An April 12 community organising meeting called by the Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine decided to hold a range of events, including film nights and a public meeting leading up to a June 9 rally as part of the international campaign 聯The world says no to Israeli occupation聰. The CJPP is inviting anyone interested in building this campaign to come to a meeting on April 26 at St Joseph聮s Church, Bedford St, Newtown. For more information, email <cjpp@coalitionforpalestine.org>
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The streets of downtown Los Angeles became a sea of red shirts stretching for many city blocks on April 7 when at least 20,000 people turned out for one of the largest immigrant rights demonstrations since the big marches last year.
On April 8, police arrested 14 protesters at the Lake Cowal Gold Mine, 47 kilometres from West Wyalong in central-western NSW. Activists had locked themselves to mining machinery and entered the offices of the mine, in support of demands by the Wiradjuri traditional landowners that the mine cease operations. Some 100 Aboriginal and environmental protesters participated in the action.
A coalition of community groups including Friends of the Earth, the National Union of Students, the Stop the War Coalition, the Australian Student Environment Network, and the Australian Youth Climate Change Coalition have initiated a public lobby outside the ALP national conference beginning on April 27 to support delegates who are standing up to the proposed changes to the ALP聮s long-standing policy on uranium mining.
On April 13, ABC Radio reported that the ALP state and territory governments would be lobbying the federal government to agree to a goal of a 60% reduction in Australian greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. They suggested that if the Howard government maintained its opposition, the state and territory governments would attempt to reach these goals without them. While opposed to the premiers聮 proposal, even PM John Howard has recently acknowledged that there is a threat from climate change caused by human activity, leaving the 聯greenhouse sceptic聰 argument to the conservative fringe.
In early April, Independent Liquor worker and member of the Unite Union Steve Tipene took his own life, just eight days after he was sacked from his job. Unite had filed a challenge against the dismissal at the Employment Relations Authority shortly before hearing of his death. Unite reported on April 13 that Tipene聮s family believed the sacking was a major factor in his death and according to the union, the company has a long history of anti-union practices and workplace bullying. Unite organiser John Minto described 46-year-old Tipene as a strong unionist who understood the importance of workers sticking together. 聯Steve took part in the strikes last year which gained the first collective agreement at Independent Liquor for 20 years. He has helped make it a bit easy for the employees who follow him at Independent. He was a good man.聰
I once was a greenie but that's in the past
As an ALP pollie I've made it at last
Once I bellowed and blustered in front of the Oils
Now I sit on the front bench 鈥 my eye on the spoils
CHORUS
I once was a greenie but that's in the past
As
On April 6, notorious Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was granted freedom on bail in the El Paso Federal Court, which will allow him to return home to his family in Miami after the payment of US$250,000. Posada, a former CIA operative, was the mastermind of the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, and has been involved in other terrorist acts and violent campaigns against popular movements in Latin America. Washington has denied requests to extradite him to Venezuela, where he had been imprisoned until he escaped in 1985.
Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values
By Sharon Beder
Earthscan, 2006
260 pages, $56
By Sharon Beder
Earthscan, 2006
260 pages, $56
In his first two articles in the Cuban Communist Party鈥檚 newspaper, Granma, since becoming ill last year, President Fidel Castro lashed out at the recently signed ethanol deal between Brazil and the US. In an April 3 article he described it as 鈥渢he internationalisation of genocide鈥.
Want to buy a second hand war?
Want to buy the war in Iraq?
We went there for oil, made Iraqi blood boil
now we're asking what for
and wondering how we ever get back.
The profits have gone and hope is forlorn
it's preloved, it's used and we
Declaring that there 聯is the distinct possibility of casualties and that should be understood and prepared for by the Australian public聰, PM John Howard announced on April 10 that an Australian military task force spearheaded by 300 Special Air Services troops would be deployed to Afghanistan聮s south-central Oruzgan province.
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