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Headlines from GLW #786, 11 March 2009:
Nationalise Pacific Brands — save jobs not profits!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 March 2009
AUSTRALIA: “We have to cut down a lot of the clutter of anything, clutter of the work, focus product innovation, detail, all that is going on in the business but [we] just need to remove so much of the distraction to enable us to do that well”.
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Sri Lanka’s war on Tamils: the unknown genocide
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 6 March 2009
Thousands of civilians have been killed or injured and hundreds of thousands are in danger from hunger and disease, as the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) continues its brutal offensive against the Tamil people in the island’s north-east.
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Palestine: Building solidarity after Gaza
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 7 March 2009
The article below, by Jamal Juma, is abridged from <http://www.electronicintifada.net>. Juma is the coordinator of the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (visit http://www.stopthewall.org). A leader of the South African Palestine Solidarity Committee mentioned in this article, Salim Vally, will be a guest speaker at the
World at a Crossroads conference, Sydney Girls High, April 10-12. For more information, or to register, visit
http://www.worldatacrossroads.org.
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Financial crisis: ‘A whole other struggle is emerging’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 6 March 2009
John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He is the coauthor with Fred Magdoff of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences, recently published by Monthly Review Press. This is a heavily abridged version of an interview was conducted by Mike Whitney that first appeared at Dissident Voice.
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Government ‘clueless’ on Aboriginal issues
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 7 March 2009
AUSTRALIA: On February 26, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gave his first “report card” on the progress made on ending Aboriginal disadvantage, meeting a delayed election promise to do so every year at the opening of parliament. Rudd’s report, however, has been meet with criticism from Aboriginal activists and supporters.
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