鈥淔actories making sought-after Apple iPads and iPhones in China are forcing staff to sign pledges not to commit suicide, an investigation has revealed. 鈥淎t least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions.
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鈥淚 don鈥檛 have any blood on my hands,鈥 Puerto Rican political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera wrote in February.
鈥淚 haven鈥檛 victimized anyone. And I鈥檝e devoted most of my life serving a just and noble cause and struggling to help make this world a better and more just one.鈥
For 30 years, Lopez Rivera has been imprisoned in the United States for his activities in support of freedom and independence for Puerto Rico, which is still claimed by the US.
Bolivian President Evo Morales proposed enshrining the Rights of Mother Earth in international law to the United Nations General Assembly on April 23.
The proposal follows the Law on the Rights of Mother Earth that was enacted in Bolivia in January.
The 鈥渟hort鈥 law enacted is a set of principles. A more detailed version is expected later this year.
The law commits the government to steadily integrate renewable energy sources in order to achieve national energy independence.
New Zealand鈥檚 Unite union has made great progress in recent years in organising previously unorganised sectors of workers 鈥 often young workers in fast food, hospitality and retail. Through organising workers, Unite has forced fast food giants, such as McDonald's, KFC and Pizza Hut, to eradicate 鈥測outh wages鈥, which pay young workers less for the same work.
A group of 30 people held up construction of a second loader arm at Newcastle's third coal loader site on Kooragang Island on May 10, stopping a crane crew for about 90 minutes.
One hundred activists of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) attended the Pushing the Boundaries climate change conference over April 28-29.
The two days of talks, vibrant debate and action-based workshops set a progressive agenda for ongoing union environmental activism and marked the NTEU as the left pole of the global warming debate in the union movement.
NTEU national president Jeannie Rea opened the conference by drawing attention to the special place of the NTEU in the debate about global warming.
The Feminist Futures Conference is being organised for May 28-29 by the newly formed Melbourne Feminist Collective (MFC): a group of mainly young activists who were inspired by a similar conference they attended in Sydney last year.
James Muldoon from the MFC told 91自拍论坛 Weekly: 鈥淲e are a non-aligned loose knit group of feminists who are keen to build on the movement鈥檚 past successes by focusing on shared goals and strategies for the future.
鈥淲e are seeking to move beyond the old divisions by focusing on what unites us
The mining and banking companies creaming billions in super profits from the mining boom 鈥 the biggest mining boom in Australia鈥檚 history 鈥 have done very well from the that was delivered by the Gillard Labor government on May 10.
The big mining companies will continue to pay the lowest ever share in tax and royalties while they make their biggest ever profits.
The refugee deal struck between the Australian and Malaysian governments will put vulnerable, desperate refugees in great danger. Under the agreement, the Gillard Labor government will deport to Malaysia 800 asylum seekers that arrive in Australia by boat.
The pretext for the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, now the longest war in US history, was the September 11, 2001 attacks.
But the vast majority of Afghans being carpet bombed, eviscerated by Predator drones and shot dead in night raids don鈥檛 even know what the 9/11 attacks were.
A public opinion poll in Kandahar and Helmand provinces 鈥 the focus of the troop surge and the scene of the great majority of bloodshed in the country 鈥 found that only 8% of young men know about the September 11 attacks in the United States.
Organisers of the 2011 Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) have informed Melbourne visual artist Van Thanh Rudd that his artwork titled Pop Goes the System, which depicts global pop icon Justin Bieber supporting Palestinian human rights, will be banned from this year鈥檚 festival.
Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States that killed about 3000 people, will not be mourned by many people around the world. But his killers used Bin Laden鈥檚 crimes to justify wars on Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq that have killed many thousands more. These wars are continuing. The May 3 US Socialist Worker article abridged below says bin Laden鈥檚 death should not be used to justify further killings in the name of the 鈥渨ar on terror鈥.
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