Photos from refugee rights rally, April 6, 2012 in Darwin. Read the full report .
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Ever since the US-supported coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela failed in April 2002, Washington has been pursuing a variety of strategies to remove the overwhelmingly popular South American head of state from power.
About 120 refugee rights activists from multiple Australian cities gathered outside the Northern Territory鈥檚 parliament house in Darwin today to protest against mandatory detention and the three detention centres located around the region.
The near-continuous introduction, change and reversal of several federal government policies on asylum seekers arriving by boat have had a severely damaging effect on refugees held in the Northern Immigration Detention Centre in Darwin.
An Iranian man who arrived on Christmas Island just after the government announced it would 鈥渟wap鈥 800 asylum seekers in Australia for 4000 refugees from Malaysia, said he was told every day he would be deported. 鈥淚t was the worst two months of my life.鈥
On the first day of the Darwin convergence for refugee rights, activists visited the Darwin Airport Lodge (DAL) after rallying in the city.
The Queensland ALP 鈥渟natched disaster from the jaws of defeat,鈥 socialist activist Gary MacLennan told a public forum at the Activist Centre here on April 3. The forum, sponsored by 麻豆传媒 Weekly, discussed the Liberal National Party鈥檚 (LNP) rise to power in Queensland, the crisis in the ALP and what this meant for the labour movement.
MacLennan said: 鈥淲hen the Queensland people said no to the [Anna] Bligh Labor government, they were not saying yes to an LNP government.
1500 Sydney University students and staff rallied on April 4 to protest against management's move to sack 360 staff. Protesters marched through the university, culminating in 100 students occupying the Arts administration building in opposition to the attacks.
A , such as heat waves and heavy precipitation events, in many parts of the world, ClimateCentral.org said that day.
The report was released by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC).
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Occupy Wall Street鈥檚 original Declaration of the City of New York, last September, listed a litany of issues, from foreclosures and bailouts to outsourcing and cruelty to animals. But it barely mentioned the environment and was silent on global warming and climate change.
A resolution passed by consensus at a general assembly (GA) in January more than rectified the omission. It said: 鈥淲e are at a dangerous tipping point in history. The destruction of our planet and climate change are almost at a point of no return.鈥
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