What began as a coup aimed at deposing a millionaire landowner president, whose 鈥渃rime鈥 had been to gradually shift Honduras away from US control and implement mild pro-people reforms, has spurned on a mass resistance movement with the potential to revolutionise the country.
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Thousands of peasant rights鈥 activists marched in Guarico, Venezuela on Thursday to demand an end to impunity for the killings of 220 farmer organizers since the 2001 Land Reform Law was passed. The march was sparked by two recent attacks presumed to have been planned and paid for by large estate owners against well-known land reform activists.
The rise of the religious right in Australia and New Zealand can be linked to the development of organisations in the United States that emerged in the 1970s.
Malaysia鈥檚 plantation sector should come under the ambit of the Rural and Regional Development Ministry and be accorded the same privileges and benefits that settlers covered by the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) enjoy, the Malaysian Socialist Party (PSM) said.
Emory Douglas, former 鈥淢inister for Culture鈥 in the US Black Panther Party, spoke at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art on October 1. Douglas is now a part of the Artist Rights Society, and remains a committed activist artist and campaigner for social justice and empowerment.
Outspoken anti-war and democracy campaigner Malalai Joya was suspended from the Afghan parliament in 2007 for speaking out against corruption and the domination of the country by warlords. US current affairs weradio show Democracy Now has called her 鈥渢he bravest woman in Afghanistan鈥.
Below is an abridged statement from Joya to Australian anti-war campaigners. The statement was read out at the national protests against the Afghanistan war on October 7.
When Artem Samsurov first came to Brisbane in 1911, the Russian exile noted that the poor did not eat horsemeat like they did in his native country and he wondered whether this did indeed make it true that Australia was a 鈥渨orking man鈥檚 paradise鈥? A diet that was no stranger, however, to rabbit, and bread and lard, suggested otherwise.
The people of Honduras continue to demonstrate against the illegal coup that overthrew elected President Manuel 鈥淢el鈥 Zelaya on June 28. October 5 marked the 100th day of struggle and 100 days without Mel, the real president of Honduras.
Abortion is still a criminal offence in Queensland, but most Australians, including Queenslanders, are pro-choice.
You might be aware there has recently been a breakthrough in the treatment of cervical cancer, the second biggest cancer killer of women in the world. A vaccine has been developed that has the potential to save many lives, as well as reduce the dreadful suffering that cervical cancer causes women.
Transvestite Wives 鈥 It is estimated that over 250,000 British men dress in women's clothes. This documentary looks at three transvestite relationships through the eyes of their wives. SBS1, Friday, October 16, 10pm.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterating Washington鈥檚 support on October 5 for the Arias Plan to resolve the Honduran crisis, which she hoped would 鈥済et Honduras back on the path to a more sustainable democracy鈥. But the plan would see Honduran President Manuel Zelaya return to his post and sit out the rest of his term without any real power.
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