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Archive for April 2008
The growing population of undocumented immigrants in the USA is astonishing, the consequences of this has meant that many immigrants face exploitation and discrimination.
We spoke with Ana Avendaño an Associate general Council and Director, Immigrant Worker program of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Oranisations (AFL-CIO).
Tibet is a country that has been annexed by China since 1951. The Chinese Government has transmigrated members of its own population to Tibet and has suppressed Tibetan culture, language and dissent.
We spoke with Matt Wade, Dharamsala correspondent with several Australian newspapers.
The Headscarf has become a polorising issue for all political parties in Turkey and is proving to be a divisive instrument of both the right and the left of the political spectrum.
To talk to us about the debates in Turkey is professor of global and international studies at the University of California-Santa Barbara, she also writes for Middle East Report.
China is the world’s most populous nation with the world’s fastest-growing economy. Is the growth of the Chinese economy having a positive effect on the Chinese population and environment?
We spoke with Professor Mobo Gao, who is Chair of Chinese Studies and Director of the Confucius Institute at the Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Adelaide.
Diego Garcia is one of the Chagos Islands, and is the site of a strategically-located United States military base. In order to establish the base, the Chagos Islanders were forcibly expelled by the British Government and have since been struggling for the right to return.
We spoke the American University’s Assistant Professor of Anthropology David Vine, who is working on a book - Island Of Shame: The Secret History Of Exile And Empire On Diego Garcia. The book is due out in March/April 2009.
With an impending election in 2009, the Bachelet govenrment is facing a population which has become disillusioned with the progress of its social policy and its shift to the right.
We spoke with Rodrigo Acuna, a freelance journalist based in Sydney who epecialises in Latin American politics.
Drew Hutton is a long time social activist. He began protesting the Vietnam War during the Bjelke-Peterson years in Queensland and has maintained his activisim since. Now, he’s most heavily involved in environmental issues and is a member of both the State and Federal Green Party.
We spoke with him on his recent visit to Adelaide.
Cuba has been classified by the World Wild Life fund as the only sustainable nation in the world, since the fall of the soviet union Cuba had to instigate radical change in order to meet the needs of their population. How did Cuba become the only current sustainbale nation in the world?
With spoke with Roberto Perez a Cuban biologist and Permaculturalist who is one of the leaders of the Cuban Example.
