The Wangan and Jagalingou people have rejected an offer with Adani to build the huge Carmichael coal mine on their land.
Now,Adani is launching aggressive legal action to override their decision and destroy their land, heritage and culture.
You can stand with the Wangan and Jagalingou people by joining their campaign and sharing their story: http://communityrun.org/p/stopadani
12 मई 2015, लुधियाना
ऑरबिट बस काण्ड विरोधी एक्शन कमेटी, पंजाब के आह्वान पर आज पूरे पंजाब में डी.सी. कार्यालयों का घेराव किया गया और रोष प्रदर्शन किए गए। यहाँ लुधियाना में भी डेढ़ दर्जन से अधिक जनसंगठनों ने ‘एक्शन कमेटी’ के बैनर तले डी.सी. कार्यालय का घेराव किया। पहले भरत नगर चौंक पर रैली की गई। फिरोजपुर रोड पर पैदल मार्च के बाद डी.सी. कार्यालय का घेराव किया गया।
May 11 — Close to 500 people have been arrested here since the rebellion that began on April 25 after the killing of Freddie Grey, yet another young Black man who has died at the hands of the police. Some 33 of those arrested remain in jail. Some were brutally beaten and pepper-sprayed by police even as television cameras caught the action. Those still being held are in central booking or at a nearby juvenile facility, without due process. They were denied their right to see a court commissioner within the 24-hour period previously required. Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan provided an excuse for this delay by proclaiming a “state of emergency,” which also authorized deployment of the National Guard. The governor has never even considered declaring a state of emergency over Baltimore’s extreme poverty, unemployment and decaying schools and homes in the Black community. These unbearable conditions are what underlie the struggle in a major city that has been stripped of its once plentiful industrial jobs. Those arrested included Baltimore youth, journalists, medics and legal observers. Allen Bullock’s parents urged him to turn himself in after he was pictured in a news media photo allegedly breaking a police cruiser’s windows. […]
After a decade long battle against casualisation and insecure work, the Unite union in New Zealand was able to win an agreement from the global fast food giant McDonalds to stop using ‘zero hours’ contracts. A ‘zero-hour’ contract allows employers to hire staff on a casual basis with no guarantee of work and with no regular work times. This precarious work arrangement is used all around the world to weaken workers power and to drive down workers wages and conditions. Unite’s victory symbolically came on May Day. The union now expects this agreement to flow on to other large fast food employers.
As reported recently, after a long fight, the group of power loom workers that had led the major strikes in Faisalabad were freed this week. These workers had been given hundreds of years’ jail sentences under the country’s draconian anti-terror legislation. They took their first steps out of jail on the 6th of May amid thousands of cheering supporters. Most power loom factories closed on that day so that workers could support their leaders.
As reported previously (see here and here) the fight by the mainly Kurdish population of Rojava, in Northern Syria, has attracted sizeable solidarity from labour organisations around the world. Now that the front lines of the battle have shifted away from the town of Kobane, the issue of rebuilding the town has become a priority. Mustafa Kaplan Akyol, the General President of the Union of Construction Workers, has called on construction workers to stop working for the benefit of capitalists and to come to Kobane to help rebuild the city. Mustafa stated that it is workers who build the world, so therefore workers should built it for their own needs and not for profits.