On September 10 a British jury acquitted six Greenpeace protesters who were on trial for trying to shut down a coal-fired power station on the grounds that they were trying to stop global warming.
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Four retired and one active Venezuelan military officials have been arrested, a further 33 questioned and the US ambassador expelled in the wake of the September 10 revelation of a planned coup and assassination attempt against President Hugo Chavez.
The Greens were the major beneficiaries of the swing to the left in many councils across NSW at the September 13 elections, probably taking their representation to more than 70 for the first time. Independents and other progressive tickets, including the Socialist Alliance, also made gains.
The Australian Services Union (ASU) Victorian secretary, Ingrid Stitt, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly that Labor聮s new Interim Transitional Employment Agreements are a 聯wolf in sheep聮s clothing聰. The ITEAs were introduced by the Rudd government to replace the notorious Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs <17> individual contracts).
In the lead-up to the release of a report from the federal government鈥檚 review into the Northern Territory intervention, the Australian Indigenous Doctors鈥 Association has blasted the policy. AIDA describes it as discriminatory, damaging to people鈥檚 health and completely unable to alter conditions of child abuse or neglect in remote Aboriginal communities.
The below sign-on statement, 聯In Support of Cuba: Worldwide call to artists and intellectuals聰, has been issued by the Cuban government. To add your name, visit .
Max Phillips, a newly elected Greens councillor in Marrickville and the Greens聮 campaign coordinator for the September 13 NSW local government elections, puts the swing to the Greens down to the state Labor government聮s implosion.
Beauty myth
I am writing in response to Pam Rankin's questions (Write On #767) regarding the way women dress and treat their bodies. To find the answer to who "forces" Western women to wax, pluck, chemical peal and worse, we don't have to look
McKesson Asia-Pacific, a subsidiary of US multinational medical services operator McKesson Corporation, landed a $176 million government contract to provide an all-hours national health telephone triage system called Healthdirect Australia. It began taking calls in New South Wales in August.
As I write this column the newspapers report that United States, Canadian, European and Japanese banks have combined to inject an extra US$180 billion (A$225 billion) into global financial markets. It is the latest desperate measure to try to stem the year-old global financial crisis commonly 鈥 and misleadingly 鈥 labelled the US subprime mortgage crisis.
Colombian trade union and human rights activist Liliany Obando was arrested and detained in a maximum security prison on August 8 by the anti-terrorism unit of the Colombian National Police.
鈥淲ill my superannuation fund be next?鈥 鈥淎re my savings safe?鈥 As working people in the developed economies watch the assets of one financial institution after another vaporise into nothingness, tens of millions are asking these dreadful questions.
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