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From the outset, Chen seems to be just another Chinese dissident brutally treated by the authorities, however, there are more to that.

In the opening statement at the Council on Foreign Relation (31 May, 2012), Professor Cohen of the New York University made it clear that Chen “had never studied law” when “the State Department” asked him to meet Chen nine years ago (that is in 2003).

WA’s mining boom, its growth and reports of its looming demise, whether true or not make front page news media and are picked up as the news of the day off the newswire by the majority of the news media however the record homelessness rates in the Kimberley and the Pilbara – the heart of the mining boom – barely rate a mention.

I just happened to be doing my weekly grocery shopping at Coles in Broadway shopping center when some activists showed up in store and started chanting and handing out flyers. They were raising awareness about the striking Coles workers in Melbourne.

Newsletter date: 21 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 18 events from 21 July 2012

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Thu 26 July 2012: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Public Forum for Constitutional Change
Invitation from Women's Reconciliation Network
With Speakers:
* Jody Broun Co Chair, National Congress of First Peoples
* Linda Burney MP Member for Canterbury
* Jacqui Phillips National Director of ANTaR
Event details: http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au/events-1/public-forum-for-constituti...

Articles and links to sources for these items can be found at www.antinuclear.net and at www.nuclear-news.net

It has been a week of protests - so intense that the mainstream media has felt obliged to actually cover them. In Australia, the Lizards Revenge http://lizardsrevenge.net/ brought hundreds of protestors for a festival of music, entertainment and information to the very heart of the uranium industry - BHP's Olympic Dam mine in South Australia. A massive police and security presence did not bring about the violence (that the media might have enjoyed).

By Damir Govorcin

The Gillard Government’s 10-year extension of the Northern Territory intervention is not only a “huge betrayal”, but a “giant step backwards” in relationships with Aboriginal people, says Bishop Christopher Saunders, chairman of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council.

“It doesn’t solve the problem that it purports to solve,” he said.

“And secondly it deprives indigenous people of the dignity of being able to control their own money.

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This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, the Voice of Russia, NHK World Radio Japan, and Spanish National Radio.

Newsletter date: 20 July 2012

Contents:
* Tracker: NSW Labor condemns federal party policy on income management
* Media Release: Campaign Coalition welcomes the NSW ALP conference’s rejection of compulsory income management
* Eva Cox: The ALP Opponents Of Income Management
* Darren Coyne: Ten more years of government intervention
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* SBS Living Black: No Intervention For Toomelah [NSW]