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Headlines at 9 February 2010
Behind the lies of climate deniers
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 6 February 2010
It seems bizarre that when the science of human-caused climate change is more worryingly conclusive than ever, climate denial could enjoy a resurgence. After all, no climate denier has published a peer-reviewed article in a scientific journal in the past 15 years.
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Cuba: Copenhagen has no legitimacy
Brief:
Protesters in court for defending heritage
Abbott’s climate policy: let the polluters play
El Salvador: Mining giant sues entire country
South Africa: Australian mine would destroy area
Indigenous walk-off spokesperson: ‘We need to take the power back’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 6 February 2010
Richard Downs
is a spokesperson for the Alyawarr people from the Ampilatwatja community in the Northern Territory. Last year, he travelled the country on a speaking tour to publicise the situation for Aboriginal people in the NT since the 2007 NT Emergency Response legislation (known as the NT intervention) was brought in by the previous Coalition government. Under the intervention laws, the military was sent into Aboriginal communities.
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Crime body granted access to medical files
Indigenous survival and resistance — Australia and Latin A...
Brief:
Protesters in court for defending heritage
Rudd slammed over delayed report card
Aboriginal summit calls for new way
West Papua: Protests for vote despite violence
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 6 February 2010
On January 27, 1500 people marched in Timika demanding a referendum on the future status of West Papua, a former Dutch colony that has been occupied by Indonesia since 1962.
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An Australian view of Pakistan
Seafarers demand unpaid wages
Pakistan: Workers and peasants march together
Abbott's sexual conservatism
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 6 February 2010
When, after destroying Malcolm Turnbull, the Liberal Party took a surprise turn and embraced Tony Abbott as leader, there were those on the left who greeted the news with combined incredulity and glee.
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Sydney group campaigns for justice in Juarez
Haiti: Restore democracy — let Aristide return
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
In the aftermath of Haiti’s January 12 earthquake, the dispatch of US and United Nations troops was given priority — even at the expense of rescue teams and medical aid.
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Indigenous survival and resistance — Australia and Latin A...
Sydney group campaigns for justice in Juarez
Honduras: Massive protests as Lobo takes power
Honduras: The resistance is in the streets
Venezuela: Challenges of 21st century socialism
El Salvador: Mining giant sues entire country
Venezuela: Challenges of 21st century socialism
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution, led by President Hugo Chavez, has set “socialism of hte 21st century” as its goal. The process of change faces big challenges from outside and within.
William I. Robinson
, from the Latin American and Iberian Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, spoke to
Chronis Polychroniou
, the editor of Greek daily
Eleftherotypia
. The interview is abridged from Znet.
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Indigenous survival and resistance — Australia and Latin A...
Brief:
Socialist councillor launches Freo Report webs...
Sydney group campaigns for justice in Juarez
Honduras: Massive protests as Lobo takes power
Honduras: The resistance is in the streets
Haiti: Restore democracy — let Aristide return
Pressure on living standards growing during ‘recovery’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 5 February 2010
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GENERAL, 6 February 2010
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Vancouver Winter Olympics — A festival of corporate greed
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
On February 12, the corporate sporting behemoth known as the 21st Winter Olympic Games will open to great fanfare here. In a time of economic hardship and government cuts to social programs across Canada, huge sums of public money have been spent to stage this uber spectacle.
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Honduras: The resistance is in the streets
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
Hundreds of thousands of Hondurans took to the streets on January 27 to protest the inauguration of Porfirio “Pepe” Lobo, who was the victor in fraudulent elections held last November. Jeffery R. Webber spoke during the march with Rafael Alegria, a key leader in the National Resistance Front Against the Coup (FNRG) and a Honduran leader of the international peasant movement, Via Campesina. This is reprinted from
MRZine
.
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Honduras: Massive protests as Lobo takes power
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
On June 28 last year, US-trained military officers overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya. This sparked sustained mass resistance from the poor majority, angry that the rich had overthrown a president who had carried out pro-poor reforms and sought to begin a democratic process to change the pro-elite constitution.
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New Zealand: Unite takes on minimum wage
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
Unite is the fastest growing private sector union in New Zealand. Since being formed in 2004, it has grown to 8000 members.
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Superannuation rip-off
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 6 February 2010
This will come as little surprise to most workers, but their workplace superannuation is being systematically rorted and they are on the losing end of the “bargain”.
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Christmas Island refugees under lock-down
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 5 February 2010
A number of refugees in the Christmas Island detention centre remain in a state of lock-down, following an argument over a pool table on November 21.
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Merak refugees holding-out for justice
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
The Indonesian foreign affairs department was expecting a visit from an Australian “people smuggling envoy” when three refugee rights activists were apprehended and detained at Port Merak.
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No national schools’ testing in 2010!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 6 February 2010
There can be no National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy tests in 2010. The Australian Education Union’s national conference in January reaffirmed that, if NAPLAN data was used by the media to publish league tables, teachers would not co-operate in implementing the tests this year.
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Aboriginal summit calls for new way
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 6 February 2010
The New Way Summit on Aboriginal rights was held at the Australian National University, Canberra from January 30 to February 1. It was attended by 150 people, plus around 600 who hooked in via phone and internet links.
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Defend free speech on the internet — block the filter
RESISTANCE!, 6 February 2010
The South Australian government recently passed laws requiring anyone wanting to make a comment about the upcoming state election on the internet to publish their real name and postcode. This strikes a bold blow against the right to anonymity.
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Abbott’s climate policy: let the polluters play
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 5 February 2010
On February 2, opposition leader Tony Abbott released the Liberal-National Coalition’s climate policy. For the Coalition, just as for the Rudd government, there’s one thing that’s irrelevant to climate policy — climate science. In Abbott’s 30-page document, the global warming crisis doesn’t rate one mention.
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Fast food workers under attack
RESISTANCE!, 6 February 2010
Fast food workers have lost a promised rise in Sunday penalty rates, and nightly overtime for retail staff will be cut, after a ruling by Fair Work Australia.
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Seafarers demand unpaid wages
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 6 February 2010
The crew on board the
Tien Hau
in the South Australian regional port of Wallaroo have had to resort to fishing for their meals. The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) is calling for the $47,000 backpay owed to them in to be paid in full.
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Socialist candidate: make public transport public again
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 6 February 2010
El Salvador: Mining giant sues entire country
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 February 2010
Geelong socialist: council should protect workers’ rights
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 5 February 2010
Pakistan: Workers and peasants march together
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 6 February 2010
South Africa: Australian mine would destroy area
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 6 February 2010
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Honduras: The resistance is in the ...
Merak refugees holding-out for just...
New Zealand: Unite takes on minimum...
Pakistan: Workers and peasants marc...
South Africa: Australian mine would...
Turkey: General strike for Tekel wo...
US strengthens Middle-East military...
Vancouver Winter Olympics — A fes...
Venezuela: Challenges of 21st centu...
West Papua: Protests for vote despi...
Brief:
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