Below is an open letter from Naser Fayaz, a journalist for ATN TV channel, which has been sent to human rights organisations. It is reprinted from http://asia-pacific-action.org.
The Revolutionary Women of Afghanistan, http://rawa.org, requests all its supporters and well-wishers of Afghan people to defend the brave and freedom-loving journalist Naser Fayaz and register their protest to his harassment by sending letters to the following sources: President Hamid Karzai, president@afghanistangov.org; United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, spokesperson-unama@un.org;
Supreme Court of Afghanistan aquddus@supremecourt.gov.af.
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Internationally, as in Australia, governments forced to promise climate change action have generally promoted market-based carbon abatement schemes, mostly of the cap and trade variety. But can we trade our way out of our climate difficulties? Can market mechanisms deal with a problem of such scale and urgency?
At least 3,000 people mobilized by the Papuan Christian Communication Forum staged a rally in Jayapura on August 4, a Jakarta Post article reported the following day.
With the impact of global warming already being felt, it can be hard to feel positive about the future. However, an August 2 climate justice seminar at Melbourne University provided some positive directions for the 140 people who attended.
Having raised a total of $129,040 for the 2008 Green Left Weekly Fighting Fund, we are now more than half-way to our $250,000 target. Our supporters raised $5440 over the last week through donations and several successful fundraising events around the country.
The following call for a national week of protest action, beginning September 21, was issued by the July 5 Climate Emergency Rally organising committee in Melbourne, and endorsed by the August 2 Climate Justice seminar.
If only 0.3% of the worlds current nuclear armaments were used, it would create a nuclear winter, and the end of humanity on this planet, Dr Marianne Hanson, senior lecturer in international relations at the University of Queensland, told the Brisbane Hiroshima Day rally on August 3. The rally attracted 100 people.
How do we act on the need for urgent action to solve the climate change challenge?
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.
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