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Headlines from GLW #812, 30 September 2009:
Green jobs not dirty energy!
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 September 2009
The following Socialist Alliance statement was distributed at the “Switch off Hazelwood” power station protest in Victoria on September 12 and 13.
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Honduras: Desperate dictatorship steps up reign of terror, resistance pushes on
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 October 2009
For a series of reports and interviews since Honduran President Manuel Zelaya’s dramatic return to Honduras on September 21, visit here. To send letter to Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, and add your name to an open letter, demanding Australia join the governments all over the world in denouncing and isolating the coup regime, visit here. After this article are two eyewitness accounts from inside Honduras on the rising repression. They have been translated from Spanish by Linda Seaborn.
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Honduras: Uprising defies coup regime as repression grows
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 26 September 2009
In the article below, Federico Fuentes, from the Green Left Weekly Caracas bureau, provides an overview of the brutal repression of the coup regime and heroic resistance against it occurring right now in the Central American nation of Honduras. Fuentes has conducted daily interviews with leaders of the Honduran resistance since September 21, and a series of daily articles since then can be read here. A September 25 audio interview with Democracy Now! journalist Andres Conteris, from inside the Brazilian embassy where legitimate President Manuel Zelaya has been, can be heard at LatinRadical
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Honduras eyewitness: The people are still on the streets!
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 2 October 2009
On June 28, elected President Manuel Zelaya was overthrown by a military coup backed by the Honduran elite. Since then, a mass resistance movement of the poor majority has brought the Central American country to a standstill and the coup regime very close to defeat. Pedro Fuentes is international secretary of the Brazilian Party Socialism and Liberty (PSOL). He wrote this article from Honduras on September 29.
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Afghanistan: The war must end, bring troops home
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 25 September 2009
There is an increasing push for US president Barack Obama to send more soldiers to Afghanistan. The push comes from the top commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal.
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John Pilger: Australia’s role in the Balibo killings
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 24 September 2009
It is a decade since the people of East Timor defied the genocidal occupiers of their country to take part in a United Nations referendum, voting for their freedom and independence.
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Rudd promotes climate failure at UN
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 September 2009
More and more people accept that we need emergency action to achieve a safe climate. The Copenhagen Summit in December will be a dramatic opportunity for governments to show whether or not they are prepared to be part of the solution.
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Geelong: Asbestos is still killing
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 26 September 2009
Australia has one of the highest rates of asbestos-related disease in the world. Asbestos kills and goes on killing for generations. The Australian Council of Trade Unions estimates that by 2020, 30,000 to 40,000 people in Australia will have contracted an asbestos-related cancer.
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Are the dust storms radioactive?
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 26 September 2009
Shortly after two dust storms swept the entire east coast of Australia over September 22-26, concerns were raised that radioactive materials from central Australian uranium mines could make the same journey.
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Green Left Weekly is taking a one-week break.
GENERAL, 26 September 2009
Our next issue will be dated October 14.
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Philippenes: An appeal for assistance after floods
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 28 September 2009
This appeal has been released by the Part of the Masses (PLM) in the Philippenes.
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Left makes big gains in German, Portuguese elections
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 30 September 2009
Two articles below are by the Die Linke (The Left Party) in Germany on its significant gains in the elections, and from A href="http://www.internationalviewpoint.org">International Viewpoint on the Portuguese elections, which resulted in significant losses for the ruling party and big gains for the Left Bloc.
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