The Toyota Motor Corporation, in a dead heat with US giant General Motors (GM), is now the most profitable car maker in the world. Last financial year TMC was valued at US$215 billion. This, however, didn鈥檛 stop the federal government from offering Toyota even more money.
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The article below, by Jean-Guy Allard, is reprinted from Cuban newspaper Granma on June 16. According to a June 18 Xinhuanet.com article, thousands of people protested outside the US embassy in La Paz, Bolivia, against the decision and demanding Carlos Sanchez Berzain聮s extradition 聴 prompting the US to recall its ambassador to report on the situation. Bolivian President Evo Morales defended the protests, stating that the protest 聯isn聮t any attack聰, but 聯is the reaction of the people against US government policies聰, which grant asylum to genocide suspects and protect criminals.
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.
The New Spirit of Capitalism
By Luc Boltanski& Eve Chiapello
Verso, 2007
656 pages, $79.95
By Luc Boltanski& Eve Chiapello
Verso, 2007
656 pages, $79.95
Standard Operating Procedure
Directed by Errol Morris
Cinema release July 3
Directed by Errol Morris
Cinema release July 3
Below is an open letter from Bolivian President Evo Morales to the European Union, appealing to it not to adopt the racist anti-immigrant 鈥淩eturn Directive鈥, which was voted up on June 18. This is abridged from http://boliviarising.blogspot.com.
鈥淓mployers win in IR overhaul鈥, was the front-page headline of the June 17 Australian Financial Review, reporting the outcome of the Rudd Labor government鈥檚 new National Employment Standards (NES), released on June 15.
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