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...Though they're arguing about when the trouble started brewing and why, there can be no doubt when it erupted. On the morning of Sunday, Dec. 11, a crowd of some 5,000 people - overwhelmingly young men - gathered near Cronulla beach. Most had responded either to a mass-circulated text message that called on "Aussies" to reclaim their beaches from "wogs" and "Lebs," or to enthusiastic publicizing of the event by tabloid media. Among the less offensive slogans scrawled on bare chests or emblazoned on T shirts were wog-free zone and ethnic cleansing unit. For several hours, police stood...
...while another was beaten up while taking out the garbage. Last week, young men set alight or otherwise attacked several churches in south-western Sydney. Arrests reached the dozens, but the violence abated as police numbers swelled in trouble spots and community leaders pleaded for calm. Still, with new text messages rallying support for fresh protests circulating on both sides, fears are high for more outbreaks of a strain of violence both foreign and repugnant to most Australians...
...media for helping to incite the violence - a charge for which there's plenty of evidence in the form of aggressive talkback-radio transcripts. A fear is that the rioters of Dec. 11 may have started something that no one will be able to finish. "Look at this text message," says 19-year-old Muslim Noah Issa, who works as a security guard in Cronulla. "Wake up, wake up, oh lions of Lebanon," it begins, before calling for more retaliation and the extermination of the "enemy." Having hitherto sounded reasonable, Issa hears the message as a war cry: "This makes...
...drawings of plants or scenes he made on the spot. Stories of life in the bloodthirsty wild were popular in his day, and the source material on show includes an album he owned called Wild Beasts with "around 200 amusing illustrations of the life of animals with instructive text." Along with his eccentric riffs on savage nature, Rousseau applied his unique vision to portraits, allegories and landscapes. War (1894) is a large work with a simple message: war is bad. A woman rides sidesaddle over the dead through devastated terrain, waving a sword and a blazing torch. It is unquestionably...
...fourth show in the Loeb Ex[perimental theater]. I’m really looking forward to “Alcestis” because it’s been a real challenge. It’s probably the most difficult show I’ve ever worked on as a text, really confusing...