Melbourne Rally: Fri, Dec 17, 5:30pm at the State Library Lawns, Melbourne.
Brisbane Rally: Sat, Dec 18, noon, Brisbane Square.
Canberra: Rally: Thursday, December 16, 5:30pm at Garema Place, Civic
Sydnet Rally: Sat, Jan 15, noon at Town Hall.
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Iniyan and Ravi (names have been changed to protect their identities) are Tamil asylum seekers currently imprisoned at Villawood detention centre. Both detainees use art to show the oppression of Tamils in their homeland of Sri Lanka.
In May 2009, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan army. Though the war is ended the persecution of Tamils continues. Iniyan and Ravi fled for their lives as they were being hunted by Sri Lankan government forces and paramilitaries, for suspicion of supporting the LTTE.
John Pilger was interviewed by ABC Radio Australia on December 3 & 6.
Pilger鈥檚 latest documentary The War You Don鈥橳 See, on the role of the media to be released soon, will also feature an interview with Assange. Visit www.johnpilger.com for more information.
statement, December 7.
Defend Wikileaks and Julian Assange!
Australia should break the military alliance with US!
鈥淭he Australian government should defend and support Wikileaks and its founder Julian Assange, and their efforts to expose the lies, duplicities and outright crimes of the US government and its allies鈥, said Peter Boyle, national convener of the Socialist Alliance.
鈥淲e condemn the Australian government for collaborating with the American government in hunting Julian Assange down.
Despite efforts by teachers, the Australian Education Union (AEU) leadership prevented a motion in support of Melbourne鈥檚 only Aboriginal school from being put to the AEU state council. A speaker from the College was also denied the opportunity to address AEU Council.
AEU councilor Mary Merkenich said she was disappointed that AEU councilors didn鈥檛 get a chance to hear that the Ballerrt Mooroop College in Glenroy is under threat and why its school community has been organising a community sit-in in the school gymnasium.
Laurel Walker and Vanna Lockwood, teachers at St Peters Community Preschool, are involved in the Independent Education Union's campaign for pay parity for early childhood teachers.
Lockwood told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: "Current scientific research on the development of the brain advocates the importance of a child's early years. Four-year university trained teachers are choosing not to work in early childhood because of the low pay and low status of the profession.
The Socialist Alternative
Michael Lebowitz
Monthly Review Press, 2010
pp 192; US$15.95
The onset of the global economic crisis in mid 2008, symbolised by the collapse of some of Wall Street鈥檚 most iconic companies, led to soaring sales of Karl Marx鈥檚 seminal work Das Kapital, as many sought explanations to the tumultuous events unfolding.
Although written more than 100 years ago, this devastating and insightful dissection of how capital functions is still a powerful tool for people looking to understand and change the world.
91自拍论坛 Weekly issue #864 will be our final issue for 2010 as we take a break in production of the hard copy of GLW over the holiday period. The next hard copy edition of GLW will be dated January 26. However, we aim to continue updating this site with news and analysis where possible and necessary over this period. We thank all our readers for your support and wish you the best for holiday season.
鈥淣ature is our home and is the system of which we form a part, and therefore it has infinite value, but it does not have a price and is not for sale鈥 said a November 3-5 meeting of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) nations of Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Nicaragua.
The meeting rejected the privatisation of nature, in which 鈥渘ature is seen as 鈥榗apital鈥 for producing tradable environmental goods and services 鈥 and assigned a price so that they can be commercialised with the purpose of obtaining profits鈥.
A successful 2010 Southeast Asia Socialism and Feminism conference was held at the University of the Philippines (UP) in Metro Manila over November 27 and 28.
Manic Street Preachers
Postcards From a Young Man (Sony, 2010)
From its opening strains, the Manic Street Preachers鈥 10th and latest album, Postcards From a Young Man, is clearly the successor not only to 2007鈥檚 Send Away The Tigers, but also to their critically acclaimed 1996 success Everything Must Go.
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