The eighth anniversary of the war in Afghanistan has come and gone. As Prime Minister Kevin Rudd considers yet another troop surge, for most Australians this milestone represents just another statistic, another number to skip over in the morning papers.
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High school student Malalai Noori gave the below speech to an October 10 rally against Australia鈥檚 involvement in the war in Afghanistan.
鈥淜evin Rudd, go back home, leave us black fellas alone!鈥 100 protesters yelled as the prime minister sped past in his luxury car on his way to a 鈥渃ommunity Cabinet meeting鈥 at New Town High School on October 13.
I am part of Critical Climate, an Adelaide activist group advocating a 鈥渟ustained mass civil disobedience鈥 response to the climate emergency.
In a September 24 speech to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, economic historian Christina Romer, also chair of US President Barack Obama鈥檚 Council of Economic Advisers, compared the policy responses of the Bush and Obama administrations of 2008-09 to those of the Hoover and Roosevelt US administrations of 1929-36.
It seems Australian hip-hop act The Herd are not the only musicians under attack from conservatives for standing by their principles. In September, the Herd pulled out of a coal industry-sponsored concert in Mackay, Queensland to the anger of big coal (but to the delight of their climate-conscious fan base).
What do a Jewish congregation in the Alaskan town of Fairbanks, the Browniz coffee shop in the port city of Salalah, Oman and a Shanghai primary school have in common?
On October 15, almost 260 Tamil refugees were stranded at an Indonesian port in west Java. They were refusing to disembark from the boat that had carried them from Malaysia and pleaded for the Australian government to hear their case. That evening they declared a hunger strike.
The 350.org campaign has already made an important impact worldwide. The recent spike in official 350.org actions 鈥 now well above 2000 鈥 suggests the number of people who support stabilising atmospheric CO2 at under 350 parts per million (ppm) has grown phenomenally in the past few months.
The Ampilawatja walk-off national speaking tour is spreading the word about life under the Northern Territory intervention and the Aboriginal elders who have walked off their community in opposition.
Socialist Alliance members and supporters gathered outside Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 鈥渃ommunity Cabinet meeting鈥 at New Town High School in Hobart on October 13, protesting against the war in Afghanistan and calling for troops to be withdrawn.
Renowned author and academic Noam Chomsky answers a question during a public meeting in September on the case of the .
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