Operation Miracle, a humanitarian social program created by the governments of Cuba and Venezuela, has made it possible to carry out over 1 million eye surgeries in the South American nation over the last eight years, the Cuban News Agency said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e operating some 5000 patients a week, the same amount of patients who benefited annually in Venezuela before the beginning of the program,鈥 said national coordinator Manuel Pacheco, cited by the Venezuelan News Agency.
Operation Miracle began in July 2004, taking care of patients with few economic resources who had eye problems.
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Since the outbreak of a new protest wave on June 16 that has spread across Sudan, the National Congress Party (NCP) regime has conducted mass arrests of thousands of activists in a desperate attempt to quell the revolt.
Some of those arrested have been released, but many remain in detention without charge 鈥 often in unknown locations with no outside contact.
Protests continue to be viciously attacked by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), police and what protesters call Rabata (鈥渂andits鈥 鈥 government-armed militias).
Mission Culture, a social program that aims to transform cultural education in Venezuela, celebrated its seventh anniversary on July 10, the state-run Venezuelan News Agency (AVN) said.
The program was created on July 10, 2005, by the government of President Hugo Chavez. It has since trained more than 12,000 people in different areas of the arts to foster a renewal of popular creativity.
Fraudcast News
Patrick Chalmers
Released February 2012
http://fraudcastnews.net/
Reading this former Reuters reporter's analysis of the news industry is like watching an episode of detective series Columbo unfold.
Like the seemingly innocent inspector Columbo, Patrick Chalmers at first comes across as disconcertingly naive. But, just like the deceptive detective, his eye for detail and dedicated approach become clear only late in the storyline.
One aspect of the drive by the super rich to make working people bear the brunt of the new Depression is to attack the social wage.
Part of this attack is the serious erosion of public education. This predates the crisis that began in 2007, but the recession that followed has been met with a sharp increase in such attacks.
The failure of the federal government to adequately fund public education cascades down to the states and cities, who all cry there is not enough money, so cutbacks are necessary.
It has not even begun, but a world record has already been set for the London 2012 Olympic games. The games, which begin on July 27, are the most corporatised, militarised and draconian Olympics of all time.
Every day there are fresh stories that reveal that, to British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Olympic spirit means giving corporations and governments free reign to do what they like.
Quebec's long-running student strike is set to resume at the start of the new semester on August 17. Students from universities and colleges are seeking to force the government to stop its plan to raise fees.
The student movement has turned politics in Quebec on its head, challenging not only the fee hike but the status quo of neoliberal politics. It has called into question the existence of fees and raised the idea of free education as a right.
MELBOURNE 鈥 Supporters of the Coles warehouse workers on strike for equal pay across the company's sites held a protest at Coles' Footscray outlet on July 14. They called on shoppers to boycott Coles until it met the workers' demands
Coles warehouse workers met two days into an indefinite strike on July 12 and voted unanimously to reject the latest offer from their direct employer Toll Logistics. Hundreds had gathered on a picket line to prevent trucks entering the site.
Striking workers outside the warehouse, which owner Coles outsources to Toll, told 91自拍论坛 Weekly that the offer wasn鈥檛 really 鈥渘ew鈥, but was only tweaked slightly from the old offer.
Australian Greens leader Christine Milne and the party's MPs and Senators stood up to immense pressure from the big parties and the mainstream media to support some form of 鈥渙ffshore processing鈥 of refugees (either in Malaysia, as the Gillard Labor government wants, or Nauru, as the Abbott Coalition opposition demands). The Greens stood firm against offshore processing and mandatory detention of refugees.
Federal Labor鈥檚 hopes that its carbon price handouts would lift its primary vote have proven futile, and as Labor policy and rhetoric moves further to the right, a section of the party has begun a full-blown assault on its alliance with the Greens.
Activistrights.org.au was developed by the Fitzroy Legal Service as a resource for activists.
Ela Orgu, the Community Development Officer at Fitzroy Legal Service said the 鈥渨ebsite aims to provide legal information for activists. It provides legal context, lots of legal information and also places to go to for support depending on what is happening and a range of case studies as well.
鈥淎ctivism is crucial in society. It鈥檚 an important way to keep leaders and systems and organisations in check.
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