Just over a week into the December 7-18 United Nations climate change conference at Copenhagen (COP15) talks, thousands of people from around the world have already participated in what is being billed as the “people’s climate summit”, Klimaforum09, taking place in the Danish capital.
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This article is reprinted from the Klimaforum website.
One hundred thousand protesters braved near freezing temperatures and took over the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on December 12 to crank up the heat on world leaders at the United Nations Climate Summit (COP15) and demand climate justice.
Federico Fuentes was an Australian Socialist Alliance delegate to the International Encounter of Left Parties in Caracas from November 19-21. Fuentes’ comments are in English, with Spanish translation.
The article below was the December 9 “reflections” column by former Cuban president Fidel Castro.
"Those who are exploited are our compatriots all over the world; and the exploiters all over the world are our enemies… Our country is really the whole world, and all the revolutionaries of the world are our brothers." -- Fidel Castro.[1]
It was no big shock. The Sydney electorate of Bradfield, the 5th safest Liberal seat in the country, remained in Liberal hands following the December 5 by-election.
In this final issue, we at GLW want to thank you for your strong support in 2009.
Tony Hancock: The Definitive Biography
By John Fisher
HarperCollins, 2009
627 pages, $33 (pb)
Pro-choice campaigners took to the streets of South Brisbane on December 2 to send a strong and clear message to the Queensland government that old laws need not die hard.
In 1899, no woman could Vote, but
Some suffered, were jailed,
So today you count!
Women in 2009 are MPs, can be the
Premier of Queensland, but
If any fell pregnant and didn't want to be
They could be charged and punished for
An abortion
John Fleming still rides free
one hundred and seventy years after
the massacre. The plaque set up to
honour the twenty-eight (who were
slaughtered for the theft of a cow)
has been defaced by Fleming who
is still very much alive in Northern
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