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Green Left Weekly issue #748, 30 April 2008
Letters to the Editor

LETTERS Workers and climate change

EDITORIAL On May 1, International Workers Day, workers and unionists need to reflect on the greatest challenge facing humanity: global warming. » Students take a stand against homophobia

RESISTANCE! The principal of the exclusive Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane is attempting to ban same-sex couples from attending the school formal in June. After several senior students had indicated their intention to take partners of the same sex, headmaster Jonathan Hensman came out publicly saying... » Workers, environmentalists and the fossil fuel industry

RESISTANCE! Around 50 protesters occupied the construction site of Newcastle’s third coal loader at Kooragang Island on April 19, forcing work to be stopped for around an hour and a half. The protest was organised by the climate change group Rising Tide Newcastle. » Worker and community action can stop Iemma's power sell-off

OUR COMMON CAUSE The longer the debate about the proposed privatisation of New South Wales electricity goes on, the more people are convinced it’s wrong and the less Premier Morris Iemma and treasurer Michael Costa care what we think. » 2020 summit reinforces neoliberal agenda

The 2020 summit was two days of political theatre for the new Rudd government. For 48 hours over April 19-20, film stars brushed white-board markers with Australia’s richest, and politicians mixed with Indigenous people, unionists and youth delegates. » 'Clean' coal fraud — renewables now!

The recent decision by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Climate Institute to support carbon sequestration and storage (CCS) will set back Australia’s efforts to confront climate change, as well as increasing the costs of doing so. » Climate crisis - urgent action needed now!

The following statement was initiated by the participants in the Climate Change|Social Change conference, held in Sydney, Australia on April 11-13, 2008. Anyone who agrees with it is welcome to add their signature, and an updated list of signatories will be issued on a regular basis. The statement i... » Treaty, yeah? Not yet

Aboriginal delegates to the 2020 summit, chaired by PM Kevin Rudd, expressed anger that it failed to agree on a treaty between Black and white Australia. They are also dismayed that there was no clear recommendation to form a new Indigenous representative body to oversee government policy. » Climate action statement draws broad support

The April 11-13 Climate Change-Social Change conference ended with the production of a statement that tries to specify the elements of a strategy against global warming that would actually have a chance of success. » Fighting Fund Appeal: Reaching out in May

I’m not going to yet another ritualised May Day march this year. But neither is anyone else in Sydney! » Individual versus social solutions to global warming

The following is an abridged version of a talk given by Terry Townsend at the recent Climate Change — Social Change Conference in Sydney. Townsend is a long-term member of the Democratic Socialist Perspective and the managing editor of Links online journal (<http://links.org.au>). » Let the Tibetans decide their future

The protests and arrests in Lhasa and the demonstrations and counter-demonstrations around the Olympic torch relay has re-focused the world on the plight of Tibetans. This has, in turn, sparked a debate on the left about whether the Tibetan struggle is a just one, or not what it seems. » Sixty years of colonialism

An advertisement published in the Australian on March 12 rightly condemned an Australian parliamentary motion that celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. »


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