Green Left Weekly, Issue #373 August 25, 1999
Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from
an environmental and left perspective.
Featured this week:
WHY MORE AUSTRALIANS ARE GETTING POORER
Poverty is spreading, despite a "booming" economy. With unemployment
still high, the cutting back of welfare rights leaves a growing
number of working people with nothing to fall back on when they
strike a rough patch.
COVERSTORY
Why more Australians are getting poorer
FEATURES
Washington, drug companies commit `genocide' in Africa
Uninterrupted revolution in Indonesia
RESISTANCE
MAGAZINE
ASIO goes high tech
20 years of environmental activism in northern NSW
Debate: Defending the state of Israel
Reply: Against Zionism and anti-Semitism
World news briefs
Schlock tactics
Lismore Broad Left
NEWS
Dita Sari speaks in Brisbane
Warm reception for Indonesian activists
Dita Sari calls for solidarity
Kumarangk bridge to go ahead
Oakdale victory sets a precedent
NTEU prepared for long campaign at ANU
Union anger at NSW Labor over job losses
One Nation deregistered
`Quit India, quit Oz' campaign
Action updates
Thousands rally against anti-union laws
Regional Victoria rallies against Reith's attacks
Eric Wicker charges dismissed
Public meeting opposes nuclear dump
Private prison uses tear gas to end protest
Will Wainwright's Tree fall?
Blue Stocking Week at Southern Cross Uni
Timbarra blockade resumes
Yorta Yorta appeal native title ruling
ISSUES
Let the Iraqi refugees stay!;
Good riddance to Bill Kelty!
Organic crops `are competitive'
Time for a different strategy for the trade union movement
Sharing the wealth?
Media blackout on union rally
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS
Letter from Jakarta
US letter: Poisoning for profit
Struggle intensifies in southern Lebanon
BHP admits to Ok Tedi disaster &&
Russian crisis deepens as elections loom &&
East Timor's future at stake
Northern Ireland: RUC violence covered up &&
Pakistani peasants condemn war
Increased violence marks Timor referendum campaign
CULTURAL
DISSENT
`Big drum up' for East Timor
Film-maker David Munro dies
Short story: The Stolen Child
Warm hearts in a cold land
On the box
REGULAR
FEATURES
Loose cannons ...
and ain't i a woman?: When nature seems not enough
Looking out: Needing a friend
Life of Riley: Free to a good home: all my beasties
Write on: letters to the editor
Chris Kelly cartoon
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