Leonard Weinglass, a leading left-wing lawyer in the United States with an international perspective, died in the early evening on March 23, 2011.
Len, who died on his 78th birthday, fell ill in late January while in Cuba. In the first days of February, exploratory surgery at Montefiore Hospital discovered that he had inoperable cancer of the pancreas.
Lenny, a 1958 graduate of Yale Law School, became active in the US left lawyers鈥 organisation, the National Lawyers Guild, in the course of the civil rights movements of the 1960s.
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A vicious smear campaign against the Greens candidate for Marrickville Fiona Byrne in the NSW state election reveals just how worried the powers-that-be are about the prospect of the NSW Greens winning a lower house seat.
On March 29, pro-choice protestors gave Melbourne City Council (MCC) a clear message: don鈥檛 mess with our free speech rights!
Councillor Cathy Oke tabled a bulky tome 鈥 nearly 600 statements signed by individuals and organisations, telling the council to uphold the right to protest and stop using local laws against pro-choicers defending the Fertility Control Clinic in East Melbourne against anti-abortion harassment.
From the public gallery, placards demanding 鈥淢ake Melbourne a free speech city!鈥 underscored the message.
Modern ALP is a joke
I鈥檓 writing to comment on the in GLW #872. Was this a joke or fair dinkum?
Ferguson (and the dynasty he comes from) seems to me to represent everything that is wrong with the ALP.
Another union boss who never worked in the industry in which he was supposed to represent construction workers (three weeks or something as a stonemasons鈥 labourer ain鈥檛 what I call experience in everyday battling to survive).
For many years, competitions granting prizes have been a successful tool used by marketers to try to promote their cause or business.
However, there should be great concern when the prize up for grabs represents sexist ideas and targets women who feel inadequate about their appearance.
Last month, Sin City Nightclub on the Gold Coast promoted breast enhancement surgery 鈥渨orth $10,000鈥 as a competition prize.
If the last federal election promised the beginnings of a break from the two-parties-for-capitalism electoral system that has plagued Australian politics for the last century, the March 26 NSW election seems to be a lurch in the other direction.
The Liberal-National Coalition won dominance of the Legislative Assembly and (with small right-wing parties) control of the Legislative Council because a large number of working-class voters punished the Labor party with a 13.5% swing in primary votes.
The pro-democracy movement in Bahrain has been severely weakened by the brutal wave of repression that began on March 15.
Attempts to reignite pro-democracy protests have been broken up by government security forces and strikes have been called off.
Troops from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates entered Bahrain on March 14 to help the Bahraini government 鈥渞estore order鈥 by attacking thousands of pro-democracy protesters.
About 8000 people demonstrated for urgent action on climate change in Sydney's Belmore Park on April 2 in a powerful counter-mobilisation to a 2000-strong climate deniers rally led by right-wing radio shock jocks Alan Jones and Chris Smith from Radio 2GB held in Hyde Park.
The climate deniers rally was a repeat of a similar-sized rally held in Canberra a week earlier and is part of an attempt to build a right-wing populist Tea Party-style movement as exists in the US.
The climate change activists rally was organised by the internet-based group GetUp!
Five revolutions in postwar Latin America have seen illiteracy as a neocolonial battleground.
Salvador Allende鈥檚 Chile 鈥 birthplace of How to Read Donald Duck, an iconic attack on cultural imperialism 鈥 reduced illiteracy from 15.2% to 6.3% in under two years (1971-73), triple the rate of any regime before or since.
In Nicaragua, the Sandinistas slashed the Somoza dictatorship legacy of 50% illiteracy to just 13% before the end of its first full year in power (1980), catapulting women to cultural and political prominence in the process.
Every election time, a fraction of the population turn up to a polling place, muttering under their breath, and give withering looks to the volunteers offering them 鈥淗ow to Vote鈥 cards.
They wait in line to get their name marked off. With their obligations completed for another few years, they hastily scribble a 鈥1鈥 next to the name of whichever candidate happens to come first on the page, and, still muttering, march off home.
Environment Tasmania (ET), the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) and The Wilderness Society (TWS) launched television and radio advertisements on March 30 that call for an end to logging in native forests.
The ads feature University of Tasmania biologist Peter McQuillan, who says: 鈥淲e need government to implement the agreed forest solution鈥.
鈥淧eace is not just the absence of violence; but the presence of justice,鈥 Samah Sabawi, Palestinian-Australian writer, and co-author of Journey to Peace In Palestine, told an audience of about 80 people at the University of Queensland on March 31.
She was commenting after a showing of Michael Weatherhead鈥檚 excellent documentary Return to Gaza. The documentary is based on the journey of her brother, Fetah Sabawi, who returned to Gaza with his wife and child in 2006 to visit family members and set up a music school for young Palestinian refugees.
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