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Compass: A Small Town Welcome 鈥 Explores what happens when a community says "yes" to taking in a family of Sudanese refugees. ABC, Friday, March 21, 7.30pm. Oswald's Ghost 鈥 Argues that after John F. Kennedy's assassination, the government
Thousands of union members at Fortune Tobacco Corporation in Marikina and members of the Labour Party (PM) celebrated International Women's Day (IWD) on March 8 with a demonstation from their factory gate to the town plaza. Marilyn Calilap, the
Addressing the founding congress of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) on March 2, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez proclaimed the new party to be 聯a party for the social battle, for the defense of the homeland聰.
Climate Code Red: the Case for a Sustainability Emergency
By David Spratt (Carbon Equity) & Philip Sutton (Greenleap Strategic Institute)
91 pages.
Published by Friends of the Earth.
$12/$10 or free PDF from .
Following the age-old premise of struggling locally to effect change globally, activists fighting for justice for the Palestinian people are taking big steps forward in a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeted against the criminal Israeli state.
Nearly 200 people filled Wollongong聮s Town Hall on March 11 to demand a Royal Commission into council corruption and for the people of Wollongong to be able to exercise their democratic right to take part in the NSW local government elections, scheduled for September.
Cradling my niece in my arms, she was white as a sheet and lying lifeless with the sedative effects of the medication 聴 and only 3 weeks into this world. Heartache, uncertainty and concern.
Carbon trading and offsets distract attention from the wider, systemic changes and collective political action that needs to be taken in the transition to a low-carbon economy. Promoting more effective and empowering approaches to climate change involves moving away from the blinkered reductionism of free-market dogma, the false economy of supposed quick fixes and the short-term self-interest of big business.
鈥淔or a council that won鈥檛 cost us the Earth鈥, was the slogan for the campaign for the Brisbane City Council by David White, a member of the Socialist Alliance. The council held elections on March 15.
Reeling from the blow that it received in the aftermath of the Colombian military鈥檚 illegal incursion on March 1 into Ecuador 鈥 which resulted in the brutal massacre of a number of civilians and members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), including its chief negotiator Raul Reyes 鈥 US imperialism has once again raised the ante in its struggle to undermine the growing process of Latin American integration.
Campaign group Your Water Your Say (YWYS) has warned that Victorian state government policy will see the state 聯swimming in water but drowning in water bills聰 by 2014 if the proposed $3.1 billion desalination plant goes ahead at Wonthaggi.
The profit-driven, multi-billion-dollar treatment of depression has been exposed as little less than a fraud. The selective publication of trials has meant that large corporations have been able to make misleading claims for their drugs.