Opponents of the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam on the Mary River, inland from the Sunshine Coast, are preparing for a mass protest march to the Queensland ALP state conference on June 21.
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Tim Anderson鈥檚 new documentary on the East Timor-Cuba health cooperation program is an inspiration. The Doctors of Tomorrow, which was launched at a screening on June 12 hosted by NSW Greens MLC John Kaye, was filmed in both countries, and documents the human face of Cuba鈥檚 profound international solidarity.
Resistance activist Naomi Rodgers-Falk and Socialist Alliance聮s Margaret Gleeson led a roundtable discussion with 25 others on 聯Solutions to the global food crisis聰 at Northey Street City Farm on June 8.
Between June 10-13, NSW Nurses Association (NSWNA) branches met to consider the state government聮s paltry offer of a 3.9% wage rise over one year, with strings attached.
Embassy Days: Pt 2 鈥 Follows the confrontations in Canberra in 1972 that gave birth to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the evolution of the Aboriginal land rights movement. ABC, Friday, June 20, 6pm.
Goodbye Lenin! 鈥 October, 1989 was a bad
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America聮s Class War
By Joe Bageant
Scribe, 2007
$32.95 (pb)
By Joe Bageant
Scribe, 2007
$32.95 (pb)
Around 200 people joined a 聯Walk for Peace and Unity in Zimbabwe聰 on June 8, organised by the group Australians Supporting Zimbabwe. Gathering at the Peace Pagoda at South Bank, they walked along the Brisbane River bank to Davies Park for an information session and BBQ.
Young people today are angry: there are major and urgent problems in our society including global food shortages, a rise in oil prices 鈥 which will send millions into greater poverty 鈥 and the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions.
聯I am on a bus roof top for two hours. I cannot tell how many have started from Lahore for the Long March to Islamabad but everywhere there are heads and heads. It is going beyond our expectations.聰
A group of Japanese consumer representatives currently visiting Western Australia have been assured by Labor Premier Alan Carpenter that the state鈥檚 current moratorium genetically modified (GM) organisms will not be removed. The assurance was made during parliamentary question time on June 11.
The Tuzla Shipyards in Istanbul entered the spotlight last year with the back-to-back deaths of five workers in 12 days. Most recently, on May 18, a 31-year-old welder, Murat Caliskan, was sacrificed in the drive for profit.
There has been a lot of speculation in the mainstream media about whether or not Labor PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 honeymoon with 鈥渢he electorate鈥 (that is media-speak for us) is over.
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