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The publication of school league tables has profound negative consequences for students, teachers and parents. League tables are misleading, inaccurate, damaging, demoralising and unnecessary. Show your opposition to school league tables and demand that our State and Federal representatives do their job and protect students from the harm they cause.
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Forum organised by the NTEU with the LHMU & NSW Teachers’ Federation on climate change and the trade union movement. Speakers: Jeremy Kerbel (LHMU), Lynn Takayama (NSWTF), Helen Masterman-Smith (NTEU). Location: NSW Teachers’ Federation Meeting Room 2, Level 1, 23-33 Mary St., Surry Hills
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Syndicated from CCPA on Tue, 2010-05-04
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On April 23rd, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed SB1070 into law, giving local and state police broad power to detain suspected illegal immigrants...
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Syndicated from Libcom on Tue, 2010-05-04
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by Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent, and Ed Pilkington in New Orleans
The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico set off a political backlash against the oil industry today, with a demand for a ban on future offshore drilling.
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Syndicated from Libcom on Tue, 2010-05-04
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In Copenhagen, members of Libertarian Socialists marched with the autonomous left
demonstration (estimated at about 4,000-5,000 strong) through the city. The main theme of
the demo was against state repression of social movements with slogans such as 'When
Injustice Becomes Law, Resistance Becomes a Duty' and 'We are all Anti-fascists'.
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Five men are reported to have been arrested by
security officials in Pakistan, in connection with Saturday's attempted
car bombing in New York City's Times Square.
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The social opposition which turned Taksim Square and the surrounding area into hell in the
1th Mays of 2007-2008-2009 is almostly faded when the state opened the Square after 32
years. In the past three years, we- the anarchists who managed to convert the streets of
Istanbul to resistance area, are far from feeling surprise.
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<p>On May 1st in Asheville, North Carolina, a dozen people were arrested in conjunction with May Day activities. They were ...
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I've spent the last two days at the Institute for the Future's Ten-Year Forecast retreat in Sausalito, CA...At this retreat, I introduced ideas relating to peak net energy, and the possibility of major changes in the years ahead. I found industry leaders much more open than I had expected to listening to and understanding our energy predicament, and talking about what may be ahead.
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Senator Levin pretty much had Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein dead in a casket with that now-notorious email from GS's head of sales and trading, Tom Montag, describing one of their billion-dollar investment "products" as "one shitty deal." Levin seemed to delight in crossing the boundary into the realm of the unspeakable, knowing that even the so-called "family" newspapers and cable TV networks
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