Community members protested outside the United States’s most important foreign spy base — Pine Gap — over its role in the Western-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine. Kerry Smith reports.
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The Tropical Forest Forever Facility, set to be launched at COP30, is designed to guarantee profits for corporations and governments in the Global North by deepening debt and financial dependency in the Global South, writes Ben Radford.
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Blak Caucus called a rally to highlight the urgent need to deliver justice to those grieving their loved ones who died at the hands of NSW Police. TJ Wren and Rachel Evans report.
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Direct action organiser and activist Lilli Barto delivered this poem to a protest, organised by the Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition, outside the Indo Pacific International Maritime Exposition.
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Green Left journalist and veteran socialist activist Peter Boyle joins the Green Left Show to discuss how solidarity can defeat the racist ‘March for Australia’ movement.
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The Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador — the country’s most powerful social movement — ended its month-long national strike against the neoliberal Daniel Noboa government, reports Ben Radford.
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Indonesian security forces killed 15 West Papuans during a military operation in the Intan Jaya Regency. Meanwhile, Indonesia and the European Union have just finalised an economic agreement that gives a green light to the exploitation of West Papua’s natural resources, reports Susan Price.
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Broader alliances still need to be built in solidarity with Palestine, as well as against all racist attacks, which means that movements should avoid tactics that could politically isolate progressive struggles from the people still deciding where to throw their support, argues Peter Boyle.
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Despite all the evidence that we have entered an era of catastrophic climate change, federal Labor is pushing to bring pro-business amendments to Australia’s main environment law. Alex Bainbridge reports.
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Poet, musician and cultural advocate Manuel González has worked at the intersections of poetry, education and social change, in detention centres, classrooms and community spaces throughout New Mexico, writes Bill Nevins.
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Bolivia suffered its worst-ever bushfire season last year. Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide, a new short documentary, focuses on the worst-affected Santa Cruz department, the heart of Bolivia’s agro-industrial frontier. Ben Radford reviews the film.
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Ecuadorians are resoundingly resisting the Daniel Noboa government’s neoliberal policies, despite heavy police and military repression, reports Ben Radford.