After 40 years, The Pursuit of Happiness is being relaunched. Originally screened across the country and on the ABC, this feature film is about the ties that bind couples and nations. Kerry Smith reports.
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In the second of our two-part interview, Green Left’s Federico Fuentes speaks to Elias Jaua — Chavista, socialist and former vice-president of Venezuela under President Hugo Chávez — about the response inside the country to the January 3 US military assault, the Nicolás Maduro government, the state of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela and popular participation today.
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About 50 students and staff at the University of Sydney protested university management’s repression of those showing solidarity with Palestine. Chiara Reeves reports.
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This year's Sydney Film Festival, running from June 3–14, features films about First Nations resistance, a Palestinian uprising and communities seeking justice, writes Ben Radford.
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The Tamil community and supporters gathered at the State Library in Naarm/Melbourne to commemorate the 17th Mullivaikkal Day, observed annually on May 18, reports Jordan Shukri AK Armaou-Massoud.
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The inaugural Hazara Culture Day, supported by many community organisations, drew thousands to the Fairfield Showgrounds. Paula Sanchez reports.
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On this episode of On The Streets we discuss rallies to mark 78 years of al Nakba (the Catastrophe) and upcoming actions to save Waterloo public housing.
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Israel intercepted 60 Global Sumud Flotilla ships, imprisoning 400 participants on May 19. Rachel Evans talks to Subhi Awad, a GSF organiser, about why these missions are important.
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Markela Panegyres spoke to Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, a senior Googatha elder and anti-nuclear activist, who is leading a campaign against rocket and weapons testing on sacred Googatha Country.
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Shamikh Badra asks if “securitisation”, when a political or social issue becomes framed as an exceptional security matter, is being used to shut down freedom of speech over Israel's war on Gaza.
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Protests across Australia marked 78 years since Israeli forces unleashed its genocide, ethnically cleansing Palestinian villages in 1948. Kerry Smith reports.
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Green Left’s Federico Fuentes spoke to Elias Jaua, who explained how Venezuela came to be “militarily occupied and subjected to a policy of coercive tutelage” and why Venezuelans will need to wage a struggle for national liberation.