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1. A-League fans rebel for democratic rights

   sporting-related protests in Australia's history. The issue at stake is basic democratic rights denied to fans ... right-wing media engaging in outrageous and slanderous attacks on football fans than with actually promoting ... weeks, A-League fans have been slandered in the media and by police as “thugs”, “grubby pack animals” and ...

2. Bolivia: Right-wing violence as draft constitution approved

   has been subjected to right-wing attacks campesinos (peasants) were violently attacked when they ... quarters at the Pedagogical Institute by right-wing students. Evo Morales, the democratically elected ... protests against the assembly have been led by right-wing civic committees — tied to the eastern-based ...

3. Bangladeshi women organise for their rights

   Weekly's SUJATHA FERNANDES and MICHAEL TARDIF talked to KHUSHI KABIR, women's rights activist and ... fundamentalists want to suppress. Tasleema Nasreen has been portrayed as a champion of women's rights in the ... of the rights of lower class women. How successfully has the left taken up the challenges that the ...

4. What’s right with Bill Gammage’s book

   land for more than 60,000 years right across the continent. Obviously their complex methods of land ... plants and animals. Further information on this topic is contained in the book Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe, ... fault of Gammage that right-wing organisations such as the Institute of Public Affairs and Jennifer ...

5. Palestine's struggle for human rights

   because not in my wildest dreams could I ever think that you have an area where you have food for animals ... after 1967. The Israeli government does not want to give us legislative rights over our land and its ... Likud and the right. The whole government might collapse because the left is not strong enough to ...

6. Orwell's true heir

   shadow to the Orwell icon. Socialists have rightly valued Orwell's commanding critique of state ... always had trouble explaining why the two best known works of this self-proclaimed socialist, Animal Farm ... and 1984, have seen long service as noisy, ideological battering rams for the anti-socialist right ...

7. Why eat meat?

   worry about non-human animals. However, such a perspective fails to understand the many benefits ... production. More than half the water used in the United States is used for raising animals for food. It takes ... poisonous residues and untreated animal wastes. It is estimated that 105,000 kilograms of livestock ...

8. 10 new albums that oppose all forms of war

   A week later, protesters took to Sydney's streets to oppose a bill by far-right politician and ... men's rights advocate Mark Latham that aims to prohibit teachers from educating students about trans and ... farm animal. We're not bitches or nags or psycho or hysterical. We're not bimbos or slags or ...

9. Elder keeps on fighting for the Darling-Baaka River

   rights of her people and country. Carmichael has spent most of her life campaigning to re-water Menindee ... language and culture. “I grew up amongst the lore people.” “Everything is connected the birds, the animals ... the birds and animals so our young people will know what there used to be there.” Carmichael has also ...

10. Gundungurra Traditional Owners: ‘Warragamba Dam project must be stopped’

    kids can see the rocks that are shaped like the animals or the drawings on the rocks. It’s a whole ... or not we go, and then they send escorts,” Brown said. “Right now, no-one’s got access.” “The ... Foundation for Wildnerness, Landcare groups and people fighting for plants, animals, for water quality, and us ...

11. Labor's failure to offer alternatives lost it the NSW election

    supporters may either have shifted back to Labor or to the supposedly “neither left nor right” Animal Justice ... Elections Socialist Alliance Pip Hinman Peter Boyle minor parties right-wing popularism One Nation ... Small right-wing parties, in particular the Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party (SFF) and Pauline ...

12. Speciesism is prejudice

    the plight of the most oppressed group of all — non-human animals, notably those exploited by the ... animal agriculture industry. The horrors perpetrated by intensive animal farming — hens de-beaked and ... of animals is given some consideration, animal agriculture means incarceration, the suppression of ...

13. Egypt and the global fight for women’s rights

    Hosni Mubarak on February 11 — have highlighted the ongoing struggle for women’s rights around the ... IWD protest. It was organised in support of the right to vote and equal pay for women. Through ... protests and relentless campaigning, women have won many gains over the last century, including the right ...

14. ADF revelations show war itself is the crime

    off his dog, more concerned about the animal than about the life that’s just been terminated before ... disparaged. Further away from the far-right, Islamophobic gutter, in the supposedly progressive media, we’ve ... country a better, less vicious place. [Academic and refugee rights activist Nick Riemer delivered this ...

15. Climate activists set to blockade mining conference

    campaigners, trade unionists, animal rights advocates and other community activists. Blockade IMARC ... displaced, ecosystem destruction, killing humans and animals leading to mass species extinction. “This system ...

16. Ecosocialist bookshelf: Mid-July edition

    raising and eating animals, arguing that meat (done right) should have a place on the table. SYMPHONY IN ...

17. PALESTINE: 'The streets will explode if hunger strikers die'

    peace when our children are being treated like animals?" They were all speaking at a tent erected ... Adameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association, told the Palestine Report. "But nothing ... basic rights are being systematically violated and accuse the Israeli authorities of being in ...

18. A stinging indictment of the capitalist food system

    animal liberationist Peter Singer, and Jim Mason, a journalist, lawyer and animal-rights activist, is ... farmers, environmentalists and animal-rights activists the world over have brought issues such as ... which reduces nature and animals to vehicles for profit. It depicts a food system based on the ...

19. A place like Cobargo

    hellish beast will rightly go down in history as heroes. But when the fires came, the fault lines of ... organisations have been instrumental in helping people and animals across the fire grounds. There are several ...

20. NSW Coalition staves off koala crisis

    Farmers and Fishers Party (SFF), the latter needling the Nationals from the right. The SFF opposes any ... limits of the right of land-owners to sell their properties to developers for new housing projects. The ... new SEPP would be a guideline for NSW authorities to determine if the animals would be threatened by ...

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