No Gas protest held at the front of santcuary resort where woodside were holding their impact forum meeting. Disgruntled community members showed their dire conscern and rightly so over dangerous emissions that will be a direct result of the proposed gas precint if the compulsary acquisition of James prices Point goes through.
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Two articles are posted below on the historic toppling of United States-backed dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt 鈥 and on the continuing struggle of the Egyptian people for economic, social and political change.
According to multiple reports tens of thousands of workers across Egypt have gone on strike and joined the anti-Mubarak protests.
The deepest cuts to Britain鈥檚 public spending since World War II were announced in October. At the same time, it was revealed that some of the nation鈥檚 biggest corporations and richest people were using legal loopholes to avoid paying tax.
The treasurer in the Conservative Party-Liberal Democrat coalition government, Conservative MP George Osborne, announced that 拢81 billion would be slashed from public spending including 拢7 billion in welfare cuts.
This went up on IS singer Macy Gray's on January 17: "I'm booked for 2 shows in Tel Aviv. I'm getting a lot of letters from activists urging/begging me to boycott by NOT performing in protest of Apartheid against the Palestinians. What the Israeli government is doing to the Palestinians is disgusting, but I wanna go. I gotta lotta fans there I don't want to cancel on and I don't know how my NOT going changes anything. What do you think? Stay or go?"
Several hundred people from the Egyptian community in Sydney and supporters staged a protest against the Mubarak dictatorship and in support of the people power revolution in Egypt.
鈥淲e will not be silenced,鈥 shouts an Egyptian protester in one of the many videos posted on YouTube of the uprising against the Hosni Mubarak dictatorship that began on January 25.
鈥淧eople say to me, 鈥榊ou鈥檙e still talking about politics?鈥 and I say, 鈥楥鈥檓on, life is politics鈥欌, Afro-fusion singer-songwriter Wunmi told 麻豆传媒 Weekly while she was in Sydney as part of the Big Day Out (BDO) music festival.
Regardless of the outcomes of the Egyptian and Tunisian revolutions, and regardless of whether protests for democracy in Yemen, Jordan and other Arab countries grow into similar uprisings, the Middle East has fundamentally changed.
The Sydney Stop the War Coalition welcomes and supports the protests for democracy and freedom in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere across the Middle East.
We stand in solidarity with the Egyptian masses that are struggling for their basic rights against a dictatorship that has been supported for decades by the West.
We support the people's right to assemble and their freedom of speech without the threat of repression.
The Sydney Peace Foundation awarded its 鈥済old medal for peace with justice鈥 to WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange on February 2 in recognition of his 鈥渆xceptional courage and initiative in pursuit of human rights鈥.
This award is different from the foundation鈥檚 annual Sydney Peace Prize. The foundation has awarded the gold medal on only three previous occasions: the Dalai Lama in 1998; Nelson Mandela in 2000 and Japanese lay Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda in 2009.
Members of environmental group Katoomba Climate Action Now (CAN) gathered on December 21 outside their local branch of the ANZ Bank to demonstrate, leaflet and chat with customers, staff and passers-by about coal.
Recent research by Greenpeace has shown the bank is one of the most substantial and consistent investors in coalmining and coal-fired power stations in Australia.
Environmental scientists regard coal as the dirtiest of power generation fuels because of its prolific carbon waste output.
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