GLW issue 755, published 2008-06-18.

Solutions to the global food crisis

Resistance activist Naomi Rodgers-Falk and Socialist Alliance’s Margaret Gleeson led a roundtable discussion with 25 others on “Solutions to the global food crisis” at Northey Street City Farm on June 8.

The doctors of tomorrow

Tim Anderson’s new documentary on the East Timor-Cuba health cooperation program is an inspiration. The Doctors of Tomorrow, which was launched at a screening on June 12 hosted by NSW Greens MLC John Kaye, was filmed in both countries, and documents the human face of Cuba’s profound international solidarity.

Australian News

Government deports more asylum seekers, calls inquiry

A Chinese man, Pang Pang, was deported back to Tian Jing province last week from Sydney’s Villawood detention centre. After he had been placed into State 1 at Villawood — the immigration prison’s maximum security area — he had asked to see his case officer. No-one came to see him for two weeks, and he was subsequently deported.

Protest art censored

While the increasing censorship of art made headlines with the police raid and confiscation of Bill Henson’s work in Sydney, this is far from a stand-alone case of political interference in art.

Further Australian News

International News

Colombia appears before ILO over unionist killings

Below is a June 3 statement from the International Trade Union Confederation. Visit http://www.ituc-csi.org.

US: Penobscots struggle, with Venezuelan help

“The Penobscot Nation is committed to continue our efforts until the fish, wildlife and plants are safe to eat, and the sacredness is restored to the river. Only then will our culture be whole again …”

Further International News

Comment and Analysis

Radioactive Rudd\'s nuclear hypocrisy

On June 9, PM Kevin Rudd announced that Australia would be forming an international commission to work towards the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Something stinks in NSW

These days, the city of Wollongong is famous for all the wrong reasons.

Further Comment and Analysis

Letters

Write On: letters to the edtior

Nuclear solution Zane Alcorn (Write On, GLW #751) appears so overly concerned with avoiding nuclear power that he seems to forget that the real enemy is global warming. Nuclear power already plays a far more important role curtailing emissions

General

Green Left Weekly\'s $250,000 Fighting Fund: No jail for corporate mass killers

I declare a personal interest in this story. In 1976, I worked for a year in a James Hardie factory in Western Australia. We were producing asbestos cement sheets; at that time still a popular building material.

Zaitun 'Toni' Kasim: 1966 — 2008

In the early morning of June 4, Malaysian activist, and one of my best friends, Toni Kasim passed away after an all-too-brief struggle against an aggressive cancer.

Resistance!

Time to take action: Resistance 2008!

Young people today are angry: there are major and urgent problems in our society including global food shortages, a rise in oil prices — which will send millions into greater poverty — and the build-up of greenhouse gas emissions.

Cultural Dissent

The proud history of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

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 at 7.00 pm
http://www.thepbc.org.au or email innerwestfilmfanatics@yahoo.com.au&

Narnia: kingdom for kids, empire for adults

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Directed by Andrew Adamson
Based on the Chronicles of Narnia books by C.S. Lewis
In cinemas

Further Cultural Dissent

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