Headlines from GLW #782, 11 February 2009:

Meltdown, fires as climate emergency hits Australia

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 February 2009

The heatwave across south-eastern Australia in recent weeks has given a hint of what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise: black-outs, fatalities and transport chaos as privatised infrastructure fails. »

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Bring Israeli war criminals to justice!

INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 6 February 2009

“The choice facing Israel in eight days time concerns peace, and the country can say yes to peace or no to peace … A dove of peace is sitting on the window ledge, and we can decide to open the window and let it in, with all the apprehension, or slam the window shut”, Kadima party electoral candidate and current Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni told an international media conference on February 2. »

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Climate Action Summit unites new environment movement

AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 7 February 2009

We live in peculiar, troubling times, where the world’s climate scientists are all but screaming from the rooftops for governments to listen and take urgent action to avert climate change. »

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Tamil youth speak out against genocide

RESISTANCE!, 7 February 2009

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA: “There is a systematic genocide going on in Sri Lanka at the moment and the world doesn’t know about it. That is why we are trying to create awareness about the issue and help put a stop to this genocide.” »

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Rudd’s apology: one year on, a sorry record

COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 February 2009

AUSTRALIA: “Rudd is dangling the carrot of hope before us and it is a lie”, said Les Coe at the Aboriginal convergence in Canberra on February 3, at which 500 people protested the continuation of racist Howard-era policies by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. »

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Other Headlines

Also in #782:

read »International News

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France: Left parties discuss allian...

Global protests against anti-Tamil ...

India: Corporate rule and nuclear w...

Ireland: Workers occupy Waterford c...

Mexico: Huge workers', farmers' pro...

Philippines: New left party formed

Somalia: Ethiopian occupation ends,...

South Africa: Dock workers solidari...

Thailand casts adrift Burmese refug...

Venezuela: Democracy, revolution an...

Venezuela: Ten years of revolution ...

Wind power hit by crisis

World Social Forum proposes radical...

World Social Forum: ‘Time to aim ...

read »Comment & Analysis

Climate Action Summit participants...

$42 billion to stimulate profits

Climate summit: a display of grassr...

Meltdown, fires as climate emergenc...

Rudd’s apology: one year on, a so...

The slide and slide of Peter Garret...

Unions take a stand for Gaza

Resistance!: Stop the war o...

Resistance!: Tamil youth spe...

Our Common Cause: Expand Rud...

Our Common Cause: Our Common...

read »General

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Green Left Weekly's $250,00...

read »Australian News

Asia-Pacific solidarity gathering

Climate Action Summit unites new en...

Grammar hall ‘monument to extr...

Hazara community protests killings

Heatwave deaths soar

Socialists to contest QLD elections...

Stop the intervention! Human rights...

Sustainable water policies now!

Tamil community protests Sri Lankan...

Teachers vote for new settlement

Terror sentences: criminalising tal...

Brief: Socialist Alliance re...

Brief: Triabunna 13 launch d...

read »Cultural Dissent

Review: On the box

Review: One Aboriginal woman...

Review: Portrait of past mil...

Charles Darwin and materialist scie...