Nothin鈥 To Lose Zennith www.zennithboyz.com.au If the Red Hot Chili Peppers had injected themselves with a few litres of truth serum instead of enough smack to kill a blue whale, they could well have ended up sounding like largely Indigenous Australian band Zennith. Both build righteous rap and rock on reggae foundations, but Zennith swap the Chilis' dreamy, stoner poetry for clear-eyed political consciousness.
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Having arrived back in Caracas after more than two weeks visiting various rural communities, leaders from the National Campesino Front Ezequiel Zamora (FNCEZ) told us that the bodies of two of their comrades, missing since April 12, had been found.
Jose Joel Torres Leves and Agustin Gamboa Duran were leading land reform activists in the Comunal City Antonio Jose de Sucre, in Barinas state.
Hundreds of Australian Tamils and supporters gathered for an evening vigil in Sydney鈥檚 Martin Place on May 18 to commemorate two years since the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
The LTTE had fought a 30-year-long battle for an independent Tamil homeland in the north-east of Sri Lanka.
In April, a leaked United Nations report said the Sri Lankan government had committed serious war crimes as the war came to a close, which led to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians.
New Coalition premier of NSW, Barry O'Farrell, may be rethinking his decision to slash the electricity power rebate to solar power customers after some of his own Liberal Party MPs vowed to vote against it.
About 1500 angry people rallied at the plaza of Sydney鈥檚 Customs House on May 18 to protest the slashing of the rebate from 60 cents a kilowatt hour to 40c. The rally had to be moved from an overflowing indoor location
Tunisia's interim government has again been rocked by protests calling for greater democracy, transparency and for a 鈥渘ew revolution鈥 to defend the gains of the protest movement that overthrew dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on January 14.
The protests began on May 5 after Farhat Rajhi, a former interior minister in the post-Ben Ali government, claimed that military and political elites from Ben Ali's regime would carry out a coup d'etat if Islamist parties win a majority in the July 24 constituent assembly elections.
The historian William Cronon has been in the news recently in the US because of assaults on his civil liberties and academic freedom by the Wisconsin Republican Party.
This story is likely to be of interest to 麻豆传媒 Weekly readers because of the collision between university research and powerful corporate interests.
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However, Cronon's work as an environmental historian since the 1970s means that he deserves to be read by all those who take an interest in environmental issues and ecosocialist politics.
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The death of KG Kannabiran (1929-2010) on December 30 came as an anti-climax to an eventful and often turbulent life; in accordance with his wishes his family conducted a private, secular cremation within an hour of his death.
For four decades, KG Kannabiran was the most prominent public face in the struggle for human rights, both as a lawyer and activist 鈥 in his home state of Andhra Pradesh and across India.
Palestinians have upped the stakes in their struggle for freedom and justice on the anniversary of al-Nakba (鈥淭he Castrophe鈥), as Palestinains refer to the ethnic cleansing that accompnied the founding of Israel in 1948).
Israel responded with lethal repression.
Live at Babeville
Ani DiFranco
www.righteousbaberecords.com
In recent times, there鈥檚 been some conjecture over the quality of US singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco鈥檚 music.
The much acclaimed, fiercely political folk singer and poet appeared to some to have 鈥渕ellowed鈥 in topic and tone of her work after having a baby and getting married.
The singer鈥檚 latest DVD, Live at Babeville, puts those qualms to rest.
When the 548 delegates to the Seventh National Convention of Portugal鈥檚 Left Bloc came together in a vast sports hall in Lisbon onver May 7-8, they had two big questions to answer.
The first was what alternative should they propose at the June 5 Portuguese elections to the 鈧78 billion (about $103 billion) 鈥渞escue package鈥 negotiated between the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund (the 鈥渢roika鈥) and the Socialist Party (PS) government of prime minister Jose Socrates?
The United States' gross domestic product (GDP) has returned to its pre-financial crisis levels of about US$14.3 trillion. However, this figure obscures a grim social reality.
Fareed Zakaria reported in a May 19 Time.com article that while the economy is 鈥減roducing the same amount of goods and services as in 2007鈥, it is doing so 鈥渨ith 7 million fewer workers鈥.
Zakaria said: 鈥淯sually, productivity gains translate into higher economic output, higher incomes and thus rising employment. That was the experience in the 1990s.
Dressed mainly in black, with black flags and banners to show the death of democracy in Tasmania, 6000 people took to Launceston鈥檚 streets on May 14 to oppose Gunns鈥 proposed $2.3 billion pulp mill, to be built on the banks of the Tamar River.
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