More than 50,000 German anti-nuclear protesters defied 17,000 police over the weekend of November 6 and 7and blockaded a train carrying spent nuclear fuel rods from France to Germany.
On November 8, the fuel rods finally reached the small north German village of Dannenberg. From there, they were trucked a further 20 kilometres to an interim nuclear storage facility in the town of Gorleben.
Anti-nuclear activists drove more than 600 tractors, blockading roads and the railway in the largest ever demonstration over the transportation of spent nuclear fuel rods in Germany.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy enacted a new law on November 10 that increases the retirement age of French workers. The move came just days after more than a million workers and students mobilised across France against the law.
More than 5000 workers from across Venezuela marched to the Venezuelan National Assembly in Caracas on November 9. The rally was organised by the National Workers鈥 Union (UNT).
US comics Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their 鈥淩ally for Sanity and/or Fear鈥 in Washington DC on October 30, which drew about 200,000 to 300,000 people.
Stewart, host of Comedy Central satirical news show The Daily Show, called a 鈥淩ally to Restore Sanity鈥 on air.
Colbert, former Daily Show member and now the 鈥渞ight-wing鈥 host of Comedy Central show The Colbert Report, responded on his show, screened straight after Stewart鈥檚, by calling for a 鈥淢arch to Keep Fear Alive鈥.
Wollongong developer Frank Vellar has been charged with four offences under the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) Act.
More than two years have passed since theICAC released the third of its reports into corruption in Wollongong City Council. In October 2008, the commission recommended charges be laid against 11 people for 139 criminal offences. Most of those named were either ALP members or political donors. Vellar was among them.
At the time, ICAC commissioner Jerrold Cripps QC described the corruption found to be 鈥渨ithout precedent鈥.
If truth is the first casualty of war, it certainly sustains critical injuries in peace.
In Victoria our state seems to be in information lockdown. Much of the media have remained subservient to the armies of spin doctors, minders, advisers, pollsters and other such wired and hired guns.
We have a veritable Blackwater of outsourcing to inner sanctum PR consultants. Daily, ministers and department heads refuse to directly answer questions. They stonewall, obfuscate, and withold the truth. There is little transparency or public accountability.
The Anti-Porn Men Project was recently launched. Anti-Porn Men is a website providing men with information and a platform to explore anti-pornography views and arguments.
Criticisms of porn from moralistic and religious standpoints are nothing new, but the Anti-Porn Men Project isn鈥檛 about moralistic preaching 鈥 it comes from a feminist and pro-sex perspective.
Let Vanunu go free
In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel鈥檚 secret nuclear weapons arsenal to the world after becoming disillusioned with his work as a technician at Dimona Nuclear Research Centre in Israel. He revealed Israel had hundreds of advanced nuclear warheads.
His brave actions led to him being kidnapped by Israeli agents in Italy and transported back to Israel where he was convicted of espionage and treason in a secret trial. His abduction violated Italian and international law.
Being a political activist can be fun. About 15 of us enjoyed throwing shoes in a Sydney Stop The War Coalition action on November 8 outside the US Consulate.
We were protesting against the AUSMIN war talks with US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Melbourne. Protesters threw shoes at cardboard cutouts of Gates, Clinton, PM Julia Gillard and Kevin Rudd.
Your article 鈥淲hat's behind the NT intervention鈥 (GLW #843) outlines the government's goal of forced assimilation of Aboriginal communities.
Under the intervention, millions of dollars worth of assets and housing has been seized from Aboriginal community councils and thousands of Aboriginal jobs have been lost as Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) close down.
Then prime minister John Howard declared in 2007 that: "Aboriginal people have no future outside the Australian mainstream.鈥
Housing action group City is Ours organised a protest outside housing minister Richard Wynne鈥檚 office on November 12, to highlight Melboune鈥檚 growing housing crisis.
City is Ours has also recently organised a public meeting and a protest against rooming house evictions outside Moreland Council鈥檚 offices.
Climate deniers love banging on about media bias. It鈥檚 a favourite theme.
They claim media outlets suppress the debate, peddle global warming hysteria and refuse to give deniers an equal hearing.
Indeed, the evidence (always a knotty issue for deniers) shows that there is a glaring bias in the way the Australian media covers climate change. But it鈥檚 a bias for climate denier propaganda, not against it.
Take the Rupert Murdoch-owned media empire: Australia鈥檚 largest. The editorial line of its flagship broadsheet, the Australian, is notorious for its climate denial.
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