After its successful participation in Freedom Flotilla Two and Freedom Waves last year, Free Gaza Australia (FGA) in cooperation with its international partners is launching a new initiative: Gazaâs Ark â Building Hope. Gazaâs Ark will challenge the illegal and inhumane Israeli blockade of Gaza that collectively punishes more than 1.5 million Palestinians.
Gaza has âofficiallyâ been under an Israeli blockade since 2007, but the restriction on the movement of the population of Gaza began in 1991 when Gaza was first cut off from Israel and the West Bank.
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About 50 shopping centre cleaners and their supporters rallied on July 13 outside the Westfield head office in Market Street to demand a better deal on pay and conditions. The protesters chanted, âHey Westfield, listen up! The cleaners are standing up!â and, âWhat do we want? Clean Start! When do we want it? Now!â
They were also protesting an assault on a union organiser at a protest outside the building the previous day.
The Australian Labor government remains committed to big military spending - currently over $80 million per day. Australia's military spending will continue to be the highest regionally and, per capita, second only to the USA, the world's biggest military spender.
The second Âé¶čÓł» Report, filmed in front of a live audience, features Mike Karadjis (political economist at Sydney University and member of We Are All Greeks), Antony Loewenstein (independent journalist and author of Left Turn), comic Carlo Sands, plus footage of the Christmas Carol Crims, WikiLeaks and more.
Labor for Refugees sent the letter below to NSW Labor general secretary Sam Dastyari on July 11.
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Sam Dastyari
General Secretary
NSW Labor
sam@nswalp.com
Dear General Secretary,
At our Labor for Refugees meeting last night, members resolved unanimously, that I write to you re the issue of Greens preferences and send a copy of my letter to the Prime Minister and Minister for Immigration and Citizenship.
The content of our letter follows:
Labor for Refugees is disappointed with your attack on the Greenâs position on refugees.
The indefinite strike by Coles warehouse workers in Somerton, Melbourne, began with a few hundred people on the picket lines from 6am on July 10. At the time of writing, no trucks have been allowed in or out of the site. Coles outsources the operation of the warehouse to Toll Logistics. Coles and Toll had expected industrial action, but they hadnât expected that the workers would vote for an indefinite strike.
Guillaume Legault is a leading member of Quebecâs CLASSE â the Broad Coalition of the Association for Student Union Solidarity â a radical student organisation at the forefront of a months-long student strike against tuition fee hikes.
Quebecâs student movement is still locked in struggle with the ruling Liberal government over the new fees. The government has responded with police repression and harassment of students. It also passed a new law that bans protests of more than 50 people unless police have given prior approval.
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) forced the ABC to retract a story about a recently changed âindividual allowance programâ for detained refugees to buy canteen items and phone cards to call home.
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Today, Miranda Gibson breaks the Australian record for the longest tree sit. Miranda has remained at the top of a tree, 60 meters above the ground for 209 days, in protest of the ongoing logging of Tasmaniaâs high conservation value forests.
Lizard's Revenge is an anti-nuclear protest camp planned for mid-July outside BHPâs giant Olympic Dam mine â the worldâs biggest uranium mine. The protest camp, near Roxby Downs in South Australia, will feature a music and arts festival alongside non-violent protests against the mineâs planned expansion.
This video shows the reasons for and some of the actions in Perth's largely successful . See more videos by .
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