Sense of a City
Regard Gallery, 372 Wilson Street, Darlington
June 13-29, 11am-5pm daily
Opening June 12, 6pm
Regard Gallery, 372 Wilson Street, Darlington
June 13-29, 11am-5pm daily
Opening June 12, 6pm
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鈥淓nough of these fools who shut factories and shut schools!鈥 was a chant of thousands of student protesters as they marched on May 18 against the neoliberal education reforms in France. The conservative government of President Nicolas Sarkozy鈥檚 restructure of the education system will mean 11,200 teachers will lose their jobs as well as the cutting of 鈥渙ptional鈥 subjects, such as foreign languages and art.
When one sees a modern city from the air, especially at night, it is a truly awe-inspiring spectacle. The immensity of the project is a testimony to the power and creativity of human beings. However, on the ground and actually living and working in this wonder, things are quite different: the social and ecological problems crowd in and fill your view. The truth is that our cities have always been dominated by the rich and powerful, and built and operated to serve their needs rather than those of the mass of working people who live and toil in them.
@intro =I wouldn聮t want to elevate anybody to inappropriately high heights, but for me, Utah Phillips was a legend.
The world鈥檚 biggest carbon offset market, the Kyoto Protocol鈥檚 clean development mechanism (CDM), is run by the United Nations, administered by the World Bank and is intended to reduce emissions by rewarding developing countries that invest in clean technologies.
The federal government鈥檚 intervention into remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory has largely failed to produce significant improvements in health or housing, an NT health department employee told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on May 29.
The New Labour government headed by PM Gordon Brown sank deeper into crisis after it lost the Crewe and Nantwich by-election 聴 occasioned by the death of the sitting MP Gwyneth Dunwoody 聴 to the Conservatives on May 22.
Twenty-six years ago, Pol Brennan was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner in the infamous H-Blocks of Long Kesh prison, watching his friends die on hunger strike. Today, he is in solitary confinement in a Texas immigration holding centre.
The anti-war movement must step up its campaign for the immediate withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan.
The recent revelation that Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley 鈥 the Queensland policeman who admitted in court that he caused the death of Aboriginal man Mulrunji (Cameron Doomadgee) on Palm Island in November 2004 鈥 received a 鈥渃ompensation鈥 payment of $100,000 from the Queensland Police Service for alleged loss of personal property during the fire that followed, is a major public scandal.
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