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1. A-League fans rebel for democratic rights

   sporting-related protests in Australia's history. The issue at stake is basic democratic rights denied to fans ... right-wing media engaging in outrageous and slanderous attacks on football fans than with actually promoting ... weeks, A-League fans have been slandered in the media and by police as “thugs”, “grubby pack animals” and ...

2. Bolivia: Right-wing violence as draft constitution approved

   right-wing attacks campesinos (peasants) were violently attacked when they arrived to defend the besieged ... by right-wing students. Evo Morales, the democratically elected indigenous president, moved the ... led by right-wing civic committees — tied to the eastern-based oligarchy — are active in Surce. ...

3. Bangladeshi women organise for their rights

   FERNANDES and MICHAEL TARDIF talked to KHUSHI KABIR, women's rights activist and chairperson of ADAB ... fundamentalists want to suppress. Tasleema Nasreen has been portrayed as a champion of women's rights in the ... of the rights of lower class women. How successfully has the left taken up the challenges that the ...

4. What’s right with Bill Gammage’s book

   land for more than 60,000 years right across the continent. Obviously their complex methods of land ... plants and animals. Further information on this topic is contained in the book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, ... fault of Gammage that right-wing organisations such as the Institute of Public Affairs and Jennifer ...

5. Palestine's struggle for human rights

   because not in my wildest dreams could I ever think that you have an area where you have food for animals ... after 1967. The Israeli government does not want to give us legislative rights over our land and its ... Likud and the right. The whole government might collapse because the left is not strong enough to ...

6. 10 powerful new albums that scream truth to power

   not left or right, we just want to mosh tonight. Please hold your sneeze, hold your kids, hold your ... their kids and you locked them up, up in a prison. It’s just for capital. Am I an animal? And do I care ... at all? Capital, capital. I’m just an animal." Discussing the song, she said: "‘Capital’ is ...

7. Why eat meat?

   non-human animals. However, such a perspective fails to understand the many benefits involved with being ... half the water used in the United States is used for raising animals for food. It takes 210 litres of ... and untreated animal wastes. It is estimated that 105,000 kilograms of livestock excrement are ...

8. Orwell's true heir

   the anti-socialist right. Conservatives promoted Animal Farm as a political fable about the ... reveals the dark political shadow to the Orwell icon. Socialists have rightly valued Orwell's ... self-proclaimed socialist, Animal Farm and 1984, have seen long service as noisy, ideological battering rams for ...

9. United States: Police, paramedics charged over Elijah McClain’s death

   introvert who volunteered to play his violin to comfort cats at an animal shelter. After his death, no ... attorney general's office conducted a civil rights investigation, the first under a new state police ... footpath and saying: "Stop right there. Stop. Stop... I have a right to stop you because you're ...

10. Path to extinction or path to a livable future?

    [Joe] Biden administration is poised to approve a right-of-way through the Ashley National Forest that ... food, crop, and animal wastes available.” (p. 114) Solar energy is a vastly more popular form of energy, ... basic provisions alongside mobilising for labour rights. After all, trade unions throughout history have ...

11. The brutality of the prison system retold

    adaptations of A Clockwork Orange and Animal Farm, is directing and producing Life on Hold Productions’ ... exposed by the media and civil rights lawyers get involved that the abuse of prisoners is accurately ... documented. However, if the rights of prisoners are not protected, who can tell what state-sanctioned abuses ...

12. Australian-Canadian mining company OceanaGold misleads public on Filipino mine

    Philippine government said it would renew the company’s right to mine in Didipio last December. OceanaGold ... has been found to have committed serious human rights violations”. OceanaGold started mining in ... rights under a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA), which required it to reach agreement ...

13. New bill looks set to overturn NSW’s archaic abortion law

    Liberals, Labor, NSW Greens and the Animal Justice Party. It is the first co-sponsored bill to ever be ... in a July 28  statement: “It's past time for women to have the right to make decisions about ... Association NSW branch, the Human Rights Law Centre and NSW Pro-Choice Alliance, a newly formed coalition of ...

14. 10 new albums that protest against climate inaction

    opposed by an " unlikely " coalition of right- and left-wingers led by local country musician ... animal/plant sounds and unknown anomaly recordings on this album were taken from climate-sensitive sites, ... song "Emissary", a choirboy sings: “I’m like an animal trapped in a flood.” ...

15. Sam Wallman: A people’s comic artist

    detention. The piece was nominated for a Walkley Award and won an Australian Human Rights Award. Winding Up ... upon. A high point is the 1973 Broadmeadows Ford factory strike that led to women winning the right to ... produced animations for the Victorian Aids Council and a short animated history of the Green Bans in ...

16. Speciesism is prejudice

    plight of the most oppressed group of all — non-human animals, notably those exploited by the animal ... agriculture industry. The horrors perpetrated by intensive animal farming — hens de-beaked and crammed into ... pregnant sows immobilised in steel crates — have been widely reported. Even where the welfare of animals is ...

17. Surviving the COVID-19 and climate crises requires radical solutions

    such as AIDS, Ebola, SARS, MERS and Zika also originated in animals. Spillover is a higher risk today ... environments, such as deforestation and urbanization. This brings wild animals in closer contact with human ... two options: go extinct or jump.” The relentless commodification and caging of wild animals adds to ...

18. Creating a desert and calling it peace: Turkey’s water war against Rojava

    Ataturk Dam in 1992, then-president Suleyman Demirel announced: “We have the right to do what we like.” ... year. The price of animal feed has gone up, and with growing numbers trying to sell some of their ... animals in order to survive, prices for livestock have fallen. A large proportion of the population works ...

19. NSW government forced back to drawing board on floodplain harvesting

    irrigators. But she was defeated by Labor; the Greens; Shooters, Fishers and Farmers; the Animal Justice ... floodplain harvesting property rights could expose the public purse to multi-million-dollar compensation ... claims.  “Issuing permanent property rights to irrigators is a huge transfer of public wealth that should ...

20. 10 new albums that resist racists and fascists

    event is the new album by blues musician Guy Davis, on which he sings: "It ain't right, no it ... ain't right, what the white folks did in Tulsa on that night." MORE>>> ... protect the native animals and their habitat. But days later, the state budget allocated just $193 million ...

21. Afghanistan: US pulls out, supports warlord takeover

    Afghan democratic rights activist Malalai Joya puts the figure of those directly or indirectly killed as ... warlords, the Taliban nor the occupation forces. They were right, because as soon as Kabul fell, the US ... and elsewhere, did not bring democracy and restore women’s rights to Afghanistan, backing the old ...

22. Turkey attacks Kurdish refugee camp in northern Iraq

    Ferhan (17) — on April 15 last year, as they were tending to their farm animals. • At least three bombs ... its national sovereignty. “We call on the international community, the defenders of human rights, and ...

23. Egypt and the global fight for women’s rights

    Hosni Mubarak on February 11 — have highlighted the ongoing struggle for women’s rights around the ... IWD protest. It was organised in support of the right to vote and equal pay for women. Through ... protests and relentless campaigning, women have won many gains over the last century, including the right ...

24. Knitting Nannas protest Santos gas plan

    expressed to the IPC right now, Flood said. Nick Clyde from Lock the Gate Alliance told the gathering that ... ALP MP Trish Doyle, Independent MP Justin Field and Animal Justice Party MP Mark Pearson expressed ...

25. A stinging indictment of the capitalist food system

    Peter Singer, and Jim Mason, a journalist, lawyer and animal-rights activist, is a compelling, ... context of struggle. The struggles of workers, farmers, environmentalists and animal-rights activists the ... REVIEW BY BELINDA SELKE The Ethics of What We Eat by world-renowned ethicist and animal liberationist ...

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