What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #413 July 26, 2000

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                            Green Left Weekly,
                                 Issue #413
                               July 26, 2000

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Green Left Weekly provides news, information, opinion and debate from an
environmental and left perspective.

Featured this week: OLYMPICS PLAN: `SECRET' POLICE STATE LAWS REVEALED

Supposedly part of ensuring public ``security'' during the Olympic Games in
Sydney, the NSW government has recently passed various pieces of
legislation which give the state unprecedented powers to weaken civil
rights.
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COVER STORY

*`Secret' Olympics police state laws revealed

FEATURES

*FIDEL CASTRO: cancel Third World debt, end corporate tyranny

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

*KURDISTAN: PUK closes women's shelter
*INDONESIA: Police launch deadly attack on peasant protest
*SOUTH AFRICA: Mbeki's AIDS stance slammed
*OKINAWA: Thousands protest against G8 summit
*VIETNAM: Trade agreement with US sparks debate
*SYRIA: al-Assad junior ascends the throne
*SYRIA: Baath Party renounces socialist agenda
*International news briefs: Indonesia, Britain, Ecuador
*UNITED STATES: Race and class -- The politics of death
*UNITED STATES: Consumer groups launch anti-GE campaign
*PACIFIC: `We want to be nuclear free and independent'
*PHILIPPINES: Protesters disrupt Congress
*SOUTH KOREA: Workers mobilise against repression
*EAST TIMOR: The meaning of reconciliation
*INDONESIA: Activists demand an end to corruption
*INDONESIA: US resumes military ties
*INDONESIA: New labour bill rejected by unions
*EAST TIMOR: Unanswered questions on transition
*INDONESIA: PRD seeks justice for 1996 attack

ISSUES

*People, get ready for S11
*Secondary students won't be intimidated
*Unionists Against Corporate Tyranny to be launched
*How fair is `fair trade'?
*Correction
*Who the EFIC are you?
*Who trusts the government?
*DANUNDA: The country that won the competition
*Blue stockings of the world unite!

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

*Mayor defends Townsville homophobia
*Globalisation's myths revealed
*Darwin council cracks down on free speech
*BHP plans to sack 800 workers
*S11 Alliance pickets Downer
*Farmers' GE objections knocked down
*Asylum seekers threaten hunger strike
*Students, staff win at Murdoch
*Pie workers get the union of their choice
*It's unanimous: no more women's prisons!
*Workers protest student association merger

ANNOUNCEMENTS

*Friends of the Earth and GLW to hold joint conference
*Perth Global Action conference
*Radical Indonesian trade union leaders to tour
*Green Left Weekly available on CD-Rom

CULTURAL DISSENT

*Insurge: Globalise this!
*Theatre, money and privilege
*The puppet in Pakistani politics
*Tear out your eyes
*Bougainville film shows courage and community
*Rage Against the Machine: Exploding like a sonic Molotov cocktail
*Undercurrents wants your videos of protest

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