鈥淲e have two Filipino traits -- Bayanihan, solidarity, community spirit, and Bahala na, daring, grit & luck,鈥 said Sonny Melencio, chairperson of the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM). 鈥淭hese will guide our People鈥檚 Caravan.鈥
The People鈥檚 Caravan initiative is organised by the PLM (a national political party of the marginalised), the transport workers' union PMT and the Support Tado campaign (a networkt to support TV personality Tado Jimenez for elections in Marikina).
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Stop CSG Illawarra released this statement on November 12.
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Chris Hartcher, the NSW Minister for Resources and Energy, announced a temporary moratorium on coal seam gas (CSG) exploration and mining in Sydney's drinking water catchment 鈥淪pecial Areas鈥 on November 12.
This will be in place until the outcome of the NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer's review of CSG activities in NSW 鈥 currently expected in late 2014.
Stop CSG Illawarra spokesperson Jess Moore said: 鈥淭his is welcome announcement and a win for the campaign.
On October 20 last year, I did in Chelsea, Manhattan, for the book I had just written called America's Got Democracy!
The joke that got the biggest laugh, which I will now ruin by writing it out, was about how the supposedly 鈥渟tark choice鈥 between Democrats and Republicans around global warming isn't the different things they're going to do about it, but the different ways they say they're not going to do anything about it.
Having virtually all the money in the world often means you can buy silence, you can buy time, and you can buy lies.
Chevron has demonstrated this time and again in its decades-long battle to evade accountability for deliberately dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the Ecuadorian Amazon.
The problem is that this time, what Chevron has bought is a bag of lies in the form of false testimony from a thoroughly disreputable source, and it isn't able to hide the price tag.
In a hard-hitting interview on October 19 for Le Mur a des Oreilles, a program on Belgian station RadioPanik, Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri delivered his clearest statement yet of his political commitment and rejection of the Israeli state鈥檚 use of cinema as a propaganda tool.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a slew of policy reforms aimed at combating speculation and hoarding. New government institutions are also being created to regulate trade and oversee foreign currency exchange.
鈥淲e have to make real decisions for the benefit of the economy and society, whatever the cost and whatever happens,鈥 Maduro said on November 6.
Describing the package of reforms as an 鈥渆conomic offensive鈥, Maduro pledged to 鈥渟trike hard鈥 at speculators and hoarders.
About 1000 people rallied on November 11 in front of the US Embassy in Manila to demand climate justice after the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (as Typhoon Haiyan is known in the Philippines).
Anti-austerity protests hit Britain
Westminster was at the centre of a tornado of anti-austerity protest on November 5 that began in the early hours and tore across Britain as the day went on, The Morning Star said the next day.
The day of action co-ordinated by the People's Assembly movement swept small-scale guerilla activism through northern and southern England.
Big Coal: Australia鈥檚 Dirtiest Habit
Guy Pearse, David Mcknight, Bob Burton
Newsouth Publishing, 2013, 257 pages, $34.99 (pb)
You don鈥檛 have to look far to see why Australians are locked in an absurd and vicious circle of climate change, burning more coal to, for example, run more air conditioners to cope with the more severe heat waves from the global warming resulting from burning more coal.
Below is an open letter and petition to governments of the rich industrialised nations, initiated by the . The PMCJ is a broad movement consisting of 103 national networks and local groups representing many grassroots communities across the Philippines.
Please add your name . You can also donate to grassroots relief work via .
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Obama boasts he is 'really good at killing people'
鈥淭his will not go over well for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner.
鈥淎ccording to the new book 'Double Down,' in which journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann chronicle the 2012 presidential election, President Barack Obama told his aides that he鈥檚 'really good at killing people' while discussing drone strikes ...
The following statement is from the Student Union of Los Herran, a public school in Vitoria-Gasteiz in the Basque Country.
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Thousands of high-school students and teachers walked out of class all across Spain on October 26.
The strike was in protest against the Legislation for Improving the Quality of Education (LOMCE) reforms proposed by the Spanish education minister Jose Ignacio Wert. Further strikes are planned.
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