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1. Racism kills: Demand justice for Mr Ward

   animal who died in those conditions, but since it was only a black-fella …" This was one comment was ... made to a campaigner for Aboriginal rights in a discussion of the case of Mr Ward — an Aboriginal elder ... therefore unable to challenge the police statements — a violation of his right to natural justice. Most ...

2. News briefs #1

   Society for the Protection of Animals in the US also offered its help. Honey will spend up to three months ... Weekend of refugee protests PERTH — Refugee rights activists spent 12 chilly hours at an overnight vigil ... outside the Perth Immigration Detention Centre on June 18-19. The vigil, organised by the Refugee Rights ...

3. EAST TIMOR: Women fight an uphill battle

   uphill struggle for women's rights. In East Timor, under customary law, women cannot inherit or own ... against Violence) said at a human rights workshop here last August, this practice is highly discriminatory ... buffaloes, 20 horses, various other animals, gold jewellery and traditional cloth (tais) for ...

4. Scenes from a racist state

   Centre (WAC). WAC seeks to help protect the rights of Palestinian workers inside Israel. One million ... than Jews. Another Jewish immigrant grazing his animals is interviewed on hill he had never seen before ... a "trailer" at the LaborFest about a fight of foreign-born construction workers. These workers have no rights ...

5. Mardi Gras Film Festival

   gay rights. She speaks candidly of her 30-odd year relationship and her involvement as a writer and ... avenue for dealing with right-wing bigotry. In a tongue in cheek black comedy, the film describes the ... to invite other right-wing bigots to dinner to try to convert them; if they don't see the error ...

6. Kev Carmody: the musician is the message

   muse. With much animation, he fires up about the reclamation of Wattie Creek by Gurindji drovers which ... sparked the land rights movement. "That was a very symbolic event. I remember hearing about it in the ... a communist-inspired black uprising. But they won and the land rights movement really took off." It is warmly and ...

7. Can we listen to Cinderella?

   meet can begin to feel they are the subject of a "colonialist view; they feel like animals in ... suggests Einhorn, considering that women's rights are in reverse in many of their own countries. ... emancipate women? Can rights be implemented from above, or must they emanate from grassroots struggle? ...

8. Write on

   New Zealand socialists ensured that when the Right resorted to expulsions, a new party of a credible ... Right can be taken on and defeated. Next, Lane will be harking back to the good old days of Weimar ... constitutional rights to a fair trial. They need help. Benson can be contacted at W-28860 Miller-B-117-L, State ...

9. Peru: Poll swings left in first round

   right-wing candidates Fujimori, Kuczynski and Toledo indicates that Humala, who experienced a late surge in ... ahead. In 2006, the centrist/right wing vote converged around Alan Garcia in the runoff. Despite his ... raising a few animals. But with the conversion of much of Peru’s magnificent mountain country into a vast, ...

10. Carlo's Corner: Finally, something Aussies can be truly proud of

    with animal rights protesters who had chained themselves to their plant by verbally abusing them, then ...

11. Britain: Cops caught spying on activists

    showing of an animal rights film with an accompanying talk — he put on an event purely to gather ...

12. Convergence meets to defend forests

    determined Sea Shepherd opposition. Many of the crowd had come especially to hear Lyons sing his animal ... rights classic “Cows With Guns”, which had been a hit around the world in 1996, #1 on the Irish hit ...

13. In brief

    Army singles out environmentalists, animal rights activists and the anti-war movement as possible ...

14. Green candidates in NSW election

    in the animal rights' movement, most recently being involved in the struggle against the annual ...

15. Refugee children living in despair

    Australian protesters hugged her outside the razor wire. Sarah and her three brothers were quite animated ... animated and expectant faces they became lifeless in a sea of despair. Sarah's mother suffered from ... on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Australia in 1990. Two types of behaviour described by FAYS, ...

16. Turkey: Kurdish movement ‘will stop Erdoğan imposing fascism’

    between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the far-right Nationalist Movement Party ... their corpses, exposing dead women’s naked bodies, allowing animals’ to decimate the corpses of people ...

17. Malaysian lawyers warn of dangers in refugee deal

    800 desperate refugees who made it by boat to Australia. It confirmed, dramatically, what human rights ... rights, such as a card to ensure that they won’t be treated like other refugees in Malaysia. “Off the bat ... Lumpur because the UN refugee office is right there. But if any of these 800 were to move to any city ...

18. Curry, rice and globalisation

    Japanese food corporations have now claimed the ownership rights on curry. They claim to have invented ... patent will allow the "inventors" to claim exclusive ownership rights on the process of making ... curry. These rights are not limited to Japan. Under the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property ...

19. Ebola death toll driven by poverty, racism

    Ebola-infected people on US soil. However, some right-wingers are urging the US to close all flights to and from ... disease. STOP FLIGHTS!” Meanwhile, the right-wing Breitbart.com reminded readers that 80,000 Nigerians ... contact with a person (possibly through another animal) and introduce the disease into a human population. ...

20. United States: Another oil catastrophe

    animals that live along the Gulf Coast, this is the time for hatching and rearing: species as diverse as ... animals in contact with toxic oil or cause their parents to plunge into oily waters looking for food.” ... America’s economy right now”, said Salazar. Despite the BP spill, Salazar insisted that the oil industry ...

21. The criminal tale of Monsanto

    false and misleading. Animal health studies find that either glyphosate or the other principal ... industry-government “revolving door” puts Monsanto officials in the right place to ensure regulatory conditions ... anew each season from Monsanto, whose “intellectual property” rights to the genetic information in the ...

22. Life inside Maribyrnong detention centre

    and angering the government, he would prefer people who support their rights as refugees to talk with ... behaviour of refugee rights protesters and the riotous actions of other detainees. “Although some detainees ... find it uplifting to hear the protesters outside championing for their [the detainees] rights and ...

23. You can't trust Rann and Foley

    their actions in debating the bills which undermine workers’ rights, and the job and service cuts that ... and legislating away their working rights.” Key representatives from 10 unions with members in the ... of political animals — the kind that give all politicians a bad name — by promising the world before ...

24. Olivia Newton-John calls for a halt to coal seam gas mining

    England, France and South Africa have already banned this type of exploration. Right now we still have the ... right to stop them entering your land to explore it and, if you try to stop them, they can take you to ... our soil, the air we breathe, our animals, our trees, our rivers, and our food chain for generations ...

25. Coal addiction: Can Australia kick the habit?

    toxic metals from coal causes compounded damage to human beings, animals and plants. "Coal does not ... drastically. We need to replace coal with the renewable energies that are ready to be used right now, such as ... wave, geo-thermal, wind and solar power. "A right-sized distributed energy mix will improve energy ...

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