Thousands protest against Israel's terror attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Sydney, June 5, 2010. Speakers: Ophelia Haralgi (Students for Palestine), Pip Hinman (Socialist Alliance), Sylvia Hale (Greens) and Phil Monsour (performer). Footage by Peter Boyle.
Australia
Thousands protest against Israel's terror attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Sydney, June 5, 2010. Speakers: Ophelia Haralgi (Students for Palestine), Pip Hinman (Socialist Alliance), Sylvia Hale (Greens) and Phil Monsour (performer). Footage by Peter Boyle.
2010
بيان من التحالف الإشتر اكى الأسترالى
يدين التحالف الإشتراكى إسرائيل لهجومها الغادر على القافلة الإنسانية المتجهة لغزة.
على حكومة "روود" أن تقطع كل علاقاتها مع القاتلة إسرائيل
English translation below
الثلاتاء أول يونيو2010
تصريح إعلامى فورى من التحالف الإشتراكى الأسترالى
دعا مرشح التحالف الإشتراكى لدائرة "بيرث" ، اليكس بانبردج، والتى يمثلها الآن المدعو ستيفين سميث، دعا الحكومة الأسترالية الى إدانة فورية على الهجوم الإسرائيلى على قافلة السلام لدعم المحاصرين بغزة.
May 26, 2010 -- For
environmentalists, Indigenous rights activists, feminists, socialists
and all progressive people, Latin America is a source of hope and
inspiration today. The people of Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia, Ecuador and
El Salvador, among others, are showing that radical social change is
possible and a better, more just society can be imagined and built.
The tide of rebellion and revolution now sweeping Latin America is posing a serious challenge to imperialism’s brutal global rule. For anyone who wants an end to war, exploitation and oppression, Latin America’s struggles to create alternatives are crucially important.
Australia's leading socialist newspaper Green Left Weekly is strongly committed to supporting the growing “people’s power” movement in Latin America. We are proud of the fact that GLW is the only Australian newspaper to have a permanent bureau in Latin America, based in Caracas, Venezuela. Through our weekly articles on developments in the region, GLW strives to counter the corporate media’s many lies about Latin America’s revolutions, and to give a voice in English to the people’s movements for change.
By Dick Nichols
May 24, 2010 -- Even as the Australian federal Labor government sticks its Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme [carbon trading scheme] into the freezer the climate change crisis intensifies, demanding a response adequate to its enormity. The goal dictated by climate science is annual emissions reductions of 5% from now to 2020 -- the critical "transition decade".
Policies such as a carbon tax and feed-in tariffs have a role to play in reaching that target, but there is no way it will be remotely achieved without a vast increase in public investment in programs that strip back carbon emissions in the key problem sectors -- energy generation, transport, land use, buildings and carbon-intensive industry.
Public investment, planning and oversight is the irreplaceable centrepiece of adequate climate action.
May 2010 -- With the help of Socialist Alliance members in the growing Sudanese
community in Australia, Green Left W
On May 16, 2010, an emergency rally in solidarity with the democracy movement in Thailand was held outside the Sydney Town Hall. More photos below.
By Thai Red Australia Group for Democracy
May 16, 2010 -- Since March 14, Bangkok has been the scene of mass pro-democracy protests. The protesters known as “Red Shirts” have demanded the resignation of unelected Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and new elections. Abhisit came to power in December through the overthrow of a democratically elected government by right-wing “Yellow Shirt” gangs, assisted by the military and elements of the royal family.
Photo from Beyond Zero
Emissions.
April 23, 2010 -- Several representatives from Australia's climate justice movement attended the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held in Bolivia, April 19-22, 2010. They included activists from Beyond Zero Emissions, Rising Tide, Socialist Alliance, Climate Emergency Action Network of South Australia and inner city climate action groups Yarra Climate Action Now (Melbourne) and Climate Action Newtown (Sydney). Below Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal collects some of their accounts.
Photo essay: `Stop the coal rush!' -- people's blockade halts exports from world's biggest coal port
Ship movements cancelled at the world's biggest coal port, Newcastle (Australia) -- March 28, 2010 from jagath dheerasekara on Vimeo.
Photo essay and story by Jagath Dheerasekara
March 28, 2010 -- Newcastle, Australia -- A mass community protest at the biggest coal port in the world, Newcastle, succeeded in preventing coal ship movements all day. Hundreds of peaceful protesters occupied the harbour from 10 am.
ต่อต้านการใช้ความรุนแรงต่อประชาชนและการละเมิด สิทธิมนุษยชนของกองทัพไทยและรัฐบาล
The following statement by Thai Red Australia Group for Democracy was released at a protest rally in Sydney on April 12, 2010.
“At least 19 people have died and 825 injured as a result of violent clashes in Bangkok Thailand, as troops tried to retake areas from anti-government protesters on 10th of April 2010.”
Greens MP Sylvia Hale addresses a rally in solidarity with Venezuela.
"My thoughts on life. `The thoughts of Chairman Chicka', they could be called. I believe every woman of this planet is my sister. I believe every man on this planet is my brother. Like all Kooris [Indigenous people] I know the earth is my mother. We must learn to share with those three. If the rest of the world could adopt that philosophy of caring and sharing, there would be no wars. But most importantly, there would be no starving children." -- the late Charles "Chicka" "the Fox" Dixon, speaking at the Australian Museum, in December 2003.