The Europe Against Austerity conference held in London on October 1 was attended by 681 people, including 150 from outside Britain. This happened the same weekend that two big demonstrations took place.
In Glasgow, a 鈥淧eople First鈥 demonstration of 15,000 called by the Scottish TUC took place on October 1.
The next day, 35,000 joined a demonstration in Manchester outside the governing Conservative Party conference, which was called by the Trades Union Congress and backed by the Coalition of Resistance and the Right to Work Campaign.
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Members of the Philippines Air Lines Employees Association (PALEA) have been engaged in three weeks of pickets at the Philippines Airlines (PAL) terminal at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.
About 2600 ground crew have fought against forced contractualisation 鈥 the replacement of permanent, secure jobs with contract labour.
PALEA president Gerry Rivera told 91自拍论坛 Weekly the dispute had its origins in 2009 when PAL management declared their intention to outsource the roles of the 2600 ground crew.
Pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain have gone on the offensive in the face of government repression and harsh sentences for activists arrested in the first wave of protests in February and March.
Large protests began on September 23 against sham by-elections for Bahrain鈥檚 toothless parliament. Most people heeded the democracy movement鈥檚 call for a boycott 鈥 only about 17% turned out to vote, FT.com said on September 25.
Police blocked attempts by protesters to reach the previous epicentre of the protests 鈥 the now-demolished Pearl Roundabout, known as Martyr鈥檚 Square by protesters.
As the world watched the Egyptian people overthrow the hated dictator Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, there would have been many who asked themselves: Could it happen in my country too?
Some did more than wonder, they took to the streets and tried to 鈥渨alk like an Egyptian鈥 and a wave of people鈥檚 power began to sweep the Arab world. But this wave of revolt didn鈥檛 stop there.
There were powerful reverberations in Spain, Israel, Malaysia and even in the United States, the world鈥檚 richest country.
Workers in the Department of Immigration and Citizenship have won pay rises of about 11% over three years. Management initially offered only 9%, but conceded bigger rises following a 65% 鈥渘o鈥 vote to the offer in a staff ballot. Members of the Community and Public Sector Union had threatened industrial action over the issue.
By contrast, Australian Taxation Office (ATO) management has so far refused to go beyond its original offer of 9% over three years.
NSW education minister Adrian Piccol has announced a process of 鈥渃ommunity consultation on the reform of TAFE and the vocational education and training sector in NSW鈥.
The NSW Liberal government plans to repeat its Victorian counterpart鈥檚 attacks on public education and further privatise vocational education. The government plans to encourage private colleges and universities to undercut TAFE providers. It will offer a publicly-funded student voucher system to achieve this.
Mining company ECI International has 鈥渟ubmitted a surrender request鈥 to the state government for its coal and gas exploration licence covering 500 square kilometers 鈥 including the town of Colac and a large region of the Otway Ranges 鈥 said the October 7 Colac Herald.
This is the second coal exploration venture in the area that has withdrawn after Mantle Mining pulled out of its project in the Deans Marsh area.
The withdrawal occurs less than two weeks after 100 residents packed a hall at Forrest, in the Otway Ranges, to organise opposition to the project.
As part of its attacks on the NSW public sector, the O鈥橣arrell Liberal government will begin charging parents up to $40 a day for each child they send to the once-free public preschools run by the Department of Education and Community Services (DEC). The fees will be introduced next year to the 100 DEC preschools across NSW.
These preschools were established to improve the educational opportunities for students in poor socio-economic areas, including communities that may be isolated, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
Just about every passerby stopped at a recent 91自拍论坛 Weekly stall in Hamilton, Newcastle, to sign a petition for a moratorium on coal seam gas (CSG) mining.
All those who stopped were concerned about plans to mine CSG at nearby Fullerton Cove.
September 25 will go down as one of the darkest days in Bolivia since Evo Morales was elected as the country鈥檚 first indigenous president almost six years ago.
After more than 40 days of indigenous protesters marching, police officers moved in to repress those opposed to the government鈥檚 proposed highway that would run through the Isiboro-Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS).
The controversial highway has met with both opposition and support from the many indigenous and social organisations that form the Morales government鈥檚 support base.
Dr Aunty Ruby Langford Ginibi, one of Australia鈥檚 foremost Aboriginal authors, passed away on October 2 in a Sydney nursing home. Through her numerous books, short stories, poetry, interviews and public appearances and her commitment to 鈥渆du-ma-cating鈥 non-Aboriginal people about Indigenous peoples鈥 circumstances and struggle, she made a distinctive and substantial contribution to Australian history and literature. Her books were studied in high schools and universities in Australia and internationally.
Inspired by the three-week-long protest in New York, which has now spread to more than 100 cities across the US, ad-hoc activist coalitions in several Australian cities have called for similar occupations beginning on October 15.
Wall Street-style occupations have been called for Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide. By October 6, close to 1300 people had indicated on Facebook that they would attend the Melbourne event.
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