Archive for March 26th, 2007

Garrett to head protest rock concert

Monday, March 26th, 2007

Labor MP and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett will head a Rockin’ For Rights concert following a protest march against the federal government’s new industrial relations laws in Sydney’s CBD next month.

Aussie bands including Youth Group, The Screaming Jets, Something for Kate, You Am I and the Hoodoo Gurus will perform at the event staged by Unions NSW.

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Presidential Candidate Wears Cancer Awareneness Wristband

Monday, March 26th, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO – Officially, John Edwards came before nearly 40 media members in downtown San Francisco Monday to talk about global warming and his call to ban new coal plants that don’t include clean-burning technologies.

But on his first day without his wife since the couple announced her reoccurrence of breast cancer last week, the Democratic presidential candidate found himself openly pondering how her illness will affect the dynamics and character of his campaign for the White House.

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