One of life鈥檚 truisms is the powerful get to kill who they want.
Israel proved this again with days of murderous air strikes on Gaza that began on March 9. By March 13, at least 25 Palestinians were dead and more of Gaza鈥檚 devastated infrastructure ruined.
This latest carnage was justified by the fact the first strikes killed members of the Popular Resistance Committee.
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Climate activists like Newcastle group Rising Tide have labelled December鈥檚 (EWP), which charts the federal government鈥檚 plan for Australia鈥檚 future energy mix, a 鈥渂lack鈥 paper. The 鈥減lans to further expand fossil fuel extraction (both domestically and for exports) at the expense of renewable [energy]鈥.
An Aboriginal protest march is being planned for March 28 to take up issues such as the government鈥檚 miserly stolen wages offer and the proposed deal that would extinguish Nyoongar native title in south west Western Australia.
Another company is following in the footsteps of Qantas by locking out its workers from March 5 to 14.
Sigma, a company that distributes pharmacy products to wholesale and retail customers, locked out 150 workers in an attempt to intimidate them into ceasing all industrial action. The workers are members of the National Union of Workers.
The workers walked off the job for 48 hours on February 23 after Sigma management told them that it would cut night-time shift loadings. Workers at both the company鈥檚 sites at Rowville in Melbourne and Shepparton walked off.
released the statement below on March 16.
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Thursday March 15 2012 was a big day for the coal seam gas (CSG) issue in our state parliament.
In the morning a by Jeremy Buckingham of the Greens 鈥 to place a moratorium on all CSG projects in the state, other than the Camden production field.
Bob Katter鈥檚 homophobia is abhorrent, says socialist candidate
The Socialist Alliance Queensland released the statement below on March 15.
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Liam Flenady, Socialist Alliance candidate for the seat of South Brisbane in the March 24 Queensland elections, has slammed the TV ad by Bob Katter's Australian Party (KAP) that attacked Liberal National Party (LNP) leader Campbell Newman over the equal marriage issue. "The advert is homophobic and abhorrent to all decent human values," Flenady said.
released the statement below on March 16. * * * Today marks the launch of 鈥淏eat the Blockade鈥 鈥 a day of action on April 5 to protest the and raise vital funds for its work to continue.
Over 200 people attended a coal seam gas community forum in Oakdale on March 11, packing out the Workers鈥 Club. Local residents organised the meeting to tell the community about CSG development in their suburb.
Kurdish protesters in Melbourne went on a 48-hour hunger strike on March 12 in support of Kurdish political prisoner and leader, Abdullah Ocalan. They said they also sought to increase awareness about the need to find a peaceful solution to the Turkish government鈥檚 oppression of Kurds.
The Melbourne Kurdish Association said: 鈥淥n February 15, 2012, 400 Kurdish political prisoners went on an indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike in prisons across Turkey and Kurdistan. In recent times another 400 prisoners joined these indefinite hunger strikes, making a total number of 800.
Jason Briskey is standing as the Socialist Alliance candidate for the northern Queensland seat of Dalrymple in the March 24 Queensland state elections. A resident of Charters Towers, Jason is a single father of nine-year-old daughter Shakira. He was the ALP candidate for Dalrymple in the last state elections.
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