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Green Left Weekly issue #782, 11 February 2009
Tamil youth speak out against genocide

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA “There is a systematic genocide going on in Sri Lanka at the moment and the world doesn’t know about it. That is why we are trying to create awareness about the issue and help put a stop to this genocide.” » Stop the war on graffiti!

RESISTANCE! Eighteen-year-old Cheyene Back was sentenced on February 2 to three months jail, despite having no prior convictions. » Expand Rudd’s stimulus package into a green New Deal!

OUR COMMON CAUSE At first glance Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan looks like a pre-emptive strike against looming recession and unemployment. » Our Common Cause: Expand Rudd’s stimulus package into a green New Deal!

OUR COMMON CAUSE At first glance the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Nation Building and Jobs Plan looks like a pre-emptive strike against looming recession and unemployment. » $42 billion to stimulate profits

AUSTRALIA On February 3, the federal government launched its second economic stimulus package of $42 billion, to be spent on special grants to individuals, businesses and schools. » Climate summit: a display of grassroots spirit

AUSTRALIA Socialist Alliance national co-convener Dick Nichols interviewed two climate action summit participants, Paul Petit from the South Australian Climate Emergency Action Network (CLEAN) and Giovanni Ebono from the New South Wales North Coast Climate Action Network. » Climate Action Summit participants speak

Green Left Weekly’s Simon Butler asked a number of activists present at Australia’s Climate Action Summit why they attended and why they thought it was so important. » Meltdown, fires as climate emergency hits Australia

The heatwave across south-eastern Australia in recent weeks has given a hint of what we can expect as global temperatures continue to rise: black-outs, fatalities and transport chaos as privatised infrastructure fails. » Rudd’s apology: one year on, a sorry record

AUSTRALIA “Rudd is dangling the carrot of hope before us and it is a lie”, said Les Coe at the Aboriginal convergence in Canberra on February 3, at which 500 people protested the continuation of racist Howard-era policies by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. » The slide and slide of Peter Garrett

AUSTRALIA Two weeks ago, federal environment minister Peter Garrett announced he will give the go ahead to the expansion of an open cut mine that will divert the McArthur River in the Northern Territory six kilometres off course. » Unions take a stand for Gaza

The news, on February 3, that South African dock workers in Durban had decided not to unload an Israeli ship due in on February 8 was welcomed by the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA), a section of which wants the union to join the international campaign of sanctions against apartheid Israel. »


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