There can be no peace, and certainly no peace with coexistence, in Sri Lanka divided or undivided until there is an apology from the Sinhalese to the Tamils for all the atrocities unleashed on them, not just in 1983, but all the way back to 1956, and increasingly so today.
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Below is an abridged call for solidarity from the Korean Federation of Trade Unions against July 24 arrest warrants issued for the KCTU leadership by the government of President Lee Myung-bak, as part of a crackdown on the mass movement against the decision to allow US beef imports. The full statement can be read at http://asia-pacific-action.org.
On August 6, police used water cannon and arrested 167 people to break up protests overnight against a visit by US President George Bush, according to an AFP report that day. The 10,000-strong, according to organisers, peaceful candle-lit vigil was protesting the US beef import decision.
Palestinian refugee Akram al Masri, 31, who was deported from Australia in 2002, has been shot dead in his homeland less than six months after Australian authorities allegedly refused him a visitors visa.
The below article is reprinted from http://tamilnet.com.
South Australian teachers undertook four days of rolling stoppages and community rallies across the state from August 4-7 in an attempt to force the state government to re-negotiate its pay and funding arrangement for public schools and TAFEs. Eighty-three per cent of teachers voted in favour of the stoppages in workplace ballots in late July.
As near as we can tell looking at the historical record, theres been ice in the Arctic in the summer for at least 16 million years, Don Perovich, a geophysicist with the US armys Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, told the August 4 Four Corners program. Arctic ice melt over this years northern summer has been at record levels, leaving the amount of ice remaining alarmingly low.
Fifty people took part in a discussion around the topic Sex, sexuality and the church hosted by the Socialist Alliance on August 6.
Much of the world is fascinated by the US presidential election campaign.
From indigenous rights to liberation theology, Brisbanes third Latin American Film Festival will showcase inspiring films.
Changing Venezuela by Taking Power: The History and Politics of the Chavez Government
By Gregory Wilpert
Verso, 2007
352 pages, $49.95
By Gregory Wilpert
Verso, 2007
352 pages, $49.95
In August 2004, around the same time as the Howard Coalition government banned same-sex marriage, the religious right held an anti-gay marriage forum at Parliament House in Canberra. It was attended by about 2000 people.
The Beijing Olympic games, which began on August 8, are shaping up to be a perfect reflection of our times — taking place against a backdrop of human rights abuses, terrorism scares and under a blanket of chemical smog.
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