A major victory has been won by the Aboriginal movement in Australia. The Queensland attorney-general鈥檚 department has decided that Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley will be charged with manslaughter over the death of Mulrunji Doomadgee. Mulrunji, an Aboriginal man, died in police custody on Palm Island in 2004.
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Prime Minister John Howard鈥檚 January 25 announcement of plans to deal with the water crisis in the Murray-Darling Basin contains some measures that are small steps in the right direction, such as the replacement of open irrigation channels with covered pipes to reduce evaporation.
Annette Peardon was nine years old when she and her brother were forcibly removed from their family on Cape Barren Island. They spent their youth in a series of foster homes and institutions around Tasmania. Last November, Tasmania鈥檚 parliament passed the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Bill 2006, the country鈥檚 first compensation law. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Susan Austin spoke with Peardon about the significance of this law, and her struggle for justice.
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seen the future in revolutionary Venezuela聰, Australian activists Coral Wynter and Jim McIlroy told a public meeting on January 26. The two have recently returned from a year in the capital, Caracas, reporting on events for 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
On January 22, 2002, then Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) senator Evo Morales was expelled from parliament, accused of being a 鈥渘arco-terrorist鈥. Exactly five years later, as the nation鈥檚 first indigenous president, Morales gave his first annual report to parliament. This time it was not Morales who exited prematurely.
鈥淚n my country, a surgery like that costs [US]$8,000鈥, said Roberto Andrade from El Salvador about the operation he received in Cuba that removed cataracts from both his eyes, completely free of charge, according to a January 10 Miami Herald article. 鈥淚 make $12 a day. I would never, ever, be able to save that much.鈥
On January 21, a day after 25 US soldiers died in Iraq (the third-highest death toll for a single day since US troops invaded Iraq in March 2003), 3200 additional US troops arrived in Baghdad as part of US President George Bush鈥檚 plan to boost US forces in Iraq by 21,500 troops. All but 4000 are to be sent to Baghdad, already occupied by 24,000 US combat troops.
On January 22, the Lebanese parliamentary opposition, led by the Shiite-based Hezbollah movement, organised a general strike to demand the resignation of the US-backed government of PM Fuad Siniora.
On January 8, Venezuela鈥檚 socialist President Hugo Chavez swore in his new cabinet, including five new members, calling upon them to take an oath that they would 鈥渘ever rest arm or soul in the construction of the Venezuelan path towards socialism鈥. One the ministers sworn in was Hector Navarro, previously higher education minister and now Venezuela鈥檚 minister of science and technology.
Last November, Hu Deping, the deputy chief of the united front department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) central committee, called for a halt to the popular campaign that seeks to force mainland China聮s new class of capitalists, most of whom acquired their initial wealth from embezzling the state sector, to return their ill-gotten gains for the public benefit.
On January 22, El Salvador鈥檚 main opposition party, the Farabundo Mart铆 National Liberation Front (FMLN), held commemorative activities for the 75th anniversary of the 1932 Nahua-Pipil indigenous peasant revolt led by indigenous leader Jose Feliciano Ama and Agustin Farabundo Mart铆 Rodr铆guez , leader of the newly formed Communist Party (PCS).
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