Malalai Joya is a writer, activist and former parliamentarian in the national assembly of Afghanistan. Prior to speaking at two at the 2011 Melbourne Writers鈥 Festival, she discussed occupation and resistance in Afghanistan today.
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In July, in response to a polemical document issued by a number of critics of the Morales government, Bolivian vice-president Alvaro Garcia Linera published a lengthy response.
An advertising campaign to promote coal seam gas (CSG) in a bid to 鈥渂alance鈥 the mounting community opposition to the industry has been launched by the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA).
APPEA have dubbed the effort , and say it is an 鈥渋nformation campaign鈥 designed to focus on 鈥渋nvestment, jobs, environmental benefits, and enormous opportunities that this industry generates鈥.
The released the statement below on September 4.
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The Refugee Action Coalition has called on the government to drop all aspects of offshore processing.
鈥淭aking Tony Abbott鈥檚 offer to amend the Migration Act to re-open Nauru would be a serious mistake,鈥 said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition.
鈥淭he Pacific Solution Mark II would be no better than mark I. Nauru would be Christmas Island only more remote and 10 times worse.
鈥淎t least 87 [Greek university] departments were under student occupation, with the number increasing by the hour,鈥 OccupiedLondon.org said on August 31.
鈥淕eneral Assemblies are happening all of this and next week and it is very likely that the number will increase dramatically.
鈥淭here seems to be a completely unprecedented agreement between students across almost the entire political spectrum for mobilisations against the voted law: this is rapidly becoming a stand-off between the Student community and the Parliament.鈥
The problem, apparently, is red tape.
It's stifling business and preventing growth, because red tape is evil, and you can no more argue in favour of red tape than say: "I don't wish to contribute to the fight against cancer as I think we should have more of it."
For example, Conservative Party Member of the European Parliament Julie Girling wrote on August 30 that red tape is preventing businesses from making agency staff work more than 48 hours a week, which 鈥渃osts companies 拢2 billion [$3 billion] a year鈥.
Our Way to Fight
Michael Riordon
Pluto Press, 2011
鈥淧eople safely outside the situation sometimes ask 鈥榃hy don鈥檛 more Palestinians use non-violent protest?鈥 says Michael Riordon is his concluding chapter to Our Way To Fight.
鈥淭he question ignores the long history of Palestinian attempts to seek justice through non-violent means, and the equally long history of official Israeli violence in suppressing these attempts.鈥
The United States is facing its gravest housing crisis since the Great Depression.
By at least one measure, today's crisis is worse. Housing prices have now fallen 33% from their peak, compared with 31% during the depression.
Yet despite the almost unprecedented nature of the housing collapse, the administration of US President Barack Obama has remained stunningly passive if not utterly disinterested.
This inaction is criminal given the fact that the largest US banks have used illegal means to file and carry out foreclosures.
I am and have always been a pro-active pacifist.. I long and pray for a peaceful caring world. A world of respect and sharing. Whats happened in London and Birmingham and Liverpool and what will be the rest of the country deeply upsets me.
The steady stream of revelations of political, military and corporate bastardry from the stash of US diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks became, in late August, a torrent.
It is about to become a deluge.
Between December and August, the number of secret US cables published by WikiLeaks was fewer than 20,000 of the more than 250,000 in the whistleblowing website's possession.
As Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's regime crumbled on August 23 after a rebel uprising and NATO bombing, United States President Barack Obama said: "For over four decades, the Libyan people had lived under the rule of a tyrant who denied them their most basic human rights."
Obama would know 鈥 his government's support in recent years allowed Gaddafi's regime to do so. Indeed, the NATO bombing campaign targeted Libyan forces the US had armed and trained.
After 15 days on strike, 45,000 workers from United States鈥 telecommunications company Verizon marched in to work on August 23 after getting agreement from their stubborn employer to bargain.
The communication and electrical workers will be working under their old contracts while talks continue. They agreed not to strike again for 30 days.
During the strike, which stretched from Virginia to Massachusetts, Verizon was unable to provide timely installation and repairs, and reports of outages plagued the company.
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