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1. Agricultural expropriation: Making money from farmers

   some conservative and some far right. They are a symbol of the discontent in rural areas with ... agriculture; genuine land reform; banning of all patents on plant and animal genetics; opposition to genetic ... free trade agreements; the right of every country to food security and food policy control; respect for ...

2. Write on: Letters to the editor

   question of whose rights to prioritise fighting for is another matter though. Obviously, animal rights ... #305). His basic argument is that rights should be in proportion to one's ability to defend them. ... I don't question the fact that under capitalism your rights are in proportion to your ability to defend ...

3. Write on: letters to the editor

   diversity, our environment, workers' rights and animal protection, is in serious trouble! McColossus ... opened up their books to public scrutiny. As taxpayers we have a right to know if our hard earned money ...

4. White Australia's burning issue — what's wrong with Bill Gammage's book

   attracted the praise of writers from both the left wing 91������̳ Weekly and the far-right Institute of ... practices, in an area where Indigenous people do not have land rights, and cannot access the area for hunting ... interconnectedness of ecology- to say nothing of the many animal and plant species no longer common, that were ...

5. PALESTINE: Trapped like mice

   Palestinian people the right to statehood, demarcates the full Bantustanisation of our people. The rhetoric of ... counting us as if we were some animals?!" The Palestinian people will never accept a life lived under ... lands stolen and destroyed, our dignity taken away, our most fundamental rights violated every day, our ...

6. Mandatory detention is torture

   Australian prisons. I must say I do think that goes without saying." According to Human Rights ... most horrific human rights abuses that we've seen for a very long time". Some critics have ... the past five months, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) has been hearing ...

7. Prattle on Seattle

   intervening on behalf of threatened animals, instead of ruling that such restrictions are an unacceptable ... one-on-one and at length, by Inside Politics anchor Judy Woodruff (30/11/99). Though right-wing nationalists ... of AFL-CIO leader John Sweeney — "and the right" — followed by a sound bite of Pat ...

8. UNITED STATES: Rulers launch massive attack on civil liberties

   changes in the law. This is a vast attack on basic civil rights and liberties. Immigrants and other ... you can't assert your rights. For example, without notice, you couldn't object that police ... Ethical Treatment of Animals. There are no safeguards or procedures to protest or appeal. Demonstrations ...

9. East Timor: time for action

   independent verification of the exact numbers by church, student and human rights groups has been made ... by teams of representatives from trade union, church, student, women's and human rights groups, ... of being slaughtered like animals". A dramatic increase in solidarity with the people of East ...

10. The Suharto regime and the Burmese military junta

    Suharto's own reputation in violating the rights of East Timorese, West Papuan, Dayak, Acehnese and other ... Elektrindo Nusantara deal, another Bimantara company, PT Japfa Comfeed, planned to invest in an animal feed ... cover up for its human rights violations, this regime has consistently abused the rhetoric of ...

11. Write on: letters to the editor

    the WA Greens voted with the Liberal Party to defeat it. We fought for the rights of refugees in ... Australia, the rights of migrant workers and attempted to increase funding to ethnic broadcasting. Your ... other animals, in having a maximum sustainable stocking rate. These levels are related to consumption ...

12. Anti-racist activists counter Reclaim Australia rallies

    anti-racists. Six people were arrested — one for animal cruelty accused of punching a police horse, two for ... support for Muslims living in Australia. "I think it's a matter of being on the right side of ... build a far right political movement in this country and we know that when those groups build, so do ...

13. Colombia: 'Carbon credit' scheme a cover for land grab

    other campesinos to sell; abusing and threatening them, killing their animals and burning down houses. ... on land rights and has raised the issue of Montes de Maria land grabs to Congress. “The operation ... enforce the UN Global Compact, which commits associated companies to human rights, labour, environment and ...

14. Spanish banking crisis threatens deeper recession across Europe

    presently exist”. The EU executive is right to be worried. The collapse of the Spanish real estate bubble ... politicians, and of entrenched cronyism and corruption within those elites, for any right-wing Popular Party ... “animal spirits” of the captains of industry (reversing ECB interest rate rises, 900 billion euros in ...

15. Israel: Apartheid policies wreak environmental havoc

    Palestinian shepherds, whose animals depend on grazing land. JNF’s time-tested method of ethnically cleansing, ... has been demolished eight times. “GOD TV Forest” is named after its proud sponsor, a far-right ... struggle for sovereignty, at times, even the right to exist. “It is also one of genocide... I see Israel’s ...

16. How to crash a planet: Just follow Garnaut

    fundamentals right, any results you derive are worthless. If Garnaut's proposed cuts do not do their job ... icecaps and its plants and animals were profoundly different. Such a temperature rise would mean countless ... offices not besieged by furious citizens demanding the right for their grandchildren to stay alive? The ...

17. WORLD ECONOMY: IMF warns about growing US debt

    the market that is so much driven by the animal spirits of those who decide where to invest. The ... recovery of the US stock markets last year convinced these investors that everything was all right, even ... the Americans that everything will be all right and it won't stop. That might take a bit of ...

18. Challenges of a US labour lawyer

    rewrote the constitution, so that now it read like the Declaration of the Rights of Man". Geoghegan, ... total work force). Organised labor now gives off "an almost animal sense of weakness", says ... the bureaucracy of the absurd for 30 nurses in Illinois who want the right to vote whether to join ...

19. Why the US let Japanese war criminals go free

    trials of delivery mechanisms (bombs, aerial spraying, poisoning of water and animals) were conducted ... authorities in Tokyo. This is a lie. The ultra-right, fervently nationalist political and military forces ... when it comes to human rights, the concerns of those who hammer away about the "national ...

20. NIGERIA: Protests spread against ChevronTexaco

    oil and other harmful chemicals into other creeks and rivers, killing fish and other aquatic animals ... by their operations are often brutally suppressed by the military. Human rights groups estimate that ... strongly opposed by human rights groups fearing they would be used to perpetrate abuses in the area. ...

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