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Carrying the views of thousands of people who oppose the construction of a dam on Queensland聮s Mary River, Steve Posselt will kayak from Brisbane to the Sydney office of federal environment minister Peter Garrett to deliver their petitions.
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Der Krieg [War]
An exhibition of Otto Dix鈥檚 anti-war prints
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Until October 26
聯It is important that this book is being released at this time. It allows us to better understand the reality of the Venezuelan revolution聰, Nelson Davila, Venezuelan Charge d聮affaires, told a meeting in Wollongong on October 4. Davila was launching Voices from Venezuela: Behind the Bolivarian Revolution, a new book by 麻豆传媒 Weekly correspondents Jim McIlroy and Coral Wynter.
Looking back on the political movements of the 聮60s and 聮70s is now a fairly well trodden path in the form of fiction, history and memoirs alike.
Rogue Economics: Capitalism聮s New Reality
By Loretta Napoleoni
Allen & Unwin, 2008
292 pages, $29.95 (pb)
The Canterbury Bankstown Peace Group (CBPG) is organising a speak-out at Paul Keating Park, Bankstown, on October 18 to demand respect for human rights. Mamdouh Habib, a member of CBPG, is still fighting for the Rudd government to investigate the
Britain鈥檚 most senior military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, told the British media about the US/NATO occupation of Afghanistan that 鈥淲e are not going to win this war鈥.
Many people are understandably frustrated when they try to make sense of the world financial crisis based on what they read in mainstream newspapers.
Millions of tonnes of the potent greenhouse gas methane have apparently begun leaking from the seabed beneath wide areas of the Arctic Ocean, the British Independent reported on September 23.
On October 8, Prensa Latin reported that the Second International Congress of Indigenous People of America (Abya Yala) had begun in the Venezuelan state of Zulia, focusing on imperalism. The multi-national event, to be run until October 12, will also debate topics related to the strengthening of Indian-American peoples sovereignty.
Canada鈥檚 largest media group is suing Palestinian solidarity activists who created a parody version of the Vancouver Sun newspaper.