鈥淎 revolution is sweeping Latin America, and Venezuela is at the centre of the process that is radically changing the social order there鈥, Jim McIlroy told a forum on October 22.
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Community and conservation groups fighting the controversial Mary River Traveston Crossing Dam proposal, near Gympie, have recently held a series of campaign strategy meetings. This followed the Queensland coordinator general鈥檚 October 6 approval of the proposal, which attached 1200 conditions to the dam project.
Balibo
By Jill Jolliffe
Scribe Publications, 2009
416 pages, $29.95 (pb)
Let鈥檚 start by establishing some common ground between myself and anti-nuclear campaigners like Jim Green. Green and I both understand the seriousness of the climate crisis and the imperative for a rapid transformation of our energy system to technologies that emit no carbon when generating power.
The following statement is by Geelong Trades Hall Council secretary Tim Gooden.
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Clinton Fernandes describes himself as a "consulting historian" to the movie Balibo. He is a former military intelligence officer, who has his own reasons for promoting the official line on whether Australian intelligence was forewarned
A massive protest was held on October 17 in Donostia/San Sebastian in the Basque Country to protest against the Spanish government鈥檚 new wave of arrests against the Basque pro-independence and labour movement.
Tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in climate action protests in the Danish capital of Copenhagen during the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in December.
The mass resistance of the poor majority to the coup regime that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya on June 28 continues after nearly 120 days. Talks between the coup regime and Zelaya to resolve the crisis, which is costing the Honduran economy millions of dollars, were finally declared dead by Zelaya on October 23.
Before the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement was ratified in 2007, many Peruvian and international human rights and environmental organisations said the deal would lead to increased social destabilisation and drug production.
US-Venezuelan lawyer Eva Golinger points out in her books exposing US intervention into Venezuela that the constant stream of lies about Venezuela and its popular President Hugo Chavez are best seen as the leading edge of an integrated strategy of destabilisation and 鈥渞egime change鈥 for the socialist-oriented, oil-rich nation.
SYDNEY 鈥 On October 20, 200 people protested outside Parliament House against the Rees Labor government's moves to repeal 100-year-old laws requiring parliament to approve any sales of land reserved for railways. A wide range of groups were represented, including the transport unions, Greens, Socialist Alliance and transport action groups from around the state.
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