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Balibo banned

By on December 2, 2009 in Public Policy, Social justice

INDONESIA BANS SCREENING OF THE FILM BALIBO The following statement was released by Andrew Alcock, the Information Officer of the Australia East Timor Friendship Association SA Inc last night: “It should come as no surprise to learn that Indonesian authorities are planning to ban the screening of the Australian film Balibo at the coming Jakarta [...]

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Workers control

By on December 2, 2009 in Capitalist Financial Crisis, Public Policy, Workers Rights

How Workers Run Argentina’s “Recuperated Workplaces” From Global Labor Strategies In a previous post, we described the process by which workers in 200 workplaces in Argentina occupied their workplaces and began running them themselves. In this post we will examine how the workplaces are actually run and how their workers are dealing with the managerial, [...]

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Global Warming and Global Labor

By on December 2, 2009 in Environmental crisis

Global Warming and Global Labor While world leaders play the “blame game” for their failure to negotiate a binding climate agreement in Copenhagen, trade unions from around the world, almost unnoticed, have forged their own common approach to climate protection. http://laborstrategies.blogs.com/global_labor_strategies/ Unions in different countries and industries inevitably have different interests. But remarkably they have [...]

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Water action

By on December 2, 2009 in Environmental crisis

Water Action Coalition at the Australian Civic Trust calls for a Public Inquiry with the Open Letter to South Australian Members Parliament House. The Water Action Coalition (WAC) is a diverse and broadly represented group of concerned South Australians that are calling on all members of the South Australian Parliament to support WAC’s call for [...]

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Deaths at work

By on December 1, 2009 in ABCC Australian Building and Construction Commission, Environmental crisis, Public Policy, Workers Rights

ACTU says: Tragic deaths of young workers must be stopped: call for urgent changes to Insulation Scheme The Federal Government should immediately halt the Ceiling Insulation Stimulus Scheme until there are major improvements to its safety, training and licensing standards, say unions. The tragic recent deaths of three young workers — two by electrocution and [...]

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Greens

By on December 1, 2009 in Environmental crisis

With its sharp right turn to Tony Abbott as leader, the coalition has left small-L liberal voters to back the Greens, sending a message to Canberra, Australian Greens Leader Bob Brown said today. “From human rights to social justice, including issues important to women, support for better funding for public health and education and protection [...]

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