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.
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.
"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]
On November 29, 50 people attended a forum on Sri Lanka organised by People for Human Rights and Equality, a multi-ethnic group comprising people of Sri Lankan origin living in Australia.
At Christmas time, 1989, Leonard Bernstein conducted a version of Beethoven鈥檚 9th symphony in Berlin in which he changed one word in the well-known Ode to Joy in the fourth movement. "Freiheit" ("Freedom") replaced "Freude" ("Joy"), to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall that had occurred weeks previously
In this final issue, we at GLW want to thank you for your strong support in 2009.
Australian governments, both Liberal and Labor, have had a policy of treating refugees as enemies for at least 20 years. Probably the most infamous occasion was the Coalition鈥檚 November 2001 federal election victory, where the major parties adopted a joint policy of turning back 438 refugees who had been saved from drowning by the Norwegian freighter the MV Tampa.
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.
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