The Story of Cap & Trade (below) is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Cap and trade is also variously described as 鈥渃arbon trading'' and 鈥渆missions trading鈥. In Australia, the federal Labor government is trying to push a variation of this through the Senate called the 鈥淐arbon Pollution Reduction Scheme鈥.
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Raising My Voice: The Extraordinary Story of the Afghan Woman Who Dares to Speak Out
By Malalai Joya
Macmillan, 2009
278 pages, $34.99 (pb)
Professor Brij Lal is a Fijian historian and is part of the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. He was recently expelled from Fiji by the military government for speaking out against the regime鈥檚 expulsion of Australian diplomats on November 3.
Bless-ed be O reverential Economy
Append another clause to Deuteronomy
To wit, Mammon updating Moses
Verily thou needst shit to grow roses,
On garden spread warm manure
Draw forth the bloom pure.
All hail our ubiquitous Economy
Before whom
Israel's ongoing takeover of East Jerusalem shows it is trying to kill any hope of a negotiated settlement to Palestine鈥檚 struggle for self-determination.
The federal senate was bogged down in debate about Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in the last week of November. The proposed scheme, already condemned by most environmental NGO鈥檚 and climate action groups as a sham, was 鈥渂rowned down鈥 even more after the Rudd government accepted a series of Liberal Party amendments.
Nearly 2000 students from University of California campuses 鈥 including Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Irvine and San Diego 鈥 converged on UCLA鈥檚 campus on November 19 to confront the UC Board of Regents as it voted to increase tuition by 32% next school year.
The article published below is a November 25 statement by the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. For more information, visit .
Do you have that sinking feeling? As though you have to run faster just to stand still? Are you having increasing problems making ends meet? Well, you鈥檙e not alone. It鈥檚 official 鈥 wages growth has fallen behind inflation. While the economy goes through 鈥渞ecovery鈥, we鈥檙e going backwards.
Twenty-eight-year-old Malaysian activist Sivaranjani Manickam will be a special guest at the 鈥淭owards Justice, Sustainability and People鈥檚 Power: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century鈥 conference in Sydney in January.
A November 18 report by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) titled Building on Our Strengths confirmed that the experience of racism has serious health implications for Indigenous and migrant communities in Australia.
The deadline to pass the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) approached, and passed, on November 26, with the Senate extending debate on the issue until the week after. The nation's media were transfixed by the spectacle of the Liberal Party annihilating itself over what position to take.
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