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  • Free speech at Sydney uni?

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

    The following open letter was sent to Dr Michael Spence, the vice-chancellor of Sydney university, by renowned journalist and film-maker John Pilger. The letter, one of many sent to Spence by activists and academics, is in response to a decision by the university to ban two left-wing activists from being on campus (see GLW#831).

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  • Colombia: Army mass grave discovered

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

    In December, a delegation of British MPs visiting Colombia reported that a mass grave had been discovered in La Macarena, a small town in the Meta region, 250 kilometres south of Bogota.

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  • Bolivia: Bittersweet election win highlights obstacles to change

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

    Although final figures will not be known until April 24, the results of Bolivia’s April 4 regional elections have ratified the continued advance of the “democratic and cultural revolution” led by the country’s first indigenous President Evo Morales.

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  • <EM>Green Left</EM> fighting fund: Corporate PR, spin and the mainstream media

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

    A recent investigation has found that nearly 55% of stories in the mainstream media are driven by public relations, or corporate spin. Spinning the Media was a joint investigation by Crikey.com and the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, headed by Wendy Bacon, based at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

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  • Elections 2010: a festival of cruelty towards refugees?

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

    As the Liberal-National Coalition strives to make “border control” a vote-changing issue and the Rudd-ALP government continues to claim its approach is best at keeping the “people smugglers” and the “queue-jumpers” under control, do we face the dark prospect of another refugee-bashing federal election?

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  • Afghanistan: Why the puppet seeks distance from master

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

    When the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they brought a president with them — Hamid Karzai.

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  • Raw sewerage dumped in Aboriginal town

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

    Barkly Shire dumped 3000 litres of raw sewage at the local tip at the Northern Territory Aboriginal Ampilatwatja township on April 6. The township is a “prescribed community” under the Northern Territory Intervention.

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  • New racist attacks on refugees

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

    The federal Labor government announced a moratorium on processing claims for asylum for people coming from Sri Lanka or Afghanistan on April 9.

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  • John Pilger: Have a nice war, folks

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

    Here is news of the Third World War. The United States has invaded Africa. US troops have entered Somalia, extending their war front from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Yemen and now the Horn of Africa.

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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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  • Cruel Treatment of UK refusenik

    Syndicated from Libcom on Thu, 2010-04-15
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  • US Rio Tinto miners demand end to lock out

    Syndicated from Libcom on Thu, 2010-04-15
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  • April in Review, Part I

    Syndicated from Dominion Paper on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Quebec budget decried, Grassy Narrows runs through Toronto, Gaza students petition Atwood

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  • How About a Border Fence Around Oklahoma?

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Thu, 2010-04-15

    <p>Apparently some in Oklahoma believe their state is threatened with attack...by the United States. Didn't we do this way back in the 1860s?</p>
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  • Crash Miami Mining Conference, April 28-30

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Thu, 2010-04-15

    Representatives of a variety of ore-mining multinational companies, international development banks, other investors and ministers of mining who we...

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