The newly inaugurated government of progressive President Xiomara Castro declared Honduras聽free of open-cut mining on February 28 to protect its environment, reports聽People's Dispatch.
Indigenous rights
Polls show聽a majority of Australians are fed up with the waste of money and needless cruelty of immigration detention, argues聽Niko Leka.
[Please send additional Invasion Day protest and event details to editor@greenleft.org.au]
Adelaide
11am-6.30pm: 2019 Survival Day concert, MacDonald Park, Semaphore Beach
Hosted by Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute
Ian Angus, editor of Climate and Capitalism, takes a look at six new books of interest to ecosocialists 鈥 聽from pro-corporate 鈥渆nvironmentalism鈥 to the struggle of indigenous peoples in Latin America and the scramble for Africa鈥檚 natural resources.
Mau Power's new album takes listeners through the big changes in his life - and the first of those came when he was jailed. "In 2001, I got incarcerated," the Torres Strait Islands rapper tells 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
Invasion Day 2014 Mixtape
Brisbane Blacks
Released January 26, 2014
www.1stnationsmobb.bandcamp.com
As countless Australians donned their Cronulla capes and sank slabs of piss this Australia Day, non-profit publication marked the occasion by releasing a free album full of protest songs.
On October 20, 200 people gathered in the community of Kalkarindji to protest against the policies of the Northern Territory intervention, launched in 2007 by the Howard Coalition government.
Under the intervention, Aboriginal welfare recipients in the NT have half their pay 鈥渜uarantined鈥 onto a Basics Card, which can be used only in approved stores and only for food, clothing and medical supplies.
Barbara Shaw, a well-known Indigenous activist and leader of the Intervention Rollback Action Group in Alice Springs, said on July 27 that she would stand as a candidate in the Northern Territory seat of Lingiari in the August 21 federal election.
Shaw will stand for the Greens against Labor鈥檚 Warren Snowdon, who holds the seat and is federal Indigenous health minister.