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Hear Judith LeBlanc
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Judith Le Blanc, a member of the indigenous Caddo Tribe from Oklahoma, is the National Organising coordinator of United for Peace and Justice, the largest US national Peace Coalition. She is also the vice-chair of the Communist Party of the USA and a long time activist for social justice. She will be touring Australia for a very short time.
Sydney:
Saturday 4th July 7:30pm Tom Mann Theatre – 136 Chalmers Street, Surry Hills (2 minutes from Devonshire Street exit from Central Railway)
Enquiries: 0418 290 663 or cpa@cpa.org.au
Melbourne:
Sunday 5th July, 4pm at the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church 110 Grey Street, East Melbourne
Light food and drinks will be provided by donation
Confirmation and booking essential
For booking & further details,
contact: Andrew 0419 523 886 or Lulu 0421 957 341
or write to: info@latinamericasolidarity.org |
Current Issue of The Guardian
1 July 2009 - click here for index of articles
Right-wing coup in Honduras – Army members kidnap president
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In a coup d’éta the President of Hondurus Manuel Zelaya has been kidnapped by members of the army disguised with balaclavas. He has been taken into exile in Costa Rica from where he has stated he is still the legitimate president and has called on the US not to recognise the right wing appointee. more ...
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Utegate & democracy
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Parliament is in recess but the storm whipped up over “Utegate” is yet to die down. Police are still investigating the origins of a fake email that sought to link Rudd adviser Andrew Charlton to finance arrangements for Queensland car dealer John Grant – a friend of the Prime Minister and a donor to the major parliamentary parties. more ... |
Resolution of ACTU Congress 2009
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The ACTU and the building industry trade unions in particular, have the full support of the Communist Party of Australia in seeing this resolution implemented. more ...
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Who protects workers?
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“CFMEU wins $1.2m backpay” ran a news story in September 2007, and a headline familiar to many workers over years of trade union struggles. But who has seen a headline declaring, “ABCC wins backpay for workers”? No one. Winning back wages from unscrupulous and corrupt employers is not what the Howard government’s Australian Building and Construction Commission does, nor what it was intended to do. more ...
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Pacific trade and the impact on health services – ANF fact sheet
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Everyone has a right to better health and appropriate health care. Around the Pacific, governments should provide services for the immediate and long-term care of citizens (e.g. vaccine programs; public health efforts against malaria or dengue; safe housing; clean water supply, hospitals and health clinics and other services). But access to essential service like health is affected by the trade policies of the government of the day. more ...
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CULTURE & LIFE – An anniversary worth remembering!
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The beginning of July is the anniversary of the greatest tank battle of WW2, a titanic yet short-lived affair that sealed the fate of Hitler’s Germany once and for all: the Battle of Kursk, a battle that is usually ignored or belittled by capitalism’s historians, but which was and is of decisive importance. more ...
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