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1. Perth Boycott Seacret action

   Palestinians are denied their traditional sustainable agricultural output and any share of the water resources ...

2. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty

   Lobrum, are being starved out by the Australian government, with no protection, food, water or medical ...

3. Filipino left coalition condemns Trump's visit, demands end of support for Duterte's human rights abuses

   to the waters off the Korean peninsula and an aggressive push to sell advanced weapons systems to US ...

4. French Guiana: Workers extend strike, erect more barricades

   locals have no electricity or running water and about one in four is jobless.   The country has been ...

5. Palestinian food and politics a hit in Melbourne

   access to land and water is heavily restricted and the threat of starvation and violence from Israeli ...

6. Israel: Apartheid policies wreak environmental havoc

   desert ecology, water management and solar energy. However, Israeli factories drain toxic waste and ... groundwater aquifers denies Palestinians access to vital water sources in a context of increasing water ... protecting watersheds and managing water flow …[and] balancing the phenomenal growth and development Israel ...

7. Ecuador: Correa responds to 'leftist' critics

   or Pachakutik. These tensions led to a complete breakdown in dialogue. “In the debates on the water ... water law, we were agreed on 80 per cent of the legislation, but Pachakutik clung to the idea that the ... state body in charge of running the country’s water supply should be composed only of community ...

8. Idle No More's relevence to Haiti: Shared hardships bind Canadian indigenous peoples and Haitians

   Act, the Navigable Waters Protection Act and the Canada Labour Code. “Bill C-45 will not be enforced or ... the chronic lack of housing, potable water, economic development and other social woes. Years of ... were deliberately flooded to divert spring, snow melt water from the capital. In a 2006 report, the ...

9. BP prepares to drill Great Australian Bight

   and gas in an area the size of Wales more than 600 kilometres south-west of Port Lincoln. Waters in ... Island. Geologists have known for decades that oil and gas are likely to lie beneath the Bight waters ... exploration wells, mostly in shallow water. In 1993, BHP’s Greenly 1 well, now in Bight Petroleum’s permit ...

10. When Cochabamba said 'Enough!'

    regions water supply — forcing citizens to pay for rainwater they collected — the people of Cochabamba, ... organised through the Coalition in Defence of Water and Life, rose up and booted out the corporation. Many ... this struggle and who continues to work with the Coalition in Defence of Water and Life, as well as the ...

11. PALESTINE: Israeli occupation leads to poverty, malnutrition

    the health and living standards of Palestinians. For example, daily Palestinian per capita water use ... illegal under international law, use 584 litres of water per capita per day. Eighty five per cent of ... Palestinian water in West Bank aquifers is extracted by Israel. Of 300 households surveyed in Nablus, an ...

12. The killing of Lake Baikal

    22.5% of the fresh water on the earth's surface. A striking feature of the lake's biology is ... shallows, and a unique Baikal community found in the open waters. The latter community has evolved over ... millions of years in highly distinctive conditions: exceptionally pure water with an impoverished but ...

13. GATSzilla on the loose

    sewer and water facilities, a service being anything you can't drop on your foot. Those intent on ... the global economy. Health, education and water are shaping up to be the most lucrative of all ... $2 trillion and water $1 trillion. But while the service sector forms an increasing proportion of ...

14. Economic 'rationalism' threatens adult migrant education

    Commission, labour productivity in the water, sewerage and drainage industry grew by 54% over the six years to ... 1992-93 while the number of jobs declined by 25%. The Melbourne Water Corporation reduced employment ... monopolies, consumers will face higher costs for water and transport." There are many examples of the ...

15. In the Malaysian police lock-up

    because the tap in the cells had run dry. In fact there was no water from the tap during all three days ... I was interned. Water was supplied for all through one plastic hose, and this was meant for drinking, ... Because there was not enough water we shouted: "Water! water!" Not long afterwards bottles of ...

16. Greenpeace: 'How to save our cities'

    Tour, which began in Perth in January. Focusing on clean water, fresh air and healthy land, the campaign ... transport, but energy, waste, water and also biodiversity — maintenance of plants and animals." Hence ... at waste water recycling. So, through urban redevelopment would come the opportunity to incorporate ...

17. How the public pays for privatisation

    involved in the campaign to prevent the sale of public utilities such as gas, water and electricity to ... taxpayers, the great bulk of ordinary people who pay for privatisation. In the case of the British water ... are other potentially huge impacts. In Britain the privatisation of water has raised concerns because ...

18. Glencore: Hiding profits abroad, attacking workers and the environment at home

    lead in the air, soil and water. A Glencore-commissioned report found the mine is a source of ...

19. Courage, solidarity amid Qld floods

    impacted the country, but never the city. But on January 10, a wall of water smashed through Toowoomba and ... already-swollen with water released from Brisbane’s Wivenhoe Dam, which had reached 190% capacity. By daybreak, ... of Brisbane most of us had never seen. It was a surreal experience, but what happened when the waters ...

20. Why Mexico’s presidential race is terrifying investors

    election in decades? To muddy the waters even further, it is worth noting there is no guarantee that the ...

21. Syria: Behind the great powers’ games in Afrin

    chagrin of Russia. When the SDF finally gained the capacity to control crucial water and oil resources ...

22. Naomi Klein: We must look for answers to capitalism’s disasters

    left with no water and being forced to drink toilet water. In the same way, we have to think about what ...

23. ‘We are watching’: Refugee activists occupy immigration offices

    Boochani speaks of men digging wells to find water, the fear of locals coming into the camp with machetes ...

24. Queensland election: Vote against the system

    a 3 o C rise in average global temperature by 2100. This would mean major cities would be under water. Adani In ...

25. Refugees say Salvos are wrong about Nauru

    provided” for the men held there. It said: “Three meals and adequate water are provided each day. Food is ... water. They described their situation as “intolerable”. In our phone conversation, the young Pakistani ... headaches: it's very common here. Condition of food is very bad, very bad. Water is OK because we are ...

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