On April 27, around 300 residents gathered at Rozelle聮s Callan Park in the second Sunday protest against the NSW ALP government聮s bid to close the psychiatric hospital and redevelop the parklands.
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聯How many minutes to midnight, do you reckon it is?聰, asked a 91自拍论坛 Weekly buyer at a street stall last week.
Ground-breaking new research findings posted on the internet in April have confirmed what many scientists and climate activists have already concluded 鈥 that the goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions embraced by the European Union and Australia鈥檚 Labor government are gravely inadequate.
While Mount Isa welfare organisations are alarmed about not being able to provide for the large influx of Aboriginal people who have fled the federal government鈥檚 Northern Territory intervention, the government is looking to expand this racist bipartisan policy.
More than 2000 people rallied at Fremantle Esplanade to celebrate May Day and to call for the scrapping of all of the anti-worker laws of the previous government.
More than 10,000 unionists marched through Brisbane鈥檚 streets on May 5, celebrating the union movement鈥檚 role in the defeat of the Howard government last year. The annual Labour Day parade was led by the building unions, with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) in the lead. This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the original building workers\' union in Queensland.
Below is an abridged May 7 statement from the Burma Partnership Secretariat.
The Western press has been untiring with respect to the changes happening in Cuba after Raul Castro鈥檚 election as president of the Republic and have celebrated a possible liberalisation of the island鈥檚 economy.
Redfern聮s historic 聯Block聰 will be the site of the Aboriginal Rights Coalition聮s (ARC) first national conference, to be held on May 23-25. The Socialist Alliance gives full support to this initiative, a valuable occasion for Aboriginal people and their supporters from around Australia to share experiences and chart the way forward for Indigenous rights.
鈥淚f the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave鈥, a demonstrator said in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 鈥淚f the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that鈥檚 OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we鈥檒l die of hunger.鈥
Venezuelan foreign minister Nicolas Maduro proposed that Latin American countries create a food bank to counter food supply problems and that oil profits of the region go towards a new food fund. Maduro made the proposal during the Food summit held in Nicaragua on May 7.
A day of violence, fraud and a 鈥済rand rebellion鈥 against the Santa Cruz oligarchy.
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