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  • Can capitalism fix the climate?

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Albert Einstein defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It has taken capitalism about 250 years to generate enough waste and pollution to press dangerously against nature’s limits. With such a damning record, there should be no grounds to expect a different outcome in the future.

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  • What was really said at intervention consultations

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    This Is What We Said: Australian Aboriginal People Give Their Views on the Northern Territory Intervention.
    Compiled & published by ‘concerned Australians’
    71 pages, hard cover with Aboriginal cover design, $15

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  • The power of ordinary solidarity

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    < STRONG>Ordinary Courage: My Journey to Baghdad as a Human Shield
    By Donna Mulhearn
    Pier 9, 2010
    254 pages, $32.95 (pb)

    STRONG>Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
    By Miep Gies & Alison Leslie Gold
    Pocket Books, 2009
    302 pages, $24.99 (pb)

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  • Real youth income support needed

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    On March 18, the federal government managed to pass its new youth allowance scheme through the Senate. The government’s main aim was to tighten eligibility requirements for students getting youth allowance, so that young people now have to work an average of 30 hours a week for 18 months before qualifying for the benefit.

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  • ‘No more tailpipes, no more smokestacks’

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Resistance’s Zane Alcorn spoke to Matthew Wright, a climate and energy campaigner from Beyond Zero Emissions. Wright is speaking at the Resistance 2010: the World can’t Wait! national conference, which will be held in Wollongong from April 24-26.

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  • Telstra workers rally for union rights

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Telstra workers, who are covered by the Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union, rallied outside Telstra headquarters in Perth on April 6. The action was part of a 15-month dispute between the company and the union members. Telstra is offering a pay rise for a non-union enterprise agreement. The wage increase would not extend to an agreement negotiated by the CEPU on behalf of its members.

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  • Rally calls for peace, refugee rights

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    The annual Palm Sunday peace rally took place in Brisbane on March 28, sponsored by the Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament. The main themes of the rally were: Nuclear-free Australia; oppose climate change; no to uranium weapons; and safe havens for refugees.

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  • Climate jobs, not new coal

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    About 30 people rallied outside the office of Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, Peter Batchelor, to demand “climate jobs not new coal” on March 29

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  • Boycott Max Brenner

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Palestine solidarity activists protested outside a Max Brenner outlet in Newtown on March 31 and April 8 to alert customers and passers-by about the Israeli company's support for war crimes against Palestinians.

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  • Write on - Letters to the editor

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15
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  • We kid you not

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15
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  • The Texas schoolbook massacre

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Right-wing Republicans won an important battle in the “history wars” on March 12 when the Texas Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum.

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  • Thailand: NGOs side with military-royalist government

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Once again the Thai non-government organisations have sided with the military-installed royalist government against the demands of hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy “Red Shirts”.

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  • Palestine: Israel destroys dairy again

    Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Thu, 2010-04-15

    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 Thu, 2010-04-15

    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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