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Headlines from GLW #750, 14 May 2008:


Behind the food crisis: 'capitalism's historical failure’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008
“If the government cannot lower the cost of living it simply has to leave”, a demonstrator said in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. “If the police and UN troops want to shoot at us, that’s OK, because in the end, if we are not killed by bullets, we’ll die of hunger.” »

NSW energy fight: defend public assets!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 May 2008
The plan for the privatisation of electricity in NSW is like the mythical creature the hydra, which had multiple heads. It had to be “killed” many times before it would actually die — and every time it was “killed” it could bite back apparently unharmed. »

Remembering the Palestinian Nakba
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 May 2008
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New NASA research shows inadequacy of Rudd's greenhouse targets
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 May 2008
Ground-breaking new research findings posted on the internet in April have confirmed what many scientists and climate activists have already concluded — that the goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions embraced by the European Union and Australia’s Labor government are gravely inadequate. »

Turn anger into action!
RESISTANCE!, 10 May 2008
RESISTANCE!: Plans are under way for the 2008 Resistance national conference, to be held at the University of Technology, Sydney from June 27-29. This year’s theme is: “war, racism, environmental destruction, homophobia, sexism … Turn anger into action!” »

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Other Headlines


Bolivia: Fraud, violence and mass resistance marks right-wing push
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008
A day of violence, fraud and a “grand rebellion” against the Santa Cruz oligarchy. »

United States: Innocent Black man's murderers walk free and an anti-racist preacher is the problem?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008
On April 25, the three cops who murdered African American Sean Bell in a hail of 50 bullets in New York were acquitted of all charges. »

United States: ‘We are all Sean Bell’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008
Coordinated acts of nonviolent civil disobedience took place at six different locations across the city May 7 in a protest against the not-guilty verdict for three police officers who shot and killed unarmed African American man Sean Bell with 50 bullets — on the night before his wedding. »

Venezuela: Steelworkers win, gold miners fight
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 May 2008
“The workers feel that what we achieved was a great triumph”, said Jose Melendez, the finance secretary for the United Steel Industry Workers’ Union (SUTISS), on the signing of a new contract for the Sidor steel plant’s workforce with the Venezuelan government, according to a May 6 Venezuelanalysis.com article. »

Aboriginal refugees flee NT intervention
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 10 May 2008
While Mount Isa welfare organisations are alarmed about not being able to provide for the large influx of Aboriginal people who have fled the federal government’s Northern Territory intervention, the government is looking to expand this racist bipartisan policy. »

Rudd harder than Howard on asylum seekers
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 10 May 2008
The Rudd government has been rejecting asylum seeker claims at an extraordinary rate. A report by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC), released on May 4, revealed that out of 42 ministerial decisions over five weeks, 41 appeals had been rejected — a 97.6% rejection rate. »

Bipartisan hypocrisy on anti-terror laws
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 May 2008

Changes in Cuba?
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 May 2008

Venezuela proposes food bank for Latin America
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008

Iraq: Hundreds die in US assault on Sadr City
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008

New Zealand activists damage US spy base
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008

Nepal: Republican resurgence led by the red flag
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 May 2008

Burma: Regime worsens suffering from cyclone
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 May 2008

Ecuador: `Executed in cold blood'
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 10 May 2008

Brumby's corporate welfare budget
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 May 2008

'What the hell is happening in NSW?'
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 10 May 2008

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