EM>District 9 'horrific'?
I read Mike Ely's review of District 9 with some surprise, having enjoyed the film a few days earlier. Is its portrayal of Nigerian gangsters "horrific"? Definitely over the top, as is the scene where white scientists
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News reports in early September said doctors had admitted to many instances of patients being seriously injured or killed due to doctors鈥 exhaustion. The data was from a study by Salaried Doctors Queensland earlier this year.
More than 300 people demonstrated at the Hazelwood power station from September 12 to 13 to demand emergency action on climate change.
The following call for support was released on August 24 by Richard Downs, spokesperson of the Alyawarr people of the Northern Territory, who have walked off their community of Ampilatwatja in protest against the federal government鈥檚 NT intervention. Visit for more information.
鈥淲e have not been quiet, and we will not be quiet鈥, about abuses of human rights in Guatemala, Walter Felix Lopez, member of National Congress for the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Group (URNG), told a public forum of 30 people on September 5.
The October 17 Fremantle local government elections will take place in the wake of the May by-election that resulted in the historic victory of Greens candidate Adele Carles.
Aboriginal rights supporters and environmental activists protested at the opening of the Brisbane Writers鈥 Festival on September 9, where the keynote speaker was conservative Aboriginal figure Noel Pearson.
Although the international community has warned it will not recognise the results of the November elections in Honduras, the de facto government in power since the June 28 military coup that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya said the vote would go ahead.
September 6 Real News program, "Mr Zelaya goes to Washington"聽documents the trip by Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, overthrown in a June 28 military coup, to the the United States, as well as the ongoing resistance in Honduras.
Here鈥檚 a fairly simple choice: the global North would pay the hard-hit global South to deal with the climate crisis, either through the complicated and corrupt 鈥淐lean Development Mechanism鈥 (CDM), whose projects have plenty of damaging side-effects to communities, or instead pay through other mechanisms that provide financing quickly, transparently and decisively to achieve genuine income compensation plus renewable energy to the masses.
The article below is a September 3 statement from the Washington-based Center for Economic Policy and Research. it is reprinted from Chavezcode.com.
A December 6 street celebration of ten years in office of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the first of a series.
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