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Ecuador: Mining, debt and indigenous struggles

On November 17, thousands of indigenous and environmental activists rallied across Ecuador in protest against the introduction of a new mining law by the government of President Rafael Correa.

Iraq: Pact to continue occupation signed

On November 16 the Iraqi cabinet agreed to a final draft of a 鈥渟ecurity agreement鈥 that would replace the current United Nations mandate 鈥 which has authorised the occupation since 2003 but that is scheduled to expire on December 31.

Families for a nuclear-free future

Families For a Nuclear Free Future (FFANFF) is a recently formed community group of families in Alice Springs with a united voice against the exploration and mining of uranium.

A moving portrayal of the Palestinian plight

Lemon Tree
Director Eran Riklis
Screenplay by Suha Arraf & Eran Riklis
With Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman & Rona Lipaz-Michael
In cinemas

Indigenous activist speaks: Outback communities and the nuclear industry

Jillian Marsh is a member of the Adnyamathanha community in the Flinders Ranges and active in the Australian Nuclear-Free Alliance. She recently traveled to Germany to receive the 2008 Nuclear-Free Future award, and is writing a thesis entitled A look at the approval of Beverley Mine and the ways that decisions are made when mining takes place in Adnyamathanha country. Marsh spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Peter Robson about the expansion of the nuclear industry in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Watch the worms squirm

The Howard Years
Series producer Deborah Masters
Interviewer/Narrator Fran Kelly
ABC, Monday 8.30pm

麻豆传媒 Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: Progressive media needs a shot in the arm

Every week hundreds of dedicated activists hit the streets all over Australia to distribute 麻豆传媒 Weekly.

On the box

Fidel Castro 鈥 Looks at Castro's early life as the son of a wealthy landowner, a Jesuit student, and as a young rebel lawyer who led the Cuban people to revolution. SBS, Friday. November 28, 1.30pm. Lionel Rose 鈥 In 1968, a young Aboriginal

Three proud athletes in Mexico

A race to remember: The Peter Norman story
By Damian Johnstone and Matt Norman
JoJo Publishing, 2008
320 pages, $34.95 (pb)

Agrofuels: are we winning?

With mounting evidence of environmental damage and grave social consequences, making fuel from plants no longer seems such a good idea. But is the widespread criticism of agrofuels forcing policy changes?

Venezuela: Socialist campaign gathers momentum as vote nears

At a mass rally of PSUV activists in the Poliedro Stadium on November 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for 鈥淥peration Round Up鈥 to gather the maximum number of votes for candidates of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in the November 23 elections for state governors and municipal mayors.

Redesigning child care: their public sector and ours

In periods of capitalist economic implosion, increased public spending and an enlarged role for the public sector becomes unavoidable, even for the most one-eyed of free marketeers.