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Honduras: US steps against coup regime fall short	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The article below is a September 3 statement from the Washington-based Center for Economic Policy and Research. it is reprinted from Chavezcode.com.
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Guatemalan people: ‘We will not be quiet’	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
“We have not been quiet, and we will not be quiet”, about abuses of human rights in Guatemala, Walter Felix Lopez, member of National Congress for the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Group (URNG), told a public forum of 30 people on September 5.
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Green Left Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: Our readers call for your support	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
“We are lucky in Australia to have a national newspaper, Green Left Weekly, not beholden or shackled to big business or multinational corporations, whether they be church or state. Over many years it has remained a newspaper free to critique the capitalist system, which continues to reward those with capital and exploit those without.
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French workers sentenced over redundancy protests	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
French courts have sentenced six workers to suspended sentences of between three and six months as a consequence of union protests in April against Continental’s decision to close its tyre plant in Clairox.
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Exposing Japan’s ‘zombie’ industry	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
More than 50 people attended a Greenpeace meeting with paroled Japanese anti-whaling activist Toru Suzuki on September 9.
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Economic ‘green shoots’: greener on the other side	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
Our neighbours recently moved out. They could no longer afford the rent on their small two-bedroom inner-city terrace, so moved away from the city centre to reduce their rent by $100.
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East Timor: Protests over Horta’s comments, militia leader’s release	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
East Timorese President Jose Ramos Horta’s comments on August 30 rejecting an international tribunal to bring those responsible for war crimes in East Timor to justice, and the release on the same day of militia leader Maternus Bere, continue to resonate in East Timor.
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Climate camp to converge on Port Augusta	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The world faces some of its greatest social and economic challenges ever. A failure to correct our path will mean catastrophic consequences.
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Bangladesh: Activists face oil company, state repression	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The article below is an open letter issued by “Concerned Teachers, Students, Writers, Artists, and Activists Around the World”. It is abridged from Mrzine.
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Afghanistan: The ‘good war’ from hell	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
When the US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, several pretexts were given.
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Activists confront Pearson on support for NT intervention	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
Aboriginal rights supporters and environmental activists protested at the opening of the Brisbane Writers’ Festival on September 9, where the keynote speaker was conservative Aboriginal figure Noel Pearson.
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A new Aboriginal peak body?	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
Aboriginal Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma released the Our Future in Our Hands report to the National Press Club on August 27. It outlined a proposed structure for a new national body to represent Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
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Ireland: British hypocrisy in IRA compensation call	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The article below is by the Irish republican party Sinn Fein president and member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for West Belfast Gerry Adams. Adams discusses the hypocrisy of British government demands for compensation over armed actions carried out by the Irish Republican Army, as part of its struggle for a united Ireland free from British control, in recent decades. It is abridged from Adams’ blog.
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El Salvador: School meals, uniforms made free as right attacks	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The article below is a September 11 update released by the US-based Committees in Solidarity with the Peoples of El Salvador. It is reprinted from Cispes.org. President Mauricio Funes, a candidate for the left-wing Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), was elected in March, ending the 17-year long neoliberal rule of the right-wing Arena party. The FMLN waged an armed struggle in the 1980s against the US-backed military dictatorship, which ended with peace accords in 1992. Funes has a mandate to promote the development of El Salvador to the benefit of the poor. However, the elite are seeking to destabilise his government.
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Will Fremantle City Council shift left?	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The October 17 Fremantle local government elections will take place in the wake of the May by-election that resulted in the historic victory of Greens candidate Adele Carles.
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Sri Lanka’s war on aid workers	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The communications chief for United Nations children’s charity UNICEF, James Elder, has been given until September 21 to leave Sri Lanka for making statements critical of the government.
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Israel: Palestinians call general strike	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The increasingly harsh political climate in Israel under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government has prompted the leadership of the country’s 1.3 million “Israeli Arab” citizens (as Palestinians living inside Israel are termed) citizens to call the first general strike in several years.
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Police probe Balibo deaths after 35 years	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
On September 8, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) notified the families of the five journalists killed in 1975 at Balibo in East Timor that it had begun an investigation into the killings.
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US State Department bankrolls young Venezuelans to slander Chavez	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
In the midst of an international campaign launched against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, carried out by the extreme right from Colombia and supported by Washington, the US State Department has organised and financed the trip of eight young Venezuelan politicians to the US.
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Support the Ampilatwatja walk-off!	13.9.2009	Green Left Weekly issue #780
The following call for support was released on August 24 by Richard Downs, spokesperson of the Alyawarr people of the Northern Territory, who have walked off their community of Ampilatwatja in protest against the federal government’s NT intervention. Visit www.interventionwalkoff.wordpress.com for more information.
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