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Today, Veterans for Peace, Catholic Workers, Occupy London and other anti-war activists gathered outside the High Court in London in solidarity with WikiLeaks activist Julain Assange. Julian has spent the past 363 days in England under house arrest without charge.

                                  Conservationists in tree canopy lead way for tiny Leadbeater’s Possum

Logging has been halted today in the Toolangi State Forest, in the Central Highlands just an hour and a half north of Melbourne. 

“The forests of the Central Highlands have been decimated by years of unsustainable logging and more recently by bushfire. Any forest left standing must be immediately protected from logging”, said spokesperson for the group, Luke Pavia.

Today is the 5th of December we held a vigil for Julian Assange outside the Department of Foreign Affairs in theBrisbane today

We honour Julian Assange as an Australian, as a man of principle. We are extremely

proud of his contribution and commitment to truth and justice.

Julian Assange is a man of courage who has stood up for the oppressed and dispossessed.

World wide, he has shone a bright light on the daily atrocities carried out by Military

forces, by Governments, and by Corporations .

Att: ICAC

With regards to my complaint about the 26 corrupt DoCS workers in the one NSW office, you replied asking me to send the woman who sold her house to prove in court the children were wrongly taken, with the DoCS office destroying evidence, making false statements, providing a false psychiatrist report etc.

Occupy Melbourne's strategy of "going mobile" to get around the "Notice to comply" orders, continually issued against them by the Melbourne City Council and enforced by the police, was taken to a whole other level today 4th December. Watch the video below to see the Occupy Melbourne "tent monsters" emerge from their tents and literally chase the confused police and council officers out of the Flagstaff Gardens. This is a beautiful example of how creative non-violence can use humour to highlight and undermine the absurd use of state power. The hilarity of these actions does not change the fact that the State is trying to prevent Occupy Melbourne through constant harassment from creating a public space to discuss and organise for a fairer, peaceful and more sustainable world. On the 5th of December the Federal Court will hear a case testing the legality of the Melbourne City Council's actions against OM. May their spirit of resistance stay strong - get down there and support them!
Related: Occupy Melbourne outfoxes council and police -- OM Digest for news about the campaign -- OM Monsters on Youtube

Gerry Georgatos Riyadh Al-Hakimi was brought to tears watching a small Iraqi child drag himself along the street. The stump of his right leg left a trail in the dust as he dragged his body inch by inch. It was 2003 and Riyadh would soon be on his way to Australia and to a university education; however he vowed to do something for the children of his war-torn homeland. Related: SBS Podcast: Wheelchairs for Iraqi children -- The West Australian newspaper - Helping Iraqi children who are victims of depleted uranium, landmines and war

In 1972, Chairman Mao invited two delegations of Aboriginal Australians to tour China.

Guarani leader Nísio Gomes was murdered by
gunmen. © Survival

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL, December 1, 2011 -- Gunmen in Brazil are brazenly intimidating indigenous communities with a hit list of prominent leaders, following the high profile murder of Nísio Gomes last month.

Reportedly employed by powerful landowners in Mato Grosso do Sul state, the gunmen are creating a climate of fear to prevent Guarani Indians from returning to their ancestral land.

Gerry Georgatos The father and mother of 15 year old Rex Bellotti Jr, and Shilo Harrison, coordinator of the Bellotti Support Group will front a Parliamentary Standing Committee which is considering their call for a public inquiry into the police related incident that left Rex Jnr fighting for his life.

The Western Australian Standing Committee on Environment and Public Affairs has undertaken to consider the call for a public inquiry and at this time is taking submissions, including from the Bellottis and the Western Australian Police.