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Sri Lanka: Elderly women starve in camps

The article below is reprinted from a May 5 Tamilnet.com report.

Forest camp raided

Sixty police raided a blockade camp in Tasmania’s Florentine Valley on May 3. They removed road blockades so controversial logging of the area can begin.

Malaysia: Police invade state parliament

Police detained dozens of opposition activists, lawyers and legislators on May 6 and 7, as protests erupted around the ruling National Front (BN) removal of the opposition People’s Alliance (PR) state government of Perak.

Nepal: The people resist elite coup

“This is not just a Maoist movement”, Green Left Weekly’s correspondent in Kathmandu, Ben Peterson, said on the struggle that has erupted in Nepal. “This is threatening to become a new people’s movement, like the one that swept away the monarchy.”

Federal Court defends torture

The Canterbury-Bankstown Peace Group (CBPG) has condemned the Federal Court for dismissing Mamdouh Habib’s attempt to reclaim his passport.

Fremantle by-election gets interesting

News that millionaire developer and Fremantle Labor candidate Peter Tagliaferri has been a member of the “500 club” — a Liberal party fundraising group — has mired the Labor campaign in controversy in the final weeks of campaigning for the May 16 Fremantle by-election.

To save planet, end capitalism, Morales says

Bolivian President Evo Morales called a special press conference in New York on April 22. The UN general assembly had passed a motion put by Bolivia’s radical, pro-poor government to make that day “International Mother Earth Day”.

Big business to planet Earth: 'drop dead'

Only 38% of FTSE 350 respondents factored in climate change risks on business practices and reported the risks to their investors, according to an April report from Acclimatise, an English risk management company specialising in climate change.

Venezuela's revolution discussed

On May 5, Nelson Davila, charge d’affairs for the Venezuelan embassy in Australia, travelled to Newcastle for a day of discussion about the history and progress of the Bolivarian revolution.

Nuclear weapons and 'fourth generation' reactors

“Integral fast reactors” and other “fourth generation” nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen.

Peru: Indigenous uprising deepens

An uprising by the Amazonian indigenous people of Peru continues to grow and get more radical in the face of government inaction.

Tax office protest rallies

Fifteen hundred Australian Taxation Office (ATO) workers protested outside their workplaces around the country on May 7.