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Issue No. 249 | 03 December 2004 |
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Moral Majority
Interview: Minority Report Industrial: Girl Power Unions: Made in NZ History: Spirit for a Fair Go Economics: Fool's Gold Politics: Worth Fighting For Health: The Force Behind Medibank Legal: Robust Justice International: After the Revolution Poetry: The Sound of Unions Review: Bad Santa
New Matilda The Soapbox The Locker Room Politics Postcard
 Leadership SkillsNot A Casey Fan
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Activists Activists What's On!
James Hardie Community Protest Support shafted dying victims of Hardie's toxic legacy at the community protest outside the Australian HQ of the disgraced building products maker. We protest 'til they pay! Where: James Hardie gates, 10 Colquhoun Street Rosehill When: Everday, Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm This protest is supported by ADFA, CFMEU, AMWU and the MUA. Eureka Celebrations In Victoria The VTHC are organising celebrations. They are as follows: Saturday 4th December: 2.00pm Eureka Diggers March. It is proposed that a bus will leave Carlton at aprox 10.00am, and leaving Ballarat at 4.00pm. Sunday 5th December: 12 noon: Eureka Memorial Committee Dinner at Ballarat. For more information: http://www.eurekaballarat.com/index.php NSW Eureka Stockade 150th Anniversary Event Sydney Event. December 5, 2 PM. Gaelic Club, Devonshire St, Surry Hills. "Still Fighting for Democratic Rights" For the 150th anniversary of Eureka Stockade the Communist Party of Australia is launching two important publications on Eureka. The first is booklet written by Bob Walshe on the political meaning of Eureka for today and a folio of lino cuts about the rebellion. Warren Smith of the MUA will chair the event and main speaker will be Dr Drew Cottle historian from University of Western Sydney. The significance of Eureka for Australian unionists is immense. All welcome and entry is by donation. Aceh Sat Dec 4th, 9am-1pm, UTS Broadway,Achehnese Community of Australia (ACA) seminar on human rights abuses in Aceh. Speakers include Ed Aspinall, Justice John Dowd, etc. Contact Vacy (02)9949-3553. . Films, Politics and Learning Conference Organization: OVAL Research, Faculty of Education, University of Technology 6 & 7 Dec These nights aim: - To bring together radical film-makers, radical film buffs, and radical educators. - To inspire educators about ways they can use film in their work. - To inspire film-makers about ways they might facilitate learning about politics. - To foster discussion and advocacy about this field of practice. We are seeking videos and films under 2 categories: 1. Agitprop: protest, guerrilla, activist, political, subversive short films /videos. 2. Participatory film-making: community films/videos as social intervention. The only format accepted is DVD. Send copies with entry form to Celina McEwen, The Centre for Popular Education, UTS, PO Box 123, BROADWAY NSW 2007 AUSTRALIA. Deadline for entries is September 30, 2004. Entry forms can be downloaded from www.cpe.uts.edu.au/pdfs/FPLentry.pdf For further information email Celina on (02) 9514 3847 or [email protected] waterloo fights back There will be a rally of residents and concerned citizens in Sydney‚s inner-city Waterloo on Monday 6 December 2004 as alarm spreads over the NSW Government‚s intention to demolish the area‚s famous 1950s public housing towers. The distinctive towers, sometimes referred to as „pillars of despair‰, are home to more than 3,200 households and regularly top statistical surveys as the densest concentration of the poorest people in Australia. The residents are a mix of the frail elderly, aboriginal families, single mothers and the sick, including a significant number of HIV positive gay people. The Carr government, while announcing its intention to transform the socially depressed area into a multi-billion dollar residential and commercial showcase as part of its $5 billion Redfern-Waterloo Strategy, has not provided one word of assurance to those about to lose their homes. „The towers might not look like much but a real estate opportunity to the politicians of Macquarie Street, but they are home to a lot of people,‰ spokesman for community group RED watch Geoffrey Turnbull said. „While the Carr government has mouthed platitudes about community consultation, in reality no one who lives in the Redfern Waterloo area has been consulted at all.‰ A rally co-ordinator, local journalist Trevor Davies, said many of the area‚s elderly had no idea what was happening. „Some of these people have lived their entire lives in Waterloo and are very frightened of what might happen to them,‰ he said. „Arbitrarily turfing people out of their homes in the name of progress without so much as a word of consultation or reassurance is causing enormous hardship. Not surprisingly, they feel they are being literally bulldozed out of the way.‰ Admired local community advocate, the Anglican Church‚s Reverend John Rev John Mcintrye said, „any proposed displacement of 3,200 households is outrageous and must not happen .We are seeing Sydney at its cruellest, and the city‚s powerbrokers at their most heartless,‰ he said. „It doesn‚t have to be this way.‰ Where: 10am ŒWaterloo Green‚ (between Matavai and Turanga) between Phillip and Raglan Streets, opposite George Street, Waterloo The war continues...Human rights do not ... Vigil - Fri December 10, Town Hall Square, 5.30 pm - 6.30 pm December 10 in International Human Rights Day Iraq Human Rights Facts: * Some scientific estimates put Iraqi casualties at over 100,000 since the invasion began on March 20, 2003 (Lancet report) * Twenty Iraqi medical staff and dozens of other civilians were killed when a missile hit a clinic on 9 November * It is estimated that half of Fallujah‚s residents fled before the recent assault on that city * In August 2004 the Iraqi interim Government reintroduced the death penalty * The detention of American conscientious objectors such as Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia. * US inflicted torture and degradation of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib * „The occupation of Iraq has led to the revival of (extremist) Islamic groups in Iraq who are terrorising the whole society‰ -Union of Unemployed in Iraq * Iraqi‚s regularly detained incommunicado with no access to family, lawyers or even the Red Cross * THIS INFORMATION SOURCED FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORTS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED. SEE http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-irq/index FOR MORE REPORTS OF ABUSE * Organised by the Sydney Peace and Justice Coalition www.nswpeace.org; [email protected] The Motorcycle Diaries * Sunday, 12th December, 3:45pm Film preview and fundraiser Based on the books "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto Guevara and "Travelling with Che Guevara" by Alberto Grando. Thefilm follows aninspiring journey of self-discovery and traces theyouthful origins of arevolutionary heart. AETFA will be presenting this film preview as a fundraiser for Education in East Timor at Palace Nova Cinemas Rundle Street City 3:45pm Sunday 12th December Tickets $12/$9 concession BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL Please phone... Mark - 8277 7356 (after 6pm M-F, or on weekend) or email bookings - click here) Visit by Comrade Claus December 25, everywhere.
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