September 25 will go down as one of the darkest days in Bolivia since Evo Morales was elected as the country鈥檚 first indigenous president almost six years ago.
After more than 40 days of indigenous protesters marching, police officers moved in to repress those opposed to the government鈥檚 proposed highway that would run through the Isiboro-Secure National Park and Indigenous Territory (TIPNIS).
The controversial highway has met with both opposition and support from the many indigenous and social organisations that form the Morales government鈥檚 support base.
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Dr Aunty Ruby Langford Ginibi, one of Australia鈥檚 foremost Aboriginal authors, passed away on October 2 in a Sydney nursing home. Through her numerous books, short stories, poetry, interviews and public appearances and her commitment to 鈥渆du-ma-cating鈥 non-Aboriginal people about Indigenous peoples鈥 circumstances and struggle, she made a distinctive and substantial contribution to Australian history and literature. Her books were studied in high schools and universities in Australia and internationally.
More than 500 people gathered in Melbourne over September 30 to October 3 to take part in four days of stimulating talks and discussion at the second Climate Change Social Change conference. The conference, which featured five plenary sessions, 39 workshops and more than 90 speakers, was organised by 91自拍论坛 Weekly, Socialist Alliance and Resistance.
Australia, at least for me, is a paradox. As Dorothy McKellar famously wrote, 鈥淚 love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges and droughts and flooding rains鈥.
The extremes in our landscape and our weather seem to have been etched into our national psyche as well, which is something I鈥檝e never quite understood.
Ian Angus is editor of climateandcapitalism.com and co-author, with Simon Butler, of the new book Too Many People?. This is his keynote presentation to the recent Climate Change Social Change conference in Melbourne.
Hazara asylum seekers inside Darwin detention centre released the statement below to explain the aims of their recent protest.
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We the Hazara Afghan asylum seekers held a peaceful protest in Darwin detention centre with number of 100 asylum seekers on September 24.
We strongly condemn the act of target killings of Hazaras in Pakistan and Afghanistan and we pass our condolences to those grieved families.
More than 29 Hazaras traveling on a bus near Quetta, Pakistan, were separated from other passengers and executed by Islamic fundamentalists on September 20. This was the third time Hazaras have been attacked in a month.
After hearing the news, more than 400 Hazara asylum seekers in Curtin detention centre protested the killings near the centre鈥檚 administration building on September 21. The protest was to alert the immigration department of the situation Hazaras face in Pakistan.
The Europe Against Austerity conference held in London on October 1 was attended by 681 people, including 150 from outside Britain. This happened the same weekend that two big demonstrations took place.
In Glasgow, a 鈥淧eople First鈥 demonstration of 15,000 called by the Scottish TUC took place on October 1.
The next day, 35,000 joined a demonstration in Manchester outside the governing Conservative Party conference, which was called by the Trades Union Congress and backed by the Coalition of Resistance and the Right to Work Campaign.
Members of the Philippines Air Lines Employees Association (PALEA) have been engaged in three weeks of pickets at the Philippines Airlines (PAL) terminal at Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Manila.
About 2600 ground crew have fought against forced contractualisation 鈥 the replacement of permanent, secure jobs with contract labour.
PALEA president Gerry Rivera told 91自拍论坛 Weekly the dispute had its origins in 2009 when PAL management declared their intention to outsource the roles of the 2600 ground crew.
Pro-democracy protesters in Bahrain have gone on the offensive in the face of government repression and harsh sentences for activists arrested in the first wave of protests in February and March.
Large protests began on September 23 against sham by-elections for Bahrain鈥檚 toothless parliament. Most people heeded the democracy movement鈥檚 call for a boycott 鈥 only about 17% turned out to vote, FT.com said on September 25.
Police blocked attempts by protesters to reach the previous epicentre of the protests 鈥 the now-demolished Pearl Roundabout, known as Martyr鈥檚 Square by protesters.
As the world watched the Egyptian people overthrow the hated dictator Hosni Mubarak earlier this year, there would have been many who asked themselves: Could it happen in my country too?
Some did more than wonder, they took to the streets and tried to 鈥渨alk like an Egyptian鈥 and a wave of people鈥檚 power began to sweep the Arab world. But this wave of revolt didn鈥檛 stop there.
There were powerful reverberations in Spain, Israel, Malaysia and even in the United States, the world鈥檚 richest country.
At noon on October 8, will mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the longest running war in Australia鈥檚 history. A protest, starting at Town Hall, will hear from a state MP, an aid worker and a lawyer and had intended to march via the Sydney Cenotaph in Martin Place to the US Consulate in Martin Place.
Together with the veterans鈥 group Stand Fast, the anti-war coalition was to lay a wreath to commemorate all the dead from the Afghanistan war.
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