鈥淐lashes with Shiite militiamen flared in two cities Wednesday as a US drone fired two missiles in Basra and US-backed Iraqi troops battled in Baghdad鈥檚 sprawling Sadr City slum鈥, Associated Press reported on April 16.
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聯The union movement can fight back and grow overall in the next period聰, Tim Gooden, secretary of the Geelong Trades Hall Council, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on April 18. He was responding to reports in the mainstream press highlighting figures indicating a further fall in national union membership last year.
Clothing and sexism
Anne Horan (Write On, GLW #746) writes that in feminist circles it's a no-no to discuss what women wear and that feminists do not criticise women themselves for wearing skimpy clothing. She states that the argument that
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian al Nakba (the Catastrophe) 鈥 the razing of up to 418 Palestinian villages and the driving of 700,000 Palestinians from their homes by Zionist forces to create the State of Israel.
The government of Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had the first of a series of meetings on April 15 with the leaders of the agricultural sector.
On April 15, 200 people attended a public meeting entitled 聯Putting the terror laws on trial聰 at the Kaleide Theatre, RMIT. The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Civil Rights Defence campaign group and Amnesty International.
Ecuador聮s President Rafael Correa shook up the establishment in early April after forcing the resignation of defence minister Wellington Sandoval, the military Chiefs of Staff, and the countries police chief amid accusations that the military and intelligence organisations were infiltrated by, and under the control of, the CIA.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a technique to remove carbon dioxide from industrial pollution 鈥 and especially from power stations 鈥 and compress, transport and store it perpetually in secure underground structures such as expired gas and oil fields and other geological formations.
NASA聮s chief climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, wrote an open letter to Kevin Rudd on March 27 urging him to halt the construction of new coal-fired power stations. He also demanded that Rudd implement the Garnaut report聮s recommendations.
鈥淭he intervention is an apartheid system. It鈥檚 an abuse of our human rights 鈥 but we blackfellas are used to that鈥, Mutitjulu elder Vince Forrester told a meeting of 130 people in Redfern on April 12.
A food crisis, caused largely by skyrocketing prices, has hit dozens of countries across the Third World, while an April 14 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) argues that increasing production of 聯agrofuels聰 (the large-scale production of biofuels, using food crops to create fuels such as ethanol) further threatens the world聮s poor with hunger.
A snap protest was held outside the Sydney office of World Wide Fund for Nature on April 16 after WWF announced it was joining forces with the Climate Institute, the Australian Coal Association and the mining and energy division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union to push the federal government to make 鈥渃lean鈥 coal the centrepiece of its climate change abatement plan.
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