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Headlines from GLW #757, 9 July 2008:


'Thou shalt not protest'
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 5 July 2008
In Sydney, for the month of July, you can be arrested and charged $5500 for causing “annoyance” or “inconvenience” to others (but mainly to the pope, or his supporters) in more than 600 places across Sydney — including railway stations, schools and tourist icons, such as the Harbour Bridge. »

Colombia: Behind the freeing of Betancourt
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008
COLOMBIA: On July 2, an operation by the Colombian military succeeded in freeing French-Colombian citizen Ingrid Betancourt from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who had held her prisoner since 2002. Betancourt was the highest-profile FARC-held prisoner and the action, which also liberated 14 other prisoners, captured world headlines. »

Labor to force Aborigines off their land
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 5 July 2008
On June 21, Indigenous affairs minister Jenny Macklin announced that her government would begin to end funding for infrastructure to remote Northern Territory (NT) Aboriginal communities that she deemed were “economically unviable”. This is the Rudd Labor government’s first major attack on Aboriginal land rights since taking power. »

Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 Fighting Fund: Precarious times
GENERAL, 5 July 2008

Climate change and the Troll Rupert
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 5 July 2008
In Scandinavian folklore, a troll is a bogeyman. In the jargon of the Internet, it is someone who posts false and provocative information. »

Garnaut and the science of climate change
COMMENT & ANALYSIS, 6 July 2008

Bolivia: Making the oligarchs cry
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008
In full campaign mode, as Bolivia prepares to go to the polls again on August 10 to decide the fate of the president and nine departmental prefects [state governors] in recall referendums, Bolivia’s left-wing indigenous President Evo Morales took time out to speak exclusively to Argentinian journalist Pablo Stefanoni in the presidential palace. »

AMWU pledges action on climate change, solidarity with Venezuela
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 5 July 2008

Resistance 2008: Together we can change the world
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 5 July 2008
More than 200 people from across Australia turned anger into action at the Resistance National Conference, held in Sydney from June 27-29. Activists met to discuss everything from revolutions in Latin America to the next steps in the climate change campaign. »

From GLW paper edition #757 - 9 July 2008. Subscribe now.



Other Headlines


James Hansen’s struggle to tell the truth
REVIEW, 5 July 2008
Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen & the Truth of Global Warming
By Mark Bowen
Dutton, 2008
324 pages, $49.95 (hb) »

From triumph to torture
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008
Two weeks ago, I presented a young Palestinian, Mohammed Omer, with the 2008 Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. »

Class struggle, not the market, to save the planet
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008
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 Green Left Weekly Social Change — Climate Change conference held in Sydney in April. »

Malaysian socialists warn of military takeover threat
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008

Pakistan: Workers’ power in Faisalabad
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008

Top climate scientist accuses oil execs of crimes against humanity
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008

Afghanistan: More chaos and more troops
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008

Zimbabwe: Resisting Mugabe’s reign of terror
INTERNATIONAL NEWS, 5 July 2008

Global warming: `We need emergency action now!'
AUSTRALIAN NEWS, 6 July 2008
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. »

Also in #757:


read »International News

  • Afghanistan: More chaos and more tr...
  • Bolivia: Making the oligarchs cry
  • Bolivia: US subversives expelled
  • Burma chronology
  • Burma: Waiting for Suu Kyi
  • Class struggle, not the market, to ...
  • Colombia: Behind the freeing of Bet...
  • Corporations doing business with Bu...
  • From triumph to torture
  • India: Nation-wide protests against...
  • India: Nation-wide protests against...
  • Indonesian workers demand cancellat...
  • Iraq sues AWB
  • Malaysian socialists warn of milita...
  • Pakistan: Workers’ power in Fa...
  • Peru: Miners win despite repression...
  • Top climate scientist accuses oil e...
  • United States: New dispute looms as...
  • Venezuela: Mining stopped in forest...
  • Zimbabwe: Resisting Mugabe’s r...

    • read »Comment & Analysis

  • Climate change and the Troll Rupert...
  • Defend Noel Washington! No to ABCC ...
  • Garnaut and the science of climate ...
  • Labor to force Aborigines off their...
  • One solar-powered bus is not enough...
  • Pope visit: 'Have an enjoyable expe...
  • The Piper Alpha disaster: lessons f...
  • Letters: Letters to the edit...
  • Resistance!: Resistance's vi...
  • Our Common Cause: Our Common...

    • read »General

  • Green Left Weekly’s $250,000 Figh...

    • read »Australian News

  • AMWU pledges action on climate chan...
  • CSR sugar: not so sweet
  • Four crane drivers face ABCC
  • Global warming: `We need emergency ...
  • Indigenous people ripped off by dod...
  • Inspiration from Venezuela 'brigadi...
  • Lawyer: 'Howard wanted Haneef to be...
  • NSW public sector 'day of action' f...
  • NSW teachers continue campaign on s...
  • Nurses vote on new award
  • Opposition to desal plant grows
  • Rail workers vote for action
  • Resistance 2008: Together we can ch...
  • Truckies to stage national strike
  • 'Thou shalt not protest'

    • read »Cultural Dissent

  • Review: James Hansen’s str...
  • David Rovics: 'folk' with a message...
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