Activists from the Brisbane-based group Justice for Palestine picketed the office of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on July 9. The action marked the five-year anniversary of the International Court of Justice decision declaring Israel's apartheid wall 鈥渃ontrary to international law鈥.
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The following is an abridged speech given by Judith Le Blanc, a Native American activist and organising coordinator for the US peace group United for Peace and Justice (UPJ). Le Blanc is touring Australia to campaign against the 2009 Talisman Sabre joint US-Australian military war games focusing on a Peace Convergence Weekend on July 10-12, at Rockhampton, central Queensland. She was speaking at a July 7 forum in Brisbane.
On July 5, hundreds were killed in the East Turkestan capital, Urumqi, after protests by Uyghurs against racism and discrimination were attacked by Chinese security forces.
In the aftermath of Israel鈥檚 brutal December-January war on Gaza, which killed more than 1300 civilians, it is under greater scrutiny than ever. Its attempts to spin its crimes against humanity as justified self-defence are increasingly falling on deaf ears.
Two Venezuelan revolutionaries 鈥 Daniel Sanchez and Heryck Rangel 鈥 will be guest speakers at the national Latin America Solidarity Conference 2009 to be held in Melbourne on August 28-29.
The Victorian state government has been forced to reveal that over 150 state schools have been closed or merged with other schools since 1999.
鈥淭he US Vice-President, Joe Biden, says America will not stand in the way of an Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities鈥, a July 7 Sydney Morning Herald article said.
On July 5, the racist, far-right National Front (FN) was narrowly defeated in the second round of the Henin Beaumont municipal by-election.
Mumia Abu-Jamal is a radical African American journalist on death row after being framed for the 1981 murder of a police officer in Philadelphia. For more information, and to find out how to get involved in the international campaign for Abu-Jamal鈥檚 freedom, visit .
The statement published below was released in December last year by the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee, which unites 17 Palestinian organisations. It is reprinted from .
The coup in Honduras against elected President Manuel Zelaya has made it clearer than ever that rich-country corporate media and their regional media partners deliberately misinform.
A creeping assumption lies just beneath the surface of arguments concerning the disputed election in Iran.
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