Al Gore鈥檚 film An Inconvenient Truth has helped dramatise the enormity of the global environmental crisis. The scale of the threat posed by industrially induced global warming, and the short time in which to take meaningful action to prevent catastrophic consequences, makes the question of how to combat global warming arguably the most urgent one facing humanity.
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A 聯freedom ride聰 from Sydney to Canberra will be held on March 25 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Howard government聮s overturning of the Northern Territory聮s voluntary euthanasia law, the Rights of the Terminally Ill Act (ROTI).
Whether you admire him or hate him, Venezuela聮s recently re-elected president, Hugo Chavez, is starting to attract a lot of attention in Australia, and around the world. The man who calls US President George Bush 聯the devil聰, and the 聯new socialism for the 21st century聰 that he and his government are creating in Venezuela, are stirring hope in the hearts of many people 聴 and fear in a few.
TASMANIA 鈥 The Weld Valley in southern Tasmania was the site of a convergence on January 20-21. Activists discussed strategies and planned the next actions in the campaign to save the Styx and Weld valleys from logging. Addressed by Greens Senator Christine Milne, Tasmanian Greens member Tim Morris and Adrian Whitehead from Beyond Zero Emissions, an overriding theme of the convergence was climate change. On January 25, 30 people attended a submission-writing workshop and media conference outside the Department of Primary Industries and Water in Hobart. Their aim was to force the state government to recognise the role of forest conservation in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, something the government avoided in its their draft 鈥楥limate Change Strategy鈥.
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).
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Granta Books, 2005
237 pages, $24.95 (pb)
By Barbara Ehrenreich
Granta Books, 2005
237 pages, $24.95 (pb)
American Hoax: Undercover in the USA (sort of)
By Charles Firth
Pan Macmillan, 2006
272 pages
$32.95 (pb)
By Charles Firth
Pan Macmillan, 2006
272 pages
$32.95 (pb)
A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. 鈥淪ome 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide鈥, wrote senior UN relief official Jan Egeland and Jan Eliasson, then Swedish foreign minister, in Le Figaro. They described people 鈥渓iving in a cage鈥, cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water, and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes.
Fifteen-thousand people fled from the town of Vaharai in eastern Sri Lanka following heavy shelling by the Sri Lankan army on January 18. According to the Tamilnet website, the shelling was intensified in the evening despite an urgent message sent to the International Committee of the Red Cross from Vaharai hospital authorities saying that the area around the hospital, where many displaced people had sought refuge, was under attack.
Factional fighting between the armed wings of Fatah and Hamas resumed on January 25 when a vehicle carrying members of the Hamas Executive Force was bombed. Two EF fighters later died as a result of their injuries. The subsequent bloody clashes between rival militants, which took place mainly in the Gaza Strip, left 19 people dead, including a two-year-old boy and eight civilians.
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.
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