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1. Anti-poverty rebellion shuts down Colombia’s largest port city

   public access to safe drinking water; 62% of its inhabitants are without a job; the city’s hospital has ... hospitals with secondary and tertiary care capacities quality and relevant education water and basic ...

2. Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet

   towards a job-safe alternative that could retrain these workers to put together solar hot water heaters. ... hot water heaters with solar technologies and putting them together in millions of homes. Those kind ... sector, for example, in getting solar hot water heaters to be constructed en masse?". Right now, it ...

3. The hidden life of garbage laid bare

   prevent contamination of air and water. However, illegal mixing of hazardous wastes, including medical ...

4. Behind the CFMMEU’s rightward drift on refugees

   indefinite psychological torture camps; denial of medical treatment, food and water; “you will never call ...

5. Behrouz Boochani: 'Manus closure brings tragedy upon tragedy'

   men out. Boochani said: “They don’t give us cigarettes and they cut the power and water in a part of ... few weeks. Manus Island detention centre is on a PNG military base. With the water and electricity ...

6. Trump picks 'actual torturer' for CIA head, proposed secretary of state 'a recipe for war'

   coffins, and forcing water down their throats”. In Thailand, Haspel oversaw the “brutal interrogations” of ...

7. Moreland Council recognises Peter Norman's anti-racist stand

   same water from a water fountain, take the same bus or go to the same school as a white man. There was ...

8. Coal seam gas: People’s power can stop it!

   The NSW Irrigators Council said the policy “fails to protect water resources from mining and coal seam ... Worse, said Stop CSG Illawarra campaigner Jess Moore, is that drinking water catchments are not even ... mentioned in the government’s draft documents. “We’ve got a project approved that risks the drinking water ...

9. \'Clean\' coal fraud — renewables now!

   that any new coal plants built with CCS would use about twice the water for operation as existing ... plants. Water is already a limiting factor in the operation of coal plants in Australia. With increasing ... stress on our water supplies due to climate change and population growth, we can ill afford a technology ...

10. A case for socialism

    UN Human Development Report exposed the water crisis facing the world. It revealed that more than ... 1 billion people do not have access to safe water and 2.6 billion (almost a third of the world's ... population) lack adequate sanitation. The report rejects arguments that the water crisis is primarily a result ...

11. IRAQ: Making a killing: the big business of war

    contracts to repair water, sewage and electrical plants. However, according to the March 29 San Francisco ... criticised for shoddy work in Boston. The April 10 Los Angeles Times reported that at least 40 water, sewage ... Times report, "Bechtel has turned over 20 water treatment plants and 24 sewage treatment plants to ...

12. Agribusiness moves on the Kimberleys

    200 kms south of Broome, suitable for cotton growing and involves massive privatisation of water and ... canal of up to 500 kms to transport the water for Fitzroy Crossing to Shamrock and Nita Downs stations; ... free allocation of water entitlements to WAI for re-sale to irrigators (capital value of $ 600 million ...

13. US tries to frame Cuba

    planes had been shot down over international waters. US officials themselves had requested permission for ... the US Coast Guard to enter Cuban waters to help in the search and recovery of bodies and debris from ... the downed planes. "We have ample material recovered in our waters", he stated, "and ...

14. Community movements in Nicaragua

    else such as water and electricity. They have a community movement, and projects have been organised ... taps but water flows only two hours each week, and the river is contaminated with cholera and other ... disease. To help solve the health problems caused by water contamination, the community organised 25 ...

15. Tsunami victims abandoned by government

    the water. The houses and streets started right on the beach and went back for some 300 metres. ... a 20-metre wall of water as they swept up the Nicaraguan coast. Reaching up to 600 metres inland, the waves ... children. Survivors tell of infants being snatched from their arms by the rushing water. People also speak ...

16. Where have all the frogs gone?

    are born of eggs laid in water, eggs not protected by a leathery or hard shell. Thus amphibians start ... the water; during later stages, they live partly in water and partly on land. Thus they ... western US, agriculture uses 80-90% of available water. Recently, 31 of 50 states, plus the Virgin Islands ...

17. Janis Joplin: She wouldn’t bend or break

    a conservative family in a Texas back-water, she discovered early that she was different. Her sexual feelings ...

18. Agricultural experts urge a halt to Shenhua coalmine

    doesn’t work like that. Underground water doesn’t work like that. “Premier Berejiklian must stop this mine ...

19. New evidence of systemic impoverishment of Africa

    Ecosystem Services” (WAVES). Zambian forests, wetlands, farmland and water resources were  considered  the ... perhaps  not water  in this climate-catastrophic city) with the world’s most aggressive mining bosses and ...

20. Victorian Environment Protection Authority is failing on climate change

    water, but they are allowing climate polluters to dump unlimited amounts of greenhouse gases into our ...

21. Change the Rules campaign must eradicate anti-union laws

    election or relying on endless social media content, will see a watered down result as occurred between ...

22. United States: Mass protests greet Trump’s Arizona speech

    less-lethal munitions on protesters after someone threw a water-bottle. Phoenix Police Department spokesperson ...

23. Vale Simon Millar, socialist, unionist, activist

    privatisation of electricity, water and gas. Simon and some other activists and artists designed a float with ... a giant puppet of Liberal Premier Jeff Kennett with long arms, sweeping up water, electricity and gas. As ...

24. 1.5°C hotter could be just a decade away

    water equivalent in the Northern Hemisphere under a scenario of 1.5 °C warming, researchers Ying Kong ... Greenland ice sheet. In 2015, researchers looked at the damage to system elements — including water ...

25. Another unexplained death in custody

    locked in jail, abandoned in isolation chambers, denied access to water, toilets and food. They have been ... commission will not be implemented. “We are also concerned that the recommendations will be watered down to ...

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