Jewish Voices I
I am an activist of Jewish descent and read with interest the interview in GLW #703 with Antony Loewenstein on the setting up of Independent Australian Jewish Voices. The IAJV statement follows a similar initiative from British
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Workers from across Melbourne have thrown their support behind National Union of Workers (NUW) members who are on strike at Preston Motors in Campbellfield.
On February 14, readers of the Weekly Times, a local Ryde paper that covers Bennelong, PM John Howard聮s electorate, couldn聮t believe their eyes when confronted with the headline: 聯Global Warming? Climate Change? Bulldust!聰 The article, written by editor John Booth, dismissed global warming as 聯scaremonger propaganda聰 put forward by 聯Armageddon pedlars聰.
Scenes of joy and relief erupted outside the Brisbane courts complex on March 21 after a Supreme Court jury cleared four Palm Islanders of charges of rioting causing destruction.
On March 17, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) approved the formation of a new Hamas-Fatah 鈥渘ational unity鈥 government by 83 votes in favour and three against. The formation of the new government followed agreements reached in Mecca last month between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, of Fatah, and Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, of Hamas.
聯Nuclear fools聮 day聰 protests will mark Palm Sunday 聴 April 1. The protests are in response to the most significant push for expanded uranium mining in Australia since the Hawke Labor government聮s 1983 decision to defy public opinion and allow uranium mining to continue at Rio Tinto聮s Ranger mine in the Northern Territory, and to be developed at Australia聮s two other largest uranium deposits 聴 BHP Billiton聮s Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) mine in South Australia, opened in 1988, and Rio Tinto聮s Beverley mine (also in SA) in 2001.
Midnight on March 26 is the deadline for a power-sharing executive to be formed from the newly elected Northern Ireland Assembly so that devolution of power from Britain to the Belfast-based assembly can proceed. In the Stormont assembly elections, held on March 7, Ian Paisley聮s ultra-loyalist Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) won 36 of the assembly聮s 108 seats and Sinn Fein won 28. The traditionally dominant Ulster Unionist Party won only 18 seats and the Social Democratic Labour Party won 16. Voter turnout was approximately 63%, out of a total population of 1.7 million.
Tanya Reinhart, the Israeli linguistics professor and champion of Palestinian rights, died of a stroke in her sleep on March 17 in New York at the age of 63. Palestinian organisations issued a statement from Gaza on March 19, describing Reinhart as 鈥渁 great indefatigable activist against the policy of the Zionist government of apartheid Israel towards us Palestinians鈥.
An Esperance Port Authority (EPA) safety worker has been sacked for 聯asking too many questions聰 and a blood specialist has been dispatched to the area as WA authorities scramble to cope with a widening heavy-metal contamination crisis.
On March 8, Greenpeace announced that a community campaign had stopped the construction of Mighty River Power聮s Marsden B coal-fired power station, which would have been the first coal-fired power station to be built in New Zealand in 30 years. The campaign, launched in 2004, involved the local community, indigenous people and environmental organisations.
As the ALP鈥檚 electoral fortunes lift with each new poll, unionists want to know exactly how a federal Labor government would carry out its promise to 鈥渢ear up鈥 the Coalition鈥檚 anti-worker Work Choices laws.
The University of Western Sydney decided to sell off 鈥渢he Swamp鈥 and student residences at Kingswood and Werrington South campuses. A mass of degrees were merged into the Bachelor of Business and Commerce. Half the majors for the Bachelor of Economics were axed. These are just some of the many changes that happened to UWS in the first few weeks of semester.
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