In July, in response to a polemical document issued by a number of critics of the Morales government, Bolivian vice-president Alvaro Garcia Linera published a lengthy response.
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Malalai Joya is a writer, activist and former parliamentarian in the national assembly of Afghanistan. Prior to speaking at two at the 2011 Melbourne Writers鈥 Festival, she discussed occupation and resistance in Afghanistan today.
The released the statement below on September 4.
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The Refugee Action Coalition has called on the government to drop all aspects of offshore processing.
鈥淭aking Tony Abbott鈥檚 offer to amend the Migration Act to re-open Nauru would be a serious mistake,鈥 said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.
鈥淭he Pacific Solution Mark II would be no better than mark I. Nauru would be Christmas Island only more remote and 10 times worse.
An advertising campaign to promote coal seam gas (CSG) in a bid to 鈥渂alance鈥 the mounting community opposition to the industry has been launched by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA).
APPEA have dubbed the effort , and say it is an 鈥渋nformation campaign鈥 designed to focus on 鈥渋nvestment, jobs, environmental benefits, and enormous opportunities that this industry generates鈥.
Will the host city for the November-December United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP17) clean up its act?
The August 23 launch of a major Academy of Science of South Africa (Assaf) report,聽 Towards a Low Carbon City: Focus on Durban, offers a chance to test whether new municipal leaders are climate greenwashers.
Will they try to disguise high-carbon economic policies with pleasing rhetoric, as their predecessors did?
At the end of the night of Wollongong's council elections, September 3, it seemed likely voters had elected Gordon Bradbery, a progressive independent, as lord mayor.
Bradbery won 33.9% of the primary vote and is expected to win on preferences. The Liberals鈥 John Dorahy won 23.4% of the primary, Labor鈥檚 Chris Connor 19.7%, the Greens鈥 Jill Merrin 5.9% and Community Voice鈥檚 Michael Organ 4.1%.
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Votes in the wards were still being counted as 麻豆传媒 Weekly went to print, but it鈥檚 clear the once Labor dominated council will have a very different make up.
Black Swan
By Carolyn Landon & Eileen Harrison
238 pages
Allen & Unwin, June 2011
Bestselling author Carolyn Landon says the main revision she had to make in writing her latest book, Black Swan was editing all her anger out of it.
"I had difficulty with my own voice," she tells聽 麻豆传媒 Weekly about the book, a memoir of Koori artist Eileen Harrison.
"Mainly, it was getting my own angry and ashamed responses to what Eileen was telling off my chest. After I let off steam in the drafts, I eliminated most of my reactions.
Last year, the Sydney Underground Film Festival hosted the Australian premier of Oliver Stone's documentary on Latin America's revolutions South of the Border. This year, the festival is taking place this year on September 8-11 at the The Factory Theatre in Marrickville.
Festival organisers have five double passes to giveaway for the film Better This World (see below) to 麻豆传媒 Weekly readers. Be one of the first to email聽 stefanie@suff.com.au聽 with the subject line 鈥911鈥 to win.
鈥淎t least 87 [Greek university] departments were under student occupation, with the number increasing by the hour,鈥 OccupiedLondon.org said on August 31.
鈥淕eneral Assemblies are happening all of this and next week and it is very likely that the number will increase dramatically.
鈥淭here seems to be a completely unprecedented agreement between students across almost the entire political spectrum for mobilisations against the voted law: this is rapidly becoming a stand-off between the Student community and the Parliament.鈥
The problem, apparently, is red tape.
It's stifling business and preventing growth, because red tape is evil, and you can no more argue in favour of red tape than say: "I don't wish to contribute to the fight against cancer as I think we should have more of it."
For example, Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament Julie Girling wrote on August 30 that red tape is preventing businesses from making agency staff work more than 48 hours a week, which 鈥渃osts companies 拢2 billion [$3 billion] a year鈥.
Our Way to Fight
Michael Riordon
Pluto Press, 2011
鈥淧eople safely outside the situation sometimes ask 鈥榃hy don鈥檛 more Palestinians use non-violent protest?鈥 says Michael Riordon is his concluding chapter to Our Way To Fight.
鈥淭he question ignores the long history of Palestinian attempts to seek justice through non-violent means, and the equally long history of official Israeli violence in suppressing these attempts.鈥
I am and have always been a pro-active pacifist.. I long and pray for a peaceful caring world. A world of respect and sharing. Whats happened in London and Birmingham and Liverpool and what will be the rest of the country deeply upsets me.
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