The letter published below was circulated by the United States-based Just Foreign Policy. It was signed by more than 100 prominent people, mostly from the US. Signatories include film directors Michal Moore and Oliver Stone, authors Noam Chomsky and Naomi Wolf, journalists Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges, and Vietnam War-era whistleblower Daniel Elsberg.
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If you talk to the people in-the-know at the United Nations and other related agencies, they will tell you that our system of governance is not working well enough to solve the crises the world is facing.
I guess this explains why the final lead document 鈥淭he Future We Want鈥 from the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil from June 13-22, was described by Yolanda Kakabadse, International Director of WWF, as 鈥渁 weak text without bones and without soul.鈥
Sudanese President Omer Al Bashir has described anti-government protesters as foreign agents, agitators and 鈥渂ubbles鈥. Yet unrest may boil over as it continues to spread and protesters vow they won鈥檛 stop until the regime falls.
The movement against the government was boosted on June 29 with large protests in Khartoum and its twin city Omdurman as well as at least a dozen cities outside the capital for the 鈥渄ay of elbow-licking鈥.
The United States Supreme Court has upheld the core provision of Arizona鈥檚 vicious anti-immigrant law.
The part of the law upheld requires police to determine the immigration status of anyone they stop, for whatever reason, if they 鈥渟uspect鈥 they are undocumented.
Arizona Governor Jan Brewster claims the law would not result in racial profiling. But she is lying through her teeth.
Everyone knows that in Arizona, the only grounds for 鈥渟uspicion鈥 is having brown skin. No white person will be 鈥渟uspected鈥 of not having papers.
The world today is plagued by many crises. Economies are in recession. The world is wracked by war. And poverty is still rampant for the world's majority. Alongside all of this, our environment, and our climate, is increasingly under pressure, threatening all life on the planet.
The climate crisis strikes at the very heart of our societies. We need to question the way we operate, the way we allocate and use our resources, and the way we develop infrastructure, so that we can create a more sustainable world.
Many have taken mining boss Gina Rinehart's bid to take up a seat on Fairfax's board of directors by buying up almost 20% of the media company's shares as a threat to its 鈥渋ndependence鈥 and 鈥渜uality journalism鈥. But many opponents of Rinehart's bid are glossing over Fairfax's ugly record.
A Rinehart-controlled media would do much damage to the possibility of informed public discussions in Australia.
The problem of homelessness, high rentals and unlicensed boarding houses in Sydney鈥檚 inner west 鈥 often though of as one of the wealthier areas of Sydney 鈥 is growing, said Paul Adabie, acting director of the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC).
Adabie told 91自拍论坛 Weekly these acute housing problems faced by the most disadvantaged and vulnerable.
The Transform Drug Policy Foundation recently informed me of , a new online research tool developed to educate people on the need for drug law reform.
A community protest of up to 30 people was held outside a global shale industry conference in Perth on June 28. Campaign group No Fracking WAy organised the protest. The two-day conference on global shale gas development put on by the Electric Utility Consultants, Inc (EUCI) at the Seasons of Perth Hotel, 37 Pier St, Perth.
The protesters held up banners, sang anti-fracking songs and heard from several speakers about the problems with the shale gas industry, which is expanding rapidly in Western Australia.
Having taken her share in Fairfax Media to nearly 20%, Gina Rinehart has demanded a greater say in the workings of Fairfax, including editorial matters at its major papers The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
Fairfax鈥檚 board has so far rejected Rinehart鈥檚 manoeuvres, saying she must first commit to signing the 鈥淔airfax Media Charter of Editorial Independence鈥, which is based on the 鈥渇undamental and longstanding principle of editorial independence鈥.
A June 27 speakout in the Bourke Street Mall called for the freeing of political prisoners in Pakistan and condemned the Pakistani state鈥檚 use of the Western-sponsored 鈥渨ar on terror鈥 as a pretext for cracking down on community activists and trade unionists. The speakout was use to collect signatures names on an international open letter.
The prosecution of two activists dubbed the 鈥淐hristmas Carol Criminals鈥 collapsed when a Perth magistrate dismissed all charges on June 29. Alex Bainbridge and Miranda Wood from the group Friends of Palestine WA (FOPWA) had been charged with trespassing during a December protest outside Israeli cosmetics company Seacret. Seacret benefits from the illegal occupation of Palestine by stealing minerals and resources from the Dead Sea to use in its products.
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