On September 23, one of Burma鈥檚 longest-serving political prisoners, 78-year-old progressive journalist U Win Tin, was released from Insein Prison after more than 19 years. He was one of six political prisoners included in an amnesty of 9002 prisoners declared by the military junta.
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Newspaper articles sometimes tell so much of the truth that they prompt raids by the Australian Federal Police.
The August-October speaking tour by 麻豆传媒 Weekly journalist Kiraz Janicke has been inspiring students, workers and community activists around Australia with accounts of Venezuela鈥檚 Bolivarian revolution.
Salisbury Council, in the northern suburbs, is a world leader in stormwater harvesting. It is on track to produce 20 gigalitres of water per annum by 2010, just short of 10% of Adelaide鈥檚 total water usage.
Speaking from within the belly of the beast, Bolivia鈥檚 indigenous President Evo Morales announced at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly that the world today is paying witness to a 鈥渇ight between rich and poor, between socialism and capitalism鈥.
Outraged by illegal and unsafe development on the Illawarra escarpment, more than 50 local residents piled into their community hall on September 21 for a meeting organised by Corrimal Action for Rehabilitation of our Escarpment.
Two hundred dollars for the Cuban Hurricane Relief Fund was raised at a screening of the new documentary Salud!, which examines Cuba聮s remarkable attitude to health care 聴 both within Cuba and around the world.
鈥淚鈥檓 a strong believer in free enterprise, so my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention鈥, affirmed US President George W. Bush, in his September 24 television speech to promote the biggest corporate bailout plan since the Great Depression. 鈥淚 believe companies that make bad decisions should be allowed to go out of business.鈥
Former foreign minister in Nicaragua聮s revolutionary Sandinista government of 1979-1990, Miguel D聮Escoto Brockmann, gave the United Nations Security Council a blast in his opening address to the new annual session of the UN General Assembly on September 16.
To lobby or not to lobby? Fortunately for the Australian union movement our forebears in the union leaderships didn聮t spend much time trying to answer this question. Campaigns were more direct and more successful than today聮s so-called strategies of 聯boxing smart聰 and 聯keeping your powder dry聰.
On September 20, hundreds of people converged on Clifton Park in Brunswick to admire the work of talented graffiti artists.
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