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Global warming: 'We need emergency action now!\'

Five thousand people attended the vibrant Climate Emergency Rally in Melbourne on June 5. Grassroots environment activists and groups came from all over Victoria to protest numerous environmentally destructive projects currently underway or proposed, demanding action instead be focused on renewable energy and public transport.

Garnaut and the science of climate change

Professor Ross Garnaut鈥檚 draft review of climate change policy options for the Australian government was released on July 4, with climate change minister Penny Wong due to release a green paper canvassing policy options on July 16. Garnaut鈥檚 report looks at the 鈥渃osts鈥 and 鈥渂enefits鈥 of mitigating drastic climate change through a carbon polluting trading scheme. It suggests tax cuts and 鈥渨elfare reform鈥 to compensate low-income households, which will be hit hard by energy price rises.

Bolivia: US subversives expelled

Bolivian President Evo Morales has expressed his support for the decision by coca growers in the Chapare region of Cochabamba to expel the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and reaffirmed that he would not 鈥渒neel down before the empire鈥.

Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet

A political economist and activist who directs the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa, Patrick Bond was a featured guest speaker at the 麻豆传媒 Weekly Social Change 鈥 Climate Change conference held in Sydney in April.

Letters to the editor

Against the split in the Aboriginal rights campaign I am writing to protest the actions of those who walked out of the Sydney Aboriginal Rights Coalition (ARC) on June 23 to set up a rival group. This split is damaging to the movement against the

\'Thou shalt not protest\'

In Sydney, for the month of July, you can be arrested and charged $5500 for causing 鈥渁nnoyance鈥 or 鈥渋nconvenience鈥 to others (but mainly to the pope, or his supporters) in more than 600 places across Sydney 鈥 including railway stations, schools and tourist icons, such as the Harbour Bridge.

Four crane drivers face ABCC

Hundreds of building workers took their demand for the secretive Australian Building and Construction Commission to be abolished to its headquarters on St Kilda Road on June 26. The protest was timed to coincide with the compulsory hearing of four crane workers, all members of the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU).

Peru: Miners win despite repression

The following article is abridged from a June 26 post on http://peruanista.blogspot.com. The full article, along with a series of videos on the struggle, can be found at http://links.org.au.

Top climate scientist accuses oil execs of crimes against humanity

Below was posted at http://climateandcapitalism.com.

On the box

A Northern Town 鈥 With a third of Kempsey's population made up of Aboriginal people, the town is a hotbed of covert and overt racism on one hand, and Third World poverty and oppression on the other. SBS, Friday, July 11, 7.30pm. Message Stick:

Pope visit: \'Have an enjoyable experience\'

According to the official website for World Youth Day (WYD), Sydney will 聯look different聰 from APEC. Really? With 600-plus areas now officially 聯declared areas聰, not to mention proscribed airspace throughout July, and officials with the right to decide who is annoying and who isn聮t, it doesn聮t seem very different. If anything, it聮s worse.

Indigenous people ripped off by dodgy census data

Indigenous communities have been underfunded and deprived of essential resources for decades because of faulty census data, a technical paper produced by Australian National University (ANU) academics has discovered.