South American presidents have expressed deep concerns over a United States plan to increase its military presence in Colombia. They voiced their fears at a Union of South American Nations (Unasur) summit in Quito, Ecuador on August 10.
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A 200-strong public meeting that claimed to support the Palestine-Israel peace process was organised by right-wing union leader Paul Howes at the ALP conference in Sydney on July 30.
A high number of homeless youth in Australia are lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual or intersex (LGBTI).
CANBERRA鈥 鈥淎LBA (the Bolivarian Alliance for Latin America) is the most rapidly growing regional development in the world today鈥, Dr Tim Anderson, senior lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney, told a forum at the Australian National University on August 12.
US imperialism is 鈥渁lready preparing the [military] attack鈥, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez warned, speaking to industrial workers in the region of Guayana on August 8.
Graham Brown, a retired coalminer from the Hunter Valley in NSW, kicked off a national speaking tour by telling a University of Sydney forum on August 12 that Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has 鈥渘o clue whatsoever鈥 about green jobs.
These things I see,
each day,
as I wander round this great, gaunt city.
I.
Mornings I hear her.
and the wail of those hungry tired children,
shadows beyond the frost cracked windows
of her battered Toyota.
When its rusted rear door
At 10:40pm on August 1, an unidentified man with a ski mask walked into a weekly meeting of Gay Lesbian Bisexual Trangender teenagers in Tel Aviv and shot indiscriminately with an automatic weapon. Two people were killed and a dozen wounded.
More than 100 people attended a conference in Belfast on August 8 on political persecution in the Basque Country organised by the Don鈥檛 Extradite the Basques Campaign as part of Feile an Phobail (Festival of the People).
鈥淏HP Billiton and two other leading US energy companies operating in Australia have been caught up in a lobbying scandal that was aimed at defeating the landmark US climate change bill鈥, the Sydney Morning Herald said on August 13.
On August 3, Ecuador celebrated a milestone when left-wing President Rafael Correa was sworn in for a second term 鈥 the first president to serve a second term since democracy was restored 30 years ago.
Recalling the words of Les MiserablesVictor Hugo, United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV) leader Heryck Rangel said 鈥渘othing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, and today in Venezuela, the time of socialism has arrived鈥.
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