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Green Left Weekly issue #789, 1 April 2009
Write On: Letters to the Editor

LETTERS Racists fighting racism?

RESISTANCE!, AUSTRALIA A new student group, backed by the National Union of Students (NUS), that promises to eradicate racism and hatred has been hailed by those that promote ideas based on both racism and hatred. » Radical conclusions from Powershift

RESISTANCE!, UNITED STATES I attended Powershift 2009, which brought 10,000 young people together in Washington DC to demand serious action on climate change, and have a few observations to make about the North American youth climate movement. » One more week of capitalist economic squalor

OUR COMMON CAUSE, AUSTRALIA Last week one big economic news story and two small stories exposed the mad squalor of the profit system under which we live. » Can biochar help stop climate change?

AUSTRALIA Biochar production has been the object of considerable research and experimentation in Australia. » How to tackle climate change — the Maldives example

The tiny Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives will become carbon-neutral within 10 years. This was the pledge made by Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed on March 15. » Wage justice for low-paid workers

AUSTRALIA The federal ALP government, in league with employer organisations and conservative economists, wants workers — in particular the lowest paid and most vulnerable — to pay for the economic downturn. » Any rev left in Kev’s ‘education revolution’?

AUSTRALIA Two reviews present the Rudd government with opportunities to readjust the policy settings of post-secondary education and determine its future funding arrangements. » ILO slams Rudd

AUSTRALIA In its latest Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations, released in 2009, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) has called on the federal government to suspend the operations of the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) and compl... » PSA pioneer farewelled

AUSTRALIA One hundred people gathered on March 17 at the Wollongong City Diggers Club to celebrate the life of NSW Public Service Association (PSA) activist Anne Meehan who passed away on March 12 after a long illness. » Rudd promises to stay in Afghanistan for ’long haul’

AUSTRALIA Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, in Washington last week to meet US President Barack Obama, made clear the ALP government’s support for the US’s wars overseas. The Australia-US war alliance is as strong as ever, he declared. » Jailed over a $77 speeding ticket

On March 20, former federal court judge Marcus Einfeld was sentenced to three years jail, with a non-parole period of two years, for trying to get out of a speeding fine. »


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