The first days of the December 3-14 Bali meeting on a post-Kyoto framework for tackling climate change showed that the US-led call for a 聯comprehensive new agreement聰 that would require Third World countries that are big greenhouse-gas emitters to commit to emission reductions had the support of most First World government delegations. This push would reverse one of the most valuable aspects of the Kyoto Protocol, which is due to expire in 2012.
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Kevin Smith, a researcher for Carbon Trade Watch, participated in the December 3-14 United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Bali, Indonesia. Smith spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly聮蝉 Zoe Kenny about the campaign against carbon trading.
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.
@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!
Ecology is often seen as a recent invention. But the idea that capitalism degrades the environment in a way that disproportionately affects the poor and the colonised was already expressed in the 19th century in the work of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
With the defeat of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez鈥檚 proposed constitutional reforms, aimed at 鈥渙pening the path to socialism鈥 in the referendum on December 2, by a tiny margin of 50.7% to 49.3% with 90% of the vote counted, many Venezuelans and supporters of the Bolivarian revolution internationally are asking 鈥渨hat happened?鈥.
When I switched on the TV on the day after the federal election, this message hit me: the election is over, now we can get on with Christmas shopping!
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.
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.
The defeat of the Howard government in the November 24 federal election was 聯a great victory for the Australian working class聰, Sam Watson, leading Aboriginal activist and Queensland Senate candidate for the Socialist Alliance, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly. 聯John Howard has been cast out, senior ministers defeated, and many Coalition seats now made marginal. This represents a realignment of working-class forces in the country聰, Watson added.
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.
On the night of March 25, 1971 the Pakistani army began a campaign to murder and rape thousands of Bengalis in an attempt to curb the rise of the Bengali national independence movement in what was then East Pakistan 聴 Bangladesh today.
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