It was a packed night at the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-controlled gay bar in downtown New York City on June 28, 1969. Stonewall was the only bar in town where gays could dance together, which meant that despite it being dilapidated 鈥 there was no running water behind the bar, no fire exits, the toilets overflowed 鈥 there was a heavy door charge and the drinks were overpriced.
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Visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has urged Sri Lankans held in immigration detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru to come home. 鈥淐ome back. All is forgiven,鈥 in Canberra on February 15 after talks with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
Even though they had broken the law in trying to flee to Australia he insisted they would not face prosecution if they returned.
The misnamed Fair Work聽Commission decided on February 23 to cut Sunday penalty rates. This will slash the take-home pay of about 700,000 workers in the retail, hospitality and fast food sectors by up to $6000 a year.
The commission will also reduce public holiday penalty rates for full-time and part-time workers in these聽industries.
Victorian Trades Hall Council and We Are Union called a snap action outside the Fair Work Commission in Melbourne just before the decision was announced.
Palestinian artists, cultural groups and human rights supporters have welcomed the Australian-British singer Natalie Imbruglia鈥檚 of her planned March performance in Tel Aviv and thanked her for deciding to be 鈥渙n the right side of history, on the side of the oppressed鈥.
The Trump administration is pressing on with its reactionary agenda amid ongoing mass protests.
Wall Street and businesses, big and small, greeted Trump鈥檚 election with elation in anticipation of his campaign promises to rapidly eliminate regulations they regard as onerous. As Trump seeks to fulfil these promises, the capitalists are moving to take advantage of the chance to rake in greater profits.
Nearly 2 million Britons have signed a petition calling on President Trump鈥檚 official state visit to be canceled. On February 20, thousands of protesters gathered outside Parliament in London as British lawmakers debated whether to deny Trump a formal state visit. Democracy Now! spoke to Asad Rehman of Friends of the Earth International. He spoke at the protest in London on February 20. The video and transcript are below.
Mapping My Return: A Palestinian Memoir
By Salman Abu Sitta
American University in Cairo Press
2016
Given the centrality of memory and history to the modern Palestinian identity, it is fitting that the number of memoirs and diaries being published by Palestinians seems to be rising.
Immediately after contributing to his team鈥檚 Super Bowl victory on February, Martellus Bennett of the New England Patriots was asked what he thought about an upcoming visit to Mexico to represent the National Football League (NFL).
鈥淭ear down the wall! Tear down the wall! That鈥檚 what I think about going to Mexico,鈥 .
Bennett then became the first of a number of Patriots players to confirm they would skip a visit with President Donald Trump at the White House.
Jews Against the Occupation released this statement on February 21, as the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Sydney for a four-day visit.
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Jews against the Occupation are strongly opposed to the red carpet welcome being given by the Australian Government and Opposition to the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
About 100 people braved pouring聽rain in聽Melbourne on February 19聽to protest the visit to Australia by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
In the wake of a growing corruption scandal around him聽and the recent passage of the so-called Regularisation Law that retrospectively 鈥渓egalises鈥 illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the situation of Palestinian communities across the occupied territories has become聽increasingly desperate.
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