The statement below is a call for solidarity with jailed Pakistani activists, including the Labor Party Pakistan鈥檚 Baba Jan. It was released on September 22. To add your support to the statement email politic.ofthepoor@gmail.com.
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On August 11, Pakistani police used live bullets against people demanding payment of compensation allowances following a devastating landslide which had happened a year before in the valley of Hunza, on July 4, 2010.
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Liberal students at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) have run a bogus ticket under the name 鈥溌槎勾解 in the QUT Student Guild elections, held over September 20 to 23.
The two main tickets in the election were Epic, backed by the Liberals, and Activate, backed by the Labor students and the left on campus.
At noon on October 8, will mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the longest running war in Australia鈥檚 history. A protest, starting at Town Hall, will hear from a state MP, an aid worker and a lawyer and had intended to march via the Sydney Cenotaph in Martin Place to the US Consulate in Martin Place.
Together with the veterans鈥 group Stand Fast, the anti-war coalition was to lay a wreath to commemorate all the dead from the Afghanistan war.
Inspired by the three-week-long protest in New York, which has now spread to more than 100 cities across the US, ad-hoc activist coalitions in several Australian cities have called for similar occupations beginning on October 15.
Wall Street-style occupations have been called for Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide. By October 6, close to 1300 people had indicated on Facebook that they would attend the Melbourne event.
Inspired by the Arab Spring and Spain's movement of The Indignants (which began occupying city squares to build a citizens' movement for real democracy and against austerity), the Occupy Wall Street movement began taking to the streets in September in the famous financial district in New York.
Fay Waddington, a long-time activist in the Palestine solidarity movement in Brisbane, held a free give-away of 鈥淢ohammed Brenner chocolates鈥 to passersby in Boundary Street, West End, on September 24.
Waddington and other supporters have held a regular weekly Palestine solidarity stall there every Saturday morning for several years, ever since the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 2006.
Waddington, a Socialist Alliance member, issued a statement to 麻豆传媒 Weekly, describing the action as 鈥渁 Chaser-inspired take on the Max Brenner brouhaha鈥 in Australia over recent months.
Pat Eatock laughs at the suggestion that her successful Federal Court action against Andrew Bolt and News Ltd has jeopardised free speech. Bolt is one of Australia鈥檚 most widely read columnists, boasting 3 million visits a month.
On September 28, Justice Mordecai Bromberg ruled that the ultra-conservative columnist Bolt had breached the Racial Discrimination Act in two articles he wrote in 2009 in which he criticised 鈥渇air skinned Aborigines鈥 for what, he argued, was a choice they had made to identify as Aboriginal.
The declaration published below was unanimously passed by all members of Occupy Wall Street on September 29. It is the first official document for release.
Pat Eatock laughs at the suggestion that her successful Federal Court action against Andrew Bolt and News Ltd has jeopardised free speech. Bolt is one of Australia鈥檚 most widely read conservative columnists. His blog boasts 3 million web hits a month.
On September 28, Justice Mordecai Bromberg ruled the ultra-conservative columnist Bolt had breached the Racial Discrimination Act in two articles he wrote in 2009 in which he criticised 鈥渇air skinned Aborigines鈥 for what, he argued, was a choice they had made to identify as Aboriginal.
September 25 will go down as one of the darkest days in Bolivia since Evo Morales was elected as the country鈥檚 first indigenous president almost six years ago.
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