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  • Palestine: Israel destroys dairy again

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    It was not a chemical plant, nor a nuclear facility, nor a manufacturer of weapons of mass destruction. But almost all the rubble of the entirely destroyed factory was covered in white, with white chunks everywhere.

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  • Nationwide convergence against NT intervention called

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    The following is abridged from an April 7 press release on behalf of Alyawarr walk-off spokesperson Richard Downs and senior Pitjantjatjara elder Murray George.

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  • Migrant socialists to run for parliament

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    The Socialist Alliance in New South Wales has added two migrant activists to its list of candidates for the upcoming federal election.

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  • Matty Johns’ free ride back to fame

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Disgraced ex-rugby league player turned celebrity Matthew Johns made his return to TV on March 25, with the “family-friendly” Matty Johns Show being hailed a “success” by reviewers.

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  • Immigration: Australia’s favourite scapegoat

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s appointment of Tony Burke as population minister continues the Australian tradition of playing political football with immigration. His appointment came after Treasury estimates predicted that Australia’s population will grow from 22 million to 36 million by 2050.

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  • Human rights in the prison system

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    The current federal inquiry into the over-representation of Indigenous youth and young people in the criminal justice system, which began in late March, has brought attention to issues surrounding incarceration in Australian jails and detention centres.

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  • Forum condemns Black deaths in custody

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Outraged by the six Aboriginal deaths in custody this year, the Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) organised a public meeting at the Redfern Community Centre on April 9 to tell the stories and call for justice.

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  • Food sovereignty study tour to Venezuela planned

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Ferne Edwards, a PhD student at the Australian National University who researches sustainable food movements, cities and climate change, was so inspired by the social changes in Venezuela when she visited there as part of a food sovereignty tour in 2009 that she decided to organise an opportunity for other Australians to visit and see it for themselves.

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  • Dracula’s Army and war atrocities

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    That the contents of a previously suppressed Pentagon video has come as a nasty shock to so many, highlights the noxious disinformation fog in which Western citizens are cocooned.

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  • Climate activists to attend Bolivia conference

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Australian climate activists will join thousands of other people at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth in Cochabamba, Bolivia over April 19-22.

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  • Burma: Poll boycott planned, Aus trade grows

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Burma Campaign Australia said on March 30 that Burma political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will not register in the forthcoming national election in Burma.

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  • Brother Fox has the last laugh

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Indigenous and trade union activist Chicka “The Fox” Dixon (1928-2010), was farewelled by more than 1000 people in a state funeral in Sydney Town Hall on March 31.

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  • Australian Tamils to vote in referendum

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    The following article is based on a statement that appeared on www.vkr1976.com.au.

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  • West Papua: Land grab to displace locals

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Plans for a US$6 billion food estate in the Merauke region of West Papua has been attacked by farmer and environmental organisations as a land grab that would destroy 2 million hectares of virgin forest.

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  • Indonesia: ‘Our goal is a new workers’ party’

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-04-11

    Ignatius Mahendra Kusumawardhana is the international relations officer for Indonesia’s Working People’s Association (PRP).
    In 2003, Mahendra was imprisoned for two years for “insulting the government” of then-president Megawati Sukarnoputri.

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