CANBERRA — On November 23, 130 climate change activists were arrested as they blockaded the front doors of Parliament House.
820
Socialist Alliance members Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes live in Caracas, where they maintain Â鶹´«Ã½ Weekly’s Venezuela bureau.
You could be forgiven for missing the good news this month.
Teacher unions have reaffirmed their opposition to the publication of school league tables, which rank schools by the results of their students in the same way that league tables rank football teams after each round of competition.
SYDNEY — Fifty people gathered outside federal government offices on November 26 to protest the Northern Territory intervention against Aboriginal communities.
FOOTSCRAY — On November 21, more than 200 inner-west Melbourne residents rallied against state government plans to build a tunnel, freeway and truck route through residential areas.
A total lockdown was imposed on the Christmas Island detention centre for three days after fighting broke out on November 21.
Racism rampant in schools
"More than two-thirds of young people are the victims of racism at school, with first-generation migrant girls in years 11 and 12 most at risk.
"A national study has found that racism permeates Australian schools, with
Few know the story of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who continues to endure humiliating and degrading treatment in US custody.
Twenty-five years after the worst industrial disaster in history, the people of Bhopal, in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, are still fighting for justice.
About 650 workers at the St. Francis Hotel, one of San Francisco’s oldest and most luxurious, walked out on strike on November 18. This was the third of what may be many strikes to hit San Francisco’s Class A hotels.
Climate change deniers, conservative politicians and right-wing newspaper columnists were all but incontinent with delight. Flooding the internet in mid-November were thousands of documents and private emails that had been exchanged over more than a decade by prominent climate scientists.
- Previous page
- Page 3
- Next page