BY PAUL BENEDEK
SYDNEY — "We are a mass movement, we need to look like one" is the idea behind a broadly supported initiative to hold a National People's Refugee Summit in early 2003.
The proposed summit, tentatively scheduled for February 1-2
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BY STEPHEN BENNETTS
FLORENCE Non ho mai visto Firenze cosi bella. Che bello vederla
cosi piena di gente; di solito ci sono solo le bancarelle d'oro e le cartoline.
E che palle! (I've never seen Florence looking so beautiful. How
BY DOUG LORIMER
HONG KONG Seventy pro-democracy protesters staged a rally outside
in the Chater Garden Square next to the local Legislative Council building
on November 17, defying a police warning that the gathering was illegal
BY SARAH STEPHEN
The ALP shut down its working party on refugee policy on November
12, after only two meetings. This is a substantial blow to Labor for Refugees,
which agreed to its members involvement in the working party in return
for a
BY PAUL OBOOHOV
CANBERRA — The Members First rank and file group in the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) is challenging the ALP-aligned Progressive Caucus in elections for department-based section and local region positions in the ACT,
Episodes directed by Samira Makhmalbaf, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Sean
Penn, Denis Tanovic, Mira Nair, Shohei Imamura, Amos Gitai, Youssef Chahine,
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Idrissa Ouedrago
Now showing at the Nova and Cinema Europa,
Telling Lies About Hitler: the Holocaust, History and the David Irving TrialBy Richard EvansVerso, 2002326 pages, $37 (pb)
REVIEW BY PHIL SHANNON
If a self-styled "geographic revisionist" should ever step up to a witness box to sue the Royal
BY GRAHAM MATTHEWS
MELBOURNE — "On November 30, a vote for the Socialist Alliance is the clearest possible vote against war and racism", said Arun Pradhan, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of Melbourne.
Pradhan, who has been an
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BY KAREN FLETCHER
MELBOURNE — Community lawyer Amanda George, well-known for years of work against private prisons in Australia, is standing as an independent candidate in the Victorian election. She is opposing the Labor minister for police and
BY JEFF SHANTZ
TORONTO Greenpeace door
canvassers are used to pounding the pavements. Every evening, they walk
kilometres to spread the Greenpeace message of environmental care. However,
the organisations' canvass workers never expected
BY RUTH RATCLIFFE
DARWIN I'm here because I don't like injustice, and I don't like
being ashamed of my country, declared Jack, one of the 250 people who
attended a public meeting in support of the East Timorese asylum seekers
on
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