鈥淭his has to be the last death鈥, Nioka Chatfield, the mother of a 22-year-old Aboriginal man who recently died in custody told a rally in Sydney on September 29.
鈥淚 nominate myself. I want to be the last Aboriginal mother crying for my child,鈥 she told the protest that was called on the first anniversary of Wayne Fella Morrison's death in custody and the 34th anniversary of the death of John Pat in Western Australia, which sparked the Stop Black Deaths in Custody movement.
One year ago, Colin Kaepernick, then-quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers National Football League team, refused to stand for the US national anthem, famously kneeling instead. He was alone in his protest.
Over the weekend of September 23-24, tens of millions of football fans watched on TV as 200 mostly Black players knelt or raised their fists while the national anthem was sung. The rest of their teams stood in solidarity with their right to protest, arm-in-arm. In some cases, entire teams stayed in the locker room while the anthem played.
Ian Angus takes a look at five new books of interest to ecosocialists, looking at urban climate change,聽past mass extinctions,聽tropical rainforests, religious anti-science, and the end of Arctic ice. Angus is the editor of Climate and Capitalism, where this list first appeared, and author of the new book A Redder Shade of Green.
As if it were wrapped in flammable polyethelene (PE) cladding, Uber鈥檚 seemingly unstoppable plan for world domination caught fire in London last month; and the blaze might be as hard to extinguish as the inferno that engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in the same city in June.
The deadly fire at Grenfell, and Uber鈥檚 repeated failings 鈥 in terms of vehicle safety, sexual assault, regulatory avoidance and driver exploitation 鈥 are both the direct result of under-regulation and multi-layered regulatory and policy failure.
Phil Bradley, the first Greens councillor elected to Parramatta Council, knows the next period will be a testing time.
Esso Longford workers have revealed the latest mascot in the fight for jobs at the company鈥檚 Gippsland gas plant. With Scabby the Rat banned by a Federal Court order, Greedy the Pig has stepped in to continue the struggle.
The workers have been on strike since June over a new enterprise agreement agreed to by three contractors in Western Australia, which then applied nationally. The workers were told to accept 15-30% wage cuts on two-week fly-in, fly-out rosters or lose their jobs.
At Tsarskoe Selo, the Romanov monarchy鈥檚 palatial rural retreat where the former 鈥淭sar of all Russia鈥, Nicholas II, was detained after being forced to abdicate by the February 1917 revolution, the once all-powerful autocrat found much to get annoyed about.
In particular, Nicholas disliked the military bands that serenaded him with rousing renditions of the anthem of liberation,聽The Marseillaise, and, with black humour, Chopin鈥檚聽Funeral March.
During the 2015 Queensland election campaign, the then-Labor opposition promised to prohibit trans-shipping operations within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, as part of its commitment to protect the Reef.
Thousands of activists will converge on a range of sites around the country on October 7 to send a message to politicians to say No to Adani No to funding Adani from taxpayer鈥檚 money.
In local community events from Port Douglas to Hobart, people will gather on beaches and parks to spell out these messages in the form of human signs.聽
Hundreds of Streets ice-cream workers have been told they risk disciplinary action if they protest on social media about the company鈥檚 threats to cut their pay and conditions.
Streets owner Unilever has applied to the Fair Work Commission to terminate the enterprise agreement at its Minto plant in south-western Sydney, a move that sparked the AMWU social media campaign against the company.
In its first year in operation, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte鈥檚 鈥榳ar on drugs鈥 has taken more than 13,000 lives and left the country mired in a human rights crisis.
One of the organisations at the forefront of opposing Duterte鈥檚 war is In Defence of Human Rights and Dignity Movement, iDefend, a coalition of more than 50 human rights and grassroots organisations.
Unions representing hospitality, retail and pharmacy workers have challenged the Fair Work Commission's decision to cut Sunday penalty rates in the Federal Court.
A full court of five judges heard the appeal over three days from September 26 against the Fair Work Commission鈥檚 decision that cut Sunday penalty rates for workers in the fast food, hospitality, retail and pharmacy sectors from July 1.