Socialist Alliance councillor Sue Bolton spoke to Dave Holmes about her work as an elected socialist local councillor in Moreland, a municipality in Melbourne. This is the second of a series of interviews with Sue Bolton.
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A commentator for the mainstream Barcelona daily La Vanguardia reported on May 9 on a conversation he overheard in a lift between two 鈥渆xecutives of a certain age鈥.
They were talking about an opinion poll giving the radical, movement-based ticket Barcelona Together the lead in the March 24 election for Barcelona City Council.
Executive A: 鈥淗ave you seen that [incumbent Barcelona mayor Xavier] Trias is losing?鈥
Executive B: 鈥淵es, [lead candidate for Barcelona Together Ada] Colau is winning.鈥
Photo: NSW Education Action Network/Facebook.
Students took to the streets on May 12, budget day, to call for free education and an end to the fee deregulation bill.
Two months after鈥 鈥19-year-old Black teenager Tony Robinson was fatally shot by Madison police officer Matt Kenny,鈥 鈥琖isconsin prosecutors announced on May鈥 鈥12鈥 鈥瑃hat Kenny would not face criminal charges over the shooting.鈥
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Madison in the immediate aftermath,鈥 on May鈥 鈥14,鈥 鈥瑆ith more protests鈥 鈥琾lanned.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Particularly when it comes to responsible reporting of Aboriginal poverty.
Last week, Four Corners pointed its lens into a few Aboriginal communities in Western Australia and produced a beautiful piece of promotion for the WA government and its plans for a catastrophic assault on Aboriginal homelands.
Prince at the 2015 Grammy awards: 鈥淎lbums still matter. Like books and Black lives, albums still matter. Tonight and always.鈥
On May 14 a group of 10 asylum seekers and their families challenging the legality of the government鈥檚 policy of offshore detention. The Human Rights Law Centre is running the case on behalf of the asylum seekers.
The Centre鈥檚 Director of Legal Advocacy Daniel Webb, who is part of the legal team representing the families, said the group has been temporarily returned to Australia but are facing imminent removal back to Nauru.
I have never really thought about the impact free education has had on me. Where would my life be if I had to pay to get an education? I am from Denmark. I would certainly not be here in Australia; I might not even have gone to high school.
BLUE MOUNTAINS
Come to a forum, Refugees: Let鈥檚 Do Better on Sunday May 24 at 2pm. Speakers: Dorothy Hoddinott, Principal Holroyd High School; Two young refugees; Lee Rhiannon, Greens Senator; Phil Glendenning, Refugee Council of Australia. Wentworth Falls School of Arts, Great Western Highway, Wentworth Falls. Entry: $15/$10 concession. Get tickets here. Email. Organised by the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group.
MELBOURNE
Following a recent meeting of federal and state ministers with the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figures, the federal government announced that it will publish by mid-year the emissions target it will take to the Paris Climate Summit in November.
However, even if all the world's governments agree to limit future emissions to what would cause the global average surface temperature to rise by no more than 2掳C from before industrialisation, it will not be enough to avoid catastrophic climate change.
Moses Havini, former leader of the Bougainville independence movement, died in Sydney on May 2 after a long battle with cancer.
Vikki John from the Bougainville Freedom Movement said: 鈥淢oses inspired so many people and will be truly missed. The love, dignity and freedom for his people on Bougainville and their right to self-determination were at the forefront of Moses' life.
LONG-THOUGHT EXTINCT FROG REDISCOVERED
The , with its distinctive orange markings on its hind legs, has not been seen or heard in the East Gippsland forest for more than 20 years and was thought to be extinct.
But on April 12, Wildlife Unlimited鈥檚 Rena Gaborov was doing a spotlight survey for yellow-bellied gliders and greater gliders when she heard the frog鈥檚 distinctive call.
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