Below is the text of the resolution of the
National Coalition for Change (CONALCAM) meeting held in Cochabamba on August 22-23. It is reprinted from Bolivia Rising, .
CONALCAM brings a together the United Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia; the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia; the National Federation of Cooperative Miners; the Federation of Neighbourhood Councils of El Alto; the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu; the National Federation of Bolivian Peasant Women Bartolina Sisa; and the National Confederation of Small and Micro Businesses.
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The Business Council of Australia (BCA) 鈥 representative of the 100 largest companies in Australia 鈥 has threatened that its members will be 鈥渇orced鈥 to relocate offshore if the federal government鈥檚 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is implemented.
A busload of 聯Save the Mary River聰 activists from Brisbane will join an expected 1000-plus protesters to form a human chain at the location of the planned Traveston Dam on the Mary River on September 6. The rally will be part of GetUp聮s climate torch relay, in support of actions to address climate change.
Peruvian President Alan Garcia suffered a major political setback on August 22 after Congress voted 66-29 in favour of repealing controversial presidential decrees that would have facilitated the privatisation of communal indigenous lands.
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has finalised the first agreement in a new round of collective bargaining in universities. The University of Ballarat agreement gives a 10.9% pay increase over 15 months.
Educational feudalism
Julia Gillard sure wants to take the neoliberal stick to public education and parents.
Firstly, impoverished parents who find it difficult to send their children to school every day will become even more impoverished by
The NSW Greens have called for moratorium on the issuing of water licenses in the Murray-Darling Basin until a thorough independent study of the cumulative impact of mining on water resources in the basin has been made.
On August 20, Uruguay聮s sole union confederation, the Inter-union Plenary of Workers鈥揘ational Convention of Workers (PIT-CNT), organised its first 24-hour general strike since the centre-left President Tabare Vasquez, from the Frente Amplio (FA), was elected in 2005.
聯People are eating mainly bread, flour, milk powder and sugar, and deriving a huge proportion of their energy from these foods that cost the least but are going to fill people up and divert hunger聰, Julie Brimblecombe told ABC Radio National聮s The World Today on August 25.
Toni Warden, the Greens WA candidate for Kalamunda in the September 6 Western Australian elections, is a founding member of the Stop the Eastern Terminal Substation Action Group (SETS) and a member of the Hills Climate Action Group. She told 91自拍论坛 Weekly that the main issues in the election are the climate emergency and social inequities exacerbated by WA聮s resources boom.
Up to 5000 Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union members in Victoria聮s building industry unanimously endorsed an enterprise agreement that guarantees a 15% pay rise over the three years of the agreement.
Under pressure from Iraqis opposed to the ongoing occupation of their country, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamil al Maliki released a statement on August 25 calling for the complete withdrawal of all foreign forces from Iraq by 2011.
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