Below is an abridged September 5 statement by the Australia Western Sahara Association, visit .
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People in Australia are being urged to pressure the federal parliament to pass a resolution calling on the Japanese government to apologise and provide compensation to the 鈥渃omfort women鈥 of World War Two.
鈥淲e knew we had to have the support of migrant women, of the union, and of the community or we couldn鈥檛 win鈥, Robynne Murphy, from the Jobs for Women campaign (JFWC), told a September 11 forum organised by 91自拍论坛 Weekly and the Socialist Alliance.
鈥淸Today] a civil-prefectural coup against the unity of the country and democracy has been initiated鈥, Bolivian minister of government Alfredo Rada declared on September 9, as a growing wave of violence by small gangs of fascist youth engulfed the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Less than a week after declaring that 鈥渢he soap opera is over鈥 in New South Wales politics, new Premier Nathan Rees had to sack his police minister of three days, Matt Brown, for allegedly drunkenly 鈥渕ounting the chest鈥 of Wollongong MP Noreen Hay in a 鈥渄irty dancing鈥 party in Parliament House during the June budget session of parliament.
The following is abridged from an open letter distributed by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) Committees in Australia on August 25.
Try to laugh, please. The news is now officially parody and a game for all the family to play.
Below is an abridged transcript of an interview with progressive US radio program Democracy Now!, an independent program broadcast on over 700 radio stations. Visit for more information and the full transcript.
The Stop the Eastern Terminal Substation (SETS) Action Group, in the Perth Hills area, is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by community-based action groups.
The United States administration has stepped up pressure to ban Hezbollah TV station Al-Manar (The Beacon) in Australia and Indonesia.
Progressives and supporters of the Cuban and Latin American revolutions all over the world were shocked to hear of the death in a car accident of Celia Hart Santamaria and her brother, Abel Hart Santamaria, in Havana on September 7. It is believed that conditions resulting from Hurricane Gustav may have been a cause of the accident.
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