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The ‘Devil’ in Haiti

March 2, 2010 – 5:09 pm

Victims of colonialist exploitation for centuries, Haitians need more than temporary aid. Aurélien Mondon on Haiti.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged against the current, Arena Magazine February-March 2010, Aurélien Mondon, colonialism, democracy, Haiti, human rights, International Monetary Fund, slavery | Comments (0)

Death in Freeport

September 10, 2009 – 12:49 pm

21st Century colonialism flourishes in West Papua writes Edmund McWilliam

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 101 August-September 2009, colonialism, Edmund McWilliam, Freeport, Indonesia, Suharto, West Papua | Comments (0)

Mapping the Political Terrain

April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm

George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e

Posted in Arena Magazine Feature, arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, sustainability, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao | Comments (0)

East Timor – Liturgy of the Free

December 2, 1999 – 7:14 am

Louise Byrne attends a mass with a difference at Melbourne’s St Patrick’s

Posted in arena magazine features, features | Also tagged Abel Guterres, Alan Matheson, Bishop Hilton Deakin, Bob Santamaria, Burma, Caritas International, Catholicism, Communist Party of Australia, Democratic Labor Party, East Timor, East Timor resistance, Edward Gough Whitlam, Herb Feith, Indonesia, Indonesian invasion, Joäo Pedr, Julie Barbosa, Labor Party, Leigh Hubbard, Louise Byrne, non-government organisations (NGO), Paddy Murphy, Patsy Thatcher, Red Cross, referendum, Timor, trade unions | Comments (0)

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