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  • ‘Stop mining Straddie’

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    “Save Straddie: National park, not mining”, was the main banner displayed outside the Queensland Supreme Court building on March 26, as Friends of Stradbroke Island, other conservation organisations and Indigenous residents of the island protested against moves to establish an industry to quarry and remove sand from the island.

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  • Arabs and the Holocaust

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Pro-Palestinian Marxist Gilbert Achcar, who grew up in Lebanon, is a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. The English translation of his book, The Arabs and the Holocaust, will be published in April 2010 by Metropolitan, New York.

    French weekly Politis interviewed Achcar on February 18.

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  • Indigenous activist to run for Senate

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    BRISBANE — On March 23, Sam Watson was preselected to lead the Socialist Alliance Senate team for Queensland in the upcoming federal elections.

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  • Methane escaping from Arctic seafloor

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Arctic researchers have found vast amounts of methane — a powerful greenhouse gas — are leaking from the seabed off the East Siberian coast. This is the first time a study has found so much methane escaping into the atmosphere from the ocean.

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  • Melanesian activists: ‘It’s our land, not my land’

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Two Melanesian activists are currently touring Australia to promote their campaigns against land privatisation through the Asia-Pacific region.

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  • Greece: A tradition of revolt

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    In every corner of Greece, popular anger over the government’s latest neoliberal assault on job security, pensions and social services has lead to a series of general strikes involving hundreds of thousands of militant workers.

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  • Eyewitness to Nepal’s revolution (with video)

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Ben Peterson is an activist with the socialist youth organisation Resistance and the Socialist Alliance who spent four-and-half-months in Nepal last year.

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  • Black deaths in custody: a deadly emerging pattern

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    In what is emerging as a deadly pattern in Western Australia, a 39-year-old Aboriginal prisoner died tragically in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital on March 22, after laying for several days in a brain-dead state.

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  • Aboriginal passports for Merak refugees

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    The following is a statement from the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria).

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  • Venezuela election brigade planned

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Australians are being invited to join a special delegation to Venezuela this September to witness an important event for the country’s pro-poor Bolivarian revolution.

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  • Labor: friends with Israel despite ‘passport affair’

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Just in case anybody thought the episode involving mild criticism from Labor parliamentary leaders over Israeli involvement in forging Australian passports was going to lead to a change in Australia's craven support for Israeli apartheid, foreign minister Stephen Smith has put the record straight.

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  • Council to remove only legal graffiti wall

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Newcastle City Council voted on March 16 to close down the South Newcastle Beach legal graffiti wall. This is Newcastle’s sole legal graffiti wall. The only vote against the motion was from Greens councillor Michael Osborne.

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  • Venezuela: Another socialist activist killed

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    Jorge Enrique Medina Delgado, a member of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), was assassinated on March 17 in San Antonio del Tachira in the opposition-controlled state of Tachira.

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  • Mark Steel: The hypocrisy of the anti-union brigade

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    BRITAIN: Hypocrisy of anti-union brigade

    Over March 22-24, British Airways cabin crew staged a three-day strike over the refusal of BA management to negotiate a reasonable long-term pay offer. A second round of strikes was scheduled to begin on March 27.

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  • Homophobia’s got to go!

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Sun, 2010-03-28

    On March 20, 500 equal marriage rights activists rallied in Sydney once more as part of the 2010 National Year of Action for marriage equality. Ten speakers from diverse political and personal backgrounds addressed a loyal crowd eager to share in their stories and views.

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