Global Action Against WTO!
Call to action of the Indonesian People's Movement Against Neocolonialism-Imperialism toward Bali WTO Ministerial meeting on 3-6 of December 2013
Deal a decisive blow to Neoliberalism. The time is now for Economic Justice!
Newsletter date: 24 March 2013
Contents:
* STICS: Protest against NT Intervention and income management on UN Day for Elimination of Racial Discrimination
* NITV's coverage of STICS Sydney protest
* NIRS: Sydney rally calls to end racism
* Pip Hinman, Green Left: 'No harmony in income management', say protesters
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Yolnu youth should not be finishing up in prison says Richard Trudgen
With the ten year anniversary since Australian forces joined an international 'coalition of the willing' to invade Iraq coming next Monday March 18th, we are pleased to let you know about many events happening around Australia to mark the occasion.
February 2013 Honduras Coup Summary
http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...
Hondurans walk the walk to talk the talk
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is a body formed to push a right wing agenda. let us say that their agenda is very right wing. The believe in the smallest of government, individual liberty, private wealth, low taxation, and the market economy, unencumbered by government regulation.
I write about this group because I see a chasm between who is being represented int he main stream media. The IPA floods the media with opinion pieces which oft are printed. There is no balance of contributions from the left.
I’ll miss Hugo. When I first was introduced to him in Porto Alegre in 2003, he greeted me, “Mi padre,” and said he learned a lot from me. I was dubious about this and thought he was simply buttering me up, like any two-bit politician. Then he started telling me what he learned from Development Debacle, Deglobalization, and Dark Victory. I was stupefied; the guy actually read my stuff!
Australian Anti-fascist prisoner Jock Palfreeman, serving 20 years in Sofia/Bulgaria for defending two Roma boys from a racist mob, was on hunger strike from the 13th January 2013. The Director of the Central Sofia Prison had ordered another punishment measure because of Jock´s activist work as chairman of the Bulgarian Prisoner´s Association. Due to this punishment Jock is now not allowed to finish his studies which is very important to him.
Newsletter date: 27 February 2013
Contents:
* Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: 20,000 turn out to save the Kimberley
* The Wilderness Society: Concert for the Kimberley - A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle
* The West Australian: Stars fire up gas hub protest
* ABC: Greens demand gas hub management plan details
* Hands off Country: Tony Burke is called upon to call a Public Inquiry
* The Stringer: Fifteen thousand call on Burke to stop the destruction of Aboriginal burial grounds at James Price Point
* ABC Radio National: Red Dirt Dreaming Part One - The Kimberley
At its commencement exercises in Perth, Australia, on February 19, Murdoch University conferred a doctorate degree, honoris causa, on Akbayan Representative to the Philippine Congress Walden Bello.
One of the country's leading institutions of higher learning, Murdoch University was founded in 1970 and named after Sir Walter Murdoch, a preeminent Australian philosopher and advocate of free speech.
Australian Anti-fascist prisoner Jock Palfreeman, serving 20 years in Sofia/Bulgaria for defending two Roma boys from a racist mob, is on hungerstrike from 13th January 2013 because the Director of the Central Sofia Prison has ordered another punishment measure because of Jock´s activist work as chairman of the Bulgarian Prisoner´s Association.
Due to this punishment Jock is now not allowed to finish his studies which is very important to him.
