In a September 24 speech to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, economic historian Christina Romer, also chair of US President Barack Obama鈥檚 Council of Economic Advisers, compared the policy responses of the Bush and Obama administrations of 2008-09 to those of the Hoover and Roosevelt US administrations of 1929-36.
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MELBOURNE 鈥 鈥淭he government wants the land because there鈥檚 uranium underneath it!鈥 Aboriginal activist Robbie Thorpe told a vibrant October 16 rally protesting against the NT intervention. He was referring to the compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal land, one of the intervention鈥檚 policies. 鈥淩acism has reared its ugly red face.鈥
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NEWCASTLE 鈥 Climate change campaigners have ridiculed the Australian Coal Association鈥檚 鈥渃ut emissions, not jobs鈥 ad campaign, announcing their own campaign 鈥渢o cut emissions, create 箩辞产蝉鈥.
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Socialist Alliance members and supporters gathered outside Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 鈥渃ommunity Cabinet meeting鈥 at New Town High School in Hobart on October 13, protesting against the war in Afghanistan and calling for troops to be withdrawn.
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SYDNEY鈥 In the early hours of October 9, the Latin American Community Centre (Casa Latina), in the Addison Road Community Centre in Marrickville, burned to the ground. All contents were destroyed. NSW police are investigating the fire but are yet to determine a cause.
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The program for the 27th Southern Cross work/study tour to Cuba is packed with visits, meetings and other activities that will give participants a wide-ranging insight into the cultural, political and social conditions in revolutionary Cuba
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Five Alice Springs men have been charged for the July 25 bashing of Aboriginal man Kwementyaye Ryder. The killing is part of a spate of racist violence that has plagued Alice Springs over recent months.
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More than 200 people rallied on October 11, supporting former employees of liquidating company Solar Systems and calling on the federal and state governments to rescue the company鈥檚 solar power plant project in Mildura. Solar Systems went into administration after failing to find enough investors to continue the project.
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South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has come under fire from Indigenous leaders over his October 11 statement that a 鈥渉ard core group of repeat offenders鈥 were 鈥減ure evil鈥 and could not be rehabilitated.
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High school student Malalai Noori gave the below speech to an October 10 rally against Australia鈥檚 involvement in the war in Afghanistan.
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鈥淜evin Rudd, go back home, leave us black fellas alone!鈥 100 protesters yelled as the prime minister sped past in his luxury car on his way to a 鈥渃ommunity Cabinet meeting鈥 at New Town High School on October 13.
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The following demands have been supported by a majority of the former Solar Systems employees:
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The NSW town of Helensburgh, an hour south of Sydney, is now gripped by a discussion about coal and green jobs after the NSW Climate Camp held over October 9-11.
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鈥淲hen uncertainty in the law exists, it opens the way to police corruption鈥, Marg Kirkby from the NSW Women鈥檚 Abortion Action Campaign told a Pro-Choice Action Collective (PCAC) forum on October 12.
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The Ampilawatja walk-off national speaking tour is spreading the word about life under the Northern Territory intervention and the Aboriginal elders who have walked off their community in opposition.
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It seems Australian hip-hop act The Herd are not the only musicians under attack from conservatives for standing by their principles. In September, the Herd pulled out of a coal industry-sponsored concert in Mackay, Queensland to the anger of big coal (but to the delight of their climate-conscious fan base).
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In one of the longest and most expensive criminal trials in Australian history, five Muslim men were convicted in Parramatta Court on October 16 of 鈥渃onspiring to do an act in preparation for a terrorist act鈥.
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Socialist Alliance WA co-convenor Sam Wainwright was elected from the Hilton Ward to the Fremantle Council in the October 17 poll.
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Wake up Australia. Do not trivialise the racist attitudes coming from various sectors of our society.
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An open letter to the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and Labor MP Kelvin Thomson
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The 350.org campaign has already made an important impact worldwide. The recent spike in official 350.org actions 鈥 now well above 2000 鈥 suggests the number of people who support stabilising atmospheric CO2 at under 350 parts per million (ppm) has grown phenomenally in the past few months.
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Lewis Carroll once wrote about a fictitious map that was so topographically accurate, it was as large as the country it was mapping.
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On October 15, almost 260 Tamil refugees were stranded at an Indonesian port in west Java. They were refusing to disembark from the boat that had carried them from Malaysia and pleaded for the Australian government to hear their case. That evening they declared a hunger strike.
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In early September, most abortions performed in Queensland health facilities came to a halt. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists had passed on a legal opinion to their members that said doctors were still at risk of prosecution while abortion remained in the criminal code.
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The eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan has come and gone. As Prime Minister Kevin Rudd considers yet another troop surge, for most Australians this milestone represents just another statistic, another number to skip over in the morning papers.
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The Greens released a set of 22 amendments to the Rudd Labor government鈥檚 proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) on October 12.
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In May last year, federal Treasurer Wayne Swan announced the formation of the Australia鈥檚 Future Tax System Review, to be run by Treasury secretary Ken Henry. When the Henry review reports to government in December, its recommendations are likely to leave the wealthy smiling and the rest of us grinding our teeth.
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What do a Jewish congregation in the Alaskan town of Fairbanks, the Browniz coffee shop in the port city of Salalah, Oman and a Shanghai primary school have in common?
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91自拍论坛 Weekly is highly valued by its many international readers. Every week, Farooq Tariq and his comrades in the Labour Party Pakistan 鈥渆agerly await鈥 the arrival of this particular newspaper from far-off Australia. Pakistan is now a 鈥渉ot-spot鈥 in the US-led war against Afghanistan.
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Abortion debate With regards to the article "Harassing us into submission" (GLW #810), what is interesting in this debate, or lack thereof, is that at no time is there dialogue on when life actually begins. This would then determine whether a
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I am part of Critical Climate, an Adelaide activist group advocating a 鈥渟ustained mass civil disobedience鈥 response to the climate emergency.
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Renowned author and academic Noam Chomsky answers a question during a public meeting in September on the case of the .
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The statement below was released on October 13 by: The National Committee (US) Committee to Free the Cuban Five; the International Committee to Free the Cuban Five; and the organisations of the Cuban Immigration in Miami involving the Marti Alliance: the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the Alliance of Workers of the Cuban Community (ATC), the Jose Marti Association, and political parties of the US who are part of the Cuban Five solidarity movement.
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French people have sent a strong message to the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy with 90% of voters in a referendum organised by anti-privatisation campaigners rejecting plans to partially privatise the national postal service, La Poste.
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Puerto Rico, a 鈥渟elf-governing鈥 colony of the United States, was rocked by a general strike on October 15. Organisers estimated that between 150,000-200,000 people took part in a massive demonstration in the capital, San Juan.
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The heat is on the administration of US President Barack Obama.
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About 200,000 marched in Washington D.C. on October 11 to demand full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people, US Socialist Worker said the next day.
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An October 16 deadline set by Honduran President Manual Zelaya for the regime that ousted him in a military coup to agree to his reinstatement has passed without a settlement. Zelaya had warned that if his reinstatement was not agreed to by that time, Honduras would become 鈥渦ngovernable鈥.
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Many have touted December鈥檚 United Nations鈥 sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen as a 鈥渕ake or break鈥 chance to halt dangerous climate change. But the richest nations are on a warpath to make sure this 鈥渓ast chance鈥 becomes a 鈥渘o chance鈥 event.
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You don鈥檛 need presidential palaces, generals riding tanks, or even the CIA to make a coup happen. Democracy can be overthrown with far less pomp, fewer props and smaller bursts of state violence.
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On October 10, Mexican Federal Police seized the plants of the Central Light and Power Company of Mexico (LyF), which provides electricity to Mexico City and several states in central Mexico.
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鈥淭he world needs to understand the importance of the struggle in defence of nature鈥, Hugo Blanco, legendary Peruvian peasant leader active in the indigenous peoples鈥 struggle against corporate exploitation in the Amazon, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly in late September.
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A marriage licence has been denied to an interracial couple in Louisiana by a justice of the peace, the Huffington Post said on October 15
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The results of the October 4 elections in Greece were a political earthquake that have created a new situation.
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The report of the United Nations鈥 fact-finding mission to Gaza, led by former South African jurist Richard Goldstone, was released in September. It detailed atrocious human rights abuses by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during Israel鈥檚 December-January war on the Palestinian territory.
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Yamaji Man 鈥 Born to a Yamaji woman from Western Australia and an Irish Catholic father, Mark grew up in two worlds, never truly at home in either. NITV, Friday, October 23, 4.30pm. The Bisexual Revolution 鈥 From Europe to North America, this
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Capitalism: A Love StoryWritten, directed & produced by Michael MooreIn cinemas November 5
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Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health By Hans Baer & Merrill Singer Left Coast Press, 2009 240 pages, US$32.95 (pb)
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Mary Travers, one-third of the hugely popular and influential 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, died on September 16 after treatment for leukaemia. She was 72.
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"It should not be the case in 2009 that Aboriginal people live [on average] 17 years less than the wider community", National Indigenous Television CEO Pat Turner said at the October 14 launch of Living Strong. The new program on NITV focuses on improving the health of Aboriginal people in remote, rural and urban communities.