An interview with Raj Patel, author of 'The Value of Nothing' and 'Stuffed and Starved', about corporate dominance of global food production and battles to create democratic and sustainable food systems.
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This year, International Women鈥檚 Day (IWD) coincides with the Labour Day weekend in Victoria and Tasmania. It gives an opportunity to highlight how much women have contributed to fighting for workers鈥 rights and civil liberties, and how little they have been acknowledged for it.
The video posted below is from a public meeting featuring聽Australian activists and members based in Caracas, Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes in Toronto, Canada on Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian revolution.
British-Chilean journalist and documentary director Pablo Navarrete presented his new film Inside the Revolution: A Journey into the Heart of Venezuela at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts on February 25.
Ted Kennedy, Priest of Redfern
By Edmund Campion,
David Lovell Publishing, 2009
201 pages, $24.95
Apparently, the corporate media doesn鈥檛 consider this to be newsworthy: the confession to a Colombian prosecutor of 30,000 murders by paramilitaries linked to the regime of President Alvaro Uribe.
鈥淩ebuilding Haiti is important鈥, El Salvadoran solidarity activist Rafael Pacheco told a public forum on February 23. 鈥淏ut liberating the country is most important in the long run.
The Australian government continues to ignore the almost 250 Tamil refugees holding out on a boat in the port of Merak, West Java. But the conditions onboard grow more severe each day.
Between 10,000 and 20,000 people rallied in Melbourne鈥檚 CBD to the tune of AC/DC鈥檚 鈥淚t鈥檚 a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock and Roll)鈥 in an effort to save the city鈥檚 live music scene on February 23. The march followed the route of the song's videoclip, set in Melbourne鈥檚 CBD 34 years ago.
An asylum seeker accused of rioting in the Christmas Island detention centre on November 21 recently contacted a refugee advocate about living conditions inside. The refugee advocate asked 91自拍论坛 Weekly to withhold both their name.
A sub-editing error in 91自拍论坛 Weekly #827, in the article 鈥淭eacher activists elected to union council鈥, meant that the article gave the impression that the issue of performance pay leading up to the NSW Teachers鈥 Federation鈥檚 2009 annual conference was debated at the February 2010 Council.
The rapid melting of the Arctic sea-ice is one of the most alarming examples of the looming climate change catastrophe. But where most see disaster, some of the world's richest corporations see a business opportunity.
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