More than 500 protesters from around NSW assembled at a property near the proposed new Anvil Hill open-cut coalmine in the Upper Hunter over the June 2-3 weekend. The state government approved the mine on June 7.
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More than 30 delegates from around the world attended the Jerusalem Initiative conference held in occupied East Jerusalem to call for an end to Israel聮s illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The three-day conference from June 2-4 was organised by the Palestinian People聮s Party and the Communist Party of Israel and was attended by representatives from European, Scandanvian and Australian socialist parties as well as members of the international peace movement, trade unions and women聮s organisations from around the world.
SYDNEY 鈥 On June 9, 100 people rallied in the rain at Town Hall, part of an international week of action to mark the 40th anniversary of the June 1967 war and to demand an end to the Israeli occupation. Protests, public forums and other events also took place in cities around Australia.
In what the superstitious might call nature聮s revenge, wild seas caused a coal freighter to run aground in Newcastle on June 8, the day after the NSW Labor government approved the opening of a massive open-cut coalmine at Anvil Hill in the Hunter region.
Cuban newspaper Granma reported on June 6 that Venezuela聮s socialist president, Hugo Chavez, had called for an expansion of ALBA 聴 the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, a solidarity-based alternative to US-backed bilateral 聯free trade聰 agreements and the Free Trade Area of the Americas. Chavez made the call during the closing of the first meeting of ALBA聮s Council of Ministers in Venezuela聮s capital, Caracas.
Temple of Dreams
Directed by Tom Zubrycki
Sydney Film Festival, Sat June 16, 11.50am
Directed by Tom Zubrycki
Sydney Film Festival, Sat June 16, 11.50am
Activists marked World Environment Day (WED) 鈥 June 5 鈥 with a protest in Bourke Street Mall that highlighted corporate plunder of the planet.
The Australian government has recently come under fire for the inefficiency of its overseas aid programs, particularly in the Asia Pacific. The June 4 Sydney Morning Herald reported that more and more aid destined for the region was being lost in administrative costs or dished out to private corporations in the name of 鈥渄evelopment鈥.
When the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest national accounts last week it was revealed that the corporate profit share of all Australian income had risen to 28.1%, well above the long-term average of 20%.
Australians all, let us rejoiceFor we are girt by seaWhich makes it very difficultFor would-be refugees,If any of them make it here and it's not a lot We lock them upAnd send them offSomewhere that's very hotWe lock them upAnd send them offSomewhere
Former Newcastle lord mayor Greg Heys died on June 5 after a massive heart attack.
There is little mystery behind Iraqis' tenacious resistance to US President George Bush's war of occupation: over four years of war have left the country devastated and resulted in the deaths of over half a million Iraqis, according to a study published in the influential British medical journal The Lancet.
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