On July 25, Tamil refugee Dayan Anthony (formerly known as "Mr X" in Australia in an attempt to protect his identity from Sri Lankan authorities), was deported from Melbourne.
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More than 500 people attended a public meeting at the Bulli Masonic Hall in the northern suburbs of Wollongong on July 29 to save the Bulli Hospital Emergency Department (ED). A PA had to be set up outside the packed hall so hundreds of people gathered outside could listen in.
Residents are opposed to the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District's (ISLHD) proposal to downgrade the ED to an 鈥渦rgent care centre鈥.
released the statement below on July 27.
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It can be easy to despair when you are campaigning so hard on an issue for so long. Sometimes you can feel like the government just isn鈥檛 listening to you and that all your efforts are a bit pointless 鈥 but not today.
We have been campaigning for over a year against the proposal by company HRL to in Victoria.
More than 100 students, teachers and union activists heard speakers slam private-sector training at a August 2 protest against TAFE cuts at RMIT鈥檚 city campus.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Montreal on August 1. The protests came the day after the call for an election in the Quebec province by the Liberal Party government of Quebec Premier Jean Charest.
Quebec has been rocked this year by a large student strike against a proposed tuition fee hike and huge street demonstrations. In response, the Liberal government introduced the draconian Law 78, which severely restricts the right to protest.
Police shot and killed a 25-year-old Latino man, Manuel Diaz, in Anaheim, California, in his front yard on July 21 Diaz was not armed.
Within hours of the murder, hundreds of angry residents took to the streets in protest. The cops attacked the demonstrators with clubs, pepper spray and bean bag bullets.
One protester was grabbed by a cop (who had his hand on his gun) for carrying a protest sign as he was walking toward the demonstration. He was charged with 鈥渏aywalking.鈥
Students, teachers and union activists protested against the Victorian governments' cuts to TAFE at Melbourne's RMIT campus on August 2. The rally was jointly organised by the National Tertiary Education Union Victorian Division and the Australian Education Union (AEU).
This month, the Australian Friends of Palestine Association (AFOPA) will mark 100 weeks of protest against the sale of cosmetics containing minerals extracted from the Dead Sea 鈥 in Palestinian territory under Israeli military occupation 鈥 by Seacret.
Seacret says on its website: 鈥淲e believe everything we do must embody honesty and reflect purity.鈥
Its products are made with 鈥渢he ancient, and some say mystical, salts and minerals found only in one place on earth, the Dead Sea鈥.
Olympic organisers and their corporate sponsor Visa were still keeping mum on August 1 after yet another ironic twist to their 鈥渃ashless Olympics鈥.
Hungry spectators at Wembley to see Team GB women's victory over Brazil took to social networks on the night of July 31 to complain of a second breakdown in three days of payment systems at food counters 鈥減roud to only accept Visa鈥 under the company's exclusive sponsorship deal.
The released the statement below on July 31.
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The Darwin Asylum Seeker Support and Advocacy Network (DASSAN) has called for an overhaul of the Department of Immigration鈥檚 character test procedures for refugees following the appearance today of a refugee at the Darwin Magistrates Court on minor property damage charges.
Ray Jackson, President of the Indigenous Social Justice Association, speaks about on deaths in custody, shackling and tasers. Filmed by Peter Boyle for 91自拍论坛 TV at a protest in Sydney on July 27 to mark the death in custody of Peter Clarke in the Northern Territory.
When you are in a hole, you stop digging. Even if this were not a cliche by now, it would still be common sense.
Does this mean, then, that Russian President Vladimir Putin and the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church lack basic reasoning skills? The certainly seems to prove so.
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