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1. 'Women will die because of this': Trump's anti-abortion gag rule threatens lives of millions of poor women

   Democracy International solidarity Economy Feminism Abortion right to choose Donald Trump ... any international health care group involved in any activity in support of women’s rights to choose.  ... reinstated the controversial global gag rule, which women’s rights advocates fear will increase unsafe ...

2. School students call for compassion, not detention

   on November 15. The action was initiated by Secondary Students for Refugee Rights (SSFRR). SSFRR ... Caitlin Woodland said: "As the new government has come to power, the rights of refugees have been ... to dehumanise them in the public eye. Every asylum seeker has a right to safety.” Student and refugee ...

3. The fight to save the Pilliga

   Zebedee Parkes Coal seam gas (CSG) Santos Pilliga Forest Anti-mining Aboriginal land rights ... Nurses and Midwives' Association (NSWNMA) Pilliga Forest In the Pilliga Aboriginal land rights ... surveying local animal and plant species in 1993. “The diversity here was incredible,” he said. “You never ...

4. United States: Sanders' campaign is 'invigorating and unifying' the left

   environmental issues, immigrant rights or the left wing of the labour movement — have been put into ... generating and animating what could become such a movement. I think the context is important and this is not ...

5. 80 years on, Steinbeck’s classic still packs a punch

   nameless wife symbolises the limited life choices of US women of the time. Denied the right to enjoy her ... demonstrates something else, as well. Like the workhorse character Hercules in George Orwell’s  Animal Farm ...

6. Toni Morrison: The remarkable life of a remarkable woman

   of the civil rights organisation NAACP, remarked: "Rest in power to #ToniMorrison, one of the ... which she 'gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.' "Ms Morrison animated ...

7. Simple but likeable

   including animal rights, pro-choice and AIDS charities. As a high profile defender of lesbian rights, she ...

8. Write on: Letters to the editor

   Write on: Letters to the editor Animal consciousness "Unlike animals, human beings have ... that animals, like human, possess consciousness — to be without it is to be comatose! ... Self-consciousness though is a more complex state, and there is no doubt that animals possess this rarefied ...

9. BoJack Horseman continues humourous take on dark topics

   animated black comedy show BoJack Horseman follows the misadventures of BoJack Horseman (Will Arnett), an ... a civil rights activist “at least no one else will be assassinated this year, 1963.”. When BoJack returns ... approach that has won the show several awards, such as the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival ...

10. Write on: letters to the editor

    "Animal rights are not equal to Human rights". What about Woman's rights and Aboriginal rights ... organised demonstration he had a right to determine what material could be distributed. He also said that ... Sean Moysey Wollongong NSW Animal liberation The World According to Neville Spencer — GLW 177. ...

11. POEM: Head spin

    bookshelves Metamorphosis Why Marx was right Unfinished Animal Hopes & prospects Buddha in daily life The ... my collection And take them right through At least I’ll be traveling In a brighter direction ...

12. London verdict gives McDonald's little joy

    McDonald's on three. Steel and Morris were denied the right to a jury trial and to legal aid, but managed to ... was enough evidence to substantiate claims in the fact sheet that animals suffer in order to make ... including that McDonald's food is high in fat, sugar, animal products and salt and low in fibre, and ...

13. EUROPE: Court rules McLibel 2 denied fair trial

    On February 15, the European Court of Human Rights said the lack of legal aid available to Helen ... McDonald's human-rights record. The trial turned into a public relations disaster for the multinational, ... human rights record. The pair were finally fined £60,000 in damages, but the judge ruled the leaflets ...

14. Duck rescuers out in big numbers

    Duck rescuers out in big numbers By Mark Berriman Animal rights and environmental groups launched ... ministers to ban the season. It is over three years since the NSW Animal Welfare Advisory Council ...

15. At its convention, Portugal's Left Bloc gears up for year of crucial fights

    left vote, including the animal rights party People-Animals-Nature (PAN), was 52.2%: as of October it ... in the European Union (EU), where austerity policies still reign and the racist and xenophobic right ... 2011 and 2015 by the right-wing administration of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the People’s ...

16. We kid you not

    We kid you not US right-winger: Gay bullying 'healthy peer pressure' “Anti-gay bullying ... “'Homosexuality is simply bad behavior that youth see as such and rightly pressure their peers to stop it.'” ... overfishing have also created the  environment for a huge expansion of the animals nicknamed the cockroaches ...

17. Ngarrindjeri, ferry workers unite against bridge

    violate the cultural and spiritual rights of the Ngarrindjeri people. The workers had a victory when their ... declared, fought "magnificently" for their rights. The workers had previously been covered by the ... everybody of the environmental damage to animal and bird habitats that a bridge would cause. The gathering ...

18. 'Hungary's Chernobyl'

    By Tamas Krausz BUDAPEST — Hungary's right-wing government refuses to take serious action ... other animals lie dead beside the river after they ate fish from it or drank the water. Now the people ...

19. Action updates

    the gathering that Australians had a right to hear Gerry Adams speak and make up their own minds about ... Reyburn by e-mail: reyburn@peg.apc.org. Aboriginal rights march DARWIN — A march and concert in support of ... Aboriginal rights is planned for August 2. Titled "Walking Together", the event is intended as ...

20. Refugee detention centres have to go!

    of the Australian government's rhetoric about human rights and democracy, as it locks up ... innocent people and treats them "worse than the animals at Taronga Zoo". Ray Jackson from the ... indigenous people's rights on September 15. Other speakers included Alistair Gee from Amnesty ...

21. Protesters converge to halt Adani’s coal mine

    and strategies. Our legal rights were explained, along with our obligations to follow police ... well-used by the locals and had become a wild life corridor for native animals. But the Melbourne Cricket ...

22. Wilderness Society says forest ad is wrong

    Society disputes other claims, too, such as that plants and animals return after logging and the whole ... furthermore, causes soil erosion and native-threatening invasions of feral animals and introduces weeds, ... degrades water catchment areas, destroys habitats, impinges on Aboriginal land rights, and reduces tourist ...

23. Write on- letters to the editor

    a chainsaw in the other. Guy Lane Griffith University Qld Animal testing The National Heart Foundation will ... funds research which uses animals as models for human maladies. These once healthy animals are subjected ... continue its animal based research. Pound dogs and greyhounds which have outlived their usefulness to their ...

24. Letters to the Editor

    the horrors of intensive capitalist animal farming and the need for reform to prohibit cruel and ... unnecessary suffering of animals, I cannot agree with his argument that "speciesism... is as morally ... While it is true that animals have the capacity for conscious and planned action (as Frederick Engels ...

25. SPAIN: 'TRIPS-plus' a big minus for biodiversity

    BY SEAN HEALY As if the World Trade Organisation's Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights ... requiring all WTO members to grant and enforce intellectual property rights (IRPs) on new technology. The ... that while plants and animals can be excluded from patent laws, all countries must allow for patents on ...

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