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NEW KARACHI: Protesting teachers thrashed by police: Classes boycott announced By Mukhtar Alam، (From Daily DAWN) KARACHI, Aug 22: After undergoing harassment and police
torture at a demonstration staged by thousands of teachers on Tuesday,
the protesting employees of government-run schools and colleges decided
to boycott academic activities for an indefinite period throughout the
province from Aug 24....MORE Access for all, or so they say By Sadia Qasim Shah, July 2006 PRESIDING over an inter-provincial “consultative” meeting held in an air-conditioned hall of a five-star hotel, the federal education minister Lt Gen(Retd)Javed Ashraf Qazi told the four provincial education ministers, officials and academicians it was high time that computer education was made compulsory from class six onwards....MORE
Young radicals plan further resistanceSimon Cunich & Katie Cherrington, Sydney, 19 July 2006 Glebe Town Hall was filled with political discussion and campaign planning on July 8-10 as more than 170 people participated in the 35th Resistance national conference. Themed “Unfuck the world: fighting for socialism in the 21st century”, the conference brought together Resistance members and other activists from across the country, and speakers from around the world....MORE ===== KARACHI: 1,500 posts of doctors lying vacant in Sindh By Mukhtar Alam, July 2006
Israel:The witch-hunting of Tali FahimaLin Calozin-Dovrat, June 2006 On March 18, 2004, Ha’yir Weekly, a major Tel-Aviv weekend paper (Ha’aretz Group), published an interview with a certain Tali Fahima - a young woman age 28 working as a secretary in a respectable law firm in Tel-Aviv - in which she stated strongly her positions against the Israeli assassination policy....MORE ===== PALESTINE: The war on childrenJohn Pilger, 28 June 2006 Arthur Miller wrote, “Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.” ...MORE ===== Latin America: Resistance and RevolutionPhil Hearse, June 2006 On no continent is neoliberalism so widely rejected as in Latin America, and nowhere has the resurgence of the Left been so powerful. The election of Evo Morales in Bolivia and the evolution of the Hugo Chávez government in Venezuela are hugely ideologically important. Whatever the direction and eventual outcome of these governments, they have already done an enormously important thing - given an arithmetic content to the algebraic formula that ’another world is possible’; the only possible one, socialism....MORE ===== Huge student movement in Greece by Panagiotis Sifogiorgakis, June 2006
20,000 students at the largest student march in the past 20 years surge through downtown Athens on June 8th. 1,200 students of the School of Economics voted in favor of continuing the occupation of the university in a count that took place in 3 lecture halls! 2,000 students in the jam-packed central lecture hall at the University of Macedonia. 1,500 vote in favor of the occupation, even though the forces of the left that support the framework (platform) of the Pan-Hellenic Coordinating Committee of the Occupations are very weak there! 790 vote in favor of the occupation in the Philosophy Department in Athens out of 1,200 taking part in the assembly, in a department where up till today, the vote at assemblies was won by the student faction of the Communist Party, which this time by going against the occupation, experienced a bitter loss. This picture of the sensational participation of students and the overwhelming support of the proposals for mobilizations with occupations of departments is evident everywhere....MORE ===== KARACHI: Human security with cut in defence budget stressed: Dialogue on peace By Our Reporter, June 13, 2006 KARACHI, June 12: Students of different universities in Sindh and India called for ensuring human security for regional peace and stressed the dire need for extensive academic and institutional collaborations between Pakistan and India....MORE ===== France shows the way: Student strike June 1 by Emma Clancy (Australia ), May 2006 French students have just led millions of workers to victory in the fight against their conservative government's CPE (First Employment Contract) law, which was a major attack on the rights of young workers. Showing the real power that students and workers have in society when they unite and take action, the French student and trade unions refused to give in and finally forced the government to back down and withdraw the law....MORE ===== France: The mass movement has defeated the government - what now? SMITH Murray, 9 May 2006
After two months of a mass campaign against the CPE (First Employment Contract), on the morning of April 10 the French government finally caved in and withdrew the measure. The CPE would have enabled employers to sack young workers under the age of 26 in the first two years of their employment, without having to give a reason. Its defeat was the first time a mass movement had blocked one of the government’s neo-liberal measures since the Right came back to power in 2002. The government forced through a reform of pensions in 2003 in spite of months of demonstrations and strikes. The following year it imposed a reform of health insurance. Why did it fail this time?...MORE ===== VENEZUELA: Young people defending the revolutionJim McIlroy and Coral Wynter, Caracas, April 2006 “I think it is possible to build socialism. We are demonstrating it already”, Lilibet Sira Torres, Caracas director of the Frente de Francisco Miranda, told Green Left Weekly. The FFM is a revolutionary youth group organising young people to actively support the Venezuelan revolution. ...MORE ===== Revolutionary youth in VenezuelaFred Fuentes, March 2006
Joblessness among Asian youth rising: ILO 12 August 2004 BANGKOK, Aug 11: Southeast Asia has experienced the world's greatest surge in youth unemployment over the past decade with developing nations in the region set for even worse times ahead, according to an International Labour Organisation (ILO) warning....MORE ===== Sexism, Youth and HIV in South Africa May 2004 The HIV/AIDS crisis in southern and South Africa has spread enormously wide and has caused a lot of social problems and individual suffering on a general level. Among all people living with HIV/AIDS, there are some groups who are especially affected by it; two of them are women and youth....MORE ===== Teen Girls, Sexism, and Marketeering By Cynthia Peters, March 16, 1999 The more time a teen girl spends reading fashion magazines, the worse she feels about herself, according to a study done by Brigham and Women's hospital released earlier this month. And that's just how marketers like it. A girl feeling unattractive, overweight, and in dire need of a boyfriend is more likely to respond favorably to the countless products that promise to correct her flaws, slim her down, and prime her for romance....MORE ===== by Brian A. Dominick, 1997
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