Australia often bills itself as a multicultural country – but the relationship between new and old residents is not always a smooth one. Al Jazeera’s Andrew Thomas takes a look at how the latest immigration debate is affecting the country’s Muslim community.
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In the run-up to the uprising in Egypt, young activists used social networking sites, specifically Facebook, to call for the popular revolt against Mubarak’s government. When thousands first took to the streets on January 25, observers said internet clicks had finally translated to action in Egypt. Now, the country’s military rulers are turning to the same tool to promote their own cause. From Cairo, Al Jazeera’s Rawya Rageh reports.
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As the calls for regime change move into their third week, Egyptians have broken down the barrier of fear. Cracks between the protesters have started to show, but resolute protesters are standing firm on their call for the president to resign.
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The southwestern state of Guerrero in Mexico has been one of the country’s most violent for decades, as the army fought a long battle with guerrilla fighters. But now, in a remote highland region, villagers have established a system for local policing that is proving effective. Al Jazeera’s Mariana Sanchez reports.
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Foreign secretary William Hague tells Libyan, Bahraini and Yemeni governments they should not use violence and repression against protesters. He expresses particular concern over Libya, reminding longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi that the world is watching, even if television cameras are not present.
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The anti-government protesters in Libya have been getting support from a coalition of demonstrators in the United States. Hundreds of Libyan-Americans made their voices heard outside the White House on Saturday. Al Jazeera’s Kimberly Halkett reports from Washington DC.
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A survey by South Africa’s Medical Research Council, has found that one in four men in the country, admit to having committed rape. The council works with men and boys, trying to overturn prejudices and stereotypes about sexual violence. In part two of our series on sex crime in South Africa, Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull looks at how apartheid is partly to blame.
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The world’s biggest economies have reached a deal on how to track imbalances in the global economy. The issue has been blamed for making the 2008 financial crisis much worse than it might have been. China was initially reluctant but came on board in the end. Al Jazeera’s Jacky Rowland reports from the G20 finance ministers’ meeting in Paris
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Al Jazeera talks to two witnesses in the eastern coastal city of Benghazi, where more than 100 have reportedly died, including young people. In the United States, activist Mohamed Eljahmi says he has been told longtime leader Muammar Gaddafi is using mercenaries from Chad, Niger and Bangladesh to put down proteseters.
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Click here to view this media ( Union Busting in History – At least today they wear nice suits ) When the famous Patco strike unfolded and President Reagan promptly fired the strikers and crippled the union, it signaled open season on Unions and the beginning of busting, deregulation and a general dismantling of our labor laws and the subsequent fallout that’s been reverberating all over our society ever since. In 1983 we were in the midst of strikes at Continental Airlines and Greyhound Bus. Those strikes made it clear just how damaged our labor laws had become and how the face of Union Busting had changed. On December 4, 1983 Face The Nation ran a panel that consisted of William Wimpersinger of the International Association of Machinists, Frank Navjot of Greyhound , Studs Terkel , John Nesbitt and Stephen Cabot discussing the state of labor in the midst of Reagan. Leslie Stahl: “Do you think there is a national management conspiracy to bust or break the unions?” Studs Terkel: “There doesn’t have to be a conspiracy, I wish it were as simple as that. No, the climate is set and the climate of course is set by the most outrageous anti-labor administration within memory. So we have not, Apple Blossom Time but certainly Union Busting Time”. Stahl: “Yeah but the public seems to be behind . . .not just the administration . . . . Terkel: “That’s precisely the point. I think there’s been a lobotomy performed down through the years as Unions and labor are concerned. Ever since World War 2 . .and it’s changed. Big business has become more sophisticated in the person of Mister Cabot say, in contrast to a guy Henry Ford hired in the 30s to fight UAW, Harry Bennett, who would hire thugs and ex-cons with baseball bats to bust the heads of picketers. Today you have smiling three-piece suit guys doing the same job. So much more sophisticated and the result the young members of the workforce have no idea how the minimum wage came to be. They think it came as an apple from the hand of Eve in the garden of Eden. It was bloodied heads that did it, and guys were blacklisted and so minimum wage came to be – that’s under attack today. There’s definitely a union busting climate, no doubt in my mind.” Considering it’s 26 years later – the situation hasn’t changed. It has only gotten worse, thanks to the Bush Administration. The systematic dismantling of those laws which protected workers from unfair and unethical practices have only become more prevalent with time – and the affects of greed and contempt have only become more entrenched. It’s not going to go away overnight – remember that. ( Note: The broadcast begins with breaking news of U.S. raids on Syrian positions in Lebanon and then goes to the original program )
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