October 22 on whether or not UWA should be declared a refugee safe-haven.
The Student
BY STEVE CILIA
MELBOURNE The September 16 meeting of the Socialist Alliance's
Melbourne branch preselected long-term anti-racist campaigner Arun Pradhan
as its candidate for the seat of Melbourne in the next state election.
Pradhan
[The following statement was issued by the national executive of the
Socialist Alliance on September 18.]
We are approaching the moment when the richest country in the world,
with the most powerful armed forces and most destructive arsenal
BY DARREN JIGGINS
HOBART Three hundred people participated in a rally demanding No
war on Iraq on September 21. The rally was organised by Peace Coalition,
which met for the first time on September 15.
Speakers at the rally included
BY PIP HINMAN
SYDNEY Against the backdrop of a looming US-led war on Iraq, some 300 activists participated in the first Sydney Social Forum on September 20-21.
The SSF hosted 65 workshops and six feature panels. Topics discussed included
MELBOURNE Fifty
people crammed into Hendersons Cafe to launch the West Welcomes Refugees
postcard campaign on September 21. The postcards, designed by Viv Mehes
and featuring students from Footscray City College, allow Western suburbs
BY SUE BULL
MELBOURNE Readers of the September 14 Age newspaper may have thought they were about to get a real inside story when they saw the front-page teaser: "Craig Johnston: The Making of a Middle Class Revolutionary".
But they would
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