Just over a week into the December 7-18 United Nations climate change conference at Copenhagen (COP15) talks, thousands of people from around the world have already participated in what is being billed as the 鈥減eople鈥檚 climate summit鈥, Klimaforum09, taking place in the Danish capital.
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One hundred thousand protesters braved near freezing temperatures and took over the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on December 12 to crank up the heat on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit (COP15) and demand climate justice.
The article below was the December 9 鈥渞eflections鈥 column by former Cuban president Fidel Castro.
Federico Fuentes was an Australian Socialist Alliance delegate to the International Encounter of Left Parties in Caracas from November 19-21. Fuentes鈥 comments are in English, with Spanish translation.
"Those who are exploited are our compatriots all over the world; and the exploiters all over the world are our enemies鈥 Our country is really the whole world, and all the revolutionaries of the world are our brothers." -- Fidel Castro.[1]
It was no big shock. The Sydney electorate of Bradfield, the 5th safest Liberal seat in the country, remained in Liberal hands following the December 5 by-election.
It has reached that time of year when Christian churches commemorate the birth of a child in a stable to homeless parents because 鈥渢here was no room at the inn鈥. It is also a time of year when there is increased demand on homelessness services because of, among other reasons, family relationship breakdowns, domestic violence and mental illness.
December鈥檚 United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen were a key topic of discussion at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), held in Trinidad and Tobago in late November.
Thirty-five years ago, workers at the Lucas Aerospace company formulated an 鈥渁lternative corporate plan鈥 to convert military production to socially useful and environmentally desirable purposes.
In September, the Victorian district committee of the mining and energy section of the Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union (CFMEU) adopted the recommendations of the Crisis in Power report written by Dave Kerin.
Rudd's climate cheats/strong> The Australian negotiators in Copenhagen are being revealed as the leaders of a carbon cheat strategy. Kevin Rudd is trying to cook the books at Copenhagen by pushing for a loophole which would allow countries to
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