On November 17, thousands of indigenous and environmental activists rallied across Ecuador in protest against the introduction of a new mining law by the government of President Rafael Correa.
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On November 16 the Iraqi cabinet agreed to a final draft of a 鈥渟ecurity agreement鈥 that would replace the current United Nations mandate 鈥 which has authorised the occupation since 2003 but that is scheduled to expire on December 31.
Families For a Nuclear Free Future (FFANFF) is a recently formed community group of families in Alice Springs with a united voice against the exploration and mining of uranium.
Evidence is mounting of a coordinated global oil industry effort to seize upon the international economic crisis as an opportunity to 聯rebel聰 against ecological controls and bludgeon concessions out of governments.
The much-hyped US$700 billion bailout for the banks has become a grab-bag of policies and giveaways to corporations of all sorts as the Bush administration reels under the pressure of collapsing stock prices, frozen credit markets and skyrocketing unemployment.
Jillian Marsh is a member of the Adnyamathanha community in the Flinders Ranges and active in the Australian Nuclear-Free Alliance. She recently traveled to Germany to receive the 2008 Nuclear-Free Future award, and is writing a thesis entitled A look at the approval of Beverley Mine and the ways that decisions are made when mining takes place in Adnyamathanha country.
Marsh spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Peter Robson about the expansion of the nuclear industry in South Australia and the Northern Territory.
Basque nationalist Inaki de Juana Chaos voluntarily appeared in court in Belfast on November 17 following the issueing of a European arrest warrant by the Spanish authorities to the Police Service of Northern Ireland on November 13.
A race to remember: The Peter Norman story
By Damian Johnstone and Matt Norman
JoJo Publishing, 2008
320 pages, $34.95 (pb)
By Damian Johnstone and Matt Norman
JoJo Publishing, 2008
320 pages, $34.95 (pb)
Lemon Tree
Director Eran Riklis
Screenplay by Suha Arraf & Eran Riklis
With Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman & Rona Lipaz-Michael
In cinemas
Director Eran Riklis
Screenplay by Suha Arraf & Eran Riklis
With Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory, Ali Suliman & Rona Lipaz-Michael
In cinemas
The Howard Years
Series producer Deborah Masters
Interviewer/Narrator Fran Kelly
ABC, Monday 8.30pm
Series producer Deborah Masters
Interviewer/Narrator Fran Kelly
ABC, Monday 8.30pm
With mounting evidence of environmental damage and grave social consequences, making fuel from plants no longer seems such a good idea. But is the widespread criticism of agrofuels forcing policy changes?
Every week hundreds of dedicated activists hit the streets all over Australia to distribute 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
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