GLW issue 799, published 2009-06-24.

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Iran: Protests shake regime

Since the June 12 Iranian presidential election, and the almost immediate announcement of a landslide victory for incumbent Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Iran has been convulsed by mass protests alleging electoral fraud.

Protest against Vic roads minister

Residents group Friends of Banyule staged a protest on June 20 outside a meeting with state roads minister Tim Pallas. The meeting was an information session about the proposed freeway link between the Eastern Freeway and the Western Ring Road.

One lesson of an awful death: no to prison privatisation!

In January 2008, in Western Australia, Aboriginal elder, highly respected community leader and grandfather Mr Ward died of heatstroke in an oven-hot prison van driven by employees of prisons operator Global Solutions Ltd, now taken over by Group 4 Securitas (G4S).

Afghan feminist calls for foreign troops to leave

“The situation for women in Afghanistan is becoming worse than even during the period of rule by the Taliban”, Afghan activist and feminist Shazia told an audience of 40 people at the Queensland Teachers Union office on June 15.