LL:DDV: Protest against closure of community medical service
Moreland Community Health Centre Medical Service is being closed! Protests have won a Public Meeting about the Medical Service organised for When: Wednesday 7 July at 7.00pm Where:Brunswick Town Hall, Sydney Road, Brunswick The Picket outside Moreland Community Health Centre in Glenlyon Road, Brunswick (near Sydney Road) has been extended to Friday 2nd July, 9am to 3pm each day. There is a lot of community concern and outrage with the decision to close the Community Health Center Medical Service. Hundreds of signatures on the petition have been collected in just a few days. The protests have succeeded in getting the Community Health Service and Moreland Council to call a Public meeting about the Medical Service. This is an important opportunity to get more information about the situation and an opportunity to raise your concerns. If you live or work in Moreland, or you are client of the Health Centre, please come along. If you wish to help with the picket, or collect signatures on the petition please call Helen on (03) 9386 2082 Copies of the petition for download and some background information can be found at: http://www.users.bigpond.com/Takver/soapbox/index.htm -- Takver Takver's Soapbox: http://www.users.bigpond.com/Takver/soapbox/index.htm War on the Wharfies - Radical Tradition, an Aussie History Page http://members.xoom.com/takver/history/index.htm Visit the People's Justice Alliance: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pjan/ LL.VG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List As vilified, slandered and attacked by One Nation mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR: Jabiluka report delivered, mine proposal stomped
Senator Lyn Allison Australian Democrats Spokesperson on Nuclear Issues, Chair Senate Environment References Committee Jabiluka report delivered, mine proposal stomped Democrats table damning Senate inquiry report The proposed uranium mine at Jabiluka is "dangerous", poses "a grave threat to the natural and cultural values of Kakadu National Park" and "should not be allowed to proceed", according to a Senate report tabled today. Democrats' spokesperson on nuclear issues and Chair of the committee report, Senator Lyn Allison, said the report vindicates the long-held concerns of those opposed to the mine. "The majority report states - the Jabiluka mine is dangerous and must not proceed," Senator Allison said. Senator Allison said a key recommendation of the report was that Kakadu National Park be placed on the World Heritage in-danger list at the July 12 meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Paris. She said it was important for the World Heritage Committee to fully appreciate the scope of the proposed mine and the devastating impact it would have on the living culture of the local Indigenous people, the Mirrar-Gundjehmi. "The Committee report reveals clearer than ever before the link between the deep social distress and demoralisation of local Aboriginal people and the development of the Ranger and Jabiluka uranium mines," Senator Allison said. "It tells a tale of continuing dispossession, the deprivation of basic rights regarding land and the devastation of the sacred cultural heritage of a living culture. "Jabiluka is unsafe, unnecessary and poses a grave and very real threat to natural and cultural values of Kakadu and the very survival of the local Indigenous community." The Committee's recommendations include that: * the Jabiluka mine not proceed because "it is irreconcilable with the outstanding natural and cultural values of Kakadu National Park" * the UNESCO World Heritage Committee place Kakadu National Park on its List of World Heritage in Danger, without State Party consent (i.e. Australian consent) * an inquiry into the Jabiluka project under Section 11 of the Environment Protection (Impact of Proposals) Act 1974 (or under the equivalent provision of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Bill, when proclaimed) be conducted to examine "the inadequate level of assessment applied to the Jabiluka proposals" * The 1982 mining agreement with the traditional owners was "negotiated under questionable circumstances" and that the Northern Land Council failed in its duty to "fully inform, consult and act on the instructions of Traditional Owners". Senator Allison said the report would be sent to the World Heritage Committee for its meeting on July 12 so they could see the results of the committees detailed work. She added the report also sends a strong message to the Australian Government. "The report sends a clear message to the Australian Government - it's time to back off its unreasonable and irrational defence of Jabiluka. The inquiry has shown the approvals process to be seriously flawed, the mine to be dangerous, and that Australia is simply not meeting its domestic and international obligations. It is time to do what the Traditional Owners want, to stop the mine," Senator Allison concluded. Contacts: Justin O'Brien on 0411 473 697, Senator Lyn Allison 015 691 512 -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR:PKK statement on Ocalan verdict
PKK statement on Ocalan verdict Statement to the Press and General Public The conspiracy started with the abduction and handing over of our national leader to the Turkish Republic on 15 February 1999 has now passed its first phase with the decision of Imrali court on 29 June 1999, despite his plea for peace and reconciliation. This decision will never be acceptable to our people and our party. It will place responsibility on the powers which led to this conclusion. It will become a black spot in the history of the Turkish people, an unforgivable crime with respect to humanitarian law, and is intended to deny and annihilate the oppressed Kurdish people. It is patently obvious that the judgment does not target an individual but is imposed on an entire nation. The decision was a foregone conclusion in light of chauvinistic attitudes displayed by the government and the Turkish media and a holding of the Turkish National Security Council just prior to the verdict. Our president's trial followed by Turkish and Kurdish peoples has been on the world agenda and the date of 29 June had been picked deliberately. Those bringing down this verdict on this day, must know that this is not the Kurdistan of 1925 and the Kurdish people are not without leadership, unorganised and unarmed as they were in 1925 when Turkey executed the Kurdish leader Shaik Sayid. Our Presidential Council is monitoring the response of the international powers who hold prime responsibility in this matter and that of the Turkish Republic whose immediate reply to our proposal for peace and a democratic resolution has been the gallows. The entire personnel of our party, armed forces and front will not respond lightly to this significant historical development and are prepared for any eventuality. Our people at home and abroad will participate in the broadest democratic and political senses and will give warning to the world that this dangerous verdict has potential consequences that could ignite an area far wider than that of Turkey and Kurdistan. The political death sentence handed down on our leader Apo on 29 June 1999 constitutes a state attack on our people's lawful democratic rights and future freedom. For these reasons, all Kurdish national forces and institutions as well as our friends must join together in opposition to this verdict with sustained and restrained protests in support of "Freedom for our leader Apo and Peace in Kurdistan". In the same way, political circles in Turkey and the world powers must make their response to this verdict clear and as promptly as possible. No one can be in any doubt that the PKK Presidential Council will be closely observing the positions taken by all parties in this first phase following the passing of the death sentence on Imrali and will make its response in the light of developments. The verdict that history will pass on our people and our leader will be acquittal. PKK Presidential Council, 29 June 1999. Translated from the Turkish original. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:ART: Work relations: Author on the job
Australian Financial Review http://www.afr.com.au/content/990630/news/news9.html June 30, 1999 Author on the job Work relations, By Stephen Long Do you ever wonder "why do I work so hard?" Maybe you should start asking yourself "why do I spend so much?" Could it be that you work staggeringly long hours to support the consumption of more and more stuff, but don't feel any happier? Seven years ago Juliet Schor documented the decline of leisure time and the drift towards excessive working hours in The Overworked American. In its sequel, The Overspent American, the director of womens' studies at Harvard examines the reasons why millions of middle-class citizens are "trapped in a cycle of work and spend". Its conclusions are equally applicable to Australia. What people acquire has long been bound up with personal identity, but Schor argues that in recent decades peoples' reference points for spending have changed and intensified. In the early post-war decades, people spent to "keep up with the Joneses". Our neighbours set the standard for what we had to have, and people in a neighbourhood earned broadly similar incomes. Today the chances are we don't even know our neighbours, much less where they eat and what they buy. People benchmark their lifestyles against pervasive advertising and media images of the hip, the rich and the successful. But these media "friends" are often wealthier than we are - and therein lies the problem. Schor links the new consumerism to a host of social pathologies. In the 1980s, when desperation for various consumer items became intense, reported shoplifting offenses in the US doubled. Legal routes to product acquisition also flourished, as the less well off worked more overtime and took second jobs to support product acquisition. Ecological devastation and growing class inequity, Schor contends, are at the core middle-consumer patterns. The culture of desire is toughest on the poor. "For many on low incomes, the lure of consumerism is hard to resist," writes Schor. "When the money isn't there, however, feelings of deprivation, personal failure, and deep psychic pain result." I reached similar conclusions at hearings this year on the ACTU's "living wage" claim, listening to a low-paid factory worker who struggled to afford necessities talk about his children's desires for Nike and Reebok. On one level it jarred; not being able to buy designer shoes is a weird definition of poverty. But it illustrates how, in a culture where consumption means so much, not having much money becomes a profound social disability. Yet spending does not seem to lead to contentment for the well off. According to Schor, more than a quarter of households on incomes of $US100,000 plus ($151,000) say they cannot afford to buy everything they need. Half the population of the world's richest country claim not to be able to afford the basics. Ultimately, Schor provides at best a partial explanation for the overwork phenomenon - she ignores the role employers play in structuring working time - but a cogent critique of the basis of modern capitalism. Feedback to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:URL: Community Organising and Development
http://uac.rdp.utoledo.edu/comm-org/ COMM-ORG, the Online Conference on Community Organising and Development -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DD: Horta plus Pilger to speak in Sydney and Melbourne
FREE EAST TIMOR EMERGENCY MEETING organised by the National Council for Timorese Resistance (CNRT) Speakers: JOSE RAMOS HORTA, just back from meetings with Xanana Gusmao and other East Timorese in Jakarta JOHN PILGER, film maker and journalist, travelling especially to Australia for this meeting Solidarity message from Indonesian people to be delivered by Dhyta Caturani, Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia. SYDNEY: 7.00pm Friday July 16 - Keith Burrows Theatre, University of New South Wales MELBOURNE Saturday July 17 - time and venue to be confirmed Please email this announcement to all your contacts. Please mail a notice of meeting to members of your organisation Please put up a sign on the noticeboard at your workplace or association. ACTION IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDONESIA AND EAST TIMOR (ASIET) P.O. BOX 458, BROADWAY NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA. Telephone: 61-(0)2-96901230 Fax: 61-(0)2-96901381 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.peg.apc.org/~asiet Free all kidnap victims of the military! No more military in politics! Bring to justice all New Order violators of human rights! Free Xanana Gusmao! Free Budiman Sujatmiko! Free Dita Sari! Free all political prisoners in Indonesia and East Timor! Unban the books of Pramoedya Ananta Toer! LL.VG LL.NG -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:REM: Community Networking conference
http://www.civ.org.au/cn99/ Community Information Victoria & the Australian Community Networking Alliance Engaging Regionalism Conference: 29 September - 1 October, 1999 Ballarat University, Victoria, Australia -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:PR: 1999 MEDIA SPOKESWOMEN'S DIRECTORY
NATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA CENTRE Jamieson House, 43 Constitution Avenue, Reid ACT 2602 (PO Box 123, Civic Square ACT 2608) Ph 02 6257 0670 Fax 02 6247 4669=20 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web http://isis.aust.com/nwmc. 1999 MEDIA SPOKESWOMEN'S DIRECTORY The National Women's Media Centre is now updating the Media Spokeswomen Directory. At the last count, only 17% of people interviewed in news media were women. The Directory is compiled to provide the media with a handy listing of women who have expertise in a range of areas and are ready to be interviewed, to redress the imbalance. This Directory is a way of increasing the opportunities for women's voices and opinions to be heard. If you would like to be included in the Directory, please fill in the form below and email back asap. And remember, successful media spokeswomen need to be AVAILABLE. If you have the expertise but don't feel confident about being interviewed, we can help with a Doing Media Interviews kit, by phone, or by providing training sessions where possible. Thank you, Helen Leonard, Convenor -- ENTRY FORM NB the information you provide will be printed in the Directory and available on the NWMC web page Name Organisation Street Suburb State Postcode Home phone Work phone Mobile Email Fax Current positions Areas of expertise Availability (eg anytime, business hours) Please email back to [EMAIL PROTECTED] asap AND pass this entry form on to any other women you think should be in the Directory. PS If you would like a copy of the 1998 Directory, contact the National Women's Media Centre -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
