Guy Pearse 聴 the speechwriter for the federal Coalition environment minister from 1997 to 2000 who blew the whistle last year on the Howard government聮s use of Australia聮s biggest polluters to write its greenhouse gas emissions policy 聴 visited Melbourne on October 24 as part of an east-coast speaking tour.
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On September 21 about 200 people attended a forum on Sri Lanka organised by People for Human Rights and Racial Equality, a group comprising Sri Lankans of different ethnic groups living in Australia.
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聯Waving colourful banners and Kurdish flags, thousands of people demonstrated across northern Iraq today in protest at the growing threat of a big military incursion by Turkey to hunt down Kurdish rebels聰, the October 18 London Times reported.
At a well-attended press conference on October 25, Cuban ambassador Gilda Lopez Armenteros directed public attention to the upcoming United Nations General Assembly vote on a resolution calling for an end to the United States economic, commercial and financial blockade against Cuba.
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Venezuelan opposition groups are planning to use 鈥渁ll means possible to stop the constitutional reform referendum鈥, scheduled to take place on December 2, reported the October 25 Ultimas Noiticias. Describing the proposed constitutional reforms as a 鈥渃onstitutional coup鈥, a coalition of opposition parties 鈥 some of which participated in the short-lived military coup against the government of socialist President Hugo Chavez in 2002 鈥 have called for a massive protest on November 3, demanding that the National Electoral Council (CNE) suspend the constitutional reform referendum.
On October 24, US President George Bush 聴 a firm defender of freedom and human rights, as any Iraqi tortured by US forces at Abu Ghraib could testify 聴 denounced Cuba as a 聯tropical gulag聰. Bush said that Cuba is characterised by 聯terror and trauma聰. The president also reaffirmed his support for the punishing US economic embargo against Cuba, which has lasted almost half a century and cost the Cuban people some US$89 billion.
Two thousand people rallied in the East Timorese capital of Dili on October 17 to demand food sovereignty for East Timor. The demonstration was the culmination of three days of activities to mark World Food Day.
The death, on October 25, of the second Australian SAS soldier in Afghanistan this month, Matthew Locke, in the province of Oruzgan in southern Afghanistan, has again focused attention on the hidden military occupation that has bipartisan support in Australia. David Pearce was killed in the same province by Taliban forces on October 8.
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