GLW issue 754, published 2008-06-11.

The proud history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

1972 Aboriginal Tent Embassy at Parliament House, Canberra. Ningla a-Na
Produced & directed by Fabio & Alessandro Cavadini
Distributed by Smart Street Films
Screening by the Inner West Film Fanatics, Petersham Bowling Club, June 24, 7.00pm
http://www.thepbc.org.au or email innerwestfilmfanatics@yahoo.com.au

Israel: Haaretz promotes pro-genocide website

Abridged from a June 2 report on http://electronicintifada.net.

Public transport: tinkering not enough

Hasn’t the Victorian state government noticed that climate change is speeding up alarmingly and that transport is the fastest growing cause of greenhouse emissions in Australia?

Save Fitzroy Legal Service!

MELBOURNE — The Fitzroy Legal Service (FLS) has had it’s funding slashed by $160,000.

Australian News

Qld socialists discuss reach out opportunities

“Under the jackboot of Howard’s Northern Territory intervention, the great majority of Aboriginal people supported Rudd in the last election. Now they feel betrayed by the Rudd Labor government”, commented Sam Watson, the Socialist Alliance’s national Indigenous affairs spokesperson, at its Queensland state conference on May 31.

Farmers descend on Melbourne

One thousand farmers from across Victoria descended on Melbourne on June 3 to protest the state government’s North South Pipeline plan, which will bring 75 billion litres of water each year from the Goulburn River across the Great Dividing Range to Sugarloaf Reservoir. The pipeline is due to be completed by 2010.

Further Australian News

International News

Behind the rise of Obama

“America, this is our moment”, stated Barack Obama on June 3 after winning enough delegates to become the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party.

Putting the wrong ones on trial

There is a trial currently taking place in Belfast that seems to explain plainly how nothing makes any sense.

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

Workers and environmentalists need a new alliance

Like many others, I cut my activist teeth during the Franklin River campaign of the early 1980s. Like thousands of others, I joined the blockades in south west Tasmania and, like hundreds of others, was arrested for my troubles and spent a week in Risdon Jail.

Solidarity brigade fosters links and forges friendships

In a country where the balance of power is tipping away from bosses and towards ordinary workers, Venezuela\'s annual May 1 labour celebration holds great significance. It has been declared a national holiday.

Further Comment and Analysis

General

Change, hope and slippery politicians

On June 5, I joined a suburban World Environment Day campaigning stall organised by Resistance, a socialist youth group in Australia.

Cultural Dissent

Oil industry mayhem

Rural Impact!: What to expect from the gas industry & how to address it
Documentary by Aurielle Andhara & Bill Sitkin
Two Cent Films & Crestone Media
crestonemedia@gmail.com

On the box

Yossi & Jagger — Two young male officers in the Israeli army are deeply in love with each other, but both have different perceptions about their relationship. SBS, Saturday, June 14, 1.20am. Embassy Days: Part 2 — Follows the confrontations in

Further Cultural Dissent

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Capitalism’s obscenities are unacceptable

Above: GetUp! released video showing professional climate change denier "Lord" Christopher Monkton advising a room full of mining executives on how the industry must gain control of Australia's media. This week mining billionaire Gina Rinehart became the largest shareholder in the Fairfax media conglomerate, having already bought a stake in Channel Ten.