Below is the text of the resolution of the
National Coalition for Change (CONALCAM) meeting held in Cochabamba on August 22-23. It is reprinted from Bolivia Rising, .
CONALCAM brings a together the United Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia; the Confederation of Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia; the National Federation of Cooperative Miners; the Federation of Neighbourhood Councils of El Alto; the National Council of Ayllus and Markas of Qullasuyu; the National Federation of Bolivian Peasant Women Bartolina Sisa; and the National Confederation of Small and Micro Businesses.
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Under pressure from Iraqis opposed to the ongoing occupation of their country, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamil al Maliki released a statement on August 25 calling for the complete withdrawal of all foreign forces from Iraq by 2011.
Announcing on August 29 a decree to organise a referendum to be held on December 7 on the proposed new constitution, Bolivian President Evo Morales declared: 鈥淲e must advance in the re-founding of Bolivia to guarantee a state for multiple ethnic groups.鈥
Two international activist boats successfully broke the Israeli blockade on the Palestinian Gaza Strip enclave on August 23.
Fifteen hundred electricity workers walked off the job on August 29, just 24 hours after the NSW cabinet voted to sell off electricity retail in NSW.
A Rwandan judicial commission of inquiry into the role of France in the 1994 genocide, in which around 1 million Rwandans were killed in 100 days, has called for the indictment of 33 high-ranking French political and military leaders.
An international campaign is underway in defence of 21 workers facing trial for their involvement in a labour dispute following the unfair dismissal of nine workers at the Fundimeca fan assembly plant in Valencia.
David Spratt co-wrote Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action with Philip Sutton. The book has been recently published and a review can be read in GLW #764. Spratt spoke to 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Ben Courtice about the need to move beyond 鈥渂usiness as usual鈥 immediately if we鈥檙e to avert climate catastrophe.
聯Archbishop [John] Bathersby must have solved all Brisbane problems of homelessness, of abuse, of refugees 聟 if he wants to focus on such idiotic matters聰, a St Mary聮s parishioner told a 500-strong packed gathering at the South Brisbane church on August 25 in response to the archbishop聮s threat to shut the popular, progressive parish down.
On August 7, the Western Australian ALP government called an early election for September 6.
Teachers in Victoria have been dealt another blow, with greater powers being handed to the Victorian Institute of Teaching as part of a review of the VIT launched mid-2007.
The Business Council of Australia (BCA) 鈥 representative of the 100 largest companies in Australia 鈥 has threatened that its members will be 鈥渇orced鈥 to relocate offshore if the federal government鈥檚 Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is implemented.
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