Resistance member to contest federal election
Resistance member Jess Moore
will contest the seat of Cunningham (Wollongong area) in the federal elections for the Socialist Alliance.
Jess is the national co-ordinator of Resistance and a climate change and
renewable energy campaigner. She is active in the struggle for marriage
equality and helped found the Illawarra Aboriginal Rights Group.
Moore was president of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students'
Association in 2006. To find out more Jess' campaign visit http://www.jessmoorecunningham.blogspot.com/“Power politics”: A reply to SBS TV’s propaganda about Venezuela
The Dateline program
“Power politics”, aired on SBS TV on May 23, 2010 (and on SBS2 on May
24) was one of the most blatantly biased reports on Venezuelan politics
yet to be aired on Australian TV. The anti-Bolivarian line unashamedly
pushed by reporter David O'Shea mirrors (in fact was shaped by) the
most right-wing of Venezuela’s opposition parties.
‘Deathly Designs’ on campus
Wollongong's Students Against War (SAW) collective crashed the
university’s ‘fashion week’ on May 6 by holding a ‘die-in’ on the
catwalk. Two activists entered the fashion parade and revealed bloodied
clothes before they collapsed on the end of the catwalk.
Community wins 'battle for Bickham'
The decade-long campaign against the Bickham coal project, north of Scone in New South Wales, ended in victory on May 14, when NSW Premier Kristina Keneally announced the government would reject the proposed mine.
The open-cut mine would have extracted 36 million tonnes of coal over 25 years.
10th annual Green Left Weekly comedy debate: Tony Abbot is our saviour?!
