E D I T O R I A L

Why I'm Marching
If you haven�t guessed already, I'm no Labor apparatchik. In fact my entry into politics was through the old Nuclear Disarmament Party.

F E A T U R E S

Interview: The Wedge Buster
Labor's immigration spokeswoman Julia Gillard talks about her job of developing policy to blunt Howard's wedge.

History: Fighting for Peace
Was the first Palm Sunday parade a celebration or a protest, asks Neale Towart.

Unions: Rattling the Gates
When Pacific Power workers traveled from Newcastle to Macquarie Street this week life-long loyalties were on the line, as Jim Marr reports.

International: Facing Retribution
Serious fears are growing for the safety of Zimbabwean trade unionists after the tainted election defeat of their former leader Morgan Tsvangirai.

Technology: How Korean Workers Used The Web
Electrical power industry workers in Korea are relying on the internet, and mobile phones, to successfully organise a militant nation-wide anti-privatisation strike.

Industrial: Working Futures
Can an assortment of economists, lawyers, historians, industrial relations specialists, unionists, journalists, sociologists and psychologists help us develop a decent future for work and social relations in Australia?

Review: Rumble, Young Man, Rumble
To compress the full and exhilarating life of The Greatest to film-length is no easy task but Ali makes a reasonable fist of the job writes Noel Hester.

Satire: GG Survival Doomed: Fox-Lew In Charge Of Rescue Bid
The hopes of embattled Governor-General Dr Peter Hollingworth took a battering last night, after he learnt that the rescue bid for his survival is being headed up by Lindsay Fox and Solomon Lew.

Poetry: PSST
From Sue Robinson to Michael Kirby, some things in politics are constant...only the names have been changed to defame the innocent.

N E W S

Girl's Maiming Sparks Entry Plea

More Time Off for Babies

Workers Break Bank Cartel

State Law Push For Virgin Sites

Outrage at Privatisation by Decree

Woomera - Flames, Razors, Rope and Despair

Bus Drivers Block ALP Funds

Crean Gets on Front Foot

Nurses, Teachers On The Money

Asset-Stripping Sparks Walk-Out

Opposition Grows Over Howard's Freedom Attack

Heffernan Prompts �Right of Reply� Demands

Della Dumps Dunny Blues

Smith Flies Into Turbulence

Guards Force Drinks Break

Levy Struck to Support Rockhampton Meatworkers

ACTU Assists former Ansett Staff

Activist News

C O L U M N S

The Soapbox
The War on Terror - Impunity for Abuses?
Federal Labor MP Duncan Kerr argues that governments are using the fears of the post-Septmeber 11 environment for thier own ends.

The Locker Room
Oh, The Humanity!
So, sports people are human after all. Now there�s a headline.

Week in Review
Tomorrow, The World
Jim Marr picks over the entrails of a week in which world domination, or at least hegemony over that part of it in which the principal operates, is a recurring theme.

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Activist News

Palm Sunday Peace March

March 24, 12 noon

Meet Noon Sunday 24 March 2002 at Belmore Park (Eddy Avenue, Central Station).

SILENT MARCH to Victoria Park (next to Sydney Uni) for a joint festival with Walk Against Want.

Speakers include: Tom Uren (former Whitlam Minister), Sister Susan Connelly, Jo Vallentine (former Senator), Lyndia Miller & John Robertson (Secretary, Labor Council of NSW).

The MC will be Lex Marinos and Music will be by Astro Tabasco and Guests.

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Pluto / Fabian Wednesday Forums

Bercelouw Books, 70 Nortoin Street, Leichhardt, 6.30pm

March 27 - The Death of Liberalism - Hon WC Wentworth and Greg Barnes (Admission $15 and $15)

April 17 - Labor and Refugees - to Lead or Follow? - Mark Latham and John Robertson (Admission $10 and $5 - members)

April 24 - The Future of the Left in Australia? - Boris Frankel, Peter Botsman, Helen McCue, Ghassan Hage and Eva Cox (Admission $20 and $10)

May 1 Open Australia Forum - Lindsay Tanner,, Mark Latham, Rebecca Huntley, Tom Moreton, Guy Rundle.

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Call for Papers - EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ACTION 2002

Wednesday 11th to Friday 13th December, 2002

at the Centre for Popular Education, city campus of University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

(Broadway, walking distance from Central railway station).

THEMES

� Community Capacity Building and Cultural Development

� Facilitating Change for Healthy Environments

� School - Community Relationship Building

� Celebrations for Change and Development

� Health Education and Community Development

� Popular Education and Advocacy: Refugees and Asylum Seekers

THE 'EDUCATION AND SOCIAL ACTION' CONFERENCE building on the tradition of previous conferences organised by the Centre for Popular Education will:

* bring people engaged in different fields of social action and education together

* be a forum where activists, workers, policy makers, artists and scholars alike are encouraged to participate

* encourage research and enquiry to promote practice that helps people analyse and address social injustices

* have workshops that are sufficiently long to have decent discussions or engage in hands-on activities

* have plenty of music, theatre and dance; but more importantly there will be some opportunities for collaborative art-practice.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Refereed papers:

Selected papers of 2,000 to 4,000 words will be published in May 2003.

Proposals for papers should include:

* a title

* names of authors with full contact details and brief narrative resume/s

* a summary of about 200 - 400 words.

Proposals should be received by July 1st, 2002. Authors of papers accepted will be advised by July 15th. It is expected that full draft papers will be presented at the conference. Copies of draft papers will be made available to session participants. A final version of the paper should be submitted by early March, 2003 for publication in May.

Workshop proposals

Workshop proposals will be considered in rounds. To meet the due date of the first round, proposals should be received by July 31st. To find out due dates for subsequent rounds please ask [email protected] or tel. 02-9514 3843.

Proposals should include:

* workshop title

* names of presenters with full contact details and brief narrative resume/s

* a summary of about 200 words.

Send proposals to [email protected] or Centre for Popular Education, UTS, PO Box 123, Broadway 2007 or fax 02-9514 3939.

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