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The Pablo Neruda Cultural Centre is organising a Celebration for the International Women´s day.
Saturday March 13, 6:30pm
At the Maritime Union of Australia. 46-54 Ireland St., West Melbourne
All money raised will go directly to support aid project in Chile, for the recovery after the terrible earthquakes. Come along!
No more sexism! no more neoliberalism!
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Source:NACLA
For the first time since Chile’s return to democracy, the country’s ruling political coalition may lose the presidency. The centrist “Concertación” coalition is being challenged from both the left and the right, facing perhaps its toughest electoral battle yet. Previous elections have been mostly battled out between a consensus Concertación candidate and a right-wing opponent. [...]

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By Roberto Jorquera
www.directaction.org.au
President Manuel Zelaya is attempting to return to Honduras together with Miquel D’Escotto President of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Zelaya flew in from Washington after a meeting of the Organisation of American States (OAS) that suspended the membership of Honduras. At the same time another delegation led by the [...]

From Venezuela’s Communal Councils, to Brazil’s Participatory Budgeting; from Constitutional Assemblies to grassroots movements, recuperated factories to cooperatives across the hemisphere- This documentary is a journey, which takes us across the Americas, to attempt to answer one of the most important questions of our time: What is Democracy? Directed by Sílvia Leindecker & Michael Fox. [...]

El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (Victor Jara) performed by Nicolas Jorquera and Ricardo Jorquera - AVSN Forum Feb 21,2009. Filmed by Direct Action Films

Chile is now facing the results of savage capitalism and neoliberal politics that had been implemented in our country, affecting our people and our economy.
Chile is urged to be part of the broad and growing tide spreading throughout Latin America of progressive and leftist governments, independent from the imperialist US policies.
Chile needs to overcome exclusion, [...]