On April 19, the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) moved ground troops into what it had declared a 鈥渘o-fire zone鈥 in the north of the island, into which tens of thousands of Tamil civilians remain crowded.
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A public meeting on April 21 organised by the Beyond Nuclear Initiative and the Sydney Nuclear Free Coalition, at the University of Sydney, attracted 100 people.
The following article is based on an April 24 statement from Aboriginal activist Michael Anderson. A co-founder of the Aboriginal Embassy in Canberra and a leader of the Euhalyi Nation, Anderson has called on Aboriginal affairs minister Jenny Macklin to resign. He explains why here.
On April 21, SBS screened two documentaries about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution he is leading. One of them was The Hugo Chavez Show, produced by Frontline, a program on the US-based PBS channel.
The world's largest manufacturer of newsprint, AbitibiBowater, has filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and Canada. The company employs 11,000 workers in Canada.
The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee is organising volunteers to travel to Kalgoorlie for the next stage of the Coronial Inquest into the January 2008 death of Warburton elder Mr Ward. The inquest reopens on May 11.
Greens candidate Adele Carles and Socialist Alliance candidate Sam Wainwright argued for cooperation among progressive candidates in election campaigns at an April 22 meeting. Both activists are contesting the May 16 Fremantle by-election.
For the annual May Day march in Wollongong this year, workers and the community will march under the banner, 鈥淧ut jobs before profits鈥. Now that our PM has finally admitted Australia faces a recession, these four words sum up nicely a just response to the crisis.
Less than two weeks after the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) won by-elections in six constituencies across Nepal, it is facing fresh resistance by the old elite.
The Melbourne Climate Action Centre hosted the launch of the book Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health 聴 Emerging Crises & Systemic Solutions on April 23.
WOLLONGONG聴 Fifty people, many from the local Aboriginal community, turned out to a public meeting called 聯Break the nuclear chain聰 on April 22.
Four hundred Tamils and their supporters gathered in Melbourne on April 23 for an emergency protest. It was organised in response to the Sri Lankan government鈥檚 latest brutal military escalation in the north of the island.
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