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The fourth annual Equal Love rally and exchange of 聯Midwinta聰 vows was held in Melbourne on August 3.
More than 10,000 peasants rallied on August 4 in Okara, Punjab demanding the withdrawal of false charges of murder against the leaders of Tenant Association of Punjab (AMP).
South Australian teachers undertook four days of rolling stoppages and community rallies across the state from August 4-7 in an attempt to force the state government to re-negotiate its pay and funding arrangement for public schools and TAFEs. Eighty-three per cent of teachers voted in favour of the stoppages in workplace ballots in late July.
聯Given everything that is occurring in Tarija, Santa Cruz, Pando and Beni, we have to denounce 聟 that we are on the threshold of a real coup d聮etat against the constitutional order聰, announced Bolivian minister of the presidency, Ramon Quintana, on August 7.
International oil giant Chevron is lobbying the US government to cancel trade deals with Ecuador over a court case where it faces a US$16 billion fine for polluting the Amazonian rainforest.
Work Choices @letter =What rock was Nick Everett hiding under during last year's federal election? (Write On, GLW #761) You couldn't move without a Labor political hopeful promising to "tear-up" Work Choices through the campaign. Rudd promised it
The Victorian state government is considering far-reaching changes to workers聮 compensation laws.
On August 6, Victoria University of Technology (VUT) hosted a seminar, 鈥淧acific Islands Migration and Labour Mobility: Issues and Responses鈥, which discussed the potential for an unskilled guest worker scheme for Pacific Island workers. Some Pacific nations have called for such program to help alleviate high rates of unemployment.
聯Abolish the ABCC! Support rights of building workers!聰 was the message on protesters聮 placards outside PM Kevin Rudd聮s electorate office in Morningside on August 8.
On 聯Super Saturday聰 August 16, hundreds of activists across NSW will staff 聯Stop the Sell-Off聰 stalls in 50 NSW electorates. Part of the campaign to stop the state ALP government from privatising electricity, the stalls are expected to gather thousands of signatures on petitions, and promote the mass anti-privatisation rally planned for September 20, at Sydney Town Hall.
Announcing the nationalisation of Banco de Venezuela, which will now be 聯put at the service of the people聰, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated during a live televised broadcast on July 31 that it would be transformed into a 聯socialist bank聰.
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