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1. Letter from a refugee: ‘I feel as though I can’t continue any longer’

   rights activists denied access to Curtin detainees despite protests, hunger strikes Hundreds rally for ...

2. VIETNAM: 30 years later, war crimes go on and on

   concentrate in the fatty tissue of animals or people who ingest it. In Vietnam, Agent Orange is considered to ... vanish. His left arm similarly disappears around where the elbow should be. His right arm is of normal ... areas, but most is natural regeneration. Animal life is not yet back to previous levels, but that may ...

3. CUBA: Washington's objective is to "cause hunger, desperation and overthrow the government"

   adjoining the US military base at Guantanamo. On this occasion, almost 300,000 animals were slaughtered, an ... regulations. The number of sick animals exceeded 220,000. The Cuban cattle industry continued to be a CIA ... right. These individuals are part of a policy described as one of the US government's most ...

4. Sports for a few

   daughter of Paul McCartney and animal rights activist Linda, designs sportswear for women for the brand ... supporting the struggle for civil rights and opposing US aggression in Vietnam. Ali was the most militant of ...

5. 'No justice, no peace' – racist violence fuels anger

   community protesters right after the murder of 18-year-old African American Michael Brown by police in the ... published on Twitter. A human rights monitor from Amnesty International photographed a police armoured car ... an officer yelling at a group of protesters: “Bring it on, you fucking animals, bring it on!” In the ...

6. Letter from a refugee: ‘This is not tolerable for any human being’

   and turned into sea animals’ meal. Luckily after spending three to eleven months of imprisonment in ... humanitarian nation and really gives value to human rights but, things are upside down here in detention ... families struggle with loneliness without guardian and we remain behind razors deprived from human rights ...

7. BOLIVIA: The Second Gas War

   government...has called for nationwide road blocks and for new elections." The right — centred around the ... Diez, a right-wing Santa Cruz senator, to take the presidency and forcibly repress the uprising. The ... Congress failing to meet, in part due to right-wing parties' boycotts, Vaca Diez announced that the ...

8. Pilbara: Australia's longest strike

   minimum wage, the right to elect their own representatives and freedom of movement. The strike was about ... together by the neck, like animals, for 10 days. Arrests were made on other stations and strikers filled ... Temperance Union, also helped establish the Committee for the Defense of Native Rights, which raised funds ...

9. Green cannot be the colour of profit

   right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their environmental policies, and the responsibility to ... is the sovereign right of local communities which have conserved and maintained biodiversity, and ... particular, provisions related to intellectual property rights (IPR s) and biosafety. That powerful corporate ...

10. Agricultural expropriation: Making money from farmers

    some conservative and some far right. They are a symbol of the discontent in rural areas with ... agriculture; genuine land reform; banning of all patents on plant and animal genetics; opposition to genetic ... free trade agreements; the right of every country to food security and food policy control; respect for ...

11. Write on: Letters to the editor

    question of whose rights to prioritise fighting for is another matter though. Obviously, animal rights ... #305). His basic argument is that rights should be in proportion to one's ability to defend them. ... I don't question the fact that under capitalism your rights are in proportion to your ability to defend ...

12. Write on: letters to the editor

    diversity, our environment, workers' rights and animal protection, is in serious trouble! McColossus ... opened up their books to public scrutiny. As taxpayers we have a right to know if our hard earned money ...

13. White Australia's burning issue — what's wrong with Bill Gammage's book

    attracted the praise of writers from both the left wing 91������̳ Weekly and the far-right Institute of ... practices, in an area where Indigenous people do not have land rights, and cannot access the area for hunting ... interconnectedness of ecology- to say nothing of the many animal and plant species no longer common, that were ...

14. PALESTINE: Trapped like mice

    the right to statehood, demarcates the full Bantustanisation of our people. The rhetoric of the plan ... counting us as if we were some animals?!" The Palestinian people will never accept a life lived under ... lands stolen and destroyed, our dignity taken away, our most fundamental rights violated every day, our ...

15. Mandatory detention is torture

    say I do think that goes without saying." According to Human Rights Watch's Rory Mungoven, ... most horrific human rights abuses that we've seen for a very long time". Some critics have ... the past five months, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has been hearing ...

16. Prattle on Seattle

    viewers into thinking that the WTO was intervening on behalf of threatened animals, instead of ruling that ... Though right-wing nationalists did not appear to be an appreciable fraction of the actual protesters in ... by a sound bite of AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney — "and the right" — followed by a sound bite ...

17. UNITED STATES: Rulers launch massive attack on civil liberties

    This is a vast attack on basic civil rights and liberties. Immigrants and other non-citizens can be ... can't assert your rights. For example, without notice, you couldn't object that police are at the ... Ethical Treatment of Animals. There are no safeguards or procedures to protest or appeal. Demonstrations ...

18. East Timor: time for action

    numbers by church, student and human rights groups has been made impossible by the intimidation and death ... representatives from trade union, church, student, women's and human rights groups, in consultation with the ... like animals". A dramatic increase in solidarity with the people of East Timor is essential now if ...

19. The Suharto regime and the Burmese military junta

    reputation in violating the rights of East Timorese, West Papuan, Dayak, Acehnese and other peoples. Suharto ... Elektrindo Nusantara deal, another Bimantara company, PT Japfa Comfeed, planned to invest in an animal feed ... cover up for its human rights violations, this regime has consistently abused the rhetoric of ...

20. Write on: letters to the editor

    with the Liberal Party to defeat it. We fought for the rights of refugees in Australia, the rights of ... as equitable distribution of wealth and power. Human beings are no different to other animals, in ... experience our natural environment,and cultural and political diversity. If all of this is rightfully given ...

21. Anti-racist activists counter Reclaim Australia rallies

    anti-racists. Six people were arrested — one for animal cruelty accused of punching a police horse, two for ... support for Muslims living in Australia. "I think it's a matter of being on the right side of ... build a far right political movement in this country and we know that when those groups build, so do ...

22. Colombia: 'Carbon credit' scheme a cover for land grab

    their animals and burning down houses. In the report, residents of Ovejas also describe being threatened ... on land rights and has raised the issue of Montes de Maria land grabs to Congress. “The operation ... enforce the UN Global Compact, which commits associated companies to human rights, labour, environment and ...

23. Spanish banking crisis threatens deeper recession across Europe

    carpet, so as to dissipate the strong doubts that presently exist”. The EU executive is right to be ... within those elites, for any right-wing Popular Party government to clean up a mess made by its best ... nationally and at the European level to restore the “animal spirits” of the captains of industry (reversing ...

24. Israel: Apartheid policies wreak environmental havoc

    shepherds, whose animals depend on grazing land. JNF’s time-tested method of ethnically cleansing, and then ... demolished eight times. “GOD TV Forest” is named after its proud sponsor, a far-right, pro-settler ... sovereignty, at times, even the right to exist. “It is also one of genocide... I see Israel’s systemic and ...

25. How to crash a planet: Just follow Garnaut

    truisms of computer modelling, however, is that if you don't get the fundamentals right, any results ... icecaps and its plants and animals were profoundly different. Such a temperature rise would mean countless ... offices not besieged by furious citizens demanding the right for their grandchildren to stay alive? The ...

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