Hundreds of people joined the #GlobalNoise protest in Melbourne in October 13. Similar protests took place during the Global Noise week of action, from October 12 to October 20.
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Under the banner of the Lock the Gate Alliance, about 100 demonstrators assembled outside Brisbane鈥檚 Convention Centre for the Queensland Gas Conference and exhibition on October 9 to protest their exclusion from the Australian Petroleum and Production Association鈥檚 (APPEA) inaugural Coal Seam Gas (CSG) Conference and Exhibition.
Lock the Gate formally requested that its observers be permitted entry to the conference seminars concerning 鈥渟ocial licence to operate鈥.
Sydney Stop CSG organised a human sign action at Sydney Park, St Peters, as its part of an Australia-wide week of action on this issue. A thousand people participated in this successful event.
Alejandro Fierro from spells out five key lessons to be taken from the Venezuela's presidential elections, which were one by President Hugo Chavez with 55% of the vote. It was translated by Tamara Pearson from .
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1. Venezuela is an authentic democracy
Love & Capital: Karl & Jenny Marx & the Birth of a Revolution
By Mary Gabriel,
Little, Brown & Company 2011
707 pages, $39.99
The spectre of Karl Marx still haunts the capitalist world. Only 11 people attended his funeral in 1883 and the corporate press still loves to dance on his grave, constantly declaring that his ideas are irrelevant. Yet with every economic crisis all eyes return to Marx's masterpiece, Capital, to understand what is really going on in our economic system.
Nothing quite prepares you for a first visit to Venezuela 鈥 especially when the country is polarised between two very different visions for the future.
This is how it was just before the October 7 presidential elections, which socialist President Hugo Chavez won with 55% of the vote in the largest turnout, more than 81%, in Venezuelan history.
Malalai Joya is an Afghan feminist and democracy activist who organised underground resistance to the Taliban regime and opposes the US-led occupation of her nation. Joya was elected to the Afghan parliament in 2005, and was undemocratically expelled from it for exposing the fundamentalist warlords in the US-backed Hamid Karzai regime.
In an October 13 statement, Joya responded to the Taliban's attempted murder of 14-year-old Malala Yousafzai for the crime of organising for women's rights.
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鈥淰enezuela Elections 'Free, But Not Fair'鈥, was Germany鈥檚 Spiegel Online headline on a piece about Venezuela's October 7 presidential poll, won by socialist President Hugo Chavez by more than 55% of the vote. 鈥淐havismo wins, Venezuela loses鈥, was The Wall Street Journal's take.
Compared with such headlines, the Sydney Morning Herald鈥檚 reprint of a New York Times article 鈥淪ocialist Chavez hangs onto Power in Venezuela鈥 by William Neuman might seem a reasonably balanced report. It is not.
There is something incredibly frustrating about the fact that the Red Hot Chili Peppers played a concert in Israel, ignoring international pleas for them to cancel and observe the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS).
Admittedly, I wasn鈥檛 even quite aware of just how much their decision stung until the day after their appearance at the Pic.Nic festival in Tel Aviv.
Residents of the Nad Ali district staged a demonstration on October 6 against NATO-led troops in Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, Pajhwok Afghan News said that say.
About 100 protesters accused the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers of killing innocent civilians during operations in the district, PAN said. District security was recently handed to Afghan forces.
The article said: 鈥淸O]ne tribal elder claimed Afghan and foreign forces killed his son during a nighttime raid two days back.
The reality of the Vietnam War as a brutal, imperialist adventure has been carefully omitted from official ceremonies in the United States held to mark the 50th anniversary of the war鈥檚 beginning in 1962.
Starting this year, the government will implement 鈥渁 13-year program to honor and give thanks to a generation of proud Americans who saw our country through one of the most challenging missions we have ever faced鈥.
Independent journalist, political activist and author Antony Loewenstein discusses his new book After Zionism, at Sydney's Gleebooks on October 2.
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