Alyawarr elder Richard Downs spoke at the Prescribed Area People鈥檚 Alliance (PAPA) meeting in Alice Springs on February 12. Downs is a leader of the walkoff protest against the NT intervention at Ampilatwatja.
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Hundreds of grassroots climate activists will meet in Canberra from March 13-15 to attend the second Climate Action Summit. It will build on the success of the first summit, which occurred in January 2009 and attracted more than 500 people, representing about 150 climate action groups.
On February 15, five men who were convicted in October under 鈥渁nti-terror鈥 laws, were each sentenced in Parramatta court to between 23 and 28 years in jail. The shortest non-parole period was set at 17 years and three months.
Aboriginal singer-song writer Ruby Hunter passed away on February 17. Her music dealt with her personal history, Indigenous struggles, and social and women鈥檚 issues.
You may have seen the photo in last week鈥檚 麻豆传媒 Weekly of the right-wing 鈥淭ea Party鈥 movement supporter in Washington DC. The placard he was holding said, in reference to President Barack Obama, 鈥淚mpeach the Muslim Marxist鈥. The article discussed the rise of right-wing politics in the US.
A memorial for left-wing musician Alistair Hulett was held on February 14 at Sydney鈥檚 Gaelic Club.
Bridget Chappell, an Australian solidarity activist, was arrested along with Spanish activist Ariadna Jove Marti in a pre-dawn raid on February 7 in Ramallah, Palestine.
NEWCASTLE 鈥 Forty-five people attended a fundraiser for the Haitian Emergency Fund on February 10. The Haitian Emergency Fund is a grassroots organisation in Haiti made up of unions, women's groups, and human rights activists. The lively crowd heard Caribbean music and a presentation by Stuart Munckton, an editor of 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
The modern queer rights movement was born on June 28, 1969 in New York City.
When the anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson was asked if she was a xenophobe in a 1996 interview on Sixty Minutes, she famously responded: 鈥減lease explain鈥. Now, with the news that she intends to become an immigrant herself, it seems she doesn鈥檛 understand the word 鈥渉ypocrite鈥 either.
Resistance activist Melanie Barnes is standing as a candidate in the upcoming Tasmanian state elections for the Socialist Alliance. She isn鈥檛 running to improve her career prospects or income, but because she wants to get an important message out.
MELBOURNE 鈥 On February 16 a group of peace activists held a vigil outside the Melbourne office of federal finance minister Lindsay Tanner. The protest was the first in a series of monthly vigils aimed at drawing attention to the worsening situation in Afghanistan and to call for the Australian government to bring the troops home.
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