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Issue No. 172 | 28 March 2003 |
Vale: Rule of Law
Poetry: If I Were a Rich Man Interview: League of Nations Industrial: 20/20 Hindsight Organising: On The Buses Unions: National Focus History: The Banner Room International: The Slaughter Continues Legal: A Legal Case For War? Culture: Singing For The People Review: The Hours Poetry: I Wanna Bomb Saddam Satire: Diuretic Makes Warne's Excuses Look Thin
Unions Condemn Protest Violence Hospitals Pick Sweatshops Over Chain Gangs New Faces Part of Labor �Rejuvenation� Test Case � UK 26, Australia 0 Uncle Sam and the Union Busters Calling All Artists � May Day Poster Comp Nipping Surveillance in the Bud Forced Labour Prevails Despite Sanctions
The Soapbox The Locker Room Guest Report Seduction Bosswatch
Tom's Tantie Shameless Extremists Barbarians at the Gate More War Comment Back-Slapping Bob
Labor Council of NSW |
News Activists Notebook
ACT Teach-in 5 April, 10am Manning Clark Centre, ANU, entry free. Palm Sunday rally, 13 April, 1.30pm at the Lodge, Adelaide Avenue, Anti-War rally followed by march to Parliament to meet march of church groups. Queensland Palm Sunday rally 13 April 2003. NSW Palm Sunday rally, 13 April 2003, 1pm leaving from Belmore Park to the Domain. "Unions Work for Peace" badges, posters and leaflets have been produced, PDF of leaflet can be downloaded from website, go to www.labor.net.au. For more information contact Amanda Tattersall, 0409 321 133. Victoria Rally on Saturday 29 March at State Library at 1pm. For more info see the VTHC's website - http://www.vthc.org.au. VTHC have produced Say No to War badges, for more information contact Cathy Beadnell on 0425 701 793. South Australia On 13 April there will be the Palm Sunday rally. **************** This Sunday 30th March the Walk against the War Coalition is hosting a Peace Conference. This Conference provides the first opportunity for peace activists, organisers and movement participants to come together to discuss where the movement is at and where to from here. Details are: DATE: Sunday 30th March TIME: Begins 9:45 for first session at 10am WHERE: University of Technology Sydney (Markets Campus - corner for Quay and Hay Streets Haymarket, opposite Market City). The first plenary is in Room B111 - the area will be clearly marked. Closest train station is Central Station. This conference is open to all and is designed to increase people's involvement in setting the agenda for the movement. The day will be broken up into plenary sessions and workshop sessions. The first plenary is on "The Shift to War and how to stop it," and goes from 10 till 11:30. Speakers include Stuart Rees from the Centre for Peace and Conflict studies and Ahmad Shboul from Sydney University. Then we have two workshop sessions. From 11:45-1 there will be workshops on Political Issues (such as the link between the war and oil, Palestine, War and Refugees, the Anti-Bases Campaign, the movement against the Vietnam war, who is next?). From 1:45-3pm we will have workshops on organising skills and forms of action including how to establish local groups and organise in our neighbourhoods, how to organise for peace at work, how to campaign for peace on campus and at school, how to build a movement for peace in an ethnic community, how to support a cultural movement for peace. The final session from 3:15 to 4:30 will be discussing ideas for future action in our local areas, in our sectors and together as a movement. People are invited to submit proposals for workshops or ideas for future action to be discussed at the conference. If you wish to present a workshop please send a 300 word description of your idea to [email protected] by Thursday afternoon (27th March). If you have a proposal for future action please submit it in writing to [email protected] by Thursday afternoon (27th March). Please forward this notice to your friends, local peace groups. For this movement to be successful it needs the creative ideas of all of its participants. Come to the conference.
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