The Story of Cap & Trade (below) is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Cap and trade is also variously described as 鈥渃arbon trading'' and 鈥渆missions trading鈥. In Australia, the federal Labor government is trying to push a variation of this through the Senate called the 鈥淐arbon Pollution Reduction Scheme鈥.
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The last of the 78 Tamil refugees who had protested for more than four weeks on board the Oceanic Viking walked off the Australian customs ship moored in Indonesia on November 17. For at least a month, they will be locked up in an Indonesian detention centre. They ended their protest after the Australian government promised to resettle them.
Professor Brij Lal is a Fijian historian and is part of the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. He was recently expelled from Fiji by the military government for speaking out against the regime鈥檚 expulsion of Australian diplomats on November 3.
The federal senate was bogged down in debate about Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) in the last week of November. The proposed scheme, already condemned by most environmental NGO鈥檚 and climate action groups as a sham, was 鈥渂rowned down鈥 even more after the Rudd government accepted a series of Liberal Party amendments.
Israel's ongoing takeover of East Jerusalem shows it is trying to kill any hope of a negotiated settlement to Palestine鈥檚 struggle for self-determination.
Do you have that sinking feeling? As though you have to run faster just to stand still? Are you having increasing problems making ends meet? Well, you鈥檙e not alone. It鈥檚 official 鈥 wages growth has fallen behind inflation. While the economy goes through 鈥渞ecovery鈥, we鈥檙e going backwards.
Nearly 2000 students from University of California campuses 鈥 including Berkeley, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, Riverside, Irvine and San Diego 鈥 converged on UCLA鈥檚 campus on November 19 to confront the UC Board of Regents as it voted to increase tuition by 32% next school year.
Five years ago, Mulrunji Doomadgee was arrested by senior sergeant Chris Hurley for 鈥渄isorderly conduct鈥 and taken to a police cell on Palm Island, near Townsville. Within an hour, the Aboriginal man was dead.
The article published below is a November 25 statement by the New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. For more information, visit .
Twenty-eight-year-old Malaysian activist Sivaranjani Manickam will be a special guest at the 鈥淭owards Justice, Sustainability and People鈥檚 Power: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century鈥 conference in Sydney in January.
Socialist Alliance members Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes live in Caracas, where they maintain 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Venezuela bureau.
In an interview with 91自拍论坛 Weekly, one of the Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who have been stranded on a boat at the Indonesian port of Merak since October 11, Sanjeev 鈥淎lex鈥 Kuhendrarajah, said conditions on the boat are dire.
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