The death of KG Kannabiran (1929-2010) on December 30 came as an anti-climax to an eventful and often turbulent life; in accordance with his wishes his family conducted a private, secular cremation within an hour of his death.
For four decades, KG Kannabiran was the most prominent public face in the struggle for human rights, both as a lawyer and activist 鈥 in his home state of Andhra Pradesh and across India.
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Palestinians have upped the stakes in their struggle for freedom and justice on the anniversary of al-Nakba (鈥淭he Castrophe鈥), as Palestinains refer to the ethnic cleansing that accompnied the founding of Israel in 1948).
Israel responded with lethal repression.
Live at Babeville
Ani DiFranco
www.righteousbaberecords.com
In recent times, there鈥檚 been some conjecture over the quality of US singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco鈥檚 music.
The much acclaimed, fiercely political folk singer and poet appeared to some to have 鈥渕ellowed鈥 in topic and tone of her work after having a baby and getting married.
The singer鈥檚 latest DVD, Live at Babeville, puts those qualms to rest.
When the 548 delegates to the Seventh National Convention of Portugal鈥檚 Left Bloc came together in a vast sports hall in Lisbon onver May 7-8, they had two big questions to answer.
The first was what alternative should they propose at the June 5 Portuguese elections to the 鈧78 billion (about $103 billion) 鈥渞escue package鈥 negotiated between the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund (the 鈥渢roika鈥) and the Socialist Party (PS) government of prime minister Jose Socrates?
The United States' gross domestic product (GDP) has returned to its pre-financial crisis levels of about US$14.3 trillion. However, this figure obscures a grim social reality.
Fareed Zakaria reported in a May 19 Time.com article that while the economy is 鈥減roducing the same amount of goods and services as in 2007鈥, it is doing so 鈥渨ith 7 million fewer workers鈥.
Zakaria said: 鈥淯sually, productivity gains translate into higher economic output, higher incomes and thus rising employment. That was the experience in the 1990s.
Locked Out
Directed by Joan Sekler
www.lockedout2010.org
Locked Out, a film by Joan Sekler, documents the struggle of workers at the Borax mine in Boron, California, against the mine's multinational owner, Rio Tinto.
The mine is integral to the towns economy, employing 570 workers 鈥 about a quarter of the population of Boron.
In September 2009, Rio Tinto revealed it intended on scrapping the workers' contract. The pay, benefits, and conditions set out in the contract had been negotiated for with workers over the past 40 years.
Colombian daily El Espectador reported on May 18 that the Colombian Supreme Court of Justice ruled the infamous 鈥淔ARC files鈥 as inadmissible evidence in court, as they were obtained illegally.
The ruling refers to supposed documents acquired from the laptops of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader Raul Reyes who was killed in the March 2008 Colombian military bombing raid of a guerrilla camp in Ecuador.
鈥淢ore African American men are in prison or jail, on probation or parole than were enslaved in 1850, before the Civil War began," Michelle Alexander told a packed meeting at the Pasadena Main Library in California on April 13.
Alexander, a law professor at Ohio State, was discussing her bestseller, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness.
The following statement was released by the Socialist Alliance in Australia. For more information, visit www.socialist-alliance.org .
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Nothin鈥 To Lose Zennith www.zennithboyz.com.au If the Red Hot Chili Peppers had injected themselves with a few litres of truth serum instead of enough smack to kill a blue whale, they could well have ended up sounding like largely Indigenous Australian band Zennith. Both build righteous rap and rock on reggae foundations, but Zennith swap the Chilis' dreamy, stoner poetry for clear-eyed political consciousness.
Having arrived back in Caracas after more than two weeks visiting various rural communities, leaders from the National Campesino Front Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ) told us that the bodies of two of their comrades, missing since April 12, had been found.
Jose Joel Torres Leves and Agustin Gamboa Duran were leading land reform activists in the Comunal City Antonio Jose de Sucre, in Barinas state.
Three Australian activists will take part in the , the successor to the first Freedom Flotilla to Gaza in May 2010 that was brutally attacked in international waters by Israeli commandos.
91自拍论坛 Weekly鈥檚 Pip Hinman asked former NSW Greens parliamentarian Sylvia Hale why she has joined the on the flotilla.
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