Just a few days after the Federal election NSW experienced a surprisingly early start to the bushfire season with fires on Sydney's outskirts giving us a taste of things to come. Queensland is also facing severe fire danger with the early onset of high temperatures.
COUP SUMMARY August 2013 – the struggles in Honduras continue despite the massive-as-always repression
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...
A summary of political murders in August 2013:
From the indigenous Tolupan community, Montaña de la Flor, that holds an occupation against a mining company in defence of the forests, hitmen assassinated Maria Enriqueta Matute, Armando Funez Medina and Ricardo Soto Funez, on 25/8/13.
In Bajo Aguan, organised MUCA farmer Melvin Amaya was kidnapped and assassinated by hitmen on 6/8/13.
Welcome back to the Fall 2013 season of Radio Ecoshock, broadcast on more than 70 college and community stations around the world.
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June 2013, with now 4 years of military coup regime in Honduras.....
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...
News Shorts from June 2013 – the mining bomb / model cities becoming more for real / etc
Mining – a bomb waiting to explode. Mining law and environmental destruction including of protected areas
A new scientific study finds that Sydney faces hotter temperatures due to the interaction of expanding urbanization, climate change and the urban heat island effect
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June 18, 2013
“We’re not selling this oxygen to anybody,” said Vitalino Álvarez, a participant in the Unified Aguán Farmers´ Movement (MUCA) in the boiling hot northern region of Honduras. Like many places around Honduras and the world, Álvarez’s community is a direct victim of international carbon trading programs—or what residents call “selling oxygen.”
Honduras coup update May 2013........
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...
Almost 4 years into the coup, Honduras' war against farmers continue, with at least seven organised farmers assassinated in May 2013..
Political persecution in May 2013
Summary of known political killings this May 2013 in Honduras:
2 farmers in El Achiote, Aguan, Humberto Martínez and Celín Ochoa were murdered by hitmen on 5/5/13
Los Laureles farmers coop president of MUCA, José Omar Pérez Menjivar, was assassinated by palm oil hitmen on 11/5/13
