On October 10, Mexican Federal Police seized the plants of the Central Light and Power Company of Mexico (LyF), which provides electricity to Mexico City and several states in central Mexico.
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Socialist Alliance WA co-convenor Sam Wainwright was elected from the Hilton Ward to the Fremantle Council in the October 17 poll.
Puerto Rico, a 鈥渟elf-governing鈥 colony of the United States, was rocked by a general strike on October 15. Organisers estimated that between 150,000-200,000 people took part in a massive demonstration in the capital, San Juan.
鈥淭he world needs to understand the importance of the struggle in defence of nature鈥, Hugo Blanco, legendary Peruvian peasant leader active in the indigenous peoples鈥 struggle against corporate exploitation in the Amazon, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly in late September.
The statement below was released on October 13 by: The National Committee (US) Committee to Free the Cuban Five; the International Committee to Free the Cuban Five; and the organisations of the Cuban Immigration in Miami involving the Marti Alliance: the Antonio Maceo Brigade, the Alliance of Workers of the Cuban Community (ATC), the Jose Marti Association, and political parties of the US who are part of the Cuban Five solidarity movement.
French people have sent a strong message to the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy with 90% of voters in a referendum organised by anti-privatisation campaigners rejecting plans to partially privatise the national postal service, La Poste.
An October 16 deadline set by Honduran President Manual Zelaya for the regime that ousted him in a military coup to agree to his reinstatement has passed without a settlement. Zelaya had warned that if his reinstatement was not agreed to by that time, Honduras would become 鈥渦ngovernable鈥.
A marriage licence has been denied to an interracial couple in Louisiana by a justice of the peace, the Huffington Post said on October 15
Many have touted December鈥檚 United Nations鈥 sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen as a 鈥渕ake or break鈥 chance to halt dangerous climate change. But the richest nations are on a warpath to make sure this 鈥渓ast chance鈥 becomes a 鈥渘o chance鈥 event.
You don鈥檛 need presidential palaces, generals riding tanks, or even the CIA to make a coup happen. Democracy can be overthrown with far less pomp, fewer props and smaller bursts of state violence.
The results of the October 4 elections in Greece were a political earthquake that have created a new situation.
The report of the United Nations鈥 fact-finding mission to Gaza, led by former South African jurist Richard Goldstone, was released in September. It detailed atrocious human rights abuses by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) during Israel鈥檚 December-January war on the Palestinian territory.
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