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From invasion to Juukan Gorge … Sorry, not sorry
Wales police scrambled to protect a statue of James Cook in Sydney’s Hyde Park on June 12 from Black ... Anti-racism Sam Wainwright Juukan Gorge Rio Tinto BHP Billiton (BHP) Less than a month after Rio ... Lives Matter protesters. Modern Australia remains profoundly shaped by the violent dispossession of ...
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Abbott endorses CHOGM, downplays torture
in a month in 2009, but that Sri Lankans of all ethnic backgrounds continue to be subject to torture, ... refugees to flee to Australia, but to deny genocide itself. In the aftermath of the Sri Lankan ... the international legal definition of genocide. However, none of these facts stopped Australian ...
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Re-elect Sue Bolton to Moreland Council
finally convinced by the 12-month campaign by local residents.” For her efforts to get council to stop ... beginning of the genocide against their people”. “I don’t see social change as just coming from a discussion ... standing again. Moreland is a hub of community activism going back to the anti-conscription movement during ...
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Serbs charged with war crimes
Convention, crimes against humanity and genocide. All of the accused were commanders, guards or regular ... murdered, raped and tortured. The camp commander, Zeljko Meakic, faces three charges of genocide for ... indictments on February 13, charging 21 Serbs with 275 counts of war crimes, breaches of the Geneva ...
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Ten of 2016’s best political albums
lists of political music each month, offers his top 10 political albums of the year. *** 1. A.B. ... — the first time temperature records had been broken for 12 months in a row. A fitting time, then, for ... people, way before whites arrived with their land-stealing genocide. Enter Aboriginal rappers Briggs and ...
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Moreland council to drop references to January 26 as Australia Day
Anti-racism Indigenous Socialist Alliance Sue Bolton Australia Day Aboriginal genocide Wurundjeri ... on September 13 when it voted to drop all references to January 26 as Australia Day out of respect ... for Aboriginal people. But it stopped short of cancelling its official Australia Day citizenship ...
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BRITAIN: Salesmen of death
deals with General Suharto's genocidal regime in Indonesia under cover of the Official Secrets Act. ... rights violations and grave breaches of the Geneva conventions which, over the past 18 months, have been ... on arms by regimes offered a variety of enticements by Western business and governments. Three months ...
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Britain: Extinction Rebellion protesters convicted
reasonable time. All three defendants were given a 12 month conditional discharge. Scott and Thelwell were ... breaching Section 14 of the Public Order Act, which was used to break up protests in parts of central London ... in April. Thousands of people occupied five sites in central London during the International ...
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Indian student attacks: Denial of racism will lead to more attacks
January 8 Sydney Morning Herald reported: "In the 12 months to June 2007, 1082 attacks on Indians in ... been part of White Australia since it was founded on the genocide and dispossession of Aboriginal ... about the denial of racism in Australia. After performers on the television show Hey Hey It's ...
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Tamil dinner says oppression continues in Sri Lanka
of the war. Dr Siven Seevanayagam told the audience that “structural genocide” takes place in Sri ... Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Tamil liberation Naarm/Melbourne More than 500 people attended a dinner of ... of Tamil people in Sri Lanka, who have been subject to discrimination, oppression and massacres at ...
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Statement against war on Tamils initiated by World at the Crossroads participants:
鶹ӳ Weekly in Sydney, April 10-12. A selection of the much larger number of names that signed on ... Genocide Against the Tamils! Participants at the World at a Crossroads conference, Sydney April 10-12 ... The genocidal policies of the Sri Lankan government are a continuation of over six decades of ...
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Venezuela: growing evidence of new coup plot
Baduel met with, Manuel Bonet Locarno and Juan Salcedo Lara, are currently accused of genocide. Rangel ... a further 33 questioned and the US ambassador expelled in the wake of the September 10 revelation of ... a planned coup and assassination attempt against President Hugo Chavez. New evidence of taped conversations ...
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Rally vows to defend refugees’ rights
these islands. The loss of this hope resulted in at least 12 suicide attempts. There had also been hope ... the re-election of the Coalition government. Lucy Honan, representing the Refugee Action Collective ... Even though Labor and the Coalition shared bipartisan policies of offshore detention and boat ...
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Australia’s two levels of climate denial
each month for the rest of the year to make our annual fighting fund target of $250,000. There is ... unholy coalition of fossil fuel companies, reactionary media shock jocks and politicians are trying to ... the complete denial of human-induced climate change is really a minority phenomenon. They are a noisy ...
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How long will Australia remain silent about Afrin?
children under the age of 12. On my father’s urgent instructions, my mother and aunts quickly rip their ... day. It is now March 12 and I am in the city of Kobane, northern Syria and counting down the days until ... heart. Only months before we had witnessed thousands of Yezidi Kurdish women being kidnapped by ISIS and ...
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52 left-leaning albums from 2014
non-Aboriginal Australians. Unsurprisingly, Indigenous people see the start of their genocide as nothing to ... if he did admit he stole it. That same month, he released Falasteen Habibti, a compilation album of ... 12. BRIGGS- SHEPLIFE Briggs is the biggest name in Aboriginal rap not only because of his rapping ...
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Bolivia summit: ‘Planet or death’ battle cry of a new global movement
months of online debate between more than 5000 participants. That was then thrashed out over two days and ... “decolonised”, with developed countries reducing their emissions by at least 50% of 1990 levels. Working group 12 ... International Justice Tribunal and tried for the crime of “cٱ genocide”, Morales said. He added: “If the ...
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Cuba and Venezuela: Building an 'axis of hope'
Stuart Munckton "Plagued by wars and the threat of new wars, the world we live in becomes ... more unjust and unequal with each day that passes" — this was the indictment of the current ... international order offered by Carlos Lage, vice-president of Cuba's Council of State, at the Non-Aligned ...
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CUBA: Record vote against US blockade
sovereignty of other states and freedom of trade and navigation. The General Assembly for the 12th straight ... year voted overwhelmingly to reject what Havana called attempted "genocide" on the part of ... that more US goods can be sold in Cuba. The US Senate last month voted 59-36 to bar the use of ...
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UN demands delay Khmer Rouge trials
from Annan to Hun Sen only four days before the Bangkok meeting seemed designed to discard months of ... and Pol Pot had been tried in absentia on charges of genocide in 1979 and condemned to death. ... By Allen Myers PHNOM PENH — The Cambodian government is now awaiting the arrival of a team of ...
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John Pilger: War by media a triumph of propaganda
American investigative journalist. We discussed the invasion of Iraq a few months earlier. I asked him, ... except when it drives down the price of oil. Yemen has endured 12 years of American drone attacks. Who ... propaganda? Why are censorship and distortion standard practice? Why is the BBC so often a mouthpiece of ...
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ASIET plans solidarity in Adelaide
of Australian governments in the genocide in East Timor. A public meeting is planned for December 12 ... ASIET plans solidarity in Adelaide By Bronwen Beechey ADELAIDE — Members of Action in Solidarity ... with Indonesia and East Timor met on October 31 to plan activities for the last part of the year. Among ...
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Gallipoli — never forget... or forgive
of those who actually stood against the bloodshed. Those like the “Sydney 12”; a dozen members of the ... sentenced to 12 months in jail for publishing cartoons against the war, like the one that declared: “TO ARMS ... forgive those that lead them to their slaughter. ‘Gallipoli, Inc’ helps the denial of genocide Analysis ...
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After 44 years of occupation: where is the Israeli Peace Camp?
considering the wisdom of this statement. This month marks the 44th anniversary of Israel’s occupation of Gaza ... Imperialism & war Middle East National liberation Samah Sabawi On a section of the apartheid ... solidarity groups knew this was coming and understood Netanyahu’s speech as confirmation of the two-state ...
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CUBA: A people who have triumphed
[In the largest such march in the history of the country, 1.2 million Cubans marched through ... against Cuba will begin past the US Interest Section and over 1.2 million residents of Havana will take ... and inhumane treatment, confined to punishment cells for 17 months, as all of our people know. Almost ...