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  1. Can the UN save the planet?

    Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June. While this major ... a set of conventions on climate change, biodiversity and forestry; an Earth Charter to guide development ... Earth Charter. Even though these documents would not be legally binding on governments, there are major ...

  2. CUBA: EU lines up with US, Latin America rebuffs Powell

    543 June 25, 2003 BY DOUG LORIMER On June 12, Cuban President Fidel Castro and Vice-President Raul ... and tourists for Cuba. In a statement released to the media on June 5 聴 hours before it was delivered ... a statement on June 11 that said the EU's decision was motivated by European leaders' desire to show ...

  3. Short story: The good fight of Elvis and Marilyn in cyberspace

    too shy to converse with a woman on the Net? I don't meet many women on the Net. No. There ... ceased to exist. I replaced it with a long history of mutual posturing on both sides. No more war ... nights later I was inside some protected government records searching for police data on my neighbours ...

  4. 'Absolute tyranny' in Pakistan

    332 September 9, 1998 By Nadeem Ansari On August 28, the Pakistan government introduced a bill ... broadcast live on national TV on August 30, described the bill as historic and aimed at creating a new ... society based on principles of equality. The minister for religious affairs says the amendment will make ...

  5. COVER STORY: Israel massacres Palestinian refugees

    489 April 24, 2002 BY AHMAD NIMER RAMALLAH 鈥 Israel's attack on the Jenin refugee camp will ... of around one square kilometre. The camp barely exists today. For nine days, beginning on April 5, ... hanging on by a thread of skin as she slowly bleeds to death; a 10-year-old boy lying dead in the street, ...

  6. VENEZUELA: Workers' movement debates way forward

    Colombia under the guise of the "wars" on drugs and terrorism. Hasta la victoria siempre, Che ... Venezuela on August 1-2. After years of support for neoliberalism by the right-wing, Accion ... over UNETE's principles and action plan. From the workshop on principles came the clear call for ...

  7. 'Stand truly by each other'

    liberties", was the oath taken by 500 miners at the Eureka goldfield, near Ballarat in Victoria, on November ... by Hamish McPherson on the history and legacy of Eureka certainly emphasises this reality. In his ... a lost battle." When the colonial troops and police launched their treacherous attack at dawn on ...

  8. No future for nuclear

    peace. Nuclear energy and the drive towards war go hand in glove. We should remember the women ... 140 April 27, 1994 Several hundred people marched and rallied in Brisbane on Palm Sunday, calling ... Coxsedge. On the eighth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, we print the text of her talk. I find it ...

  9. Elysium a disappointing missed opportunity

    kind of cold-hearted technocratic evil that accompanies the "War on Terror". The best of ... have escaped to Elysium, a pristine floating space station orbiting Earth. On Elysium, every family ... inspiration for the film came from observing the militarisation and inequality on display at the US-Mexico ...

  10. Iran: Protests shake regime

    arrests, beatings of protesters, attacks on universities and at least 22 deaths, hundreds of thousands of ... people have taken to the streets daily. The protests started in Tehran on June 13, but have spread ... similar positions on many issues. Mousavi is presented in the Western media as a "reformer", ...

  11. Julia Gillard: change for the better?

    Gillard is the first woman PM of Australia, but not a PM for the women of Australia. Pip Hinman, anti-war ... former prime minister Kevin Rudd with his deputy, Julia Gillard, on June 24. This made her ... series of backflips on climate change and refugee policy. Rudd had tried to win back popular support by ...

  12. Challenges face new workers' party in Zimbabwe

    1970s liberation war by China 鈥 and retiring vice-president Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African ... a right-wing presence, capitalising on the contradiction between ZANU-PF's "socialist" rhetoric ... a highly conscious, though numerically small, feminist movement in the mid-1980s (when women were being ...

  13. Has the Tamils' struggle ended?

    more wounded. 'Operation Sunshine' In October 1995, President Kumaratunga declared war on the ... worship and schools were indiscriminately bombed; hundreds of men, women and children were killed and many ... Tamil nation with slogans "War for Peace" and "Liberation for Tamils from the LTTE". ...

  14. NT walk-off: Indigenous community defies racist intervention

    whatever cattle station required the cheap labour. Women and children lived on the outskirts of the large ... camp reads: "On July 14 we, Elders from the Ampilatwatja Aboriginal community, three hours ... stores, and only on food, clothing and medical supplies. Ampilatwatja, part of around 300 square ...

  15. Tommy Sheridan: Taking sides

    capitalists rely on politicians in parties like the Labor Party to apologise for, and justify, their class war ... inspiration in this south western section of the city... open green space is thin on the ground as council ... book's aim is to inspire people to 聯to get involved... on the side of the weak against the strong, on the ...

  16. The ABC's Bougainville deception

    on June 12 screened a lengthy report by the ABC's resident Port Moresby correspondent, Sean ... Dorney, on the situation in the blockaded island of Bougainville. It purported to show that the people of ... Gillespie. The program was timed to coincide with UN World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna, where ...

  17. Rudd in power: two years of broken promises

    mandatory detention of refugees 鈥 including women and children. With zombie-like determination, the ... the brutal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and his climate change denial eventually led to his downfall. ... Howard's Work Choices laws. Two years on, industrial action outside a bargaining period remains illegal. ...

  18. Frenzal Rhomb's Lindsay McDougall: Close slaughterhouses 鈥 respect animals and workers

    Country/Sydney The third annual March to Close all Slaughterhouses was held in Sydney on June 4. The march is ... reflection on the abuse and exploitation suffered by millions of animals every day and a celebration of the ... around her. She's seen so much, heard so much on the inside of those heavy doors. Every day ...

  19. Letter from the US: Bernie Sanders taps anger, but Democratic Party a trap

    socialist groups and between them on how best to relate to this opportunity. On one side are those who have ... joined Sanders鈥 campaign. On the other are those who argue against that course and seek to convince ... Sanders鈥 supporters to break with the Democrats. This is an old debate on the left in the US. It is not ...

  20. Zombie neoliberalism threatens Ecuador's 'citizen's revolution'

    country's entrenched elites. Supporters of Correa marched through the capital of Quito on August 12 to the ... Allianza Pais (Country Alliance) party were bombed on July 14 in the city of Guayacuil. Packages containing ... Guillermo Lasso. They have called for a 鈥渘ational strike鈥 on August 13 involving right-wing parties, ...

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