“Each night we wonder whether we will see the morning, or if a tidal wave or tsunami might wash us away in the night”, Bernard Tunim of the Carteret Islands community in Papua New Guinea told a public meeting on September 19 organised by Friends of the Earth (FoE) and Oxfam Australia.
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This year, Walk against Warming rallies are happening two weeks before the federal election. The rallies will be an important way for thousands of people across Australia to send a direct message to governments about the massive changes we need to avoid dangerous climate change. But more than that it will also give young people a voice and inspire them beyond the federal election to get active in grassroots campaigns to stop climate change.
The following statement was issued on September 17 by the Democratic Socialist Perspective, a Marxist tendency in AustraliaÂ’²õ Socialist Alliance.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers UnionÂ’²õ Western Australian branch has been organising Filipino workers employed in WA on section 457 visas. Joel Asphar, the AMWU organiser responsible for this work, told 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ Weekly that “the campaign to recruit and organise these workers was not something we decided to do. It was out of necessity. I was responsible for the workshops south of the Swan river and there were 550 Filipino workers on 457 visas.”
On August 15, the cities of Ica and Pisco located in the southern region of Peru were hit by a massive earthquake registering 7.9 on the Richter scale. This was the first quake recorded in living history in this area. It resulted in the loss of 540 lives, and immense physical destruction; 80% of buildings within the heart of Pisco collapsed, and more than 16000 people were left without housing and basic services.
In defiance of the biggest “security” campaign ever seen in Australia, aimed at intimidating and deterring people from protesting at APEC, up to 15,000 people joined the “Stop Bush — Make Howard History” protest in Sydney on September 8. The rally was a huge victory — a mass demonstration of our collective strength on the streets that Howard and Bush can only pretend to ignore.
Next month, a representative of the foreign ministry of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela will visit Australia to address the Latin America and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum in Melbourne on October 11-14.Â’²õ, 91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳ WeeklyÂ’²õ Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter conducted an interview in Caracas last November with Venezuelan vice-minister for Asia, the Middle East and Oceania, Vladimir Villegas. Villegas talked about the Venezuelan governmentÂ’²õ revolutionary approach to international relations.
The Socialist AllianceÂ’²õ new Welfare Rights Charter was launched on September 14 to an enthusiastic audience at the Southport Community Centre.
The Bourne Ultimatum
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Starring Matt Damon & Julia Stiles
111 minutes
Screening nationally
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Starring Matt Damon & Julia Stiles
111 minutes
Screening nationally
The War on Democracy
Directed by John Pilger & Chris Martin
96 minutes
In limited release nationally
Directed by John Pilger & Chris Martin
96 minutes
In limited release nationally
This statement was issued by Sam Watson, leading Indigenous activist and Socialist Alliance Senate candidate for Queensland. To sign or comment of the statement, or to view what others have said, visit .
On September 13 BritainÂ’²õ Trade Union Congress (TUC) reaffirmed its solidarity with VenezuelaÂ’²õ Bolivarian revolution at its annual conference, backing VenezuelaÂ’²õ decision not to renew the public-broadcast license of the private TV station Radio Caracas Television (RCTV), which had “supported the military coup [in 2002] against the democratically elected government of Venezuela”.
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