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Headlines from GLW #803, 19 July 2009:


Oppose Garrett’s sell out — leave uranium in the ground
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 July 2009
He occupied a (somewhat self-appointed) position as a hero of Australia’s environment and Indigenous rights movements for decades. Yet these days, former Midnight Oil frontman and current ALP environment minister Peter Garrett works overtime to prove his credentials as a defender of big business and the big polluters. »

How the West exploits Africa
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 July 2009
US President Barack Obama used his African heritage in his July 11 speech to the Ghanaian parliament in Accra as justification for proceeding to blame Africa’s problems on its own people. »

Wage rises don’t mean job losses
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 July 2009
AUSTRALIA: Almost immediately after the Rudd Labor government’s Fair Work Australia came into effect on July 2, the Australian and other News Ltd newspapers launched a sustained attack on the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union’s (AMWU) wage claim for the manufacturing industry. »

Rod Quantock: ‘If you’re not scared shitless, you don’t understand the science’
CULTURAL DISSENT, 19 July 2009
AUSTRALIA: Comedian Rod Quantock launches his new show, Bugger the Polar Bears, This is Serious, in Melbourne on July 21. He spoke to Green Left Weekly’s Jay Fletcher about climate change, government inaction and the urgent need to create a global movement to save the planet. »

David Rovics: Singing in solidarity with Palestine
CULTURAL DISSENT, 19 July 2009
AUSTRALIA: Former US congresswoman Cynthia McKinney was among a group of activists who made international news when they were seized from their boat, the Spirit of Humanity, and imprisoned by the Israeli military on June 30. »

Indigenous incarceration and the deafening silence
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 July 2009
AUSTRALIA: In late June, the federal government helped launch a paper entitled Bridges and Barriers: Addressing Indigenous Incarceration and Health. »

Honduras: Mass resistance to military coup grows
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 July 2009
Mass resistance to the illegal military coup that overthrew elected Honduran President Manuel “Mel” Zelaya on June 28 is continuing to grow. »

Nationalise coal— to fund a just transition away from it
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 July 2009
This is the second part of an interview about breaking Australia’s addiction to coal between Green Left Weekly’s Zane Alcorn and retired Hunter Valley coal miner and climate activist Graham Brown. The first article can be read here. They discuss how a “just transition” away from coal could be made – a transition that benefits the workers and communities now dependent on coalmining and coal-fired energy plants. »


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Other Headlines


Rudd’s ‘clean coal’: a folly of the highest order
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 19 July 2009
There they all were at the recent G8/G20 summit in L’Aquila, Italy, nodding their approval as Kevin Rudd once again announced his global carbon capture and storage institute. But in truth, the L’Aquila photo-op only highlighted the chasm between the emission cuts demanded by the climate science and the steps political leaders are willing to take. »

Climate change threatens more hunger
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 July 2009
Zero point eight of a degree of warming may not seem like that much. This is how much average temperatures have risen over the past two centuries as a result of carbon pollution. »

Building a working-class response to the climate crisis
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 19 July 2009
We have a coal industry and a government — even some unions — that tell workers they must choose between a safe climate future and their jobs, their livelihood. »

Sri Lanka: Tamil oppression worsens despite war’s end
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 July 2009
The Sri Lankan government claims that, after its military victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, which was fighting for an independent homeland in the island’s north-east for the Tamil minority, Tamil “terrorism” has been crushed, and that the outlook for the country is rosy. »

Honduras: The coup dies or constitutions die
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 19 July 2009
The article published below is an abridged July 10 column by former Cuban President Fidel Castro. It was originally published in Granma. »

Versailles vs the Comintern: two visions of world peace
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 18 July 2009

Also in #803:


read »International News

  • Climate change threatens more hunge...
  • Greece: Police flatten refugee camp...
  • Honduras: Anti-Chavez ‘free speec...
  • Honduras: Mass resistance to milita...
  • Honduras: The coup dies or constitu...
  • Honduras: Washington’s role in th...
  • How the West exploits Africa
  • Ireland: Anti-Catholic intimidation...
  • Israel imprisons Palestine solidari...
  • Sri Lanka: Tamil oppression worsens...
  • Sri Lanka:Tamil doctors subjected t...
  • The spectre of ‘Chavismo’
  • Versailles vs the Comintern: two vi...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Indigenous incarceration and the de...
  • Melbourne film festival should cut ...
  • Nationalise coal— to fund a just ...
  • Oppose Garrett’s sell out — lea...
  • Rudd’s ‘clean coal’: a folly ...
  • Small island states: 2°C of warmin...
  • Wage rises don’t mean job losses
  • Western Sahara — what has really ...
  • Letters: Write On: Letters t...
  • Resistance!: Billionaires we...
  • Resistance!: Fat cats and gh...
  • Resistance!: Racism is deadl...
  • Our Common Cause: Building a...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly Fighting...

    • read »Australian News

  • Al Gore launches Safe Climate Austr...
  • Albanese urged to dump nuclear bill...
  • Censorship mars Harmony Day march
  • Elders walk off gov’t-controlled ...
  • Teachers oppose league tables, defe...
  • Unionist fights for her job
  • Brief: CFMEU green ban in Py...
  • Brief: NT intervention: ‘W...
  • Brief: Rally against propose...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • David Rovics: Singing in solidarity...
  • Rod Quantock: ‘If you’re not sc...


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