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WEBGreen Left News Podcast Ep 52: Police violence at Disrupt Land Forces & opposing weapons in Geelong. Green Left is not-for-profit, activist media, carrying the news, analysis & debates of environmental and social justice campaigns and movements.
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WEBThe Australian-Kurdish community is very concerned for Çiğdem (Lenna) Aslan's wellbeing after she was arrested in Turkey just before boarding a flight back home to Australia. Peter Boyle reports. Green Left is not-for-profit, activist media, carrying the news, analysis & debates of environmental and social justice campaigns and movements.
Racism in Australia: 1788 to today - Green Left
WEBJan 26, 2000 · The victims of racism in Australia have not been limited to indigenous people. Between 1837 and 1844, approximately 500 Indian labourers arrived in the Australian colonies, along with a small number of Melanesian and Chinese workers. Between 1848 and 1852, 3000 Chinese labourers arrived. This number increased substantially between 1850 and the ...
The Gurindji strike and land claim | Green Left
WEBAugust 9, 1995. Issue. 197. In the 1960s and '70s, the Gurindji tribe of the Northern Territory, employed on the Wave Hill cattle station owned by Britain's Lord Vestey, staged a landmark struggle for Aboriginal justice. The campaign, Australia's first successful Aboriginal land claim, began as an industrial dispute.
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WEBVoice from Gaza: ‘The massacres and bombing have not ended to this day’. Green Left’s Alex Salmon spoke to Tamer Shaaban, a 20-year-old engineering student trapped in Gaza, about how his family’s life was torn apart when Israel …
The secret history of Pine Gap, Australia's CIA spy base
WEBOn December 9, 1966, the Australian government signed a public agreement with the United States to build what both countries misleadingly called a “Joint Defence Space Research Facility” at Pine Gap, just outside Alice Springs. Officially, Pine Gap is a collaboration between the Australian Department of Defence and the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Unionists for Palestine get organised, endorse call to boycott ZIM
WEBNov 6, 2023 · “Today there is shock in the Palestinian community that the Labor government is openly supporting Israel in the war against Gaza,” Palestinian activist Amal Nasser told a public meeting organised by Trade Unions for Palestine and Sydney Staff for BDS (Boycott Divestment and Sanctions) on November 3.. The Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) hall was packed with supporters wanting to help.
First Nations push for water rights in extended Murray Darling …
WEBNov 21, 2023 · Water for Rivers, a community advocacy group that opposes the marketisation of water, said First Nations peoples' water rights must be respected. It supported the reintroduction of water buy-backs to recover environmental flows. “Too much of the $13 billion spent on saving the Murray Darling Basin …
The movement against the Vietnam War | Green Left
WEBMay 3, 2000 · 403. The movement against the Vietnam War. By Doug Lorimer. April 30 was the 25th anniversary of the liberation of Saigon, marking the victory of the Vietnamese people over United States imperialism. In South Vietnam, the US sought to crush a national liberation movement led by a mass-based revolutionary party, the …
Gary Foley: Aboriginal Tent Embassy a 'stroke of genius' - Green Left
WEBJanuary 13, 2022. Issue. 1329. Analysis. Graphic: Isaac Nellist. On its 50th anniversary Green Left ’s Markela Panegyres and Chloe de Silva spoke to Gumbainggir activist and historian Gary Foley about the history and significance of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy. What led to the Tent Embassy being set up and how did it develop into such a ...