LL:URL: Jenny George Retirement
Jenny George will be officially leaving her position of ACTU President on International Women's' Day (8/3/00). To mark to occasion she will be online at LaborNET to chat with any women workers between 1pm 2pm EST. The address is http://www.labor.net.au/virtualtradeshall/auditorium/ . For further information contact Paul Howes from the Labor Council of NSW on 02 9264 1691 or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or check out http://labor.net.au -- 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:DDV: International solidarity
You are invited to hear Monica Morgan from the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Corporation speak on the role of international solidarity in Indigenous struggles Australia Asia Worker Links Annual General Meeting Tuesday 7 March 2000, at 6pm at the CEPU TS Building 71 Cromwell Street, Collingwood The meeting will include reports on international solidarity activities and a discussion of future plans All welcome *** Australia Asia Worker Links PO Box 264 Fitzroy Victoria 3065 Australia Tel: 03 9419 5045 Fax: 03 9416 2746 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL.VC -- 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: Aust should Follow NZ Example on N-Weapons
AUST SHOULD FOLLOW NZ EXAMPLE ON N-WEAPONS In response to remarks by Prime minister Howard yesterday that Australia should recognize there were 'differences' between Australia and NZ over foreign policy, the Australian Peace Committee and Friends of the Earth have called on the Australian government to follow the New Zealand example over nuclear weapons policy, and vigorously pursue the fulfillment of the obligations set out in the nuclear nonproliferation treaty at the upcoming nuclear nonproliferation treaty review conference, April 24-May19th. According to APC's Irene Gale and Friends of the Earth's John Hallam, "The fact is that New Zealand is simply pursuing the policies that the majority of Australians would also prefer to pursue: Policies that align it with the majority of countries in the world that consider that the obligations imposed on the nuclear weapons states since 1970 by Article VI of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty ought to be honored. It is Australia not New Zealand that is the odd one out, and New Zealand that has shown leadership. "The upcoming review conference of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty is going to be difficult. It will be difficult because the nuclear weapon states have for thirty years ignored the clear legal obligations imposed on them by the NPT. The Australian government is now talking about 'damage control' at the upcoming conference, but the only kind of 'damage control' that is ever going to work in the longer term is for the nuclear weapons states to fulfill their article VI obligations. Australia has for a number of years refused to align itself with New Zealand and with the overwhelming majority of the worlds nations, who think that the weapons states need to be pressed very strongly indeed to fulfill their obligations under article VI to eliminate their nuclear arsenals. This failure has been underlined by the secretary General Kofi Annan on his recent visit, when he spoke of the the 'discouraging list of nuclear disarmament measures in suspense, negotiations not initiated and opportunities not taken'." "New Zealand has shown precisely the leadership and commonsense on the nuclear weapons issue that Australia should have shown. Australia should work closely with New Zealand to produce a truly productive outcome at the upcoming NPT Review Conference." John Hallam 02-9517-3903 h02-9810-2598 Irene Gale 08-8364-2291 -- 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: Anarcho-Syndicalism
a little while ago i went a bit crazy and changed all the references to "anarcho-syndicalism" on my website, "Anarcho-Syndicalism 101", especially with regard to the online version of "Anarcho-Syndicalism" by Rudolf Rocker. this is just to let you know that i've come to my senses a little bit, and changed them back to how they were. you can now find the proper, non-modifed version of "Anarcho-Syndicalism" here: http://flag.blackened.net/huelga/asindex.htm regards, ben -- 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:DDV: SKA TV - Oakdale CFMEU doco
OAKDALE 6.3 MILLION reasons to belong to the UNION Screening 8.00 PM Monday March 6th FREE @ The Builders Arms Hotel (gerturde st fitzroy) and on Channel 31 Melbourne, same time SYNOPSIS: On the 9th of June 1999, 125 underground coal miners at the Oakdale Colliery, West of Sydney, were told that the mine was closing and there was no money to pay them the $6.3 million in entitlements they were owed. Some with almost 40 years service at the mine wwere owed up to $100.000. Most of the miners were family men with mortgages who, without a job and robbed of their entitlements, faced ruin. This 24 minute video records the development of the Oakdale campaign from the first day and the magnificent role played by the rank and file Oakdale workers and their families. It highlights the strong national community campaign mounted by their Union, the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU). The CFMEU, with the support of the Australian trade union movement, went head to head with a hostile conservative Federal Government for nine weeks before a national coal strike and widespread public anger, forced the Govenment into a dramatic backflip and the payment of the entire $6.3 million to the Oakdale miners. With up to 20.000 Australian workers robbed of similar benefits every year, the Oakdale campaign also forced a commitment from the Federal Government to finally introduce a national employees entitlements protection scheme. While the Government is looking at a minimal scheme, the CFMEU asserts that no Australian worker should have to settle for less than the Oakdale miners Won - every cent of their entitlements. -- http://www.accessnews.skatv.org.au email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (61) 3 9663 6976 fax (61) 3 9662 9106 mail to: SKA TV p.o box 1252 st kilda sth, 3182 victoria, australia -- LL.VC -- 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
