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.
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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.
This piece on 鈥渢asks for ecosocialists in building a global movement against ecological destruction鈥, was posted at http://climateandcapitalism.com on June 10. It will be published as an editorial in a coming edition of British magazine Socialist Resistance.
I am not the least bit superstitious, but I can get suspicious. Like when Victorian community group Your Water Your Say (YWYS) failed its court challenge against the federal and state government decision to build a monstrous and unnecessary $3.1 billion desalination plant in Wonthaggi.
The latest surge in the spot price of crude oil (to US$139 a barrel 鈥 87.4 cents a litre) dramatises the urgent need for society to wean itself off 鈥渂lack gold鈥. The longer we remain hooked the greater the devastation both to our environment and to the living standards of millions, especially the poorest peoples of the planet.
Dear Prime Minister,
Six months into your term you stated: "We have done as much as we physically can to provide additional help to the family budget, recognising that the cost of everything is still going through the roof, the cost of food, cost
On June 5 the Eleventh Circuit of Atlanta鈥檚 Court of Appeals upheld the federal convictions for conspiracy against the Cuban Five 鈥 five Cuban citizens held in US prisons since their arrest on September 12, 1998.
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