The debate over the Western military intervention into Libya that has swept 麻豆传媒 of the world鈥檚 left since it began in March were concentrated into one passionate session at the annual congress of Denmark鈥檚 Red-Green Alliance (RGA), held in Copenhagen over May 20-22.
The 300 congress delegates, representing 5900 members, were asked by a majority of the RGA鈥檚 National Board to endorse the March 18 vote of its four MPs in support of the 鈥渘o-fly zone鈥 imposed on Libya by NATO powers including Denmark 鈥 acting in the name of United Nations resolution 1973.
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Honduran President Porfirio Lobo Sosa and former president Manuel Zelaya Rosales signed an agreement on May 22: 鈥淔or National Reconciliation and the Consolidation of the Democratic System in the Republic of Honduras鈥.
Lobo was elected in November 2009 in a rigged vote. The poll was organised by the regime installed by the June 28, 2009 military coup that overthrew Zelaya.
Protests across Bahrain that began on February 14 have rocked the US-backed Khalifa royal family, mobilising hundreds of thousands of people against the regime's repressive rule.
In Spain鈥檚 local elections on May 22, a tsunami of popular rage against the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero spread across this country of five million jobless.
The punishment came amid widespread suffering caused by the economic crisis, worsened by the austerity imposed by Zapatero's government to pay for the billions of euros spent bailing out big banks.
PSOE bastions since the fall of the Franco dictatorship were swept away.
For 25 years, the gay youth of Adelaide have had just one place to find group support from people who understand. Each fortnight, the 鈥淓volve鈥 project for women and the 鈥淚nside Out鈥 project for men at the state-run Second Story Youth Health Centre have provided safe, confidential drop-in groups for gay and queer young people. These projects have been free, well-attended and of great support for Adelaide鈥檚 young gay community. The effectiveness and popularity of these projects have meant that Adelaide has had no need for other drop-in groups for gay youth.
Melbourne鈥檚 only Indigenous specialist school, Ballerrt Mooroop College (BMC), is again under threat from the state government.
The Baillieu Liberal government plans to shift the Glenroy Specialist School (GSS) onto the site, which would push the BMC onto one third of the land it has occupied since 1995.
The government provided $18 million to GSS to relocate, but the BMC received just $750,000 to upgrade existing buildings.
It is clear that the Baillieu government is pitting disadvantaged schools against each other.
Save the Children recently released its annual report, which, using a wide range of statistics from 164 countries, ranks the best and worst places on earth to be a mother, a woman and a child.
The statement below was released on May 28 by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network. For more information on the AVSN, visit www.venezuelasolidarity.org .
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On May 24, the United States鈥 State Department unilaterally imposed sanctions against Venezuela鈥檚 state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA). The State Department accused PDVSA of undermining the US sanctions against Iran by sending two cargo ships delivering US$50 million worth of reformate 鈥 a gasoline blending component used to improve the quality of gasoline.
Riz Wakil, an Afghan refugee, arrived on Ashmore Reef in 1999 and was held in Curtin detention centre for nine months. Now a permanent Australian resident, he runs a printery.
In June 2010, GetUp! won a charity auction prize 鈥 a surfing lesson with opposition leader Tony Abbott 鈥 and donated it to Wakil. Abbott and Wakil finally met for the surf lesson on May 8.
麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Rachel Evans spoke to Wakil about the encounter and Australia鈥檚 refugee system.
What did Abbott say during the lesson?
鈥淓PA: Extreme Pollution A-OK鈥 read a banner held up by protesters outside Victoria鈥檚 Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) as it announced on May 20 a partial approval for the HRL Dual Gas project, which will use brown coal for electricity generation.
Child beauty pageants, such as the ones featured on the reality TV show Toddlers and Tiaras, are big business in the United States. The industry is so big that it is expanding overseas. One of the biggest pageant companies, United Royalty plans to stage pageants in all states in Australia.
Parents who wish to enter their children in the pageants have to pay $295 just to enter the pageant, plus thousands of dollars on expensive dresses, hairstyles and cosmetics
Media reports suggested that US President Barack Obama's May 19 Washington DC speech on the Middle East and North Africa contained a new proposal for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. A look at the content shows this is false.
The May 20 New York Times declared: 鈥淧resident Obama, seeking to capture a moment of epochal change in the Arab world, began a new effort [in his speech] to break the stalemate in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, setting out a new starting point for negotiations on the region's most intractable problem.鈥
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