This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Palestinian al Nakba (the Catastrophe) 鈥 the razing of up to 418 Palestinian villages and the driving of 700,000 Palestinians from their homes by Zionist forces to create the State of Israel.
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鈥淐lashes with Shiite militiamen flared in two cities Wednesday as a US drone fired two missiles in Basra and US-backed Iraqi troops battled in Baghdad鈥檚 sprawling Sadr City slum鈥, Associated Press reported on April 16.
Clothing and sexism
Anne Horan (Write On, GLW #746) writes that in feminist circles it's a no-no to discuss what women wear and that feminists do not criticise women themselves for wearing skimpy clothing. She states that the argument that
聯The union movement can fight back and grow overall in the next period聰, Tim Gooden, secretary of the Geelong Trades Hall Council, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on April 18. He was responding to reports in the mainstream press highlighting figures indicating a further fall in national union membership last year.
NASA聮s chief climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, wrote an open letter to Kevin Rudd on March 27 urging him to halt the construction of new coal-fired power stations. He also demanded that Rudd implement the Garnaut report聮s recommendations.
ACT police have been given enhanced stop-and-search powers for dealing with protests planned for the Canberra leg of the global Olympic torch relay on April 24. This comes as protests by the Tibetan diaspora and their supporters have turned the torch聮s world tour into a public relations disaster for the Beijing Olympics.
On April 3 Fremantle wharfies stopped work for two hours to commemorate the 1998 Patricks dispute and thank all those who generously and courageously supported the Maritime Union of Australia. Nearly 1500 MUA members and other members of the community marched through the streets of Fremantle. In other ports the anniversary was marked with a one-minute stop work on April 7.
鈥淭he intervention is an apartheid system. It鈥檚 an abuse of our human rights 鈥 but we blackfellas are used to that鈥, Mutitjulu elder Vince Forrester told a meeting of 130 people in Redfern on April 12.
For Mel Barnes of the Tasmania-based group Students Against the Pulp Mill (SAPM) and Resistance, 聯young people have the authority to decide our future聰, and they can inspire others to take action. Barnes was speaking at the Climate Change 聴 Social Change Conference in Sydney, April 11-13, on a panel with other young environment activists.
As the British parliament is discussing proposals to extend its 聯anti-terrorism聰 laws even further, existing anti-terrorism laws have been used to conduct surveillance on a family wrongly suspected of lying on a school application form.
The government of Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner had the first of a series of meetings on April 15 with the leaders of the agricultural sector.
Around 30 adults and children gathered outside Midland Centrelink on April 14 to demand the end of welfare quarantining in the Northern Territory.
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