NEWCASTLE 鈥 Four activists from Newcastle climate action group scaled the roof of climate change minister Greg Combet's office on May 16. They attached solar panels to the roof and unfurled a banner that read: 鈥淢ake polluters pay, fund renewable energy.鈥
Rising Tide spokesperson Naomi Hogan said: 鈥淲e have put these solar panels up on Minister Combet鈥檚 office to highlight the potential of renewable energy to power the nation.
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After planning an anti-migrant, anti-Muslim rally in 2010 and then failing to show up on the day, the racist Australian Defence League (ADL) staged a rally in Melbourne on May 15.
The Illawarra community plans to take action on May 29 to press their case for a moratorium on coal seam gas mining in the area.
A mass human sign to spell the words 鈥淪top Coal Seam Gas!鈥 is organised at 11am that day on Austinmer beach, north of Wollongong.
The organiser, Stop CSG Illawarra, is confident of a large turnout. The group鈥檚 regular organising meetings have attracted 100 or more people.
The group has letterboxed 30,000 leaflets publicising the event and outlining the dangers of coal seam gas.
The illegal eavesdropping on famous people by the Rupert Murdoch-owned British tabloid News of the World is said to be Murdoch鈥檚 Watergate. But is it the crime by which Murdoch ought to be known?
In his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70% of the capital city press. Australia is the world鈥檚 first 鈥渕urdochracy鈥, in which smear by media is power.
The most enduring and insidious Murdoch campaign has been against the Aboriginal people, who were dispossessed by the arrival of the British in the late 18th century and have never been allowed to recover.
In 2007, it was all about Kevin Rudd. Well 鈥 not so much the man, but the campaign slogan. Kevin07 was streamed from the rooftops, plastered on ALP propaganda and adorned the T-shirts of young and old alike.
It was a brilliant, fresh campaign.
But the joy was not to last. Three years later, the bandwagon that everyone had so merrily jumped upon had lost its wheels, its driver demoted and dejected.
The campaign was just that, a campaign. Right for the time, but ultimately short on distance.
Even though the US war on Vietnam ended nearly 40 years ago, the US鈥檚 saturation chemical bombing during that war is still wreaking havoc on the lives of at least 3 million people in Vietnam 鈥 including the newly born, making them third generation victims.
Nobody knows when the congenital deformities, one of many horrific health consequences of the toxic chemicals, will end.
鈥淭here are many Joses here, I鈥檓 not sure if its my turn or another Jose,鈥 saidJose, a middle-aged man standing on the outer rim of a grupo de trabajo (work group) called at midnight on an adjacent street to Sol, the plaza known as point zero, in the heart of Madrid.
Three Australian activists will take part in the , the successor to the first Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in May 2010 that was brutally attacked in international waters by Israeli commandos.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Pip Hinman asked former NSW Greens parliamentarian Sylvia Hale why she has joined the on the flotilla.
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Spanish people have taken to the streets in huge numbers, with public squares occupied by protesters opposed to anti-worker austerity measures and calling for real democracy.
鈥淣o trade with apartheid Israel鈥 was the main theme of a protest outside the 鈥淲ater Solutions for the Coal Seam Gas Industry Breakfast鈥, held at Brisbane's Sofitel Hotel on May 18.
A trade delegation from Israel was hosted at the breakfast, sponsored by the Australian Israel Chamber of Commerce and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland.
The protest, organised by Justice for Palestine Brisbane, attracted about 20 people who held placards supporting Palestinian rights and calling for Australia to impose economic sanctions against Israel.
Our society is heading in the wrong direction. According to a new 鈥淎ustralia鈥檚 Electricity Generation Mix 1960-2009鈥 commissioned by Environment Victoria, the proportion of Australia鈥檚 electricity generated by renewable energy has fallen from 19% in 1960 to 7% in 2008.
Because Australia today generates 10 times the amount of electricity as it did in 1960, coal-fired electricity generation has increased by more than 1200%.
The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and the Socialist Alliance issued the joint statement below on May 19.
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The Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM) and the Socialist Alliance in Australia denounce the recent agreement made between the governments of Malaysia and Australia, whereby Australia will send 800 asylum seekers who have been detained by Australian authorities to Malaysia in exchange for 4000 refugees currently in Malaysia.
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