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Headlines from GLW #810, 16 September 2009:


Abortion rights: harassing us into submission
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 September 2009
Since April this year, a young Cairns couple has faced a nightmare. »

Afghanistan war: Global oposition grows
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 September 2009
In the wake of the bombing of two oil tankers by the occupying NATO forces, and farcical elections controlled by warlords, international public opinion is turning against the US-led war in Afghanistan. »

John Pilger: Lockerbie and the framing of Megrahi
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11 September 2009
The hysteria over the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber, Libyan Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, reveals much about the political and media class on both sides of the Atlantic, especially Britain. »

Homebirth: defend a woman’s right to choose
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 September 2009
In June, a raft of new legislation was presented to parliament to in effect, outlaw homebirth midwifery in Australia. Indemnity insurance would be a legal requirement for medical practitioners, under a new national registration and accreditation scheme. »

Support Ark Tribe! No cooperation with the ABCC!
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 13 September 2009
Ark Tribe is a South Australian building worker and member of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU). He has been charged for refusing to answer questions by the Australian Building Construction Commission (ABCC) over a 2008 workplace safety dispute »

Labor’s new OHS laws will kill more workers
OUR COMMON CAUSE, 13 September 2009
OUR COMMON CAUSE: On September 1, thousands of people rallied in Melbourne for safe workplaces. The rally was in opposition to the federal government’s proposed national occupational health and safety (OHS) laws. »

The false hope of ‘clean coal’
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 September 2009
Carbon capture and storage (CCS), often touted as “clean coal”, has been promoted by the coal industry and governments such as Australia and the US as a way to cut emissions from coal-fired energy generation, in order to avoid dangerous climate change. »

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Other Headlines


Honduras: Resistance says elections illegitimate
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 September 2009
Although the international community has warned it will not recognise the results of the November elections in Honduras, the de facto government in power since the June 28 military coup that overthrew elected President Manuel Zelaya said the vote would go ahead. »

Support the Ampilatwatja walk-off!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 September 2009
The following call for support was released on August 24 by Richard Downs, spokesperson of the Alyawarr people of the Northern Territory, who have walked off their community of Ampilatwatja in protest against the federal government’s NT intervention. Visit www.interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com for more information. »

Copenhagen summit: ‘Seattle’-style protests needed
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 September 2009
Here’s a fairly simple choice: the global North would pay the hard-hit global South to deal with the climate crisis, either through the complicated and corrupt “Clean Development Mechanism” (CDM), whose projects have plenty of damaging side-effects to communities, or instead pay through other mechanisms that provide financing quickly, transparently and decisively to achieve genuine income compensation plus renewable energy to the masses. »

US State Department bankrolls young Venezuelans to slander Chavez
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 September 2009
In the midst of an international campaign launched against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, carried out by the extreme right from Colombia and supported by Washington, the US State Department has organised and financed the trip of eight young Venezuelan politicians to the US. »

Police probe Balibo deaths after 35 years
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 September 2009
On September 8, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) notified the families of the five journalists killed in 1975 at Balibo in East Timor that it had begun an investigation into the killings. »

Israel: Palestinians call general strike
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 September 2009
The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million “Israeli Arab” citizens (as Palestinians living inside Israel are termed) citizens to call the first general strike in several years. »

Sri Lanka’s war on aid workers
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 September 2009
The communications chief for United Nations children’s charity UNICEF, James Elder, has been given until September 21 to leave Sri Lanka for making statements critical of the government. »

Will Fremantle City Council shift left?
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 13 September 2009
The October 17 Fremantle local government elections will take place in the wake of the May by-election that resulted in the historic victory of Greens candidate Adele Carles. »

Ireland: British hypocrisy in IRA compensation call
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 11 September 2009

El Salvador: School meals, uniforms made free as right attacks
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 12 September 2009

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  • Afghanistan: The ‘good war’ fro...
  • Bangladesh: Activists face oil comp...
  • Copenhagen summit: ‘Seattle’-st...
  • East Timor: Protests over Horta’s...
  • El Salvador: School meals, uniforms...
  • French workers sentenced over redun...
  • Honduras: Resistance says elections...
  • Honduras: US steps against coup reg...
  • Ireland: British hypocrisy in IRA c...
  • Israel: Palestinians call general s...
  • John Pilger: Lockerbie and the fram...
  • Morales named ‘World Hero of Moth...
  • Paraguay: Marches call for Lugo to ...
  • Sri Lanka’s war on aid workers
  • US State Department bankrolls young...
  • Video: Honduras eyewitness — resi...
  • Video: Mr Zelaya goes to Washington...
  • Video: Venezulean celebration of Ch...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • A new Aboriginal peak body?
  • Abortion rights: harassing us into ...
  • Economic ‘green shoots’: greene...
  • Homebirth: defend a woman’s right...
  • Navy abused refugees after boat exp...
  • Oil spill causes environmental disa...
  • Police probe Balibo deaths after 35...
  • Support the Ampilatwatja walk-off!
  • The false hope of ‘clean coal’
  • Uni’s to strike for new agreement...
  • Will Fremantle City Council shift l...
  • Letters: Write on: Letters t...
  • Resistance!: Schools are get...
  • Our Common Cause: Labor’s ...

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  • Green Left Weekly's $250,000 F...

    • read »Australian News

  • Activists confront Pearson on suppo...
  • Climate camp to converge on Port Au...
  • Exposing Japan’s ‘zombie’ ind...
  • Guatemalan people: ‘We will not b...
  • Macklin's 'consultation': a piece o...
  • NTEU strike demands conditions, res...
  • Overworked doctors endangering pati...
  • Protesters take direct action to sw...
  • Support Ark Tribe! No cooperation w...
  • Venezuelan people’s power story t...
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