Leading anti-war campaigner Pip Hinman, who is currently helping organise protests that will meet the visit of US President Barack Obama, has been preselected as Socialist Allianceβs candidate for the federal seat of Grayndler in Sydneyβs inner west.
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On 22 February, Newcastle Greens councillor Michael Osborne received a notice of a βcode of conductβ complaint, because heβd taken part in a protest.
βWe want to be one voice, we have to support all the people and back them up to come back to their own cultureβ, Murray George, a Pitjantjatjara elder from Fregon community in the far north of South Australia, told a March 2 meeting in the Adelaide Activist Centre.
Spanish judge Eloy Velasco accused the Venezuelan government of socialist President Hugo Chavez of supporting armed pro-self-determination Basque organisation ETA on March 8.
Eco-sufficiency and Global Justice: Women write political ecology
Edited by Ariel Salleh
Pluto Press/Spinifex Press, 2009
Edited by Ariel Salleh
Pluto Press/Spinifex Press, 2009
The Venezuelan government will increase health spending this year and expand its immunisation program, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on March 3. New statistics also highlight the countryβs decreasing poverty and inequality.
The February 19 Tiger Woods press conference was an exercise in self-abasement that will achieve the opposite of its intended effect. I havenβt seen anything this painfully scripted since The Phantom Menace.
Good point, Peter, why not?
"If [Tony Abbott] will add 1.7 per cent to the corporate tax rate to pay for maternity leave, why not another 1.7 per cent to improve Aboriginal health, and another 2.7 per cent for hospitals to trump Rudd's
A March 1 Wall Street Journal article compared the low earthquake death toll in Chile to Haiti, and cited conservative economist Milton Friedman as the saviour of the Chilean people.
One feature of the otherwise successful Perth rally against internet censorship on March 6 was an attempt by a far-right political group to hijack the event.
About 300 people participated in the rally and march. Speakers included internet studies lecturer Mike Kent, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam and an Iranian refugee, who talked about the draconian nature of Iran's internet censorship.
Other speakers included Socialist Alliance Senate candidate Ben Peterson and Mike Walmsley from the Liberal Democratic Party.
The Left Liberation Front is contesting 19 seats in the April 8 parliamentary elections in Sri Lanka.
Latin America has suffered constant aggressions from Washington during the past 200 years.
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