MARINA CARMAN's family left South Africa in 1977 and returned for their first visit in December. Here she describes what she found.
The one word that hits more than any other and around which everything else seems to circle is: change.
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Protest at Brisbane Women's Prison
By Sylvia Porter
BRISBANE — Twenty-five people picketed the Brisbane Women's Prison on March 20, protesting against the imprisonment of women for offences related to domestic violence.
The action
Secret radioactive dumping in Pacific
WASHINGTON — Reports from the European press that the Soviet Navy secretly dumped nuclear reactors and radioactive waste into the Sea of Japan indicate a more damaging nuclear legacy of the Cold War
Rainbow Warrior visits Hobart
By Rohan Gaiswinkler
HOBART — The Rainbow Warrior visited Hobart from March 11. The launch of the Greenpeace "Cities and Coasts Campaign" took place on board on March 12.
The campaign targets
By Norm Dixon
The United States government is "a major and flagrant human rights violator" which is "perpetrating terror on its own citizens" through its frequent use of the death penalty, Rick Halperin, chairperson of Amnesty International
Handbook for activists
By Stephen Bavaro
SYDNEY — The Activists Defence Network (ADN) will soon be launching the Activists Defence Handbook.
A spokesperson for the ADN says that the handbook will be available by late March or early
By Catherine Brown
DUNDALK — Under the banner "Unity and Independence — For a Peaceful Future", Sinn Fein's 1993 Ard Fheis (annual conference) affirmed the centrality of the party's new thinking about its strategy for peace in Ireland.
Peltier frame-up highlighted
By Norm Dixon
Amnesty International is highlighting the case of Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier in this Year of the Indigenous Peoples, AI's US chairperson, Rick Halperin, told Green Left
Rally against police violence
By Alex Cooper
MELBOURNE — Wearing a variety of masks, a small group of people demonstrated outside the South Melbourne police station on March 11 to protest against bashings by police of people taken into
By John Hutnyk
SYDNEY — In various community media, activists have written recently about the planned three-university "advanced technology park" (ATP) targeted for Redfern. The communities involved called, among other things, for a
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