Publication: Green Left Weekly

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Don’t frack the Northern Territory

Delegates arriving at the Australia-China Minerals Investment Summit in Darwin on May 17 were met with about 20 protesters. The group had a strong message for those going into the convention centre: “Stop uranium mining, lock the gates on shale oil and ... [Published Green Left Weekly - 23 mins ago]

Entities: Shale Gas, Adam Giles, Protesters

First reported 23 mins ago - Updated 23 mins ago - 1 reports

Hugo Chávez Frías

Join the Australian solidarity brigade to Venezuela

Registrations are now open for the Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network’s (AVSN) next brigade to revolutionary Venezuela. The solidarity tour, to run over December 4-13 this year, will be a special one for the AVSN, the first since the election of President ... [Published Green Left Weekly - 23 mins ago]

Entities: Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, Fuentes, Sustainable Development, Nicolas Maduro

First reported 23 mins ago - Updated 23 mins ago - 1 reports

ASIO backs down on refugee assessment

The Tamil Refugee Council released this statement on May 22***The decision to release Tamil widow, Manokala, and her six-year-old son, Ragavan, from indefinite detention was a welcome move, and opens up many questions about ASIO’s adverse security assessments, ... [Published Green Left Weekly - 23 mins ago]

Entities: Refugees, Mark Dreyfus, Custody, Threat, Traitors

First reported 23 mins ago - Updated 23 mins ago - 1 reports

PM should say: ‘I do’ to equal marriage rights

This is a speech by Peter Boyle, the Socialist Alliance candidate for Sydney, at a rally for equal marriage rights in Sydney on May 25.***Let me begin by acknowledging that we are gathering here today on stolen Aboriginal land, the land of the Gadigal ... [Published Green Left Weekly - 23 mins ago]

Entities: Socialist Alliance (AU), Labor, Australia

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Monsanto Company

Brisbane to join global March against Monsanto

March Against Monsanto Brisbane said that on May 25, hundreds of people will gather to protest as part of a global day of action for “March Against Monsanto”. The global event is being held in more than 49 countries with more than 370 events and 2 million ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 24 2013]

Entities: Brisbane (Australia), Monsanto Company, Genetically Modified Foods, Queensland Greens, Griffith University

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

WikiLeaks cables dismantle Labor's Iraq withdrawal spin

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd fulfilled his campaign pledge to withdraw Australian “combat” forces from Southern Iraq on June 2008. Rudd used the occasion to condemn former Prime Minister John Howard for joining the war, but US diplomatic cables ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 23 2013]

Entities: Iraq, Combat Forces, Australian Government

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

RMIT University

Film screening: 5 Broken Cameras, A fundraiser for Students for Palestine.

The first Palestinian film to be nominated for an Oscar, '5 Broken Cameras' is an extraordinary work of both cinematic and political activism. '5 Broken Cameras' highlights the type of atrocities that relationships like this contribute to and raises awareness ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 23 2013]

Entities: Fundraising, RMIT University

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Socialist Alliance: Nationalise Ford to save jobs

Re-tool the car industry for public transport vehicles and renewable energy.The Socialist Alliance released this statement on May 23.***Ford's announcement that it will close its last vehicle manufacturing plants in Australia — in Geelong and Broadmeadows ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 23 2013]

Entities: Socialist Alliance (AU), Renewable Energy, Geelong (Australia)

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Bolivia earns $16 billion since nationalising energy

Bolivia has earned more than US$16 billion from the energy industry since President Evo Morales nationalised the sector in 2006, Spanish newsagency EFE reported government officials as saying.EFE reported that hydrocarbons minister Juan Jose Sosa said: ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 21 2013]

Entities: Bolivia, YPFB, Evo Morales (Bolivia)

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Western Sahara: The UN remains 'blind, deaf and dumb'

After 40 years of struggle, in the place known as “Africa's last colony”, human rights abusers continue to be given a free hand by the international community.As Western Sahara's independence movement, the Polisario Front, commemorated four decades of ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 20 2013]

Entities: Western Sahara, Human Rights, United Nations, Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-H...

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Pakistan: Elections a win for the right

A right-wing wave swept Pakistan in the May 11 general elections. At the federal level, the conservative Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) will form the government having won 35% of the vote.Former Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan's party, Pakistan ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 20 2013]

Entities: Pakistan People's Party, Elections, Religion, Pakistan

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Venezuela’s transitions debated

About 100 people packed into the Gaelic Club on May 10 for the Politics in the Pub forum: "Venezuela — A New Democracy or a Command Capitalist State?" Speakers were Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions co-author Federico Fuentes and Latin American studies ... [Published Green Left Weekly - May 20 2013]

Entities: Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frías, Fuentes

Quotes

"The trade union movement should stop tailing behind the Lib-Lab bi-partisan policy of subsidising car company profits. Instead, the unions should demand that the public's money be invested protecting jobs and building a just and the environmentally sustainable future."

Socialist Alliance: Nationalise Ford to save jobs [Published Green Left Weekly - May 23 2013]

Fuentes said: "While not yet a new democracy, Venezuela today represents the site of a profound ongoing revolution, which has not only rolled back neoliberalism, but also begun laying the necessary foundations for any serious project of transition or transformation towards a new democracy, one which Venezuelans have chosen to call 21st century socialism."

Venezuela’s transitions debated [Published Green Left Weekly - May 20 2013]

"This year we face the second-largest revenue write-down since the Great Depression" he said. The revenue write down was $17 billion. Over four years it is estimated to reach $60 billion

Labor paves the way for Coalition's cuts [Published Green Left Weekly - May 18 2013]

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