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1. Greens campaign for rent freeze, housing affordability

   interest rates approached a seven-year high on September 6, The Guardian, citing analysis by financial data ... under mortgage stress, with 45% of households spending more than they are earning”. This comes on top of ... “rental stress” — defined as spending 30% or more of income on rent — which affects millions. A survey ...

2. People’s uprising a ‘defining moment in Sri Lankan politics’

   manufacturing, and foreign remittances by migrant workers” — all of which rely largely on women’s labour, she ... and Socialist Alliance hosted a discussion on the uprising, featuring activists from Sri Lanka and the ... facing at that time,” she said. “Until 1978, the economic system was based on the Keynesian system, where ...

3. The war on Wikileaks: John Pilger interviews Julian Assange

   Wikileaks' editor-in-chief about the “war on WikiLeaks” in response to the website “speaking truth to power”. ... one of the “war on terror” conspiracy statutes that have degraded American justice. Judicial experts ... On 18 March 2008, a war on WikiLeaks was foretold in a secret Pentagon document prepared by the ...

4. Of course Jim Molan's no war criminal, he just happened to allegedly oversee alleged war crimes

   occupiers’ military assault on Fallujah that included alleged war crimes, such as targeting civilians and ... access to humanitarian aid is considered to be a war crime. “But it gets worse... On November 7, a New ... Imperialism & war Carlo Sands Iraq War Geneva Conventions Greens MP Adam Bandt was forced to ...

5. Rojava revolutionaries show how to fight 'Islamic State'

   a dual nature. On the one hand, it is a well equipped army that emerged out of Syria's civil war to ... — to initiate an air-war against the group. On the other hand, the prestige it achieved through these ... its authority. When Western leaders claim the IS has declared war on the whole world, they can back up ...

6. Obama and the 'war on terror'

   "war on terror" in Afghanistan, while signalling he wants to wind it back in Iraq. During the US ... by many US voters of former president George Bush's open-ended "war on terror", Obama ... all his rhetoric concerning "change", Obama's commitment to the "war on ...

7. 'Defending Afrin means defending the women's revolution'

   Women of Afrin to the Women of the World”, was released on February 3 by Kongreya Star Efrin, ... grassroots democracy and women’s liberation. There is a sign-on statement for Australians to oppose Turkey’s ... autonomous structures based on communal organising, women’s councils, academies, and cooperatives, as well as ...

8. Britain: New king won’t solve deep crisis

   genders, women and ethnic minorities  — much more centre-stage. The ideological war will be especially ... hit the nail on the head when he said: “Now the vast apparatus of the state will swing into action in ... engagement ring to pay energy bills. She contrasted her situation to the many billions of pounds spent on the ...

9. 10 new protest albums to fuel Extinction Rebellion

   2019 refused war music neil young colorado Extinction Rebellion (XR) In a month when Extinction ... than 10- count them. What albums would you suggest? Comment on  Twitter,  Facebook, or  email.  NOOKY- ... water and power being cut off. The personal pain of loss in Aboriginal communities looms large on the ...

10. Rise up for World Kobane Day

    international solidarity on World Kobane Day 2020, the group Women Defend Rojava said: “On June 23 this year, ... Kobane. "This attack on women’s rights activists is an attack on society, the women’s movement and ... Anti-racism Climate crisis Democracy Environment Feminism Imperialism & war International ...

11. Summer reading: recommended books of 2013

    World War, Britain played a double game: trying to crack down on offshore skulduggery while ... terrorism. Scahill uncovers some of the darkest aspects of the “war on terror’ by speaking to the civilians, ... with him on his latest film, Utopia. I’d claim working with Pilger was the realisation of a childhood ...

12. The Poors of Chatsworth: South Africa's undeclared war on the poor

    from the frontlines of the [South African] establishment's 'undeclared war' on the ... not last long. The ANC moved quickly to lower tariffs on imported clothes with the result that the ... As early as July 1994, eviction notices were served on 950 tenants who were in arrears. Water and ...

13. Liberals’ refusal to disendorse Deves underscores its anti-LGBTI agenda

    biologically men have committed sexual assault on women.” After this third revelation she deleted her whole ... trans women playing community sport won’t be supported by the government.” Yet it was reported on April ... 12 that “Morrison doubles down on trans women sport ban in a bid to appease religious groups”. The ...

14. Ian Fleming's sexism and cold war primitivism

    Books & music Imperialism & war Phil Shannon James Bond Books and reviews Ian Fleming: The ... Intelligence Division during World War II fell into his lap. Despite earlier being a bit of an appeaser, ... caricatures of Cold War heroes and villains, refracted through the anti-socialist lens of Fleming, the ...

15. New book gives inspiring account of Rojava’s revolutionary bid for autonomy and women’s liberation

    Economy Imperialism & war Democracy International solidarity National liberation Feminism ... Derek Wall Rojava revolution People's Defense Units (YPG) Women's Protection Units (YPJ) ... Democratic Union Party (PYD) Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy & Women’s Liberation in Syrian ...

16. Gaza activist: 'Israel has declared war, act now'

    Harrison Israel has launched a fresh full-scale war on the besieged people of Gaza. The Palestine In My ... civilians on Gaza. Israel has declared war on Gaza. Israel says that it was a surgical attack aimed at ... against Israel's war across Australia. shamikh_badra_speech_on ...

17. Washington's war on democracy (and its discontents)

    Katie Cherrington The War on Democracy Directed by John Pilger & Chris Martin 96 minutes In ... renowned dissident journalist John Pilger's latest documentary, The War on Democracy — his first ... "war on terror" being waged today. Pilger refers to the justifications made for US interventions ...

18. Palestinian women bear occupation’s brunt

    Anti-racism Imperialism & war Democracy National liberation Feminism Lisa Gleeson As women ... around the world prepare to celebrate International Women’s Day (IWD) on March 8 and continue the ... how Palestinian women are impacted by the occupation. On a visit to the Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron, the ...

19. India: Modi government declares war on students, democracy

    Modi's government is waging war on campuses and on the right to dissent. If one young life — that of ... of Delhi — mainly by students and youth — offered a remarkable resistance to Modi's war on ... women, intellectuals and citizens from all walks of life, marched on the streets of Delhi to show ...

20. UNITED STATES: Ashcroft's war on activism

    "sailor-mongers [who] get on board vessels and by the help of intoxicants, and the use of other means, often ... modern civil rights movement — may become yet another casualty of Ashcroft's attack on civil ... Tubman's "underground railroad", which helped slaves escape north, to the struggle of women to ...

21. Statement against war on Tamils initiated by World at the Crossroads participants:

    embarked on the reconquest of the island's north through brutal war with devastating consequences for ... 91������̳ Weekly in Sydney, April 10-12. A selection of the much larger number of names that signed on ... ago the government started registering all Tamils in Colombo on the grounds that they could be ...

22. VENEZUELA: Why the right has declared war on Chavez

    during the corrupt bipartisan reign of the Social Christians and Democratic Action, have declared war on ... indigenous and women's rights and free health care and education up to university level. Chavez faces ... reinforcing a constitutional ban on the privatisation of the state oil company. Allied with Chavez's ...

23. John Pilger on the coming war with China

    Imperialism & war John Pilger When I first went to Hiroshima in 1967, the shadow on the steps ... a political embarrassment. I have spent two years making a documentary film,  The Coming War on China,  in ... strategist, Herman Kahn – “thinking the unthinkable”. Kahn’s book,  On Thermonuclear War,  elaborated a plan ...

24. Write On: Letters to 91������̳ Weekly

    you in your cause. I was with my partner shopping on Saturday shopping when I spotted an anti-war ... Anti-war protest in Taree Two-hundred-and-fifty protesters marched from Johnny Martin Oval to the ... Queen Elizabeth Park in Taree on Saturday February 14, where they listened to speakers from across the ...

25. Women take to the streets for peace

    BY KIM BULLIMORE SYDNEY — “Women and children will the ones who will suffer the most if the war on ... Lemon, Win Childs is organising the February 21 Women for Peace rally. “A war will have a catastrophic ... oppose Bush and Howard's push for war. The Women for Peace rally will begin at 12.30pm in Hyde Park ...

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