Venezuela As an Australian person currently living and working in Venezuela, I feel there are many important aspects to the ExxonMobil issue that have been, perhaps deliberately, ignored by the mainstream media in Australia. Legalities aside
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As the horror of Israel聮s recent attacks on Gaza spread, UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon could only describe Israel聮s rocket launches as 聯an excessive use of force聰. By contrast, he described a Palestinian homemade rocket, which killed two Israeli soldiers and one civilian, as a 聯terrorist聰 act.
The April 11-13 Climate Change/Social Change conference being organised in Sydney by 91自拍论坛 Weekly aims to promote recognition that radical social change is necessary to solve the global climate crisis. This is a crisis that at threatens to make the Earth uninhabitable for the vast majority of humans and other species.
Over 4000 Victorian Independent Education Union (VIEU) members from Catholic schools stopped work for 24 hours on March 7 in support of their enterprise bargaining agreement.
Mothers Against Genetic Engineering (MAdGE) and the Gene Ethics Network launched a campaign on February 28 for local councils in Victoria to declare themselves genetically manipulated (GM) food-free zones. The campaign, launched at a protest rally on the steps of the state parliament, is in response to the Premier John Brumby聮s decision to end Victoria聮s ban on GM canola on February 29.
As the Iraq war approaches its fifth anniversary on March 20th, it is important to remember why the war was started. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 the US has looked to find new ways to justify its military interventions in order to increase economic prosperity and further expand its empire.
On March 6, a rally was held to commemorate the International Day of Tribute for the Victims of Human Rights Abuses. This international day of action was called by the Colombian National Movement for Victims of the State. Around 40 people gathered on the steps of Parliament House in support of the victims of paramilitarism, demanding a just, fair and free Colombia and an end to state terrorism.
SYDNEY 聴 The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) organised a community rally outside the Sombreros Mexican restaurant in the beachside suburb of Cronulla on March 7. The rally was to protest the sacking of chef Basilo Reyes for taking time off to have a cancer removed.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced the Colombian state as a 鈥渢errorist state鈥, and said it had become 鈥渢he Israel of Latin America鈥, following the Colombian military鈥檚 bombing of Ecuadorian territory on March 1 that killed up to 21 members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Chavez argued the US government was behind Colombia鈥檚 actions.
Poverty is a dominant feature of life for many university students. Statistics from Melbourne University show that living expenses (excluding course fees) for a student in share accommodation amount annually to around $25,000. Most students must work at least one job to supplement the meagre government-provided youth allowance, which, if paid at the maximum rate of $425 per fortnight, amounts to just $11,050 per annum.
Contrary to federal government rhetoric, research conducted into the new Labor government聮s Forward with Fairness transitional bill has revealed that Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs 聴 individual contracts), or their replacement clones, the Interim Transitional Employment Agreements (ITEAs), could continue well beyond 2010.
Journalist and documentary filmmaker spoke at a public forum on March 7. Attended by 200 people, the forum was hosted by Pilger聮s high-school friend, actor Jack Thompson, at his pub in the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba
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