Issue No 58 | 16 June 2000 | |
NewsMaude Barlow Public Lecture - Sydney June 27
Maude Barlow is Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, an activist organisation with 100, 000 members working to preserve Canada's social programs, culture, wilderness and sovereignty.
Barlow is renowned as an articulate and powerful citizen's advocate and a champion of fair trade and social justice values in an era of trade liberalisation . She was a key international campaigner against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) -she posted the confidential draft MAI agreement on the internet in 1997. She was listed by the New Internationalist magazine as one of six key economic thinkers who have challenged dominant economic thought . Her views will inform the current ALP debate on fair trade versus free trade which will continue at the ALP National conference in July. Her topic is "What's wrong with Free Trade? Canadian and global campaigns on NAFTA, the MAI and WTO". When: Tues June 27, 6.30 pm Where: Merewether Bldg Lecture Theatre 2, University of Sydney, City Rd, Darlington (south of the footbridge) $10 and $5 concession to cover the costs of her visit Her visit is sponsored by the Australian Fair Trade Network (AFTINET) a network of 30 unions and community organisations including the ACTU, the AMWU, the AEU and the CFMEU. For further information contact mailto:[email protected]
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Interview: After the Gold Rush NSW building union leader Andrew Ferguson on life after the Olympics and why Che Guevara is his political hero. Unions: MUA Women's Policy Back on Course A hard hitting report by the Maritime Union's women's delegate Sue Gajdos prompts the union to, once again, promote its female members. Politics: Raising the Rafters Opposition leader Kim Beazley delivered a stirring address to last weekend's NSW ALP State Conference. Here's every word of it. History: Time and Tide Greg Patmore surveys the themes of Working Lives in Regional Australia in this introduction to the latest issue of 'Labour History' International: Fair in the Land of the Free More than 20,000 immigrant workers, union members and community and religious leaders packed a Los Angeles Sports Arena on June 10 in support of immigrant workers' rights. Environment: Life's a Beach Workers are invited to join an environmental campaign to protect the coastal communities and coastline from exploitation by multinationals. Satire: More Pacific Coups Forecast The popular holiday resort of Great Keppel Island is bracing itself for a bloody coup, following the rash of rebel uprisings in other parts of the Pacific. Review: At the Barricades Denis Evans' photo essay on the Patrick dispute captures the camaraderie on the Melbourne picket lines - solidarity that, like solder, welded workers and their communities together into a human barricade.
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