With 44.9% of the valid votes cast, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, wife of President Nestor Kirchner, won Argentina鈥檚 October 28 presidential election. Fernandez was backed by her husband鈥檚 Front for Victory (FPV) party, still formally a faction within the Peronist (nationalist-populist) Justicialist Party (PJ).
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Resistance stands in solidarity with the Pakistani people fighting for democracy and the removal of the Musharraf regime. Thousands of people have defied the ban on demonstrations to protest against 聯emergency rule聰 and the dictatorial regime.
Over the last few weeks, thousands of intellectuals from different political, philosophical, and religious backgrounds from around the world have mobilised to speak up in defence of Cuba.
I tell them 聯turn on the water聰
I tell 聮em 聯turn on the heat聰
Tells me 聯All you ever do is complain聰
Then they search the place when I聮m not here
But we can, you know we can
Let聮s lynch the landlord man
聴 Dead Kennedys
I tell 聮em 聯turn on the heat聰
Tells me 聯All you ever do is complain聰
Then they search the place when I聮m not here
But we can, you know we can
Let聮s lynch the landlord man
聴 Dead Kennedys
In a striking piece of political theatre, on November 5 federal workplace ogre Joe Hockey promised to resign from a re-elected Howard ministry if the government changed Work Choices (significantly). 鈥淭hey can run all the scare campaigns they want鈥, Hockey said, 鈥渂ut the bottom line is if we are making any substantial changes to our laws, then I will resign.鈥
The November 2 British Independent reported that US- NATO ally Turkey 聯has started to impose economic sanctions on Iraqi Kurdistan by stopping flights between Istanbul聰 and Irbil, capital of the Kurdistan autonomous region in northern Iraq.
Les Malezer, chair of the UN Global Indigenous Caucus, which was responsible for drafting the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, spoke to a packed meeting in the Redfern community centre on October 28. 聯Our wealth is that of our Indigenous values: land, culture and spirit聰, he said. 聯Not in assimilation, not in power, not in dollars, not in telling our people what they should do, or running organisations that do the same. Our wealth is in our lands, territories and resources. And the forced theft of these means that there must be reparation.聰
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