The Story of Cap & Trade (below) is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at the climate talks in Copenhagen. Cap and trade is also variously described as 鈥渃arbon trading'' and 鈥渆missions trading鈥. In Australia, the federal Labor government is trying to push a variation of this through the Senate called the 鈥淐arbon Pollution Reduction Scheme鈥.
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Twenty-eight-year-old Malaysian activist Sivaranjani Manickam will be a special guest at the 鈥淭owards Justice, Sustainability and People鈥檚 Power: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century鈥 conference in Sydney in January.
A November 18 report by the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) titled Building on Our Strengths confirmed that the experience of racism has serious health implications for Indigenous and migrant communities in Australia.
The deadline to pass the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) approached, and passed, on November 26, with the Senate extending debate on the issue until the week after. The nation's media were transfixed by the spectacle of the Liberal Party annihilating itself over what position to take.
In an interview with 麻豆传媒 Weekly, one of the Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers who have been stranded on a boat at the Indonesian port of Merak since October 11, Sanjeev 鈥淎lex鈥 Kuhendrarajah, said conditions on the boat are dire.
A speak-out against the Labor-Liberal dirty deal on the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) was held in Perth on November 26. The action was organised by the Coalition for a Safe Climate.
On November 26, Paddy "Joe" Hill and Gerry Conlon told a transfixed audience their experience of unjust imprisonment. The event, at the Perth Irish Club, was part of a tour profiling the British Miscarriages of Justice Organisation (MOJO).
Five years ago, Mulrunji Doomadgee was arrested by senior sergeant Chris Hurley for 鈥渄isorderly conduct鈥 and taken to a police cell on Palm Island, near Townsville. Within an hour, the Aboriginal man was dead.
The Sydney-based Refugee Action Coalition's Ian Rintoul has sent a letter to the International Organisation of Migration in Indonesia asking that it urgently intervene to provide medical care to the asylum seekers on the boat at Merak.
A statement of support for refugees has received wide support from left parties and unions in the Asia-Pacific region.
CANBERRA 鈥 On November 23, 130 climate change activists were arrested as they blockaded the front doors of Parliament House.
Socialist Alliance members Kiraz Janicke and Federico Fuentes live in Caracas, where they maintain 麻豆传媒 Weekly鈥檚 Venezuela bureau.
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