On September 10 a British jury acquitted six Greenpeace protesters who were on trial for trying to shut down a coal-fired power station on the grounds that they were trying to stop global warming.
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My cows can鈥檛 swim!鈥, protested one farmer鈥檚 sign, with a marker to indicate just how high the water would rise. 鈥淎ct now or be dammed!鈥, advised another, echoing the overall theme of the 500-strong Save the Mary River rally on September 6 at the Traveston Crossing bridge in south-east Queensland.
The Greens were the major beneficiaries of the swing to the left in many councils across NSW at the September 13 elections, probably taking their representation to more than 70 for the first time. Independents and other progressive tickets, including the Socialist Alliance, also made gains.
The decision to make public a presidential order in July authorising US strikes inside Pakistan without seeking the approval of the Pakistani government ends a long debate within, and on the periphery of, the Bush administration.
Relative calm has returned to Bolivia following a three-week offensive of violence and terrorism launched by the US-backed right-wing opposition denounced by Bolivian President Evo Morales as a 鈥渃ivil coup鈥.
As I write this column the newspapers report that United States, Canadian, European and Japanese banks have combined to inject an extra US$180 billion (A$225 billion) into global financial markets. It is the latest desperate measure to try to stem the year-old global financial crisis commonly 鈥 and misleadingly 鈥 labelled the US subprime mortgage crisis.
Union Solidarity activists blockaded the Dandenong mail distribution centre overnight on September 19 in response to Australia Post鈥檚 proposed transfer of a union delegate who took strike action three months ago.
Max Phillips, a newly elected Greens councillor in Marrickville and the Greens聮 campaign coordinator for the September 13 NSW local government elections, puts the swing to the Greens down to the state Labor government聮s implosion.
On September 17, the Thai parliament elected a candidate from the People聮s Power Party (PPP), Somchai Wongsawat, to be the next prime minister.
Four retired and one active Venezuelan military officials have been arrested, a further 33 questioned and the US ambassador expelled in the wake of the September 10 revelation of a planned coup and assassination attempt against President Hugo Chavez.
People power came to Gunnedah in north-west NSW on September 15 as more than 300 farmers and their supporters rallied outside the Gunnedah Basin Coal Conference. They were protesting against a coalmining project in the agriculturally rich Liverpool Plains that was given state government approval in 2006.
Amid growing tensions between the United States and Latin America, nearly 1200 young people 鈥 representing thousands more 鈥 met in the Venezuelan city of Puerto Ordaz on September 11-13 to found the United Socialist Party of Venezuela Youth (JPSUV).
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