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United States: Climate struggle heats up as Obama fails to act
of his unknown ancestors, who had flown with such freedom over all the earth, and who had let its ... hurtling toward a very real "carbon cliff." Carbon emissions are at record highs and set to rise ... path consistent with an average global temperature rise of no more than 2 degrees Celsius," but on ...
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Bolsonaro's win brings big dangers, but left 'more united than ever'
rising up to the point where it is now the second largest party in congress, after the PT. The left was ... gave his concession speech last night, with Guilherme Boulos from PSOL [Socialism and Freedom Party, ...
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Workers mark May Day globally
Cambodia, hundreds of protesters near Phnom Penh鈥檚 Freedom Park suffered indignity at the hands of security ... working hours topping their agenda. 鈥淢alaysians rallied in Kuala Lumpur against price rises. Thousands of ... Taiwanese workers marched to the labour ministry demanding wage rises and a ban on companies hiring cheap ...
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FRANCE: Behind the shock victory for Le Pen
capitalist politicians go. His government introduced the 35-hour work week (which produced a clear rise in ... immigration and still remembered in Algeria for having tortured freedom-fighters during the war of ... the rise in the FN vote in traditionally left-voting towns long blighted with unemployment, street ...
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Risking the planet for big business profits
(IPCC) 鈥 the Earth's average temperature will rise 1.5-4.5掳C during the next century. The results of ... decisive and immediate action must be taken to prevent possibly terrible consequences, which include rises ... others 鈥 and a far-right US think-tank called the Frontiers of Freedom Institute. The confab was endorsed ...
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Why Kumanjayi Langdon didn鈥檛 die a free man
Cavenagh found he died from natural causes but should have been able to die in freedom, with his family and ... but not fatal鈥. Rise in police workload Police witnesses told the inquest police workload had ... between the paperless arrest laws and a rise in incarceration of Aboriginal people, which perpetuates and ...
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UNITED STATES: The new cold war
biggest-ever war machine. Military spending will rise to US$379 billion, of which $50 billion will pay for its ... prophetic work, 1984. In the novel, three slogans dominate society: war is peace, freedom is slavery and ...
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The good news industry
diseases re-emerging. Birth defects rising. Loss of species accelerating. Youthful suicides increasing. ... Institute, the Reason Foundation, the American Freedom Coalition and the Pacific Research Institute for ...
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Why Elvis had to be destroyed
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley By Peter Guralnick Abacus, London, 1995. 578pp., ... that the victory of "democracy" over fascism would lead to a new era of personal freedom and ...
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France's May/June 1968 events marked an extraordinary challenge to the status quo
personal freedom were overturned. People not only talked of revolution and radical change but insisted that ... in the absence of that, the workers themselves did not rise to the occasion. The workplace democracy ... army and the right-wing and take back control. Huge wage rises were conceded to the workers (the ...
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UNSW staff campaign for new agreement
with minimal changes. The union is seeking a 20% pay rise over three years, but it has emphasised that ... its claim is not just about a pay rise. Its claims also cover work load regulation, job security, ... casual and fixed-term staff, and guarantees that all UNSW staff are afforded intellectual freedom ...
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Burma: 'Heading for a new crisis'
regulations have been introduced that restrict people's freedom of movement." Since the curfew there ... that the Burmese military is running low on funds and that further price rises are likely soon. The ... most recent round of demonstrations were in response to fuel price rises introduced at the behest of ...
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Action updates
opposition to racism", Kailis said, adding that it was time to "exercise our freedom of ... staff redundancies, a staff pay rise without conditions and no additional postgraduate fees. The ... social circumstances that give rise to racism. May 28, 1997 276 ...
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Interview: Tunisia's 'unfinished revolution'
freedom of expression and media and also the dissolution of the hated secret police, if only in a formal ... Protesters, activists and journalists have been attacked. What is the situation for freedom of political ... media freedom and establishing an independent commission for information. So, journalists are still ...
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EUSKADI: ETA militarism, Spanish centralism big losers in Basque poll
organisation ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) has carried out a spate of bombings and assassinations across ... and all-Spanish politics. Within the PSOE there is a rising wave of criticism of the PSE's policy ... Freedoms and Against Terrorism" with Aznar's party. Not only are the (insignificant) left ...
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CUBA: Cuban women, beyond prostitution
by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Sojourner, a feminist newspaper, and ... rise, Cuban feminists began to address the issue with a wide range of tactics. The FMC launched outreach ...
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Nike's cover-up campaign
NikeWatch campaign. Like Cutting Bamboo: Nike and Indonesian Workers' Right to Freedom of Association ... increase in pay. Officials of the SP TSK, however, are typically provided with promotions, pay rises and ...
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Action updates
children gathered on April 7 near the razor-wire fences surrounding the centre, chanting "Freedom ... ! Freedom!". According to official figures, 1288 asylum seekers, mostly from Afghanistan and Iraq, are being ... enterprise bargaining campaign for better pay and conditions. Teachers are seeking an 8% annual pay rise, as ...
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Ethiopia: The many crimes of the TPLF
Ethiopian people are rising up, and are repeating the slogan: 鈥淯nity, Freedom and Democracy鈥. They are ...
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Class showdown looms in Venezuela
yet on January 23, when their "March for Freedom and Democracy" drew anything between 80,000 ... experience of the freedom struggles of all the fraternal peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean". ... media freedom in the country. This last issue is playing an increasingly important role in opposition. ...
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Macquarie Uni NTEU staff strike, picket
impasse due to management's offer of below-CPI pay rises in 2015-16, refusal to commit to reduction ... reasonable workloads, attacks on procedures that support academic freedom and failure to ensure equitable ...
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Students protest against police brutality
staff rights, such as unfair dismissal and academic freedom provisions. However, the picket lines have ... showed a significant rise in violence. The picket lines were repeatedly attacked leaving two students ...
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Anti-war activists prepare for October 25
the occupation, troops out of Iraq, no more war for oil, freedom for Palestine and an end to seaswaps ... for the occupation of Iraq is evaporating as the death toll among US soldiers continues to rise in the ...
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On the box
five-part series follows the course of the Cultural Revolution and the rise of the Gang of Four. The first ... Spanish Civil War. It tells the story of six women's fight for freedom, their struggle for justice ...
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Loose cannons
Association, arguing for a wage rise for coppers. @columhead = Electoral strategy "If Labour voters die at ... 1997." 鈥 Margaret Ratcliffe, secretary of the Religious Freedom Institute, an organisation of Christian ...