More than 200 people took to Adelaide鈥檚 streets on March 26 in the first March for Survival.
Organised by the Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN) the protest called on people to support victims of the recent floods, cyclones and bushfires and to demand serious emission cuts (60% of 1990 levels by 2020) and 100% renewable energy by 2020.
CLEAN鈥檚 John Rice introduced the rally. 鈥淔or me the enduring image of these disasters is that of the Lockyer Valley and the foundation slab of a house which was swept away, taking the entire family inside,鈥 he said.
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Hundreds of thousands of protesters rallied across Yemen on April 1 in the largest mobilisation so far calling for the removal of President Ali Abdulla Saleh, Associated Press said that day.
Protests took place in at least 14 provinces.
Saleh鈥檚 unwillingness to stand down has claimed m ore lives. Protesters have blamed Saleh for an explosion in an ammunition factory that killed about 150 people on March 28.
Protesters said Saleh鈥檚 government allowed the factory to be overrun by supposed al-Qaeda members who left the factory open for looters, Voanews.com said on March 30.
Economists warned on March 31 that the British government鈥檚 public-sector cuts will leave a shortfall of more than half a million jobs.
The New Economics Foundation (NEF) also warned that nowhere in the budget or 鈥減lan for growth鈥 was there 鈥渁ny evidence that the business tax cuts, regulatory tweaks and relatively minor changes to public-sector investment that are promised will deliver major economic transformation鈥.
Trade Union Congress general secretary Brendan Barber said the findings showed that 鈥渋n recent years, the market has become the master, not the servant, of society鈥.
The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) issued a statement on March 29 calling for the immediate release of five West Papuan nurses who have been arrested and jailed by the Indonesian government for taking part in industrial action.
Eight nurses and midwives were detained on March 20 by the criminal investigation unit of the Papuan police in Jayapura, ANF acting federal secretary Yvonne Chaperon said. Five remain in jail.
The hypocrisy, double standards and selectivity displayed in the Western military action in Libya defy enumeration.
In Yemen and Bahrain, Western-backed regimes are violently repressing the democracy movement the West claims to back in Libya.
In Iraq, a US-sponsored regime protected by 47,000 US troops is trying to do the same 鈥攕hooting demonstrators, detaining thousands and subjecting many to torture.
AC4 are a hardcore punk band from Sweden who are touring Australia in April with US punk group Star Fucking Hipsters. 91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Chris Peterson spoke to AC4 lead singer , also of The (International) Noise Conspiracy, who toured Australia last year.
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John Pilger鈥檚 latest film, The War You Don鈥檛 See, looks at the power wielded by journalists reporting conflict. It examines the responsibility of the media in justifying and supporting the wars our governments wage.
Pilger asks: 鈥淲hat is the role of the media in rapacious wars like Iraq and Afghanistan and how are the crimes of war reported and justified?
鈥淭hose whose job it is to keep the record straight ought to be the voice of people, not power.鈥
Former ABC journalist Jeff McMullen attacked the federal government鈥檚 intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities as racist and harmful in a March 21 letter to indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin.
McMullen said Macklin had 鈥渘ot responded to the calls by an overwhelming majority of the Aboriginal leaders in 鈥 occupied communities to end the Intervention now鈥.
McMullen wrote in response to a letter Macklin sent him on March 2 that defended the intervention.
Writing in the aftermath of the several high profile WikiLeaks publications including the and the Afghanistan and Iraq , News Corporation journalist Brad Norington set out on a crusade against online media, and more specifically, against WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.
The US-NATO intervention in Libya, with United Nations Security Council cover, is part of an orchestrated response to show support for the movement against one dictator in particular.
In doing so, it aims to bring the Arab rebellions to an end by asserting Western control, confiscating their impetus and spontaneity and trying to restore the status quo.
It is absurd to think that the reasons for bombing Tripoli or for the French airforce鈥檚 鈥渢urkey shoot鈥 (the bombing of fleeing Libyan soldiers) outside Benghazi are designed to protect civilians.
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