Afghan feminist and anti-war activist Malalai Joya urged 400 people at the University of Technology Sydney to get the Australian government to pull the troops out of her country. The Afghan people were capable of winning against the fundamentalist warlords, but not while Western occupying troops rehabilitated the Taliban, she said.
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The Venezuelan government has begun distributing the first of 350,000 portable Canaima laptop computers to be provided to public elementary school children by the end of the year, Venezuelanalysis.com said on November 17.
Education minister Jennifer Gil said: 鈥淭he Canaima Plan is a milestone and a technological innovation. It allows us to keep deepening our integral and massive education system that does not involve just students, but the entire family environment, parents, representatives and teachers.鈥
A false argument
It was a nice piece of sophistry displayed by Simon Butler in opposing a burqa ban [Letters GLW #857]. So if I oppose the occupation of Afghanistan by US Imperialism I am no better than those Taliban and Al-Qaeda 鈥渢errorists鈥. Guilt by association is fraught with problems Simon. It鈥檚 a false argument.
SYDNEY 鈥 After the successful Latin America Solidarity Conference it organised in October, the Latin America Social Forum (LASF) in Sydney has launched a new blog, .
LASF is uploading videos of plenary talks from the conference and the 20 resolutions approved in the conference鈥檚 final session.
These resolutions have been translated to Spanish and sent to contacts across Latin America, many of who have expressed their appreciation for the work of LASF.
Leaked military documents have confirmed that Indonesia鈥檚 elite special forces unit Kopassus routinely engages in 鈥渕urder [and] abduction鈥. The documents also show Kopassus officially defines civilian dissidents as its 鈥渆nemy鈥 in its operations in West Papua.
The documents, posted by journalist Allan Nairn at Allannairn.com on November 9, identify Indonesia鈥檚 primary enemies in West Papua as unarmed civilians involved in the independence movement.
The big 鈥済reenwash鈥 of gas as the new 鈥済reen energy鈥 isn鈥檛 going down well in inner-city Sydney.
On November 14, the Sydney Morning Herald revealed gas exploration would start within two months in the inner-city suburb of St Peters.
The article said said Macquarie Energy, which is owned by Apollo Gas, received state government permission for exploration in March. The community had been kept in the dark; even the Marrickville Council, which partly covers the area, knew nothing.
鈥淎 structural revolution in the Northern Territory is dismantling the whole infrastructure of self-determination鈥, Australian Workers Union national legal officer Zoe Angus said on November 15.
Along with Sean Marshall from the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU), Angus was reporting back on a recent trade union delegation to investigate working conditions for Aboriginal people living under the NT intervention. She spoke at a public meeting organised by the Stop the Intervention Collective, Sydney.
鈥淭he Group of 20 countries [which met in Seoul over November 11-13] were supposed to have stamped out the financial market abuses at the heart of the global crisis but little seems to have changed since their last summit, analysts say. 鈥淗opes for reform after the market chicanery that brought down a series of 鈥榯oo-big-to-fail鈥 banks and sparked the worst slump since the 1930s have faded with the return of the 鈥榞et rich quick鈥 mentality, according to analysts.
The contrast is striking. As Australia鈥檚 state and federal governments continue their bloody-minded corporatisation and privatisation of our few remaining public assets, the revolutionary government of Venezuela is bringing important industries and sectors into public ownership and control.
Carly Dawson is a volunteer with Peace Brigades International (PBI), a non-government organisation that 鈥減rotects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts鈥. The organisation was formed during the 1980s and its first mission was to help counter the war in Nicaragua that was waged by US-backed Contras against the left-wing Sandinista government
Dawson recently returned to Australia after 12 months volunteer work with PBI in Colombia. She spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Aaron Roden.
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Burma鈥檚 November 7 elections 鈥 held under an undemocratic constitution in an atmosphere of repression and with the result crudely rigged 鈥 have been overshadowed by the release from house arrest of opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi on November 13.
Thousands of supporters lined the streets to her house and flocked to NLD offices to hear her speak.
Suu Kyi鈥檚 release has been compared to that of Nelson Mandela in 1990. However, unlike Mandela, Suu Kyi was not released from detention by a regime seeking negotiations.
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