After my first year in exile accused of Australia's rarest crime (60C - just google it), the gang law media frenzy started because of what happened at Sydney Airport in March 2009.Before that I was campaigning against this law (and so were some MP's!), that happens to offically be the first outlaw motorcycle gang law ever introduced in Australia.

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This is a 57 minute audio of the presentation David Barsamian gave in Fresno on November 5, 2009.

In three programmes shown over consecutive weeks in BBC2's Timewatch strand, Allan Francovich interviewed key Gladio players such as Propaganda Due head, Licio Gelli, Italian neofascist and terrorist Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Venetian judge Felice Casson, Italian Gladio commander General Gerardo Serravale, Belgian Senator Roger Lallemand, Belgian gendarme Martial Lekue and former CIA director William Colby.

Friday, November 6, 2009 - The Fresno Brown Berets and California Prison Moratorium Project organized a march and rally in protest of what they say is "Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer's corrupt and racist administration." They called for his resignation or termination as police chief. 2:13 minute audio report below.

Attached are recordings of the opening plenary session and the closing plenary session from the Transition North conference which was held on 6th November 2009 in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire,  http://transitionnorth.net/

Our half-time report on the UN climate talks in Barcelona is told in the words of the poor majority world participants. The story of the African Group’s walk-out is told in their own words.

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 31st to November 6th, 2009

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday November 5th, 2009.

Reverend Gordon Humphreys of Olivet Baptist opens this week's Town Hall for Justice. He notes that there is a divide between communities of faith and community activists but that there can be spiritual renewal and community restoration. He says that he is disappointed but not surprised that the trial will be moved out of Alameda. We've seen this before. They tell us we just need to trust the justice system, but that trust has been violated again and again. Then you want to ask why I'm angry and tell us we're so angry that the trial must be moved. But people call for justice for all sorts of crimes all the time and that's accepted. There's a cultural divide on the trial and contrasting perceptions.

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday November 4th, 2009.

Paramilitary repression and police brutality continue unabated on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border after three years of the assassinations of Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes in Oaxaca, Mexico and Fong Lee in Minneapolis, MN

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday November 2nd, 2009.

Marching Is Not Enough, Organise for a general strike

KPFA Women's Magazine producer Kate Raphael talks with Terry O'Neill, new national president of the National Organization for Women, about health care, welfare, immigration reform, and her plan for reinvigorating the grassroots feminist movement. Audio, 21 minutes.

KPFA Women's Magazine producer Kate Raphael talks with Terry O'Neill, new national president of the National Organization for Women, about health care, welfare, immigration reform, and her plan for reinvigorating the grassroots feminist movement. Audio, 21 minutes.

Rubble interviews U.C. Berkeley clerical worker Toni Mendocino, a member of the Coalition of University Employees and Campus Radical Women. Toni gives an overview of the issues faced by students, faculty, and other campus workers, along with demands and upcoming activist actions. (8:15)

Rubble interviews U.C. student Marika Goodrich on problematic student conditions, educational demands, and solidarity with faculty and other campus workers. Marika is in her Senior year of undergraduate education, concentrating in American Studies. She also interns with AFSCME Local 3299. (15:21)

Rubble interviews Toni Mendocino, U. C. Berkeley clerical worker, Coalition of University Employees and Campus Radical Women; Katherine Lee, U.C. Berkeley Lecturer (contract status teaching staff), College Writing Programs, on working conditions for the faculty and other workers along with demands and organizing strategies. Student activist and AFSCME Local 3299 intern Marika Goodrich also provides a student perspective on the workers' conditions. (30:45)

In the wake of International 350 Day and direct actions in the US & Europe we ask, isn’t it time that we stopped business putting the brakes on climate action? In a break from our usual format we weave recent highlights from the independent media landscape into a corporate-critical narrative.

As Europe stands accused of blocking the protection of intact natural forests and introducing logging-friendly language into the UN draft climate deal, we take a look at some of the key components that should be in an effective deal for saving the world’s forests. As Nathaniel Dyer of the Rainforest Foundation UK explains, saving forests is about a lot more than simply throwing money at the problem. Land rights, governance and demand management are also critical. And payment for forest protection should come from public funds rather than carbon markets.