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national / gender and sexuality Wednesday May 02, 2007 - 20:00 by C Murray
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This is a link to a story published on one of the Women's sites in October 2006, by a Polish activist and rights campaigner. She was delighted with the ability of women to work in unity over shared areas of concern which normally would not be in their political interests, but the results of globalised economy and cultural debasement had made the interests of unity pertinent to all the women who worked together. The image is of campaigners who worked on justice for the dissappeared in Guatemala, their campaign against debasement is ongoing. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Wednesday May 02, 2007 - 14:50 by uachtaran TiT
Following up on Ratzinger's call for immediate debt cancellation of the poorest states on Earth, today 8 bishops of the Catholic Church met with Tony Blair to remind him about what he promised he would do his best to do. You remember he was with Geldof on MTV? Gleneagles? July 2005? G8 of bishops tackles Blair on poverty Tony Blair meets a delegation of global bishops at Downing Street to discuss the promises made by the G8 to make poverty history [Marcin Mazur] "Tony Blair today met a delegation of global bishops at Downing Street to discuss the promises made by the G8 to make poverty history Group of eight bishops from around the world visits Downing Street urging Tony Blair to ensure the promises of the G8 to end poverty are kept" ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Wednesday May 02, 2007 - 12:34 by Terence
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In this article by George Monbiot, he spells out what is going on politically with Climate Change and states that they are aware of the real depth of changes required which they have purposely avoided and instead have committed to much less drastic changes which will have the effect of condemning millions to die. It would seem what he has identified is that the body of capitalism of which the current crop of political leaders are the stewards, is unable and unwilling to make the neccessary changes, because it inherently recognises that this would be a challenge to the system itself. It looks like they plan to somehow muddle through, but unfortunately muddling through this problem is not the easy option it normally is. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday May 02, 2007 - 04:42 by finn
A number of factors have recently formed a conjunction, which provided a new view of a popular ‘reality’. Whenever the flames of the terrorist ‘threat’ begin to wane convenient arrests are made that fan the embers back into flames of concern. Recent police raids in Sydney and Melbourne have resulted in the arrests of two Sri Lankan Tamils; “two men have appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court on terrorism related charges,” ran the intro from one media outlet while another ran with, “men face terrorism charges after raids.” I’m sure we all get the drift but it should be noted that assistant commissioner to the Federal Police, Frank Prendergast, went to lengths "to make it clear that these men weren't involved in any possible attacks on Australian soil.” Well then, what? ... read full story / add a comment |
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