The slow initial response from Australian aid agencies to the horrific Haiti earthquake prompted me to organise some on-the-job fundraising for the victims. The not-for-profit organisation I work for deals with homelessness I thought the people I work with would identify with the plight of the Haitians.
824
The following is a joint statement by Asian left organisations in solidarity with the people of Haiti. To add your organisation鈥檚 support, email international@prp-indonesia.org.
Although New Zealand, like Australia, has not been as badly affected by the global economic crisis as the US or Europe, workers are facing hardship.
鈥淲e are human beings, why are we ignored?鈥, a Tamil refugee inside the Christmas Island detention centre told 麻豆传媒 Weekly on the night of January 28.
On January 26, three refugee advocates 鈥 Sydney-based Tamil community activist Sara Nathan, Pamela Curr from the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Melbourne, and Jessica Chandrashekar from the Canadian Humanitarian Appeal for Relief of Tamils 鈥 were arrested in Merak, Indonesia.
The coronial inquest into the fatal explosion onboard a boat carrying Afghan asylum seekers in April 2009 began on January 25. Five people died and many were injured.
Howard Zinn, an activist and author for half a century and probably the best-known voice of the US left, died on January 27 at the age of 87.
鈥淲e have three priorities鈥, United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon told a January 21 media conference on Haiti with former US President Bill Clinton.
The article below is abridged from a statement by the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) on the ending of its seven-week industrial dispute with hotel and gambling company Sun International.
Alistair Hulett died at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow on January 28. The obituary published below was complied by . More information on Hulett and his career can be found at .
On January 14, two days after the catastrophe in Haiti, which destroyed that neighbouring sister nation, I wrote: 鈥淚n the area of healthcare and others, the Haitian people have received the cooperation of Cuba, even though this is a small and blockaded country.
Incumbent and Sri Lanka Freedom Party candidate Mahinda Rajapaksa has won the January 26 presidential election, receiving 58% of votes cast.
- Previous page
- Page 2
- Next page