Malalai Joya, a brave activist from Afghanistan who opposes Western occupation and local Afghan warlords, gives an impassioned message to the Australian government and the Australian people. Among the questions she answers are: Who is Australia supporting? What is the role of Australian troops in the occupation? What should Australian people do?
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Musician and activist Phil Monsour is releasing his latest 12-song CD, Ghosts of Deir Yassin after the mobilisations for Palestinian Land Day on March 30. The CD is available online at Cdbaby and other outlets.
In a recent interview with Hip-Hop DX, a hoodie-clad Nas exhibited an understandable amount of despair at the case of African American youth Trayvon Martin, the shot dead by George Zimmerman while walking home from the shops in Florida in February.
The US hip hop artist said: 鈥淵ou never want to hear that kind of news. When it happens, you remember how many Trayvon incidents happen everyday all over the world...
鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 seem like the race problem will ever get solved. I like to be optimistic, but it doesn鈥檛 seem like it鈥檒l ever get solved.鈥
Power loom workers in Faisalabad, a big industrial centre in central Pakistan, launched a series of strikes and demonstrations in mid-2010. Six leaders of the organisation of power loom workers, the Labour Qaumi Movement (LQM), were arrested by the police.
The six were charged under anti-terror laws and sentenced to a total of almost 490 years' jail (served concurrently). The jailed LQM leaders are also members of the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP).
Tintaya is an open-cut copper and gold mine 4000 metres high in the district of Yauri, Espinar province, southern Peru. It is a spectacle of modern industrial devastation that contrasts jarringly with the timeless beauty of the surrounding altiplano landscape.
Finally, after years of aggravated environmental abuse, the mine's owner, Swiss-based Xstrata, will be investigated by Peruvian authorities.
After the discovery of large deposits, a copper mine was established at Tintaya in the mid-1980s. Extractive operations were hugely expanded when BHP bought the site in 1996.
The Lorax
Starring Danny Devito, Zac Efron, Taylor Swift & Ed Helms, directed by Chris Melandandri and Kyle Balda
Now showing in cinemas.
Adapted from the 1971 Dr Seuss book of the same name, The Lorax is a great analogy for the destructive nature of capitalism.
The story is set in 鈥淭hneedville鈥, a walled city in which everything is made of plastic, metal and synthetic material. It is controlled by the mayor and owner of a bottled oxygen company, Aloysious O鈥橦are, who sells the residents their bottled water.
In a new development for progressive media, 91自拍论坛 Weekly has , an online video resource to complement GLW's newspaper and website. It aims to provide another avenue for radical pro-people and pro-planet news and analysis.
Venezuela鈥檚 national minimum wage is to rise 32.25% this year, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on April 7.
In a televised address from Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Chavez said the wage rise would take place in two phases, 鈥 first on May 1 and then a further rise on September 1.
Literature Nobel laureate and Germany's most famous living author Gunter Grass labelled Israel a threat to "already fragile world peace" in his poem 鈥淲as gesagt werden muss鈥 (鈥淲hat must be said鈥).
The work, published by German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung on April 4, accuses "the West" of hypocrisy in relation to the arming of Israel. In publishing the poem, Grass, who regards himself as "irrevocably connected to the country of Israel鈥 has made a big contribution to breaking a long standing German taboo about publicly criticising Israel's warmongering.
The new, interim president of Mali is holding out the possibility of 鈥渁ll out war鈥 against the rebellion of the oppressed, Touareg nationality that has swept the north of the western African country.
Dioncounda Traore took over the presidency on April 12 in a deal with the military officers who overthrew the elected president on March 21. He immediately called on the rebels to "return to the fold and to strengthen this nation instead of dividing it".
BBC reported on April 12 that Traore said if they did not yield, "we will not hesitate to wage a total and relentless war".
There鈥檚 no election quite like a French presidential contest. It is a six-month-long race in which nearly every political stable usually has a runner and where the handicapping system is less rigged against 鈥渙utsiders鈥 than in many other countries.
It puts a premium on personality: a candidate who strikes voters as fresh, sincere and 鈥渘ot a politician鈥 has a chance to win more support than in other elections.
Two officers identifying themselves as being from . If recent headlines are anything to go by () such surprise visits will become ever more frequent for anti-coal activists like me.
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