Less than two weeks after the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (UCPN-M) won by-elections in six constituencies across Nepal, it is facing fresh resistance by the old elite.
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The Aboriginal Deaths in Custody Watch Committee is organising volunteers to travel to Kalgoorlie for the next stage of the Coronial Inquest into the January 2008 death of Warburton elder Mr Ward. The inquest reopens on May 11.
WOLLONGONG聴 Fifty people, many from the local Aboriginal community, turned out to a public meeting called 聯Break the nuclear chain聰 on April 22.
At the centre of the Summit of the Americas held in Trinidad and Tobago over April 17-19, was the only country from the hemisphere not present 鈥 Cuba.
On April 21, SBS screened two documentaries about Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian revolution he is leading. One of them was The Hugo Chavez Show, produced by Frontline, a program on the US-based PBS channel.
The Melbourne Climate Action Centre hosted the launch of the book Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health 聴 Emerging Crises & Systemic Solutions on April 23.
SYDNEY聴 University of Sydney members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) have voted overwhelmingly for strike action in pursuit of a decent agreement with the university聮s administration.
聯Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the end of the Resources Boom聰
By Guy Pearse
Quarterly Essay, Issue 33
Black Inc, 2009
129 pages, $16.95
By Guy Pearse
Quarterly Essay, Issue 33
Black Inc, 2009
129 pages, $16.95
Four hundred Tamils and their supporters gathered in Melbourne on April 23 for an emergency protest. It was organised in response to the Sri Lankan government鈥檚 latest brutal military escalation in the north of the island.
On April 10, Fijian President declared a state of emergency and suspended the constitution. Elections, scheduled for this year, have been delayed for five years.
CAIRNS聴 Residents of the Indigenous community at Yarrabah held a public meeting on April 22 to discuss the Rudd government聮s proposal to scrap the Community Development Employment Program (CDEP) on July 1.
For the annual May Day march in Wollongong this year, workers and the community will march under the banner, 鈥淧ut jobs before profits鈥. Now that our PM has finally admitted Australia faces a recession, these four words sum up nicely a just response to the crisis.
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