There will be (at least) two protests at the Tasmanian ALP state conference this weekend: Saturday, 12noon, Wrest Point Casino: Wilderness Society organised rally on forest issues Sunday, 12noon, Wrest Point Casino: Socialist Alliance initiated protest against Labor's "economic rationalist" record. This record for the Bacon government includes the following: "privatising the Trust Bank, introducing a Kennett-style workers' compensation system, closing the only state-funded child-care centre in Tasmania, allowing nuclear warship visits in violation of its election platform, closing one primary school, presiding over record levels of woodchipping of old-growth forests, ignoring election promises to decriminalise marijuana and remove anti-abortion laws, threatening to close a women's shelter, doing nothing about chronic underfunding of the state's health system leading to a blow-out in hospital waiting lists, bowing to business pressure to gut relatively progressive industrial relations legislation and closing the Royal Derwent Hospital." (from http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/459p10.htm) The protest is taking place under the banner of "People before profits". Specific issues to be taken up include: ensuring an adequate abortion service since the ONLY free-standing abortion clinic was closed this year, more funding for the health budget. For more info: ph 6234 6397 or email back to me. All welcome. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
