The savage austerity in Greece has affected peopleβs lives in many different ways. The hardship faced by Greek people has been directly reflected in their psychological condition.
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A weekend of protest at the ALP national conference. A rally for marriage equality December 3 and refugee rights on December 4. Photos by Zeb Parkes.
Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra responds to the 'second intervention' otherwise known as 'Stronger Futures in the NT', a new Commonwealth Government initiative which will maintain key powers introduced through the NT Intervention.
Despite a significant, if partial, win for the marriage equality movement, the right-ward shift of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) continued apace at its recently concluded national conference.
A group of 14 Occupy Sydney activists faced charges at Downing St District Court in Sydney on December 5. The charges arose out of the police eviction of Occupy Sydney's camp in Martin Place on October 23.
The cases were "stood over", allowing human rights lawyer Stuart Littlemore to take some of these cases to the High Court in the new year. Occupy activist Tim Davis-Frank quipped "It looks like we'll be occupying the court system for a while!"
A solidarity demonstration outside the court involved a few rogue Occupy tents on legs, who were refused admission into court.
About 1000 refugee rights activists marched on the national conference of the Australian Labor Party in Sydney's Darling Harbour.
βThere is money.β That was the major election campaign slogan of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) in October 2009.
The Occupy movement in the United States continues to gain strength, despite wide-scale repression. The article below is abridged from a US editorial.
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The raids, arrests and police violence against the Occupy movement that has been occurring across the United States are about trying to silence a movement giving voice to the accumulated discontent of the working-class majority.
They're also about showing who's the boss β the political and business establishment.
A year has gone by since the results of the climate change negotiations in Cancun were imposed, with the objection of only Bolivia. Itβs time to take stock and see where we are now.
In Cancun, the developed countries listed their greenhouse gas emission reduction pledges for the 2012-2020 period. The US and Canada said they would reduce emissions by 3% based on 1990 levels, the European Union between 20% and 30%, Japan 25%, and Russia from 15% to 25%.
Cuadrilla Resources, which is exploring for natural shale gas in north-west England, has admitted its use of the notorious process of βfrackingβ was responsible for earthquakes in the region this year, BusinessInsider.com said on November 7.
Fracking is a dangerous process involving fracturing rock with pressurised liquid. Some of the health and environmental dangers of the process were revealed by the film Gasland, about the impact of the practice in the United States.
The World Bank Out of Climate Finance coalition issued the statement below on December 1 from Durban, South Africa.
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Today, 163 civil society organisations from 39 countries released a letter exposing an attempt led by the US, Britain and Japan to turn the Green Climate Fund into a βGreedy Corporate Fundβ at UN climate talks in South Africa.
The Green Climate Fund was created to support people in developing countries β people who are the most affected by the climate crisis but are the least responsible for it.
Despite the crushing victory of incumbent Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner in the October 23 Argentine presidential elections, the campaign and results also demonstrated that an important social and political left alternative continues to exist.
The unpredictable consequences of the global economic crisis and the reaction by Cristinaβs mixed social base to future policy decisions may prove important challenges to her new government.
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