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1. Write On: Letters to the Editor

   prominence brings vulnerability to attack by the right-wing gutter media. The fact of the matter is that ... Sheridan had every right to go to the courts and defend himself. And Sheridan is more than a match for ... occasion. Sheridan had every right to expect the support of his comrades in this struggle. But they failed ...

2. Charles Darwin and materialist science

   study at home, Darwin came to a heretical conclusion: species were not immutable. All animals were ... imperialism led to global exploration and the discovery of more varieties of plant and animal life than any ... European had ever imagined. Why had the Creator been so extravagant? And why, if each animal was created ...

3. Swine fever: How corporate power threatens health

   and (if available) a vaccine. An army of sceptics has rightly contested this viral counter-insurgency ... primitive, often non-existent surveillance of the interface between human and animal diseases. But the ... North and South, treat health regulations with the same contempt as dealt to workers and animals ...

4. Berowra Valley bush land under threat

   Conservation Society of NSW have identified rare flora within the sites. Many native animals are known to ... face may cause high levels of stress to wildlife and force them to leave. Introduced domestic animals ... NSW government has done the right thing by granting us a moratorium, but we need to continue the ...

5. Celebrity watch

   Athletes Who Are in Big Trouble Right Now (But Not That Big) http://eonli.ne/XS8RRz Tom Cruise's $50 ... Royal Paparazzi Pics http://eonli.ne/VhFgox Joaquin Phoenix Drowning PETA Ad Banned From Oscars, Animals ... Rights Group Says http://eonli.ne/XQ7suZ OK, maybe Carrie Underwood's 381-carat diamond necklace is ...

6. West Papuans also victims of Indonesian state-sanctioned murder

   animals” after the execution of two Australians. On April 28, Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran ... Indonesia. Since then, there have been constant concerns over human rights violations in the province and ... officers, only to be killed like animals at the command of the Indonesian government.” He called on ...

7. McSux: taking on the corporate giant

   Morris were denied legal aid and their right to a jury trail. Justice Bell ruled that McDonald's ... advertising strategy "exploited children" and that the company was responsible for animal cruelty ... if necessary, take the British government to the European Court of Human Rights. Only McDonald's ...

8. Voices against Israel’s apartheid system

   way they are now, they remind me of when animals are rounded up and taken to slaughter, it's just ... so humiliating. — US human rights activist and Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, 2008 In its conduct ... April 9, 2011 876 US human rights activist and Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein. Analysis ...

9. Yorta Yorta! Here to stay!

   read his decision in 1998 to deny the Yorta Yorta people's native title rights to their ... animals, lending humour to the production. Lou Bennett, formerly of the internationally acclaimed Tiddas, ... Yorta Yorta land rights claim are interwoven with the characters' personal stories. Their personal ...

10. Refugees demand: 'We want Freedom!'

    Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN). The protesters circled the perimeter of the detention centre, ... spoke to the protesters. He said a detainee was being beaten like an animal. Protesters promised the ...

11. Conference debates Greens’ role

    Parnell. The most animated discussion was about the Greens' political perspectives and relation to ... a Greens parliamentarian — particularly from the right of the party — should have been invited to speak at ... "on a path of forming majority government in their own right". Many local left Greens members, on ...

12. Don't erode our democracy, say Australians for Palestine

    animal rights, environment, fair trade and other issues. Boycotts are considered a legitimate non-violent ... hysteria we face every time we highlight Israel’s violations of human rights in this country. While ... millions of people rise to protest in the Middle East calling for their civil rights and risking losing ...

13. Youth are fighting for their lives

    over Republican politicians and most Democrats. The extreme right politics of NRA leaders was shown in ... the “right to arms” as a step to taking away “all our freedoms”. His speech was frequently interrupted ... with applause, indicating that many “conservatives” are actually the far right. As is always true in ...

14. Looking out: What you are not supposed to see

    sentence: violations of human rights of women in custody. In the same way that the public should be outraged ... unspoken message, which is that rape is all right as long as the rapist chooses the right victim. Has the ... it is all right for other prisoners to rape the rapist or murder the murderer (in Wisconsin, when the ...

15. 12 new books for ecosocialists

    Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism Victor Wallis Political Animal Press, 2018 Sound ecological policy ... fought to control their land and labour, and built powerful organisations to defend their rights and ...

16. The international fight for Venezuela’s future

    Bolivarian revolution Venezuelan opposition Caracas With the Venezuelan right-wing opposition in disarray ... Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has accused Venezuela of supposed “crimes against ... that Venezuelans, driven by extreme hunger, had invaded a zoo in Maracaibo and eaten the animals ...

17. Small parties do preference deals in WA Senate election

    usual animal rights issues, the Animal Justice Party is also campaigning around the hugely unpopular ... can have land rights activists, trade unionists, people campaigning on marriage equality, forest ... protection or refugee rights right across the board.” Rural Western Australia has also been galvanised. March ...

18. Climate: Australian frogs face bleak future

    other Australian animals, frogs thrived along the east coast and inland areas until the 1970s. Then, ... from human impacts, such as climate change, habitat disturbance and feral animals. Frogs, more than any ... other terrestrial animal, need water to survive. In inland wetlands along the east coast of Australia, ...

19. Woodchip debate: the Wilderness Society view

    rainforests, lost 20 mammal species and are in immediate danger of driving more than 500 more plant and animal ... habitats, once the trees disappear, so do the animals, forever. The industry that prosecutes this ... vital animal habitats and pristine water catchments. None of the costs associated with these losses are ...

20. But who's in charge?

    researchers who discover new ways of manipulating plants and animals are not subject to any outside ... productivity and profitability. Phelps cites the example of hormones used on animals. In the case of pigs, the ... cows to increase their milk output. According to Phelps, there are a large number of potential animal ...

21. Can we be ethical without being revolutionary?

    popular, both here and overseas. His book on animal liberation is a standard text of the animal rights ... he writes. Living ethically is more than getting out on the right side of the bed each morning: ... boundaries of the self". Examples of transcendent causes are animal liberation and "taking the ...

22. West Papua: High school student assassinated by Indonesian police

    September 28, the Institute for Papuan Advocacy and Human Rights (IPAHR) said the next day. The IPAHR said ... had killed too many Papuans and was treating them like animals. He asked the police to properly ... about sending a human rights fact finding mission to West Papua. The Indonesian foreign minister had ...

23. Portugal: Left gains in regional poll

    Animals and Nature and Earth Party. At the 2011 Madeira poll, these forces, standing separately, won ... right-wing coalition of the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre-People’s Party in ... opinion polls for more than a year. On Madeira, where these right-wing parties have always ruled, the ...

24. Chinese uranium activist disappeared

    to state secrets". Human Rights in China (HRIC), which has championed Sun's case, said that ... secret detention of Sun Xiaodi, which violate both his Chinese constitutional rights and his human ... rights. "HRIC calls on the Chinese authorities to immediately release Sun Xiaodi from custody, and as ...

25. George Georges a fighter for socialist principles

    principles at the cost of his parliamentary career. Georges was a fighter for human rights and for socialist ... civil liberties and workers' rights by the reactionary regime of Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. ... Jailed during the right-to-march campaign of the 1970s, Georges refused to comply with a prison rule to ...

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