Aboriginal rights activists marched to Redfern's Department of Family and Community Services (FACS) on Monday 7 November to protest the forced removal of Aboriginal children from Aboriginal families by the child protection services.
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Demonstrators gathered on November 2 in the Colombian capital of Bogata and the US capital, Washington DC, to simultaneously protest outside the International Finance Corporation, the private lending arm of the World Bank, against the shares it holds in Canadian mining company Eco Oro Minerals Corp.
The company鈥檚 sole asset is a mining concession in one of Colombia鈥檚 high altitude wetlands, known as the paramos, which provides fresh water for millions of Colombians, the Center for International Environmental Law said in a statement.
About 300 million children live with outdoor air so polluted it can cause serious physical damage, including harming their developing brains, the United Nations said in a study released on October 31.
Nearly one child in seven around the globe breathes outdoor air that is at least six times dirtier than international guidelines, according to the study by the UN Children's Fund. The study called air pollution a leading factor in child mortality.
Eritrea marked 25 years of independence from Ethiopia this year, but its citizens remain victimised by one of the world鈥檚 most repressive governments.
They suffer arbitrary and indefinite detention; torture; inhumane conditions of confinement; restrictions on freedom of speech, movement, and belief; and indefinite conscription and forced labour in national service.
This interview by John Pilger with Jullian Assange was filmed in the Embassy of Ecuador in London 鈥 where聽Assange is a political refugee 鈥 聽and broadcast on November 5. ***
John Pilger:
What鈥檚 the significance of the FBI's intervention in these last days of the U.S. election campaign, in the case against Hillary Clinton?
Julian Assange:
In July 1915, three brothers presented themselves at Glencorse Barracks on the outskirts of Edinburgh to enlist in the Royal Scots. The First World War was almost a year old, but despite the mounting casualty lists and a growing realisation that it would not be over anytime soon, my grandfather and his two brothers joined up.
FIFA, the world鈥檚 ruling body of football (soccer), has banned wearing poppies to mark the death of British soldiers in war, which has provoked a confected outrage by British media and politicians.
The football associations of England and Scotland intend to defy the ban in the two national teams鈥 match on Armistice Day on November 11. In the editorial below, British left-wing daily聽聽responds to the hypocrisy of those opposing FIFA鈥檚 ruling. ***
Unnecessary Wars Henry Reynolds Newsouth, 2016 266 pages
Australia鈥檚 first war 鈥 the Boer War in South Africa, 1899-1902 鈥 notes historian Henry Reynolds in Unnecessary Wars, was closely bound up with the uniting of the six Australian colonies into a single nation within the British empire.
This conjunction of militarism, nationalism and imperialism was ominous. Australia has never broken the habit of being at the military beck and call of its imperial managers.
On November 4, Turkish authorities issued arrest warrants for all 59 MPs of the Kurdish-based left-wing opposition Peoples Democratic Party (HDP). The party鈥檚 leaders, Selahattin Demirta艧 and Figen Y眉ksekda臒, and several other MPs were taken into detention.
Thousands聽turned out for the Doctors for Refugees marches in Sydney, Melbourne, Cairns, Newcastle, Darwin and Hobart on November 5 and other locations on previous days.聽
Geelong Trades Hall announced on November 2 that Tim Gooden has formally resigned as secretary and treasurer after 11 years at the council鈥檚 helm.
Colin Vernon, formerly an Industrial Health and Safety Organiser in Geelong with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union, Forestry and Furniture Products Division, was endorsed as secretary.
Gooden notified Trades Hall of his decision to vacate the positions in a letter to president Jacqueline Kriz.
Veteran socialist filmmaker Ken Loach鈥檚 new film I, Daniel Blake, tells the story of two people trying to survive under Britain鈥檚 increasingly cruel welfare system.
Many conservatives have claimed the film presents a 鈥渞omanticised鈥 view of the poor and that the harsh realities it depict are exaggerated 鈥 despite a large number of real-life examples similar to those features in Loach鈥檚 film. Below, comedian Mark Steel responds to Daily Mail columnist Toby Young, who said the film 鈥渄idn鈥檛 ring true鈥. It first appeared at The Independent.
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