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The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario.

Dear friends,

Last month, from events in hundreds of cities, we flooded world leaders' phone lines with the Global Climate Wake-Up Call. This Saturday is the next global day of action on climate change--a worldwide wave of extraordinary events that will show leaders the accelerating breadth, power, and clarity of the gobal climate movement.

It sounds too good to be true. The Australian government says it will next week start the process that will reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory and give Aboriginal people back the rights that non-Indigenous Australians enjoy -- and which they never should have been denied in the first place.

On Tuesday, October 6th, two years after the fraud that approved the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S., a Popular March for Dignity in the Southern Region of Costa Rica was held. More than 150 activists marched from the entrance of the Indigenous Territory of Térraba, towards the center of the county of Buenos Aires. One step after another, they covered a total of 13 kilometersl. Different communities from all over the South face struggles against the expansion of pineapple plantations, the building of Diquís Hydroelectric Project, plans of an international airport to be built on the land of “Finca 9”, and plans to develop marinas and industrial tuna farms in Golfo Dulce. Besides all these foci of resistence, there is also a struggle in favor of the Indigenous Autonomy Bill.

Germany's newly elected government could hinder the expansion of renewable energy in the country with its plans to extend the lifetime of nuclear reactors, warns the German Renewable Energy Federation (BEE).

The Austrian industrial plant builder Andritz plans to build one of the world’s largest paper pulp factories for the Gunns corporation in Tasmania, the island state to the south of mainland Australia.