KURANDA — More than 100 people took part in a march and festival to mark Recognition Day on May 27. The march was organised by the Kuranda Women’s Group. Speakers at the festival opening included Judi Enoch, secretary of the Ngoonbi Cooperative Society, Terry O’Shane and other local Indigenous activists and elders. They highlighted the need to be conscious of Indigenous people’s history of struggle and the sharp attacks on their rights and living conditions in the decade the Howard government has been in power.
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A June 1 student conference held at Sydney University resolved to make George Bush’s visit to Australia and the September APEC summit in Sydney a focus for the anti-war and environment campaigns on campus.
On May 30, an Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network forum heard from Adam Leeman and Federico Fuentes, two participants in this yearÂ’s May Day brigade to revolutionary Venezuela.
“These are exciting times for Resistance”, Emma Clancy, a member of the socialist youth organisationÂ’s national executive, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly. “In the past year we have gone from strength to strength.” Clancy is helping to organise the 2007 national conference of Resistance, which will be held at SydneyÂ’s Glebe Town Hall from July 5 to 8. The conference will involve “in-depth strategic discussions about all of the protest movements in Australia”.
The following letter, signed by a range of prominent figures in Britain, calls for respect for the Venezuelan governmentÂ’s decision not to renew RCTVÂ’s broadcasting licence. Signatories to the letter, which appeared in the British Guardian on May 26, include Tony Benn, John Pilger, Tariq Ali, Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter and various MPs and trade union and student leaders.
The good news this week is that the 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly Fighting Fund has reached a third of the way to its $250,000 target for 2007!
Environmental activists, excluded from the Asia Pacific Economic CooperationÂ’s May 27-30 energy summit, erected a large inflatable cooling tower outside the fenced-off security zone surrounding DarwinÂ’s Parliament House. Energy ministers from the US, Australia and the Pacific rim failed to come up with any solutions to the global warming crisis, reaffirming instead the dominant role of fossil fuels in future energy supplies.
On May 31, a picket of 50 people organised by Solidarity Unity protested outside the offices of Mighty River Power, which supplies electricity to Mercury Energy, the company responsible for the death of an Auckland woman on May 29.
Compass: Judah and Mohammad — An intimate portrait of two teenage boys, one Israeli and one Palestinian, filmed over 18 months. ABC, Sunday, June 10, 9.30pm.
Message Stick: Men's Business — A group of Aboriginal men respond to the issues
The Canadian-owned Barrick Gold Corporation, the worldÂ’s largest gold producer, is exploring, building and operating huge, open-pit goldmines on nearly every continent on the planet.
Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change
By Clive Hamilton
Black Inc. Agenda, 2007.
266 pages, $29.95 (pb)
By Clive Hamilton
Black Inc. Agenda, 2007.
266 pages, $29.95 (pb)
The union movement must take urgent action to end the ALPÂ’s backflips on industrial relations.
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