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Mistreatment of asylum seekers continues
"a place where faceless people are held out of sight; where legal rights do not exist and access to ... animals'." Joe, who is distrusted by ACM, had been falsely accused of saying that he wanted to kill ...
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Clear-felling in Tasmania: an environmental catastrophe
animals are also killed. In the face of national environmental legislation (RFAs are excluded from the ... The time is right to act to protect our forests and their inhabitants from greed and short-sighted ...
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CANADA: Toronto's 'Wall Street' shut down
downtown business. Toronto's right-wing mayor, Mel Lastman, was quoted in mainstream reports ... "disgraceful". In one television report, he described the protesters as "animals" and their actions as ...
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Labor makes it worse for asylum seekers
day-release have electronic bracelets which allow them to be tagged. But asylum seekers are neither animals ... to the Coalition's vicious attacks on the rights of refugees, a pole of opposition that Labor ...
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... and ain't I a woman?: What's glamourous about oppression?
was adopted with vigour at the same time that women were standing up for their rights during the ... are not peacocks nor animals of burden. We are half the population and entitled to participate fully ...
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Day of the Dead in Nicaragua
animals — to be treated this way", came the message over the radio. In Las Lomas in the municipality ... for Human Rights. November 11, 1998 340 World ...
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... and ain't i a woman?: That word
feminism in the 1970s was that women no longer be referred to as animals (chicks, bitches) or children ... encapsulated in "ladies room", and its affirmation of women's right to assert themselves. The ...
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1997: the warmest year in this century
is less than two metres above sea level. "No nation has the right to place its own misconstrued ... behaviour of plants and animals related to environmental warming. Birds such as the keel-billed toucan have ...
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Genetically engineered food in Australia
results and have the right to keep these confidential: the corporation's research results ... plants. Animals that consume the GM plants could also be harmed, if the plants contain unforeseen toxins. ...
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Looking out: Thinking of you, Amelia
every kind of human or animal hair you can imagine. In that particular batch of meat sauce I found a bay ... for you to understand right now, but one day when your mother shows you this essay, and that old bay ...
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Looking out: &147;... shake your hand&148;
of minutes later, to my right, at least three guards' heads appeared in the little glass on ... pinned Her play Deny bowels Timely movement Like animal, She howls On two legs Power delay WOLFBANE When ...
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On the box
and animals. SBS, Tuesday, June 11, 8.30pm. Late night movie: Bees in Paradise (1944) — Reading the ... Wednesday, June 12, 12.25am Tripping with Zhirinovsky — This BBC documentary follows the right-wing Russian ...
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Costa Rica: environmental campaign at crisis point
of plants and animals protected in reserves, including the biological reserves of Monteverde and ... environmental, human rights, campesino, indigenous, student and religious and women's organisations, as well ...
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Residents oppose development at ADI St Marys site
four rare ones. There are persistent rumours that some animals in the area have suffered deformity. In ... Lease attend meetings with no voting rights. Local government is meant to represent residents' ...
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The ecology of indigenous peoples
interactions with nature. Human society developed out of animal social organisation. Active social forces ... respect in their own right. Through a series of vignettes selected from the literature on and by first ...
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Quebec hydro project may destroy James Bay
down the trees they have chased away the animals. They have taken away their food supplies... As well ... which it needs for its projects without respecting the rights of the traditional dwellers of the region. ...
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Reactionary to the bootstraps
which bought relative social peace and prosperity. But Menzies was also a political animal of the worst ... the media's own grand poobah of the loony right, revealed on early television footage as an ...
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World Bank 'attempting to raid gene reserves'
rights. 2. The critical social and economic importance of the genetic materials that nurture people ... — including animals, plants and micro-organisms used for food, fibre, pharmaceutical and other purposes ...
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Russia's environmental movement falls on hard times
been to small animals. During the past two years there have been more hares in the forests, and more ... methods, KEDR was a typical right-centrist bloc uniting various central and local bosses who were not on ...
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The preferences row: what strategy for greens?
the state government's Eastlink power line and Australians for Animals, to accuse the peak groups ... force can fight effectively to protect the environment and defend people's rights, without being ...
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Art and environment in the South Pacific
animals in the forest next to my village. Now, the future generations in PNG can no longer enjoy what ... the public purse, from the people's land, selling timber reserves, fishing rights, mining leases? ...
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Darwin's bulldog
theory of the evolution of species. If all animal species, including Homo sapiens, are the result of the ... right, as Desmond notes, to chalk up Huxley and Darwin as scientific revolutionaries who helped overturn ...
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Write on: Letters to the editor
affirmation of the right of everyone to choose had taken place)? GLW is a respected, even valued, resource. ... endangered or protected animals according to David Brazil (GL October 2). Well, I'm all against that, ...
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Passion, wit and platitudes
depended on quick reactions to immediate environmental stimuli such as fierce animals. Biological evolution ... in the right direction". An analogy involving the reform of Bengal tigers' dietary habits ...
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Getting the jobless to work
penalising our children right now with slave labour wages, which he hopes might encourage the economy to turn ... farmers in establishing plantations and agroforesty systems, control of feral animals and weeds — these ...