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Headlines from GLW #806, 9 August 2009:


Climate change: is population the problem?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
We face a climate crisis and something needs to change. The world’s resources are finite, as is the amount of destruction humans can do to this planet if we are to survive. As such, there is a debate in the environment movement about whether or not curbing population is an essential part of the solution. »

Racism and media hysteria — ‘Terror’ laws won’t make us safer
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
On August 4, theatrical pre-dawn raids in Melbourne by more than 400 Victorian, NSW and federal police and ASIO agents — including paramilitary units armed with sub-machineguns — launched Australia’s latest terrorism scare. »

Fight for same-sex marriage rights gathers pace
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
The largest demonstrations for same-sex marriage in Australia’s history took place on August 1. A 3000-strong rally marched on the national ALP conference in Sydney. Four thousand took to the streets in Melbourne. Record crowds mobilised in other cities. »

Ampilatwatja walk-out stays strong
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
Aboriginal elders and families from Ampilatwatja have set up a permanent protest camp outside their government-controlled community in protest against policies that have neglected their needs and desires. »

South Korea: Class war in midst of economic crisis
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009
The class war in South Korea reached a new stage with the struggle of the Ssangyong autoworkers. The workers strike against layoffs began in May, and they occupied their plant in Pyongtaek, 50 kilometres south of Seoul. »

Honduras: Coup struggle a battle for the Americas
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 August 2009
The people of Honduras have now suffered more than 40 days of military rule. The generals’ June 28 coup ousted the country’s elected government and unleashed severe, targeted, and relentless repression. »

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Britain: New wave of factory occupations
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 9 August 2009
A rash of workplace occupations is spreading across the globe as workers defy the brutal consequences of the recession. »

John Pilger wins Sydney Peace Prize
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 9 August 2009
John Pilger, renowned journalist, author and filmmaker, has been awarded the 2009 Sydney Peace Prize. »

The rise and fall of the Irish Greens
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009
Being Irish, one of the thousands who left the country during the 1980s economic crisis, I follow Irish politics closely. »

Housing price rises: ‘recovery’ or bubble?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
On August 4, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released figures that showed housing prices across Australia’s capital cities rose by 4.2% over the three months ending in June. The rapid increase has worried the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) enough for it to warn of a threat of a housing bubble. »

Venezuela: Putting media in the peoples’ hands
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009
The head of Venezuela's telecommunications agency (CONATEL), Diosdado Cabello, announced the immediate closure of 32 privately owned radio stations and two regional television stations on August 1. »

‘Buy Australian’: Can it save jobs?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
In the year to May, manufacturing employers shed more than 68,000 jobs due to reduced demand emerging from the economic crisis, said the Australian Bureau of Statistics. »

Venezuela: Freedom of speech, fantasies and double standards
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009
Those “free speech” crusaders at the Inter American Press Association are at it again, leading the charge in an international campaign against what IAPA president Enrique Santos Calderon decried on August 2 as “the gravest attempt to silence the press that has occurred in the last few years in the region”. »

Arthur Miller: a principled playwright
REVIEW, 9 August 2009
Arthur MillerChristopher BigsbyWeidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008739 pages, $79.99 (hb »

Climate camp targets Port Augusta power plants
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
In the state that claims to have the greenest energy on the Australian mainland, South Australia’s climate camp will confront two of the country’s dirtiest power stations. The Northern and Playford B plants, fuelled by cheap but low-grade brown coal, are just outside Port Augusta, a four-hour drive north of Adelaide. »

United States: Racial profiling and Obama’s ‘beer summit’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009
The so-called beer summit between President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge police officer sergeant James Crowley took place without incident on July 30 at the White House. »

Can the steel industry be a green industry?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 9 August 2009
Scientists are telling us we have to phase out coal quickly or risk an uninhabitable planet. Coal burning now accounts for about 36% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. Mining and handling of coal adds even more. »

New Zealand: Minimum wage campaign aims to strengthen working class
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009

Venezuela: Socialist party prepares for ‘transition to socialism’
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009

Latin America in Israel’s crosshairs
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 8 August 2009
The following article is abridged from a July 29 statement by the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall group »

Also in #806:


read »International News

  • Britain: New wave of factory occupa...
  • Honduras: Coup struggle a battle fo...
  • Ireland: Occupying workers violentl...
  • Latin America in Israel’s crossha...
  • Malaysia: A clear message to abolis...
  • New Zealand: Minimum wage campaign ...
  • South Korea: Class war in midst of ...
  • The rise and fall of the Irish Gree...
  • United States: Racial profiling and...
  • Venezuela: Freedom of speech, fanta...
  • Venezuela: Putting media in the peo...
  • Venezuela: Socialist party prepares...
  • Brief: Stop Press - Vestas o...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Ampilatwatja walk-out stays strong
  • ‘Buy Australian’: Can it save j...
  • Can the steel industry be a green i...
  • Climate camp targets Port Augusta p...
  • Climate change: is population the p...
  • Fight for same-sex marriage rights ...
  • Housing price rises: ‘recovery’...
  • Racism and media hysteria — ‘Te...
  • US and Australian climate bills: ne...
  • Letters: Write on — Letter...
  • Editorial: CPRS — worse th...
  • Resistance!: New anti-terror...
  • Resistance!: Radio shows, ju...
  • Our Common Cause: Workers hu...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly’s figh...

    • read »Australian News

  • ‘Stand Tall’ —Ark Tribe song ...
  • Birthing kits for Afghanistan
  • Homelessness and the economic crisi...
  • John Pilger wins Sydney Peace Prize...
  • Pacific nations say cut emissions 4...
  • Pro Choice Queensland launched
  • Real green jobs replace dirty ones
  • Stock market blamed for university ...
  • TAFE teachers worth every cent
  • Walking 300kms to save 300,000 live...
  • Women for Justice: rape is a war cr...
  • Brief: Ambos want 10-hour br...
  • Brief: Queensland teachers r...

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: Arthur Miller: a pri...
  • Review: East Timor’s blood...
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