Greens MP David Shoebridge gives greetings to Socialist Alliance national conference. 22 January 2012
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Internet freedom activist and WikiLeaks collaborator Jacob Applebaum spoke at a forum titled War on the Internet , co-hosted by Electronic Frontiers Australia and the Australian Greens at Trades Hall in Melbourne on January 21.
The released the statement below on January 24.
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Frustrations over the immigration department鈥檚 reneging on promises of community detention and bridging visas for long term detainees have spilled over to the Pontville detention centre in Tasmania.
Around 150, more than half of the Afghan asylum seekers at the detention centre, are now involved in a hunger strike. The asylum seekers have been in detention between 15 and 33 months.
The final day of the Kerry Blockade against coal seam gas exploration activities by Arrow Energy in the Scenic Rim in south east Queensland.
SOPA is powered by the capital of 'old media'.聽These are folk who want to maintain an old, outmoded and redundant status quo to the detriment of all of us.
The released the statement below on January 16.
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Refugee activists are concerned about the welfare of two Iranian refugees currently on hunger strike in Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in Broadmeadows.
The Refugee Action Collective (Victoria) is also concerned about the growing number of refugees who remain detained after receiving their refugee status, whilst awaiting security checks from ASIO that take far too long.
If Bradley Manning had committed war crimes rather than exposing them, he wouldn't be in so much trouble.
He might even be hailed as an American hero. Instead, he's held at a military prison in Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, facing more than 20 charges, including "aiding the enemy".
Manning is the private who allegedly leaked sheaves of classified material to WikiLeaks while working as an army intelligence analyst in Iraq.
A union representing 20,000 oil and gas workers in Nigeria announced on January 12 that it would shut down all production from January 15 unless the government restored a petrol subsidy it scrapped on January 1.
The Pengassan union said if the government refused, it would be 鈥渇orced to go ahead and apply the bitter option of ordering the systematic shutting down of oil and gas production鈥.
Pengassan president Babatunde Ogun had told members to 鈥渂e on red alert in preparation for total production shutdown鈥.
A year ago, uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt began the wave of popular mobilisations across the Arab world that has become known in the West as the 鈥淎rab Spring鈥.
A desperate individual protest in a provincial Tunisian town 鈥 the self-immolation of fruit vendor Mohamed Bouazizi to protest police harassment and lack of economic opportunity 鈥 triggered a region-wide revolt against economic and political injustice.
The global political crisis 鈥 a natural outcome of the continuing economic crisis 鈥 finally made it to Russia last month before getting derailed by the country's traditional hibernation in early January.
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, of the Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) ,was acquitted on January 9 by the country鈥檚 High Court of the second round of politically motivated 鈥渟odomy鈥 charges. He was jailed for six years under the former Barisan Nasional (BN) government of Mohamed Mahathir on similar charges.
Police dispersed jubilant opposition supporters outside the court using the excuse that three small bombs had exploded nearby.
The following statement was issued by the family of Mere Samisoni, arrested by the Fijian military regime, and later released on bail on January 3. For more information, please contact pacifikanews@gmail.com .
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The family of award-winning Fijian businesswoman and former MP Dr Mere Samisoni has been warned by her lawyers she might be charged with conspiracy by the country鈥檚 military rulers when the courts reopen on Tuesday.
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