Worldwide, building construction and use accounts for around 40% of greenhouse gas emissions (materials, actual construction, heating, cooling, lighting etc.). The use of green building materials and construction techniques must be a key element in the drive to curb global warming.
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The jammed crowd of marchers on December 6 in Cochabamba took an hour and a half to walk past the window of our office, from start to finish. By the time that the dense snake of supporters President Evo Morales wound its way through the city centre and gathered as a single throng in the Central Plaza, it easily numbered 10,000 or more. It was the largest gathering I have seen in the plaza since the high tide of the 聯water revolt聰 in April 2000. It was also completely peaceful.
In September 2006, Roger Harris, a teacher at Chisholm Institute of Technology (Victoria) and an Australian Education Union member for 23 years, was stood down by the Chisholm management. Harris had been an active union member, playing a central role on the sub-branch executive for 16 years and has served on the AEU聮蝉 TAFE sector council for 10 years.
A bill legalising aspects of brothel operation is being debated by Western Australia聮蝉 parliament. The Prostitution Amendment Bill 2007 would change the current legislative approach to brothels from one of 聯containment聰 (brothels, while technically illegal, are regulated by the police), to one where brothel managers and owners could be formally registered.
In New South Wales
bridges tell the tale
of life聮蝉 travail
for the not so beautiful elite @poetry = The homeless out of work
share a space of dirt
beneath your bridges
under the souls of your feet @poetry = There聮蝉 no dreaming here
romance is out of date
beauty is the sadness
of a quintessential fate @poetry = Mums 聮n kids share
8 x 2 tin cans with lids
and wait for that day of the meek
but it won聮t be this week @poetry = There communards
sleep by streets
on a park bench
where the soup kitchen meets @poetry = Real jobs have gone
old industries fled
and the rest of youse
have left us for dead @poetry = In New South Wales
histories tell the tale
of a social elite
with mud at their feet @poetry = and egos that never skip a beat
bridges tell the tale
of life聮蝉 travail
for the not so beautiful elite @poetry = The homeless out of work
share a space of dirt
beneath your bridges
under the souls of your feet @poetry = There聮蝉 no dreaming here
romance is out of date
beauty is the sadness
of a quintessential fate @poetry = Mums 聮n kids share
8 x 2 tin cans with lids
and wait for that day of the meek
but it won聮t be this week @poetry = There communards
sleep by streets
on a park bench
where the soup kitchen meets @poetry = Real jobs have gone
old industries fled
and the rest of youse
have left us for dead @poetry = In New South Wales
histories tell the tale
of a social elite
with mud at their feet @poetry = and egos that never skip a beat
Following the election of the new federal Labor government, ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope announced that a third attempt would be made to introduce same-sex civil unions in the ACT. Legislation currently before the ACT Legislative Assembly will be voted on early next year.
聯Now what?聰 must be the most commonly asked question among the left these days. Now what for the struggle for Indigenous rights? For the struggle against global warming? For the anti-war movement? For the fight against the Tamar Valley pulp mill? For the Your Rights at Work committees? Local Socialist Alliance branches have already begun a series of forums on this theme.
@poetry = Someone is crying in the dark,
She lost her son (a monk who stood up for people)
Someone had woken up in the middle of the night,
She longs for her rights as a human being. @poetry = Someone had been beaten to death on the road,
For he was holding a signboard. @poetry = Someone is praying in Insein jail,
He was arrested and tortured all day. @poetry = They have sacrificed for their country,
But their country has not been freed. @poetry = We have to hand over their works,
If you dare to fight for their rights! @poetry = We have to follow their way,
Which they聮ve walked with hope, love and prayers. @poetry = We will fight to reach our goal, @poetry = Don聮t wait until tommorrow!
She lost her son (a monk who stood up for people)
Someone had woken up in the middle of the night,
She longs for her rights as a human being. @poetry = Someone had been beaten to death on the road,
For he was holding a signboard. @poetry = Someone is praying in Insein jail,
He was arrested and tortured all day. @poetry = They have sacrificed for their country,
But their country has not been freed. @poetry = We have to hand over their works,
If you dare to fight for their rights! @poetry = We have to follow their way,
Which they聮ve walked with hope, love and prayers. @poetry = We will fight to reach our goal, @poetry = Don聮t wait until tommorrow!
Global warming
A vexing problem before negotiators at the December 3-14 UN climate change conference in Bali is how to convince poor countries to invest in renewable energy to power their development, when most renewable sources are significantly
Lex Wotton has been portrayed by the Queensland police, government and mainstream media as the ringleader of the so-called 聯riot聰 that occurred on Palm Island on November 26, 2004. A police station and residence were destroyed after a police report on the death of community member Mulrunji Doomadgee that concluded that his death was an accident was read at a public meeting. Wotton will face court in April 2008. He continues to be vilified in the media. He spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly聮蝉 Hamish Chitts.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. In the years following the revolution, its leaders initiated the formation of the Communist (Third) International (Comintern), an international grouping of communist parties. In Venezuela, the leadership of the country鈥檚 unfolding socialist revolution have issued a call for a new international of Latin American left parties. This article, by John Riddell, is part of an ongoing series on the history of the Comintern.
On November 29, Ecuador鈥檚 new constituent assembly sat for the first time, beginning the process of rewriting the country鈥檚 constitution as part of self-described socialist President Rafael Correa鈥檚 project of refounding the country through a 鈥渃itizen鈥檚 revolution鈥.
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