In a hard-hitting interview on October 19 for Le Mur a des Oreilles, a program on Belgian station RadioPanik, Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri delivered his clearest statement yet of his political commitment and rejection of the Israeli state鈥檚 use of cinema as a propaganda tool.
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About 1000 people rallied on November 11 in front of the US Embassy in Manila to demand climate justice after the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda (as Typhoon Haiyan is known in the Philippines).
On October 20 last year, I did in Chelsea, Manhattan, for the book I had just written called America's Got Democracy!
The joke that got the biggest laugh, which I will now ruin by writing it out, was about how the supposedly 鈥渟tark choice鈥 between Democrats and Republicans around global warming isn't the different things they're going to do about it, but the different ways they say they're not going to do anything about it.
The statement below was released by the Party of the Labouring Masses (PLM, a Filipino socialist party) on November 10 in response the huge humanitarian disaster caused by Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda. Details on how to donate to the PLM's relief efforts at at the bottom. You can also initiated by the Philippines Movement for Climate Justice.
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Let Our People Live! Save Lives, Redistribute Food, Stop the Economic and Environment Plunder! Climate Justice Now!
Jahangir Hosseini has been on hunger strike outside the immigration offices in Melbourne since September 19. He has been joined by his wife and five other Iranians. He is drinking water but is refusing all food.
Hosseini feels dizzy and has lost a significant amount of weight but he is determined to remain on hunger strike until seven Iranian hostages being held in an Iraqi jail have been freed.
Hosseini told 麻豆传媒 Weekly this is his fifth hunger strike.
Young Socialist Alliance and Resistance activists and their collaborators will be heading to Brisbane over December 13-15 for the education conference 鈥淗ow to make a Revolution鈥. 麻豆传媒 Weekly spoke to some of those that plan to attend about what they hope to get out of the conference.
The company responsible for running many of Australia鈥檚 refugee detention centres, Serco, has been accused of ordering asylum seekers not to speak to the media as the federal government moves to deport more asylum seekers to their country of origin.
Asylum seekers in the Darwin Airport Lodge (DAL) detention centre have been subject to intimidation and several have been moved to Christmas Island after speaking to the media.
The Australian mainstream media publishes a 鈥渟ubstantial amount鈥 of articles critical of the scientific consensus on climate change, says . The report has found that Rupert Murdoch鈥檚 News Corp publications have a high rate of climate change scepticism, which leaves a large section of Australia without information on climate change science.
It was nice of former prime minister and spending his politician's pension wisely by flying to Britain to give a talk insisting the threat of climate change was 鈥渆xaggerated鈥.
Howard gave the keynote address at the Global Warming Policy Foundation on November 5. The foundation was set up by climate 鈥渟ceptic鈥 and former chancellor in Margaret Thatcher's government Nigel Lawson.
WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam was officially re-elected on November 4 after an historic recount of WA Senate votes from the September federal election. He and the Sports Party鈥檚 Wayne Dropulich won over the ALP's Louise Pratt and Dio Wang from the Palmer United Party.
Before the recount, a 14 vote difference between the Christian Democrats and the Shooters and Fishers Party led to a preference flow that supported Pratt. After the recount, a 12 vote margin favoured Ludlam.
There is one obvious answer to the climate change crisis that is rarely up for discussion 鈥 the government has to take the lead with a huge green public investment drive.
Unity negotiations between Australia's two largest socialist organisations, the Socialist Alliance and Socialist Alternative, ended after the latter's National Committee decided on October 26-27 that the unity process had 鈥渞eached an impasse and consequently we are for ending the negotiations with the Alliance鈥.
Over the past few months there were tactical disagreements between the two groups over how to advance the movements for the rights of asylum seekers and for women's liberation.
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