鈥淐lashes with Shiite militiamen flared in two cities Wednesday as a US drone fired two missiles in Basra and US-backed Iraqi troops battled in Baghdad鈥檚 sprawling Sadr City slum鈥, Associated Press reported on April 16.
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聯The union movement can fight back and grow overall in the next period聰, Tim Gooden, secretary of the Geelong Trades Hall Council, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on April 18. He was responding to reports in the mainstream press highlighting figures indicating a further fall in national union membership last year.
Clothing and sexism
Anne Horan (Write On, GLW #746) writes that in feminist circles it's a no-no to discuss what women wear and that feminists do not criticise women themselves for wearing skimpy clothing. She states that the argument that
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian al Nakba (the Catastrophe) 鈥 the razing of up to 418 Palestinian villages and the driving of 700,000 Palestinians from their homes by Zionist forces to create the State of Israel.
A food crisis, caused largely by skyrocketing prices, has hit dozens of countries across the Third World, while an April 14 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) argues that increasing production of 聯agrofuels聰 (the large-scale production of biofuels, using food crops to create fuels such as ethanol) further threatens the world聮s poor with hunger.
鈥淭he intervention is an apartheid system. It鈥檚 an abuse of our human rights 鈥 but we blackfellas are used to that鈥, Mutitjulu elder Vince Forrester told a meeting of 130 people in Redfern on April 12.
A snap protest was held outside the Sydney office of World Wide Fund for Nature on April 16 after WWF announced it was joining forces with the Climate Institute, the Australian Coal Association and the mining and energy division of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union to push the federal government to make 鈥渃lean鈥 coal the centrepiece of its climate change abatement plan.
For Mel Barnes of the Tasmania-based group Students Against the Pulp Mill (SAPM) and Resistance, 聯young people have the authority to decide our future聰, and they can inspire others to take action. Barnes was speaking at the Climate Change 聴 Social Change Conference in Sydney, April 11-13, on a panel with other young environment activists.
Around 30 adults and children gathered outside Midland Centrelink on April 14 to demand the end of welfare quarantining in the Northern Territory.
Last month, four injured workers had their light duties suspended by Campbellfield car parts manufacturer Autoliv and were told that they should consider taking 鈥渧oluntary鈥 redundancy packages.
More than 300 people took part in three days of invigorating discussion at the Climate Change 聴 Social change conference on April 11-13 hosted by 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
Union members and labour activists attending the Labor Notes conference dinner on April 12 were attacked by bus loads of staff and members of the Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) 聴 wearing purple SEIU t-shirts 聴 who forced their way into the conference venue in Dearborn, Michigan. In the ensuing melee a number of people were injured.
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