What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #396 March 8, 2000

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                            Green Left Weekly,
                            Australia's radical newspaper
                                 Issue #396
                               March 8, 2000
                         http://www.greenleft.org.au
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Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an
environmental and left perspective.

Featured this week: END LEGALISED RACISM

The Northern Territory's and Western Australia's mandatory sentencing laws
are only the more obvious signs of the deep-going racism in Australia's
"justice" system.
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COVER STORY

 * End legalised racism
 * Join the protests!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

 * Flashpoint Montenegro?
 * Castro condemns US for Elian tragedy
 * How long does it take to change a child's mind?
 * Dita Sari: `Parliament won't solve workers' problems'
 * May Day plans under way in Indonesia
 * Australia signs new Timor Gap treaty
 * East Timor people's `indefatigable spirit'
 * Broad support for Scottish socialists
 * Life in a Timorese village after independence
 * Campaign to save Iraqi women
 * Britain frees ex-dictator
 * Arrests by Palestinian Authority provoke opposition
 * Statement in support of Birzeit University students
 * Philippine police attack workers
 * World Bank sneers at debt relief
 * Killer cops go free
 * Repression is Ankara's response to PKK peace moves
 * Lahore workers condemn military rule

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FEATURES

 * Real choices require fundamental change
 * Upcoming discussions on feminism sponsored by the Democratic
Socialist Party and Resistance -- all welcome
 * Our bodies are not for sale
 * As early as possible, as late as necessary!
 * Putting the international into International Women's Day
 * Women of the world unite!
 * Racism is a feminist issue
 * If you don't fight, you lose
 * Marxist feminism in action

RESISTANCE MAGAZINE

 * Students, workers organise after the battle of Seattle
 * Students oppose military
 * Acts of Resistance
 * Ruddock confronted by anti-racists
 * Don't diet!

NEWS

 * Residents demand clean air
 * Action for the south-east forests
 * ACT assembly votes against mandatory sentencing
 * Suzuki on salmon
 * WA old growth forest loss continues
 * CPSU members defend delegate
 * Pro-loggers go on violent rampage at Goolengook
 * Rally against development
 * Rally against GST on tampons
 * Residents organise to save O'Connor ridge
 * Greens' candidate challenges mandatory sentencing
 * Forest protester jailed for not paying fines
 * Victorian, ACT unions condemn centralisation
 * Labor: criticisms but no promises
 * Human cost of government cruelty
 * Port Kembla Hospital protest
 * PSA accepts pay offer

ISSUES

 * Networker: Smart and stupid
 * Mardi Gras should be more than a party
 * NSW pay equity an uphill battle
 * Curry, rice and globalisation
 * Prattle on Seattle

CULTURAL DISSENT

 * Lawsuit exposes Washington's terror against Cuba
 * The Eye has vision
 * The new evidence on women's oppression

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