Train drivers employed by Rio Tinto鈥檚 Iron Ore operations in transporting iron ore in the Pilbara struck on October 11 and will stage a 24-hour stoppage on October 22 .
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SYDNEY 聴 More than 100 people attended a public forum on October 17 featuring Maria Eugenia Guerrero, sister of 聯Cuban Five聰 political prisoner Antonio Guerrero.
鈥淗ow can we maintain a safe and habitable climate? That鈥檚 the question we need to pose to build this movement鈥, Kirrliee Boyd from the Adelaide Hills Climate Action Group told a workshop at the Climate Emergency 鈥 No More Business as Usual conference on October 10-11.
One hundred students and staff at RMIT attended an information session on October 14 organised by the Islamic Students Society (ISS).
Hundreds of Tamil people turned up on October 11 for an awareness and protest campaign in Toronto against the Sri Lankan cricket team.
The Queensland Plumbers Union says the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) is a gross waste of taxpayers鈥 [money] and called for it to be scrapped after a case against the union was thrown out of court.
I鈥檝e lost count of how much bailout money governments have thrown at the global financial crisis. We all remember the US$700 billion that the US Congress recently approved, but in the months before that the US Reserve had already dished out nearly the same amount in bailouts, buyouts and guarantees for bad loans.
The case of the Cuban Five, five Cubans who have spent the past 10 years in US jails for the undercover gathering of intelligence on terrorism against their country, provides further evidence of the hypocrisy of US rhetoric about fighting terrorism and supporting human rights.
HOBART 鈥 Overnight on October 12, 20 activists staged a protest against logging operations in the Florentine Valley. The protest was organised by environment group Still Wild Still Threatened.
The recent infant milk formula scandal in China, in which at least four babies have died and over 50,000 have become sick due to poisoning with the industrial chemical melamine, highlights the way capitalism cannot guarantee the health and well being of people 聴 particularly the most vulnerable.
Bolivian President Evo Morales has called for a national referendum on the country鈥檚 new draft constitution on December 7.
As stock markets crashed and a global credit squeeze threatened global economies, Latin American governments pushed ahead with plans for a new financial architecture, to replace the current bankrupt system.
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