EMERGENCY OCCUPY SYDNEY PROTEST AT THE SUPREME COURT
Defend our right to protest!
The NSW police are taking Occupy Sydney organisers to the Supreme Court on November 4 to try to ban .
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The next is on its way. Sydney based youth worker Michael Coleman joins delegates from several countries on the Canadian boat as it sets sail for Gaza.
Israeli has launched a series of air strikes on the Gaza Strip since October 29. ABC.net.au reported on November 2 that Israel was preparing its military for a ground assault on the besieged territory 鈥 home to about 1.5 million Palestinians.
At least 11 Palestinians have been killed, ABC.net.au said. Officials on both sides said at least seven members of Palestinian group Islamic Jihad (JI) had been killed,
Scenes from the largest general strike that took place in Greece in the last decades. Over a million people filled the streets demanding the overthrow of the goverment and its austerity measures.
For a lighthearted look at some of the difficulties and frustrations with the democratic process of the Occupy movement, have a look at , by .
It is described as "a short satirical fiction piece based on the painful process of grassroots democracy". It is something anyone who has taken part in the movement could identify with.
A victory was achieved by the anti-memorandum, anti-government movement on October 28. It was commemoration day of the resistance to the German occupation of Greece, which started in 1940.
Inside Pine Gap: The Spy Who Came in from the Desert
By David Rosenberg
Hardie Grant Books, 2011
216 pages, $35 (pb)
David Rosenberg found 1960s television show Mission Impossible 鈥渋rresistible鈥 with its patriotic tales of high-tech US government spies thwarting the 鈥渂ad guys鈥.
After an 18-year career as a US National Security Agency (NSA) electronic signals analyst at the CIA鈥檚 Pine Gap spy base in Australia鈥檚 remote interior, Rosenberg鈥檚 book, Inside Pine Gap, makes it clear that he has yet to grow up.
The Philippines, one of the poorest Asian nations with a huge foreign debt 鈥 caused by successive corrupt governments 鈥 remains a place of simmering class tension.
In the past six weeks, there have been mobilisations around a range of issues.
On October 11, there was a national day of action against rising energy costs. There were protests right across the archiapelago.
Residents turned off their power for half-an-hour and created a 鈥渘oise barrage鈥 with whistles and horns.
The (DASSAN) released the statement below on October 31.
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Inside Al-Qaeda and the TalibanM
By Syed Saleem Shahzad
Pluto Press, 2011
260 pp., $39.95
Deadly Waters, The Hidden World of Somalia鈥檚 Pirates
By Jan Bahadur
Scribe, 2011
300 pp., $29.95
The Interrogator, A CIA Agent鈥檚 True Story
By Glenn Carle
Sribe, 2011
321 pp., $32.95
The Wizard of Lies, Bernie Madoff & the Death of Trust
By Diana B. Henriques
Scribe, 2011
419 pp., $35.00
The statement below has been officially endorsed by the general assemblies of , and . Read more coverage on the Occupy movement .
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The October 23 declaration of Libya鈥檚 鈥渓iberation鈥 by the National Transitional Council (NTC), the de-facto government since taking Tripoli from former dictator Muammar Gaddafi on August 21, was a showcase victory for the West鈥檚 vision of how the Arab democratic awakening should progress.
An uprising began in Libya on February 17 鈥 part of the popular rebellion that has broken out against dictatorial regimes across the Arab world. The Gaddafi regime's brutal repression 鈥 carried out with Western-supplied weapons 鈥 meant the rising turned into a civil war.
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