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Headlines from GLW #753, 4 June 2008:


What would a liveable city look like?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 30 May 2008
When one sees a modern city from the air, especially at night, it is a truly awe-inspiring spectacle. The immensity of the project is a testimony to the power and creativity of human beings. However, on the ground and actually living and working in this wonder, things are quite different: the social and ecological problems crowd in and fill your view. The truth is that our cities have always been dominated by the rich and powerful, and built and operated to serve their needs rather than those of the mass of working people who live and toil in them. »

Defend artistic freedom: The case against censorship
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 30 May 2008
“Beautiful”, “haunting”, “dark”, “evocative” or “revolting”, “indecent”, “exploitative” and “pornographic”? The May 22 seizure of 20 photographs by Australian artist Bill Henson from Sydney’s Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, and the subsequent NSW police investigation, have provoked an extreme response. »

NT health worker: Intervention ‘largely failed’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 30 May 2008
The federal government’s intervention into remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory has largely failed to produce significant improvements in health or housing, an NT health department employee told Green Left Weekly on May 29. »

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Afghanistan: Why the occupation needs to end
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 May 2008
The anti-war movement must step up its campaign for the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan. »

Venezuela: Big stakes in November elections
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 1 June 2008
Following the December 2 constitutional reform referendum defeat — the first for the forces of the Bolivarian revolution since the election of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in 1998 — and facing popular discontent at the problems holding back the advance of the process of change, the pro-revolution forces face a big challenge in securing an overwhelming victory in the November regional elections in order not to lose ground to the US-backed opposition. »

Petrol populism and public transport
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 30 May 2008
Petrol prices have sky-rocketed in the last six months. The cost per litre now pushes $1.60, with predictions in some quarters of a $2 per litre price by the end of the year. »

Bolivia: Indigenous leaders beaten and publicly humiliated
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 31 May 2008
Bolivia may have its first-ever indigenous president, but racism is alive and well in this country, as demonstrated by the public humiliation of a group of around 50 indigenous mayors, town councillors and community leaders in the south-central city of Sucre. »

Palestine: Partition the road to conflict, equality the road to peace
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 May 2008
It is an almost unquestioned orthodoxy that the only way there could be a peaceful solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict is through the creation of two separate states. »

Clean development mechanism — a discredited strategy
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 May 2008
The world’s biggest carbon offset market, the Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM), is run by the United Nations, administered by the World Bank and is intended to reduce emissions by rewarding developing countries that invest in clean technologies. »

‘Enough of these fools’: French students on the move
RESISTANCE!, 30 May 2008
“Enough of these fools who shut factories and shut schools!” was a chant of thousands of student protesters as they marched on May 18 against the neoliberal education reforms in France. The conservative government of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s restructure of the education system will mean 11,200 teachers will lose their jobs as well as the cutting of “optional” subjects, such as foreign languages and art. »

No to the NT intervention! Protest on June 21
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 31 May 2008
On May 23-25, 160 Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists gathered in Sydney for the Unite and Fight conference, organised by the Sydney Aboriginal Rights Coalition. The conference was intended to update people on the impacts of the ongoing Northern Territory intervention and plan the campaign against it. A key priority coming out of the conference was to build large community rallies around the country on June 21, the anniversary of the announcement of the NT intervention. Natasha Moore and Wayne Collard, two Nyoongar members of the West Australian Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC-WA), attended the conference and caught up with Green Left Weekly’s Annolies Truman, also an ARC-WA member, on their return to Perth. »

From H-Block to a Texas jail
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 May 2008

Israeli soldier: ‘Body a day’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 May 2008

Germany: ‘We have the wind of history in our sails’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 May 2008

Nepal: Republic begins, monarchy ends
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 May 2008

A win for racists in Camden
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 31 May 2008

Melbourne’s freeway madness continues
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 31 May 2008

Gold Coast free speech campaign scores a win
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 31 May 2008

Defending the right to choose
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 31 May 2008

South Africa: Behind the xenophobic killings
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 31 May 2008

Also in #753:


read »International News

  • Afghanistan: Why the occupation nee...
  • Bolivia: Indigenous leaders beaten ...
  • Britain: New Labour crashes in Crew...
  • Clean development mechanism — a d...
  • From H-Block to a Texas jail
  • Germany: ‘We have the wind of ...
  • Iranian sugarcane workers seek soli...
  • Israeli soldier: ‘Body a day&#...
  • Manuel Marulanda — 1930-2008
  • Nepal: Republic begins, monarchy en...
  • Palestine: Partition the road to co...
  • South Africa: Behind the xenophobic...
  • South Africa: Marching for justice
  • Venezuela: Big stakes in November ...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • A win for racists in Camden
  • Defend artistic freedom: The case a...
  • Melbourne’s freeway madness conti...
  • NSW teachers prepare next phase of ...
  • NT health worker: Intervention ‘l...
  • Of bread, circuses and clanging sym...
  • Petrol populism and public transpor...
  • What would a liveable city look lik...
  • Letters: Write On: Letters t...
  • Resistance!: ‘Enough of th...
  • Our Common Cause: A full inq...

    • read »General

  • Fighting Fund: ’They must thi...

    • read »Australian News

  • Abyei — the new Darfur?
  • ANZ dumps mill, Lennon quits
  • Brigadista reports on May Day in Ca...
  • Campaign against ABCC launched in G...
  • Defending the right to choose
  • Deportations of refugees must end
  • Gold Coast free speech campaign sco...
  • Government to bankrupt desalination...
  • Melbourne climate emergency rally p...
  • No to the NT intervention! Protest ...
  • No tolled road tunnel plan!
  • NT teachers begin rolling stoppages...
  • Qantas engineers threatened with st...
  • Brief: Stop the power sell-o...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: Substituting anger f...
  • Review: Sydney on the street...
  • Change is on the agenda
  • On the box
  • Utah Phillips, 1935-2008
  • War poet’s words still resonat...


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