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Indigenous activist speaks: Outback communities and the nuclear industry

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.

Watch the worms squirm

The Howard Years
Series producer Deborah Masters
Interviewer/Narrator Fran Kelly
ABC, Monday 8.30pm

91自拍论坛 Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: Progressive media needs a shot in the arm

Every week hundreds of dedicated activists hit the streets all over Australia to distribute 91自拍论坛 Weekly.

On the box

Fidel Castro 鈥 Looks at Castro's early life as the son of a wealthy landowner, a Jesuit student, and as a young rebel lawyer who led the Cuban people to revolution. SBS, Friday. November 28, 1.30pm. Lionel Rose 鈥 In 1968, a young Aboriginal

Three proud athletes in Mexico

A race to remember: The Peter Norman story
By Damian Johnstone and Matt Norman
JoJo Publishing, 2008
320 pages, $34.95 (pb)

Agrofuels: are we winning?

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?

Venezuela: Socialist campaign gathers momentum as vote nears

At a mass rally of PSUV activists in the Poliedro Stadium on November 18, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called for 鈥淥peration Round Up鈥 to gather the maximum number of votes for candidates of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) in the November 23 elections for state governors and municipal mayors.

Redesigning child care: their public sector and ours

In periods of capitalist economic implosion, increased public spending and an enlarged role for the public sector becomes unavoidable, even for the most one-eyed of free marketeers.

Can Africa survive Obama's advisors?

One of US president-elect Barack Obama鈥檚 leading advisers has done more damage to Africa, its economies and its people than anyone I can think of in world history, including even Cecil John Rhodes.

Climate change movement: Involve, educate, empower

Leigh Hughes, an activist in the socialist youth organisation Resistance and the Socialist Alliance, as well a member of the Australian Student Environment Network, recently won the ACT Conservation Council鈥檚 鈥淟eading Light鈥 award for the most outstanding environmental effort of an individual under the age of 30. He spoke to 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Simon Butler.