The following call for support was released on August 24 by Richard Downs, spokesperson of the Alyawarr people of the Northern Territory, who have walked off their community of Ampilatwatja in protest against the federal government鈥檚 NT intervention. Visit for more information.
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鈥淲e have not been quiet, and we will not be quiet鈥, about abuses of human rights in Guatemala, Walter Felix Lopez, member of National Congress for the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Group (URNG), told a public forum of 30 people on September 5.
The October 17 Fremantle local government elections will take place in the wake of the May by-election that resulted in the historic victory of Greens candidate Adele Carles.
Aboriginal rights supporters and environmental activists protested at the opening of the Brisbane Writers鈥 Festival on September 9, where the keynote speaker was conservative Aboriginal figure Noel Pearson.
NEWCASTLE 鈥 In a world full of demands, it is often hard to make time and find ways to help out those less fortunate than yourself. One simple way is to choose Fairtrade-accredited products, which meet agreed environmental, labour and developmental standards.
鈥淲e are lucky in Australia to have a national newspaper, 麻豆传媒 Weekly, not beholden or shackled to big business or multinational corporations, whether they be church or state. Over many years it has remained a newspaper free to critique the capitalist system, which continues to reward those with capital and exploit those without.
WOLLONGONG鈥 The Wesley Uniting Church in Wollongong Mall has sacked it's minister of 15 years, the Reverend Gordon Bradbery.
A December 6 street celebration of ten years in office of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the first of a series.
The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu鈥檚 right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country鈥檚 1.3 million 鈥淚sraeli Arab鈥 citizens (as Palestinians living inside Israel are termed) citizens to call the first general strike in several years.
Framework of Flesh: Builders' Labourers battle for health & Safety
By Humphrey McQueen
Ginninderra Press, 2009
337 pages, $30 (pb)
Available from
Humphrey McQueen's Framework of Flesh takes up a 1920s challenge from a militant builders labourer, Charlie Sullivan:
In the midst of an international campaign launched against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, carried out by the extreme right from Colombia and supported by Washington, the US State Department has organised and financed the trip of eight young Venezuelan politicians to the US.
When the US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, several pretexts were given.
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