About 800 people rallied at Sydney Town Hall Square on June 28 as part of the third #SOSBlakAustralia global mobilisation against the threatened forced closures of Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and elsewhere. Protest actions also took place in other cities around the country, and in some cities overseas, over the same weekend.
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Environmental groups have congratulated the Netherlands after 866 Dutch citizens collectively won a lawsuit filed against their own government for 鈥渒nowingly contributing鈥 to global warming while doing nothing to prevent it.
Gaza, July 2014.
Israel plans to shut down Palestinian TV station
Israel plans to shut down a new Arabic-language television station that services Palestinian citizens of Israel, .
Frackman
Directed by Richard Todd
http://frackmanthemovie.com
Frackman is a new documentary that follows the story of self-proclaimed 鈥渨orst environmental activist ever鈥 Dayne Pratzky, a resident of the Tara Estates, Chinchilla, in Queensland.
Protest by Awami Workers Party-Sindh against exacerbation of heatwave by corruption and electricity privatisation. Hyderabad, Sindh, June 28. Photo: Awami Workers Party-Sindh/ Facebook.
The death toll in Pakistan's devastating heat wave shot past 1000 on June 25. This makes it the worst heat wave to hit the country's southern city of Karachi in at least 35 years.
Land rights activists in Honduras' north coast Aguan Valley have condemned what they call an ongoing 鈥渉unt鈥 of campesinos (small farmers) in their communities.
The activists are calling for freedom for political prisoners and an end to repression of campesino movements.
Family members of jailed and persecuted rural workers have denounced the 鈥渄irty and malicious campaign鈥 of criminalisation against campesino leaders and communities. They accuse the national police, and other state and private security forces, of operating as 鈥渁 gang of hitmen鈥.
鈥淧rotesters rallied in Columbia on Tuesday to demand the flag's removal from South Carolina's state capitol,鈥 the BBC reported on June 24.
The protest comes in the aftermath of the racist mass murder carried by Dylann Roof on June 17 in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof, who killed nine people in a historic African American church, was photographed with the flag, which still flies over the state's capitol.
Bolivia's President Evo Morales highlighted the importance of social movements in driving the changes and the economic growth experienced by the South American country in recent years.
Jaime Nebot. Photo: ANDES.
Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa singled out opposition politician Jaime Nebot, who has been calling for protests against the government, as a clear example of the progress the country has made with respect to the collection of taxes.
Correa came to power in 2007. He said in 2006, Nebot paid just US$1994 in income taxes, but by last year the opposition leader was paying US$66,593.
Newly released court documents show the US government won a series of court challenges that led to Google having to turn over one years worth of data of user Jacob Appelbaum.
Appelbaum is a WikiLeaks volunteer and a developer for Tor, a free browser and an open network to protect online privacy. He was being targeted by the US Justice Department as part of their criminal investigation into WikiLeaks.
President Nicolas Maduro supported reparations for slavery after a ceremony that paid tribute to Afro-Venezuelan independence fighter Pedro Camejo.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro expressed support on June 24 for the Caribbean call for reparations from their former colonial powers.
Top generals in the Colombian army have been implicated in the long-running 鈥渇alse positives鈥 military scandal, according to a new report Human Rights Watch (HRW) published on June 24.
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