About 100 teachers, parents and concerned community members rallied outside NSW parliament on March 29 to protest against the relocation of Gosford Public Schools to the grounds of Henry Kendall High School.
Speakers at the rally included Unions NSW secretary Mark Lennon, NSW Teachers Federation president Maurie Mulheron, NSWTF officer Debbie Westacott, NSW Greens Legislative Council member John Kaye as well as staff and parents from Gosford Public School.
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Slater & Gordon Solicitors today lodged a claim in the WA Supreme Court on behalf of an organic farmer seeking to recover loss and damage allegedly caused by a genetically modified canola farmer neighbour. Steve Marsh, an organic farmer from Kojonup, Western Australia, suffered contamination by genetically modified (GM) material on his farm in late 2010 leading to the loss of his organic certification and loss of income.
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
Street theatre from the "Adelaide March 4 Survival" on March 31. The protest was organised by CLEAN (the ). The action connected the dots between extreme weather and climate change, and demanding solar thermal for Port Augusta.
鈥淚 was a people smuggler,鈥 said Hungarian refugee and refugee rights activist Peter Farago to a public meeting of about 70 people in Melbourne on March 27.
The public meeting, titled 鈥淪muggled to Freedom: behind the anti-people smuggling rhetoric鈥, was organised by the Refugee Action Collective Victoria to expose the rhetoric behind the government鈥檚 anti-people smuggling campaign.
Portgual's largest trade union confederation staged a 24-hour strike on March 22 in defence of workers' rights and against European Union-mandated austerity, the Morning Star said that day.
Tens of thousands of trade unionists and their allies rallied in the centre of Lisbon in the afternoon.
Hamza has memories that no 17-year-old should have.
Last year, he was arrested in the middle of the night on suspicion that he threw stones at Israeli settlers near his school in the West Bank. He was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten on the way to interrogation.
鈥淭hey asked me when did I throw stones, and how, what time exactly, at night or in the morning, and who was there with me,鈥 he said.
鈥淲hen they took me to the prison they put me in a small cell. They used to throw the food through the space between the door and the floor.
The general membership of Carleton University鈥檚 Graduate Students鈥 Association voted overwhelmingly on March 21 and 22 in support of the Ottawa university divesting, via its pension fund, from companies complicit in the illegal military occupation of Palestine.
The plebiscite question, which has provisionally passed by 72.6%, marks the first time in Canada, and what is believed to be the second time globally, that a student union has taken a position via a direct vote in support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli violations of international law.
Elections in the German state of Saarland on March 25 have dealt a heavy blow to the federal coalition government of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Merkel鈥檚 Christian Democratic Union (CDU) kept its 12-year hold on power, holding steady at 35.2% of the small state鈥檚 voters. But Merkel's allies at a federal level 鈥 the neoliberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) 鈥 were wiped out at the state polls.
The FDP鈥檚 share of the vote dropped from 9.2% in 2009 to 1.2%, well below the 5% required to enter parliament.
While WikiLeaks was preoccupied with preparing its new 鈥淭he Global Intelligence Files鈥, where we released on February 27 actual documents from the privatised spying world in collaboration with 25 newspapers, Swedish tabloid Expressen was preoccupied with filling its paper with false reports based on thin air.
In late February, Expressen claimed WikiLeaks was preparing a 鈥渟mear campaign against Sweden鈥 and cited as sources both a WikiLeaks "insider" and a WikiLeaks 鈥渋nternal memo鈥.
The Papua New Guinean government has backed down in the face of a society-wide revolt over its new power to suspend judges. Prime Minister Peter O'Neill said the law would not be implemented until public consultations were carried out.
Thousands of students from the University of PNG rallied in Port Moresby on March 23. Students said in a statement that the law undermines the constitution by removing the separation between the government and courts.
Scientists using historical satellite data have found that ice cover on the Great Lakes, a collection of freshwater lakes in north-east North America around the Canada-United States border, was reduced by 71% between 1973 and 2010.
The study, published in the Journal of Climate last month, found a substantial downward ice cover trend in all five Great Lakes and the associated Lake St Clair.
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