While the Howard government has succeeded in partially defusing David Hicks鈥檚 unjust imprisonment as an election issue, it has still not convinced most people that Hicks鈥檚 guilty plea means he is a terrorist.
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Supporters of the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions assembled on April 11 at the Iberoamerican square to commemorate the failure of the April 2002 US-backed coup against the government of Venezuela鈥檚 socialist president, Hugo Chavez.
鈥淭here is no future for oil-dependent agriculture鈥, well-known Columban priest and Philippines-based anti-GMO campaigner Brian Gore told the WA launch of Say No to GMO (genetically modified organisms) on April 5.
A year after the Howard government introduced Work Choices, the legislation聮s negative impact on workers聮 wages and conditions and unions聮 ability to defend their members聮 interests is clear for all to see.
Prensa Latina reported on April 11 that more than 100,000 Bolivians have already learned to read and write through the Cuban 聯Yes, I Can聰 literacy program since it began early last year. According to education minister Victor Caceres, in La Paz, more than 40,000 of the 286,280 people in the program have already graduated. The national program aims to teach more than 1.2 million illiterate people how to read and write so that the country can be free from illiteracy in 2008. President Evo Morales has already declared Tocata municipality, in Cochabamba, the first locality to be illiteracy-free.
鈥淭he PST has increased its vote slightly on its results in 2000", Avelino Coelho da Silva, secretary-general of the Socialist Party of Timor, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly by telephone from Dili. Coelho was the PST鈥檚 candidate in the country鈥檚 April 9 presidential election, the final results of which will be officially announced by the National Election Commission (CNE) on April 16.
In early April, Independent Liquor worker and member of the Unite Union Steve Tipene took his own life, just eight days after he was sacked from his job. Unite had filed a challenge against the dismissal at the Employment Relations Authority shortly before hearing of his death. Unite reported on April 13 that Tipene聮s family believed the sacking was a major factor in his death and according to the union, the company has a long history of anti-union practices and workplace bullying. Unite organiser John Minto described 46-year-old Tipene as a strong unionist who understood the importance of workers sticking together. 聯Steve took part in the strikes last year which gained the first collective agreement at Independent Liquor for 20 years. He has helped make it a bit easy for the employees who follow him at Independent. He was a good man.聰
At this year聮s national ALP conference, to be held in Sydney from April 27, delegates will determine whether or not to ditch Labor聮s current policy of not supporting any new uranium mines (adopted in 1998). The current policy will almost certainly be overturned.
I once was a greenie but that's in the past
As an ALP pollie I've made it at last
Once I bellowed and blustered in front of the Oils
Now I sit on the front bench 鈥 my eye on the spoils
CHORUS
I once was a greenie but that's in the past
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On April 6, notorious Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles was granted freedom on bail in the El Paso Federal Court, which will allow him to return home to his family in Miami after the payment of US$250,000. Posada, a former CIA operative, was the mastermind of the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976, and has been involved in other terrorist acts and violent campaigns against popular movements in Latin America. Washington has denied requests to extradite him to Venezuela, where he had been imprisoned until he escaped in 1985.
Free Market Missionaries: The Corporate Manipulation of Community Values
By Sharon Beder
Earthscan, 2006
260 pages, $56
By Sharon Beder
Earthscan, 2006
260 pages, $56
In his first two articles in the Cuban Communist Party鈥檚 newspaper, Granma, since becoming ill last year, President Fidel Castro lashed out at the recently signed ethanol deal between Brazil and the US. In an April 3 article he described it as 鈥渢he internationalisation of genocide鈥.
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