US woman with four jobs dies while napping
鈥淎 New Jersey woman who worked four jobs, who sometimes 'wouldn鈥檛 sleep for five days' according to a co-worker, died Monday while napping between shifts in her car on the side of the road.
Maria Fernandes died in her 2001 Kia Sportage after inhaling carbon monoxide and fumes from an overturned gas container she kept in the car ...
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In the months leading up to Ecuador鈥檚 October 2006 presidential election, the US Embassy in Quito claimed to be impartial.
Rather than supporting one particular candidate, then-US ambassador the embassy only wanted to help facilitate 鈥渁 fair and transparent electoral process鈥.
Palestinian boycott hitting Israel's economy
In the last two months, Palestinians across the West Bank have begun heeding calls to boycott Israeli goods in increasing numbers as popular campaigns have taken to the street to promote the campaign, on August 28.
Economic analysts say the campaign could potentially have a major negative effect on the Israeli economy. It could also buoy the Palestinian economy.
Kurds search for unity amid fight to defeat Islamic State
Across northern Syria and Iraq, Kurdish forces are locked in fierce battles with the murderous Islamic State (IS) armed force, . Whether directly or indirectly, the whole Kurdish people is being drawn into this struggle.
Ireland: Gerry Adams reflects on 20th anniversary of IRA cessation
September 17-30
11am-4pm (opening night 6pm)
The Snug
447 High St, Northcote.
Free entry
The Art of Silent Protest is a new exhibition as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival.
In view of new laws, a collective of Australian creative people have responded to this question. They use the form of the placard to 鈥渆xplore notions of change and the visual impact of the art of activism鈥.
A diverse range of musical acts from Brisbane and the Gold Coast are uniting in support of asylum seekers at the 鈥淔reedom Seeker: Roots, rock, reggae for refugees鈥 concert at the New Globe on September 14 starting at 3pm.
Lending their songs and voices to the call for the Australian government to abide by it obligations to refugees, the concert is raising money for refugee advocacy and assistance through the Refugee Action Collective (RAC) and the Refugee and Immigration Legal Service (RAILS).
The lineup includes Big Iron, Rivermouth, The Phil Monsour Band, The Molotov and Andy Dub.
Since the two-party political establishment in the Spanish state 鈥 the People鈥檚 Party (PP) of prime minister Mariano Rajoy and the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) 鈥 got less than 50% in the May 25 European elections, its nightmares have been getting scarier.
The spectre disturbing their sleep is Podemos, the political expression of the indignado movement that in May 2011 exploded against austerity and corruption and for 鈥渞eal democracy鈥.
There is a political movement in Scotland that is quite beyond anything containable by or even comprehensible through the terms of conventional parliamentary, tick-some-scoundrel's-name-every-four-years politics.
Many of us have had our political senses so numbed for so long by broken promises of change that it鈥檚 taken a long time for people to wake up to this fact.
Global Imperialism & the Great Crisis: the Uncertain Future of Capitalism
Ernesto Screpanti
Monthly Review Press, 2014
New York, 256 pages
The goal of Ernesto Screpanti鈥檚 new book is to theoretically elaborate a model of a new phase of imperialism.
Screpanti鈥檚 argument is that the kind of imperialism written about by the likes of Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin belongs more and more to the past. Although the work of people like Lenin retain relevance, Screpanti argues a new kind of imperialism has been taking shape over the past two decades.
Protests are continuing in the Missouri town of Ferguson and across the country for justice for the family of Michael Brown, the unarmed Black teenager shot dead by a police officer on August 9, and against police violence and racism.
Below is an abridged September 3 US on the struggle.
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The graffiti in Ferguson, Missouri tells a story.
I am the founder of 鈥淩eality Records鈥 and a 24-year-old indigenous Australian with a strong cultural background. I am asking your assistance in helping indigenous artists 鈥 not only from Australia but around the world 鈥 have their music recorded and produced.
I see a shortage of indigenous music around the world, particularly in Australia, and I believe this provides a unique opportunity. My record label aims to help address this shortage by:
鈥 Bringing people together in a positive and creative environment;
鈥 Teaching people new skills and self confidence;
Two representatives from Irish republican party Sinn Fein toured Australia from August to September 7, speaking to hundreds of people at public meetings about the campaign for Irish reunification.
Sinn Fein vice-president and member of the Dail (Irish parliament) Mary Lou McDonald and Sinn Fein MP for Mid-Ulster in Ireland's north Francie Molloy, spoke in support of the campaign to end partition and unite the six counties still claimed by Britain with the 26 counties that make up the southern state in a democratic republic.
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