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Australian Government Intervenes in Aboriginal Communities
Written by Mneesha Gellman and Josh Dankoff   

Activists in Australia March with Aboriginal Flag
Activists in Australia March with Aboriginal Flag
On July 1st, 2007, Australia’s Federal government sent police and military personnel into Aboriginal communities in northern Australia to combat high levels of child sexual abuse. Policing combined with alcohol bans and welfare restrictions constitute a short-sighted intervention that ignores the root causes of social dysfunction among historically oppressed people.

The Politics of Sustained Civil Unrest in Europe
Written by John Horvath   

Police Confront 7th Asia-Europe Meeting Protesters
Police at 7th Asia-Europe Meeting Protest
The extreme right National Party of the Czech Republic recently announced the setup of a National Guard paramilitary group that will serve at rallies and in the case of major disasters. The National Party cited the "police inability to secure calm, order and security to the public" and "fear for the behavior of minorities and immigrants" as reasons to set up the guard. To what extent is the threat of right-wing extremism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union exaggerated?

Global Warming and the Struggle for Justice
Written by Brian Tokar   
ImageIf 2006 was the year that the “inconvenient truth” of global climate disruption made its way into the popular consciousness—and sparked a huge new wave of green products and corporate greenwashing—then hopefully the results of 2007’s revelations about the earth’s rapidly changing climate will prove more substantive and long-lasting.

Online Video: Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" Speech
Written by Dr. Martin Luther King   

Image"With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day."

Watch the historic speech here online.

Sri Lanka: Efforts to Overcome a New Cycle of Violence
Written by Rene Wadlow   
Sri Lankan Special Task Force
Sri Lankan Special Task Force
On January 8, 2008, the Sri Lankan Minister for Nation Building, DM Dassanayake was killed when his convoy was hit by a powerful roadside bomb blast, allegedly planted by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) near the capital, Colombo.  The killing follows the murder of LTTE’s Political wing chief S.P. Tamilselvam and the Intelligence wing chief “Colonel” Charles by the Sri Lankan security forces.  On New Year’s Day, a Tamil Parliamentarian Thiagarajah Maleswaran was assassinated inside a Hindu temple in Colombo. These deaths bring Sri Lanka’s escalating conflict into sharp focus. 
Interview with Marlon Santi, New President of Ecuador's Indigenous Confederation
Written by Patricio Zhingri T.   

Marlon Santi
Marlon Santi
Marlon Santi, the new president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), was elected by consensus on January 12 in Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas, and granted this first interview before the rest of the Governing Council was elected.    

"I will join with the people who have the same problems, especially in the Amazon, in the highlands, and on the coast, since the problems are same and we have to walk together.  I am not a leader who sits at a desk. I am a leader who will be out in the field, fighting for the people."

The Shadow
Written by S. Brian Willson   
Vietnamese Peasants Detained by the US Army
Vietnamese Prisoners
In early April 1969, I found myself in a surreal situation, after which I was never the same. I was in a small village (name unknown), accompanied by a South Vietnamese lieutenant named Bao. Educated in the United States, Bao spoke English fluently, and knew the area well. I was standing no more than 3 feet from the mangled body of a young Vietnamese woman who it appeared had been struggling to protect her children as the village came under fire. Both of her arms remained clutched around her three small children. The village had been bombed just minutes before our arrival by U.S.-trained and equipped South Vietnamese pilots.
HIV in Uganda: The Challenges of Getting Pills to Patients
Written by Richard Kavuma   
ImageKampala, Uganda - A somber aura hangs over the compound at Teresa Ntamalengero's home in central Uganda. The men are chatting in hushed voices, the women are huddled up on a bench, and the children stand quietly holding the bicycle rims they use as toys. Inside her mud and wattle house measuring six-by-four meters, Teresa is helping her daughter Janet to sit up with the help of two neighbors. Teresa is 63. Her daughter, Janet Nakyanzi, is 28 but has lost so much weight she looks more like a child. They are both HIV-positive and they need antiretroviral drugs.
Iraq's Civil Resistance: The Secular Left Opposition Stands Up
Written by Bill Weinberg   
Iraq Freedom Congress Convention
Iraq Freedom Congress Convention
July 4, 2007 saw the Fred Hampton-style execution of the leader of a popular citizen's self-defense force in Baghdad. According to the Iraq Freedom Congress, the group Abdelhussein Saddam was associated with, a unit of US Special Forces troops and Iraqi National Guards raided his home in Baghdad's Alattiba neighborhood at 3:00 AM, throwing grenades in before them—and opening fire without warning at him and his young daughter. The attackers took Saddam, leaving the girl bleeding on the floor. Two days later, his body was found in the morgue at Yarmouk Hospital.
New Hampshire: A Report from the Streets and Campaign Offices on Primary Day
Written by Benjamin Dangl   
Photo from www.president08.netOn January 8, primary election day in Claremont, New Hampshire, hundreds of campaign signs flapped in the wind, toppling over in snow banks as the sun grew warmer. Competing canvassers zigzagged through neighborhoods while volunteers made countless phone calls from campaign offices. Early polls before primary day pointed to a landslide victory for Barack Obama, but Hillary Clinton ended up winning. What led to the surprise results among Democratic candidates in the New Hampshire primary? A few experiences and sentiments in the streets of Claremont point to some answers.
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