Issue No 81 | 08 December 2000 | |
Letters to the EditorMedia and Police Versus Protestors
Melbourne historian Dr Bernard Barrett has written a report entitled "Beating up", analysing the role of the police and the news media at the World Economic Forum protests in Melbourne in September 2000. He examines the early media coverage of the protest plans from June to August 2000, which "beat up" an expectation of violence. He then examines all TV coverage of September 11-13 and finds that this footage depicts only punches and blows perpetrated by the police and none by civilians. The Barrett Report is on the Victorian WTO Watch web site: http://www.vicnet.net.au/~gcforum/BarrettReport.htm Mary O
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Interview: Back to Work After a stretch of unemployment following the 1996 election, former Keating Minister Robert Tickner is now helping others find work. Media: Reality Check Aiden White, head of the international journalists' union, argues that online journalism presents a new set of challenges for organising. Economics: In the Same Boat In an unprecedented move, a coalition of industry, community and trade union groups have joined forces to address long-trerm unemployment. International: Nepalese Hotel Workers Ask for Support Hotel workers in the small Himalayan nation of Nepal have finally decided to vent their anger and call a general strike for Monday - over a 21 year old dispute. Unions: Speaking in Tongues Labor Council's Mark Morey outlines the successful campaign by local government workers for a community language allowance. History: Fighting Words The anti-conscription campaign of 1914-18 tore the ALP apart; but this was not the first time the labour movement took a militantly anti-war stance. Politics: A New Socialism In an extract from his new book, political economist Frank Stilwell argues the need for a new radicalism to counter the Third Way Satire: Roy Slaven on the Rampage John Doyle's history of the ABC stretches back to a 1958 evening in Lithgow on which he was "scared shitless" by Blackboard on Mr Squiggle. Review: Mauled in the Bear Pit Vengeance may be sweet but it is always made better when you are able to write a book about yourself that also provides the opportunity to dump a bucket load on those who undertook your removal.
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