Leaders of the developing world made renewed calls for greater solidarity and opposition to Western imperialism at the third Africa-South America Summit (ASA), despite some criticism of the role of Brazil in Africa.
Over February 20-23, 66 African and South American countries took part in the Summit, held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
In an open letter read by Venezuelan foreign minister Elias Jaua, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez denounced Western intervention in Libya and Mali, and urged the building of a 鈥渢rue pole of power鈥 in the global South.
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The gold shall not be sold
For thirty pieces of silver
No to the mine that contaminates
No to the mine that kills ya!
The copper shall not be sold
For thirty pieces of silver
No to the mine that contaminates
No to the mine that kills ya!
Conga no way鈥
Conga鈥檚 just not happening鈥
That鈥檚 the verdict of the people
And there鈥檚 no reversing
The NEWMONT conquistadors
Come not with cross and sword
They come with five billion dollars
And they leave you with nothing
The NEWMONT conquistadors
Come not with bibles and diseases
They come with their heavy machinery
More than 10,000 Palestinians took part in a funeral procession on February 25 in the West Bank village of Saeer for 30-year-old Arafat Jaradat, who died while in Israeli detention.
Jaradat's death on February 23 in Megiddo Prison came less than a week after he was arrested for throwing stones at Israeli cars in the West Bank. Although Israeli officials say he died of cardiac arrest, an autopsy shows clear signs that his death was the result of horrific torture, according to Palestinian Authority officials.
Nearly 10 years after the Spanish high court outlawed previous Basque left nationalist political groups, the movement has finally given birth to a new legal party 鈥 Sortu (鈥渢o create鈥 or 鈥渢o be born鈥 in Basque).
The new arrival is a powerful force for Basque independence and progressive politics in the Spanish state 鈥 socialist, feminist, ecologically aware and staunchly internationalist.
The campaign against the gas hub at Walmadan (James Price Point) in the Kimberley received a huge boost when about 20,000 people marched through the streets of Fremantle and attended a vibrant and political 鈥淐oncert for the Kimberley鈥 on February 24.
The Indigenous Social Justice Association released this statement on February 25.
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The Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), is organising a rally outside the office of the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) in Sydney as part of a national day of action for Justice for Rex Bellotti Jnr.
We will send the message to all Australian police forces that all forms of police brutality must end.
About 10,000 nurses and midwives across Western Australia were threatened with disciplinary action and deregistration by the state鈥檚 director general if they went ahead with a 24-hour strike on February 25.
The evening before the planned action, WA premier Colin Barnett intervened to offer the nurses a 14% pay rise over three years.
Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) members accepted the offer after voting at a mass meeting on February 25.
In Western Australia, mental illness is the second-highest cause of disease for women and the fourth-highest cause for men.
Premier Colin Barnett has responded by publishing a green paper for public discussion for a new Mental Health Act. The proposed act contains provisions that would improve the rights of people subjected to a Compulsory Treatment Order (CTO). But it negates those same provisions by allowing the treating psychiatrist to simply ignore them.
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Bob Carr, US Ambassador to Australia Jeffrey Bleich, and writer and activist Eva Cox took part in the ABC鈥檚 Q&A on February 25. More than 15 minutes of the program was spent discussing WikiLeaks journalist Julian Assange.
鈥淭he Stain鈥 is the name of a photo exhibition by Turkish artist A. Suderin Murat, which looks at the issue of violence against women.
Coinciding with International Women鈥檚 Day, the exhibition will be open to the public from March 4-10 at the Auburn Town Hall Exhibition Gallery.
For many years, Murat has campaigned against all kinds of discrimination. She considers art to be 鈥渢he most effective and peaceful tool鈥 for helping society.
The National Tertiary Education Union released the statement below on March 1.
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National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) members at the University of Sydney will strike for 24 hours on March 7 over enterprise bargaining.
鈥淭his is the first strike in a decade and shows just how riled our members are at management's arrogance and its lack of commitment to the enterprise bargaining process,鈥 said branch president Michael Thomson.
鈥淲e logged our enterprise bargaining claims on August 7 last year.
In the week that US citizen Bradley Manning admitted in court that he leaked military secrets to reveal to the public the 鈥渢he true costs of war鈥, I attended the first screening in Sydney of the documentary On The Bridge.
The screening was part of the inaugural Big Picture Festival, a social justice film festival.
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