Police violence has come under the spotlight once again, as it tends to do every six months or so. Sometimes it is when two or more incidents occur together, or it is when the media have decided that the last story about misbehaving police has been forgotten, and now is the time for a new one.
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Three hundred people attended a launch of author and activist Tariq Ali's new book, From Bush to Obama 鈥 Change We Can Believe In? on October 6.
Ali said Obama鈥檚 election campaign had raised people's hopes and mobilised US youth, but people were now disillusioned and angry. He said Obama was a 鈥渕aster of bullshit鈥. Obama鈥檚 rhetoric sounded different, but fundamentally continued the policies of the Bush regime.
The Greens and the Australian Labor Party signed an agreement on September 1 to form a minority government on certain conditions, one of which was support for amendments to the constitution to recognise Aboriginal people. The government has agreed to hold a referendum on the issue.
The proposal has sparked debate among Aboriginal activists about its usefulness for the Aboriginal rights struggle.
Coup d'etat in Ecuador
The most retrograde forces of Latin America are trying to steal power from the people again. Honduras yesterday, Ecuador today. No more coup d鈥檈tats! Democracies exist only through the will of the people and these crimes bring pain and suffering to all of us.
Yvonne Francis
Apollo Bay, Victoria
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Richard Stallman is something of a legend in the global software community. In 1983, he created the free software movement, through which highly trained and often highly paid professionals give their time to producing software for the public good.
The movement produced the GNU operating system, a free alternative to proprietary software such as the Microsoft or Apple operating systems. GNU is a both a humorous 鈥渞ecursive acronym鈥 standing for 鈥淕NU is Not Unix鈥, and a gnu (or wildebeest) is the mascot of the GNU system and GNU Project.
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