Tibet: A precious Human Life
By Damon Annison
Distributed by Brumby Books, $35 (pb)
By Damon Annison
Distributed by Brumby Books, $35 (pb)
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Less than a week after declaring that 鈥渢he soap opera is over鈥 in New South Wales politics, new Premier Nathan Rees had to sack his police minister of three days, Matt Brown, for allegedly drunkenly 鈥渕ounting the chest鈥 of Wollongong MP Noreen Hay in a 鈥渄irty dancing鈥 party in Parliament House during the June budget session of parliament.
More than 100 people marched through the streets on September 13 to demand their right to participate in local council elections. The action, organised by Wollongong Against Corruption, was addressed by Vicki Curran, Paul Matters and Graham Larcombe from WAC, Peter Moran from the Greens, Jess Moore from the Socialist Alliance, plus others.
鈥淲e knew we had to have the support of migrant women, of the union, and of the community or we couldn鈥檛 win鈥, Robynne Murphy, from the Jobs for Women campaign (JFWC), told a September 11 forum organised by 麻豆传媒 Weekly and the Socialist Alliance.
While the violent intensity and geographical spread of the recent attacks on immigrants across South Africa certainly surprised most of us, we should not have been surprised that such attacks happened 鈥 or at the state鈥檚 response.
The Stop the Eastern Terminal Substation (SETS) Action Group, in the Perth Hills area, is an outstanding example of what can be achieved by community-based action groups.
Below is an abridged September 5 statement by the Australia Western Sahara Association, visit .
Workplace 'restructures'
In my workplace we have been suffering restructuring for the whole time I have been there, which is three years now. We have had the closing down of sites, redundancies, increased workloads, unfair rosters and restrictions
Bruno, a supporter of 麻豆传媒 Weekly, said to me last week that the political situation today reminded him of a famous quote from a story about a Sicilian prince at the time Italy鈥檚 feudal principalities were being challenged by Giuseppe Garibaldi鈥檚 鈥淩edshirts鈥:
鈥淸Today] a civil-prefectural coup against the unity of the country and democracy has been initiated鈥, Bolivian minister of government Alfredo Rada declared on September 9, as a growing wave of violence by small gangs of fascist youth engulfed the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
The following is abridged from an open letter distributed by the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) Committees in Australia on August 25.
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