Issue No 116 | 19 October 2001 | |
NewsActivists Notebook
All the latest details on actions, workshops and conferences for anyone interested in labour politics Picnic for Peace Sunday 28th October from Midday Overflow Park at Sydney Olympic Park, Homebush What's On: Live music and entertainment, food stalls, speakers and activities for all the family You will hear speakers talk about the next step for diversity, peace, refugee rights and reconciliation. Let's send the political parties a powerful message that Australian's do support the international Human Rights system and want to end punitive and discriminatory immigration and social policies. As a gesture of peace bring or wear something white as a sign of solidarity for refugee and indigenous rights. BYO chair, hat, picnic and friends. Colombian unionists to visit Public meeting Monday 22 October 6PM 15 Wentworth Avenue Sydney Hear from Jesus Gonzales (Director, Human Rights Department, Colombian Union Congress) and Pedro Mahecha (Colombian human rights & labour lawyer) Over 300 trade unionists were murdered for organising workers in Colombia last year. Colombian workers and peasants have been involved in a 50 year popular insurgency. Their struggle is against a Government hopelessly hostage to the U.S. agenda in Latin America and deeply implicated in the cocaine trade. Please come on Monday and hear the latest from this pivotal Latin American nation. Further info: Phil Davey 0414 867 188 Reportage Thursday, November 1, 2001 - 7.30pm (sharp) Introduced by Jennifer Byrne & Saturday, November 3, 2001 - 11.00am Followed by Q & A with Robert Pledge Palace Academy Twin Cinemas 3a Oxford St. Paddington Special Guest: Robert Pledge Chairman, World Press Photo Awards 2001 President, Contact Press Images Tickets $16.50 available from the Box Office or Advance Bookings: MCA Ticketing (02) 9873 3575 or www.mca-tix.com A Celebration of Photojournalism Reportage is an annual event which aims to showcase outstanding photo reportage -now held for the third year in Sydney. Photo essays from leading Australian and international photographers are projected onto the cinema screen with sound and multimedia. The festival aims to create an opportunity for photographers to share, show and discuss images and ideas about the various personal and professional aspects of the profession with a wider audience. It offers photographers a broader context in which to show work, and a more personal side to their stories and their experiences. Reportage aims to promote the talent of local photographers as well as inform the Australian photographic community and the public of new work from international photographers rarely seen in this country. The focus is as much on established photographers as it is on discovering new emerging talent within the industry. The festival's core group are Michael Amendolia, David Dare Parker, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone and Jacqui Vicario and is extended to friends of the festival within the local and international photography industry. Reportage celebrates the great sense of comraderie that has kept the profession alive from the beginning. An acknowledgment of the beauty and importance of a single image and its ability to shape a moment in our lives.
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Interview: The Green Machine Nick Bolkus outlines Labor's environmental stance and lays down the gauntlet to Bob Brown's Greens. Industrial: Regaining Control France�s 35 hour week stems from the program of the Left coalition government which went to the polls in June 1997 with the policy of �worksharing�. Unions: Home Of The Longest Day Australia has a dubious new prize to put in its cluttered national trophy cabinet. We are increasingly the most over-worked nation in the world. Campaign Diary: Week Two: Fightback Labor's doing everything to win a normal campaign - but this is no normal campaign. Economics: Who Will Notice When You Die? Johann Christoph Arnold asks whether the anti-globalisation movement is the answer to an epidemic of loneliness. History: American Terror Incredible revelations about the work of the US National Security Agency through the Cold War years help put the current War of Terror into perspective. International: Global Day of Action In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in the US last week, the ICFTU has announced that preparations for the Global Unions Day of Action on November 9 will go ahead. Satire: World Gripped by Fear as Howard Third Term Looms The global community has uniformly condemned the recent terrorist attacks, which horrifically helped revive the re-election prospects of John Howard. Review: Flashbacks Cultural theortician Neale Towart consults his record collection in a bid to understand the chaos gripping the earth.
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