The manifesto below was developed to promote a vision for a 鈥減lan B鈥 against austerity and the assault on democracy by European elites. It has been signed by dozens of activists, academics and political figures, including former Greek finance finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, Barcelona mayor and housing rights activist Ada Colau, former Greek parliamentary speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou, British film maker Ken Loach and renown intellectual Noam Chomsky.
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Venezuela's rate of extreme poverty has continued to decline despite what the government has described as an 鈥渆conomic war鈥 by right-wing opposition-aligned business sectors.
on January 17 that the latest official figures showed about 4.78% of Venezuelans now live in extreme poverty. That figure is slightly lower than those reported in November, which put the extreme poverty rate at 4.9%.
The latest advertisement from Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) depicts the military 鈥渞escuing鈥 Australians from overseas so they can eat lamb on Australia Day.
The Northern Territory has the highest rate of youth detention in the country. The detention rate of young people is six times the national average and 97% of those detained in the juvenile justice system are Aboriginal youth.
Families struggling on low incomes and the environment will benefit from an innovative crowdfunding campaign to install solar hot water systems made by the Earthworker Cooperative in homes. The campaign is supported by organisations such as the Father Bob Maguire Foundation, Aboriginal Housing Victoria and Common Equity NSW.
The first installation of a solar system funded by the "Give Tanks" campaign took place on January 12 in a home managed by Aboriginal Housing Victoria.
Protesters gathered outside the former Pentridge Prison on January 16 to say 鈥渘o鈥 to the planned residential Pentridge tower.
A plan to build a 19-storey apartment complex within the walls of the former Pentridge Prison was lodged over the Christmas period. The proposed residential tower will totally dominate and overshadow the guards鈥 watchtower.
It will also be the tallest building in Moreland. This would set a precedent for no limits on the height of buildings in central Coburg.
Well my only New Year's resolution was to have no hope the status quo would somehow miraculously change itself in 2016 鈥 and it is a resolution that has proven all too easy to keep.
For instance, any hopes that changing the 鈥渇ive鈥 to a 鈥渟ix鈥 on the annual calendar would lessen the misogyny strangling decency in this country were pretty quickly defeated.
Tamils protest for the release of political prisoners. Colombo, October 2015.
When Maithripala Sirisena was elected as president of Sri Lanka in January last year, he promised to end human rights violations by the security forces.
Under Sirisena's predecessor, Mahinda Rajapaksa, it was common practice for the army and police to abduct people and torture them. Some were later released, while others were murdered.
In the past few years, private investors backed by corporate interests such as global banks, financial firms, hedge funds and food giants have bought a huge amount of farmland across the global South.
A History Man鈥檚 Past & Other People鈥檚 Stories: A Shared Memoir. Part One: Other People鈥檚 Wars
By John Tognolini
2015, 160 pages
pb $24, ebook $5
Devastation wrought by the Turkish state in Sur, Diyarbak谋r.
Members of the in a debate in the European Parliament on January 20.
鈥淧otentially the most widespread and globally synchronous anthropogenic signal is the fallout from nuclear weapons testing.鈥
Repeatedly, over hundreds of thousands of years, glaciers expanded south and north from the polar regions, covering much of the Earth with ice sheets several kilometres deep.
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