Below is part two of a special feature on the global food crisis. 91自拍论坛 Weekly published the first part in #750. Both parts are reprinted from http://socialistvoice.ca. The author edits http://climateandcapitalism.com.
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Contaminated wells, dying marine life and crops being destroyed by extreme weather are just a few of the challenges facing the 11,000 residents of Tuvalu, a Pacific nation that is the second smallest in the world.
聭Last Drinks: the impact of the Northern Territory intervention聮, by Paul Toohey
Quarterly Essay, Issue 30, June 2008
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Quarterly Essay, Issue 30, June 2008
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鈥淪peeding towards dangerous climate change鈥 was the name of the public forum at which the Public Transport Users Association (PTUA) launched its 鈥淓very Ten Minutes to Everywhere鈥 campaign on June 15.
This year鈥檚 May Day solidarity brigade to Venezuela, the seventh brigade from Australia to be organised by the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network (AVSN), had 12 participants representing various unions. One of those was Chris Spindler, an organiser for the Victorian Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).
Spindler was sent on the brigade as an official AMWU representative, to report back on how the Bolivarian revolution being led by President Hugo Chavez鈥檚 government was improving the lives of workers and the poor. On June 11, the Victorian AMWU voted to affiliate to the AVSN and to send a message of solidarity and congratulations to the workers of the giant steel plant Sidor 鈥 which was nationalised in April following a long struggle by its workforce.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Trent Hawkins spoke to Spindler about the his impressions of the revolution.
At the end of May, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) logged all but three universities with a bold set of claims.
On June 12, the South Australian-based manufacturing company Clipsal announced it would sack 200 permanent workers and close its Nurioopta plant based in the Barossa Valley. The company indicated that there would likely be unspecified 聯flow on聰 job cuts in its labour hire workforce.
Fred Fuentes, who has spent a year working in Venezuela, will be a special guest speaker at the Resistance National Conference in Sydney, June 27-29. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Trent Hawkins caught up with Fuentes just before he left Caracas for Australia.
Between July 5 and 9, hundreds of students and activists from around Australia are expected to attend the annual Students of Sustainability (SoS) conference at the University of Newcastle.
Under the title 鈥淔irst steps in closing the gap鈥, the Indigenous affairs budget papers reveal that Labor has committed itself to six bold targets. They鈥檙e commendable goals, but are they achievable? National Indigenous Times鈥 managing editor, Chris Graham, gives his assessment of how PM Kevin Rudd鈥檚 first federal budget will impact upon Indigenous people.
Brisbane鈥檚 very successful 91自拍论坛 Weekly Winter Fiesta on June 14 helped take our 2008 Fighting Fund to $101,936. Since the last issue $7921 has been collected in the form of donations and proceeds from events like the Brisbane Winter Fiesta. Proceeds from fundraising events in Newcastle and Melbourne also made a significant contribution.
Fifteen activists calling for a rapid conversion to renewable energy protested at the $2600-a-head Queensland Coal Conference 08 on June 16.
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