A dozen activists gathered at Carousel shopping centre on May 2 as part of a boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) action against cosmetics company Seacret. Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) called the action in support of the international BDS campaign called for by Palestinian civil society. The aim is to place pressure on Israel to adhere to international law and to end the illegal occupation of Palestine.
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East West 101
Created & produced by Steve Knapman & Kris Wyld
Directed by Peter Andrikidis
Starring Don Hany, Susie Porter & Matt Nable
Wednesdays, 8.30pm, SBSONE
www.sbs.com.au/shows/eastwest101
The makers of critically acclaimed Australian crime series East West 101 say the third season, now airing Wednesday nights on SBS, is about the devastation wars in the Middle East have on Muslim and non-Muslim people in Australia.
It is a bold aim untouched by any other Australian network.
A number of left groups in Venezuela and solidarity groups internationally have expressed concern over the April 23 decision by Venezuelan authorities to arrest well-known Colombian journalist and supporter of the Venezuelan revolution, Joaquin Perez Becerra.
Perez Becerra was arrested when he tried to enter the country through Caracas Airport. He was deported two days later to neighbouring Colombia to face trial for supposed 鈥渢errorism鈥 charges in Colombia.
Forty refugee rights activists travelled by bus from Perth to Curtin Detention Centre in the remote Kimberley region of WA over the Easter long weekend. Several others joined the convergence at nearby Derby.
This was the latest convergence on a refugee detention centre organised by the Refugee Rights Action Network (RRAN).
Most refugee detention centres are located in remote locations to create a physical divide between refugees and the broader population. The convergence aimed to bridge this divide.
In the World of Light Tiki Taane Touring Qld, NSW & Vic: May 19-28 www.tikidub.com Interview by Mat Ward Chart-topping New Zealand musician Tiki Taane became an unlikely poster boy for free speech on April 9 when he was escorted from his own gig in handcuffs. His arrest was for singing NWA鈥檚 鈥淔uck tha Police鈥 during a routine police check of the concert in the seaside town of Tauranga. He was charged with disorderly behaviour likely to cause violence.
In April 1915, in the midst of a stalled military campaign on the Western Front, Britain and its allies attacked Turkey鈥檚 Gallipoli Peninsula in an attempt to gain control of the Dardanelles Straits and take German-allied Turkey out of World War I.
This impressively researched volume, which relies extensively on unpublished first-hand accounts from soldiers of all sides of the conflict, is a detailed account of this 鈥渄oomed鈥 and 鈥減ointless鈥 campaign.
The US-led military operation in Libya has morphed from the initial imposition of a 鈥渘o-fly zone鈥 鈥 ostensibly to prevent Muammar Gaddafi鈥檚 regime from carrying out a massacre 鈥 into an ongoing bombing campaign with no end in sight.
And now there鈥檚 increasing talk of the use of ground forces until Gaddafi is overthrown and a new government, no doubt Western-approved, takes his place.
Libya discussion
Several weeks of conflict between the government of President Evo Morales and Bolivian trade unions has again thrown into sharp relief some of the serious challenges confront Bolivia鈥檚 process of change.
For two weeks in April, the Bolivian Workers Central (COB) called mobilisations across various cities to protest the government鈥檚 proposed 10% pay rise for teachers, health workers, police and soldiers, and 20% rise in the minimum wage.
Europe鈥檚 biggest polluters have made billions out of the European Emissions Trading System (ETS). But a new briefing by Carbon Trade Watch (CTW) says the scheme will ensure industry will not have to cut its emissions until at least 2017.
The ETS sets a cap, or upper limit, on total emissions for 11,000 power stations and industrial plants in 30 European countries. Each company receives permits to pollute, which can be traded with other companies.
In another important step towards winning Bolivia鈥檚 national sovereignty, the country鈥檚 Plurinational Assembly has announced the expulsion from Bolivia of USAID鈥檚 Environment and Economic Development (EED) program.
USAID is funded by the US government and on its website says one of its aims is 鈥渇urthering America鈥檚 foreign policy interests鈥. The agency has come under fire for its role in funding pro-US right-wing organisations in Bolivia and the region.
Sixty-two protesters had been killed by Syrian security forces on April 29, Al Jazeera reported that day. This was the second Friday in a row that Syrian authorities had used lethal forces against protesters 鈥 100 protesters were killed in Deraa on April 22.
The United States responded by imposing sanctions on three leading figures in the regime 鈥 including President Bashar al-Assad鈥檚 brother, but not the president 鈥 and the Syrian intelligence agency.
The sixth congress of the Communist Party of Cuba ended on April 19. Not by accident, the date chosen for the meeting coincided with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the victory of Playa Giron [Bay of Pigs 鈥 at which the Cuban people defeated a US-sponsored invasion in 1961].
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