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1. ‘Our House, Your House’: behind Barcelona’s huge march for refugees

   Oscar Camps, a water safety specialist who went to Lesbos in 2015 to help prevent drownings among Syrian ...

2. Live Blog: Catalonia's independence struggle

   National liberation Dick Nichols independence referendum Comarcas-de-Catalua.gif Catalonia solidarity News and updates Please send all news of solidarity work with Catalonia to eurodesk@greenleft.org.au November 1, UNITED STATES: Declaration of Socialist ...

3. Police throw the book at coal seam gas protester

   Mining Coal Climate crisis Environment The statement below was released by a coalition of groups that held a protest on July 5, disabling a coal seam gas rig in Pilliga State Forest in NSW. * * * Yesterday, in a first for NSW, a coal seam gas rig was the ...

4. Egypt: Uprising takes on hated regime

   did attack the demonstrations in a number of places with rubber bullets and water cannons. But that ...

5. Postcard from Occupy Wall Street

   Economy Frans Timmerman Anitra Nelson New York As a visitor, you quickly realise that New York City is unsentimental. New Yorkers are always looking forward. It’s in the nature of Wall Street. No wonder the Occupy movement started here in downtown Manhatt ...

6. Social change at the heart of climate dilemma

   Environment Simon Butler Two days before a March 23 rally against the government’s proposed carbon price took place in Canberra, Liberal MP Dennis Jensen told reporters gathered outside parliament house why he opposed the policy. He held up a piece of cha ...

7. After Fukushima: Nuclear less popular than ever

   Environment Jim Green A poll by Roy Morgan Research several days into the Fukushima nuclear crisis found that 61% of Australians oppose the development of nuclear power in Australia, nearly double the 34% who support it. The growth in support for nuclear ...

8. Syria needs solidarity, not Western intervention

   Socialism The Socialist Alliance released the statement below on February 9. * * * Socialist Alliance supports, and expresses its full solidarity with, the Syrian people’s democratic uprising against the tyrant Bashar al-Assad. We also condemn the interfe ...

9. Government’s latest attempt at legalised union busting

   bills if the government does not water down existing anti-gun laws. This has diverted the public debate ...

10. Health professionals to be exempted from Border Force Act

    unhygienic, lacking proper medical facilities and often with little fresh water. When asylum seekers need ...

11. Remembering Berta Cáceres, assassinated Honduras indigenous and environmental leader

    the Gualcarque River because it could destroy their water supply. BERTA CÁCERES: [translated] In more ... beings who come from the Earth, from the water and from corn. The Lenca people are ancestral guardians of ... commitment to continue protecting our waters, the rivers, our shared resources and nature in general, as well ...

12. Philippines: People resist catastrophic climate destruction

    Tacloban, most of its residents had still received no food, water, medicine or tents — and the dead were ... stop “looting” — by desperate people in need of food and water. “This is not looting,” the PLM ... cases of bottled water and clothes, and it is a good sign, because people in the community came out to ...

13. John Pilger: From Pol Pot to ISIS — ‘Anything that flies on everything that moves’

    “blocked” — from chlorine for making the water supply safe to school pencils, parts for X-ray machines, ... pay for the entire society's infrastructure and essential services, such as power and water ... lack of clean water, and the fact that the majority of sick people cannot afford treatment, and the ...

14. John Pilger: The secret country again wages war on its own people

    water, power, sanitation, schools, road maintenance, rubbish collection. It was the equivalent of ... from them. The police station was the last service to close. Then eventually the electricity and water ... essentials-- power, water. Community development? Infrastructure? Forget it." The current distraction from ...

15. Malaysia: Urgent appeal for jailed socialists

    on the legs', 'pushed and spat on', told to drink water from the toilet bowl and ... sufficient drinking water and other basic goods such as soap and toothpaste. A veteran Filipino socialist, ... http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=234301723260692 Date: July 9 Venue: Victoria Square, Adelaide (opposite Hilton Adelaide, near the Victoria water ...

16. Climate refugees — the hidden cost of climate change

    the island nations of Kiribati and Tuvalu have been inundated with sea water. "When people grow ... has led to water shortages on many islands whose only water source is rainfall. Important tourism and ...

17. Peak oil: Is the oil running out?

    fewer than 10 in 2003... To build a jack-up rig costs [US]$160 million to $190 million, and deep-water ... fields and can drill in waters that are 10,000 feet deep." These huge costs — which are a fraction ... per barrel of oil from deep-water rigs in the Gulf of Mexico). In his 2003 article "Oil Companies ...

18. Change the system- not the climate!

    — primarily carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the burning of fossil fuels, as well as methane, nitrous oxides, water ... and floods, worse droughts and expanding deserts, severe shortages of fresh water and increased ... eliminate starvation and malnutrition globally, provide education for every child, access to water and ...

19. Bolivia: The struggle for justice and development

    the privatisation of water and gas". "Evo was an isolated and small leader", when this ... playing an increasingly important role. This led to the ultimately successful "water war" in ... Cochabamba against attempts by US corporation Bechtel to privatise water, and the "gas war" in 2003 ...

20. Write on

    disaster in the budget presentation, nor of the overall water crisis, replaced, like drunken sailors, with ... little water we still have, for it's not limitless, is it? Ken O'Hara, Networking for Real ... Exposed that will blow the government out of the water. It's all backed up by audit reports and other ...

21. BOLIVIA: A nation holds its breath

    water supply contract, raised the price of newly privatised water by 400%, and started charging for ... collected rainwater. The resulting rebellion forced the re-nationalisation of the water supply. A leader of ...

22. East Timor after Alkatiri: nation or protectorate?

    "partnership" schemes have made even water supplies unaffordable in major cities, from the Philippines to ... Poor families' access to water or power would depend on their capacity to pay. User-pays regimes, ... months when poor people could no longer afford to boil water. Public institutions, so important in ...

23. 55 years of oppression; Palestinians demand freedom!

    the UN-declared "water poverty line" of 1000 cubic metres per year. They do not have any ... needed Palestinian land and water resources and disrupt the social, cultural and economic life of the ... control water resources, foreign affairs and who can come into and out of their country. In effect, the ...

24. Palestinians fight apartheid

    discriminatory water policy in order to control and enforce the dependence of Palestinians in the occupied ... territories. In Gaza in 1985, for instance, Israeli settlers consumed 2326 cubic metres of water per person; ... to Jewish farmers and denied to Palestinians. Electricity, sewerage, roads and water supplies are ...

25. WORLD BANK: a wolf in sheep's clothing

    capital: telecommunications, energy generation, water supply, roads, and oil and gas pipelines. The WB is ... school enrolment from 93% in 1993 to 66% now), privatisation of its water and electricity companies, ... demonstrated and struck against the sale of part of the country's water supply to a joint US-Italian ...

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