At the Second Meeting of American Organisations and Movements in Tihuanacu, Bolivia, in 1983, September 5 was officially designated International Indigenous Women鈥檚 Day.
Since then, September 5 has been growing in recognition as a major event in Latin America's progressive calendar.
The date was chosen in honour of Bartolina Sisa, an Aymara resistance leader who was brutally executed by royalist forces in La Paz, now the capital of Bolivia, on September 5, 1782.
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鈥淏loody Greeks 鈥 corrupt and lazy, born cheaters who think the world owes them a living. Why should the hard-working taxpayers of the euro zone core economies like Germany have to fund billion-euro rescue packages for those scoundrels?鈥
That鈥檚 the vicious tone of Germany鈥檚 tabloids and conservative politicians towards Greece鈥檚 galloping public debt crisis and the Greek people鈥檚 protests against the austerity programs.
The austerity has been imposed on them by the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund (the 鈥渢roika鈥) as the price of bail-out funding.
Yirrkala, in north-east Arnhem land, is home to the famous 1963 鈥淏ark Petition鈥. This was a protest action by the Yolngu people that led to the first native title litigation in Australia鈥檚 history.
I was there last month for the anniversary of that stage of their landmark struggle.
The petition was an attempt by the Yolngu people to force legal recognition of their land ownership rights.
A 20-hour assault on the US embassy in Kabul by Taliban fighters on September 14 has exposed further weaknesses in the already-crumbling facade of the United States-led occupation of Afghanistan.
The Taliban launched a sustained rocket attack on what is supposedly the most secure area in the country, seriously embarrassing Western officials who continue to insist 鈥減rogress鈥 is being made.
Now that the Labor government has almost entirely reneged on its 2007 election promise to end Australia鈥檚 sickening abuse of refugees, the two big parties are united on an issue they have so vehemently pretended to disagree.
Unhappy with the High Court鈥檚 interpretation of the law 鈥 that Australia must uphold fundamental human rights when making policies on refugees, and that deporting them to a country that does not have such rights violates the law 鈥 the Labor government is cajoling the opposition to agree to water down Australia鈥檚 refugee protections.
A huge crowd of about 650 people attended a memorial service at the Elder Hall, University of Adelaide on September 9 to farewell Elliott Johnston, the only communist to become a judge in Australia. He died on 25 August, aged 93.
Those paying tribute included representatives from the legal profession, trade unions, the Aboriginal community, the original Communist Party of Australia (CPA) and his son Stewart.
The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AWMU) has launched action in the Federal Court to protect a member who is facing disciplinary action from his employer after he took action to address a serious health and safety issue.
In early August, Jon Zwart, an AMWU delegate and health and safety representative at Visy Coburg, tagged (took out of service) a forklift whose reverse beeper was not audible.
Activists rallied in Melbourne to call for greater rights for people with mental illness on September 16.
The rally was called by the Australian Mental Health Human Rights and Law Reform Coalition to condemn abuses in the Victorian mental health system.
Students from the University of Wollongong have campaigned over the past three years for the university to switch to 100% renewable energy by 2015.
They have collected more than 3000 signatures from students in support of the plan.
The university administration has instead begun plans to build a trigeneration plant on the campus, which would generate electricity through burning natural gas.
The Barry O鈥橣arrell Coalition government has promised it will make 鈥淣ew South Wales number one鈥 again. We are assured this will mean improving transport, health and education infrastructure and strengthening the public sector that delivers these services to the people of NSW.
The 鈥渉orror budget鈥 some media promised was delivered on September 6. This budget does little to improve public services. Instead, the state鈥檚 fiscal output rests on strengthening private sector spending.
A decade ago most experts would have thought it impossible. But several teams of scientists say the Arctic ice cap had shrunk to its smallest recorded extent, volume and area.
Environmental physicists from the the Arctic ice cap extent was 鈥渟mall as never before鈥.
About 50 people attended a vigil on the parliament lawns in Hobart on September 16 in support of Ali Alishah, a jailed anti-pulp mill protester.
Alishah was arrested on September 5 at Gunns' proposed pulp mill site in the Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania after locking on to a truck that was entering the site. He has already spent almost two weeks in jail and will likely stay in custody until September 26.
A long-term forest campaigner, Alishah was taking action with the group Code Green, which has been conducting civil disobedience actions at the pulp mill site.
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