Qatar remains on top of the per capita CO2 emissions rankings.

Congratulations go to the rulers of this tiny State in the Middle Eastern region of our planet.  They are allowing the globe to be warmed up the fastest and thus are the winners in the climate change promtional sweeps.  They are followed by the ruling classes of the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United States of America.  Australia's ruling class comes in 8th place.  Not a bad showing really, when you think about it: eighth out of the 176 nations examined at "Nation Master".

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi_percap-environment-co2-emissions-per-capita

Indonesia is 102, just ahead of Tonga and Zimbabwe.  Coming in at 176th and last in the per capita CO 2 emissions race is the ruling class of The Democratic Republic of Congo. 

Watch this 20 minute film: http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Afterwards, join the I.W.W.

If you're in Perth, contact me: swillsqueal@yahoo.com.au

The following is from an interview with Glen Ford, editor of the online U.S. journal "Black Agenda".  Doug Henwood is the editor of the "Left Business Observer" out of New York City.  The interview was conducted on WBAI, a listener sponsored radio station in New York City.

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Emergency action is necessary to save Zapatista communities from attack and possible eviction. Join a protest in melbourne called by MASN and LASNET against the illegitimate Mexican government and their corporate supporters.

Estela(in the photon with EZLN subcomandante Marcos), a participant in the Zapatista struggle, will answer question about why the Mexican struggle is vital to our own fight for freedom and justice. Estela is visiting Melbourne for a short time only. She will attending the Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum 11-14 October(http://www.latinlasnet.org/node/24)

Thursday October 4th, 12:00 noon

Bourke Street Mall

Melbourne City

Mor info: Tristan 0448 575 105 or 0402 754 818

Hashmeya is the first woman to rise democratically from the ranks to represent a national Iraqi labor union, she emphasizes that she is not alone - that there are many dedicated and committed union women in the forefront of the Iraqi labor movement.

Ten days ago, two top leaders of Iraq's labor movement, Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein , President of the Electrical Utility Workers Union, General Federation of Iraqi Workers (EUWU-GFIW))and Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary of the Federation of Oil Unions (FOU) spoke throughout the San Francisco Bay Area as part of an Iraqi labor tour of the US. They spoke urgently of Iraqi labor's unified demand for the end of the brutal US occupation and sought for the support of US labor in rejecting the imposition of the Oil Law which the US is using to force the surrender of Iraqi oil resources to foreign corporations as the price of their withdrawal.

On May 17 2007 a group of Starbucks baristas in Chicago marched into their store today and served a declaration of union membership on their store manager. On the same day working people in countries around the globe demonstrated in solidarity with Starbucks coffee farmers and café workers.

"As members of the Industrial Workers of the World, we won't allow Starbucks to play dice with the amount of work hours we get each week," said Liz Clarkson, an IWW barista at the Chicago store. "Taking this action for secure work hours and a livable wage on the third anniversary of the SWU's founding makes it all the sweeter."

(Text of brochure distributed at recent anti-war protests in Madison, WI by the Madison General Membership Branch (GMB) of the Industrial Workers of the World)

Bosses wage war to make money and workers are the ones who die in the process.

This fact should be obvious to most people. Yet many workers – along with their supposed unions – end up stoking the engines of an infernal war machine.

While many may secretly question the sanity of a capitalist system that sacrifices them and their children as cannon fodder on the altar of corporate profit, few are willing to challenge the power system behind such relentless warmongering.

The union is condemning the attacks as unprovoked. It is calling on the occupation forces to issue a written apology, to return all the seized property, and to pay compensation for damages caused.

They are asking unions around the world to send messages of protest. Available from: http://www.labourstart.org/iraqraid

Resolution to support Vietnamese trade unionist and farm workers

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:10:38

In the last month Vietnamese authorities have tried to clamp down on independent trade unions in Vietnam. Pham Dang Lou, Tan Bin, Said Gon, Tran Quoc Hien of the United Workers and Farmers Association have all been arrested and detained. Many other farm workers have been arrested and detained for trying to form independent unions outside of the control of the government. The newly formed Vietnamese Independent union has also been targeted by the authorities. There have also been land seizures by local corrupt officials.