LL:DDV: World Refugee Day Forum - 3pm - 5pm, Friday 20 June
A WORLD REFUGEE DAY FORUM - 3pm - 5pm, Friday 20 June, Trades Hall speakers include: Jess Whyte (RMIT Refugee and Asylum Seeker Project); Spencer Zifcak (Assoc Professor, Latrobe University; David Manne (Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre Co-ordinator) Pamela Curr (Austalian Greens Refugee Spokesperson) 3pm - 5pm Friday 20 June Trades Hall Cnr. Victoria Lygon Sts Carlton South Entry by gold coin donation. Refreshments provided ...all proceeds go to the Thornbury and Footscray Asylum, Seeker Resource Centres Presented by the federation of community legal centres refugee and immigration working group and the rmit refugee and asylum seeker project. -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDV: Annual Green Left Weekly Fiesta For a World without War
Join us at our annual: Green Left Weekly Global Fiesta For a World without War Sat. July 26, 7.00pm, Brunswick Town Hall, Brunswick celebrate the achievements of GLW and international freedom struggles with a night of global festivities to tantalise the body and mind! a healthy dose of politics, delicious banquet feast, tropical cocktails and explosive Latin dance rhythms with live band AZUCAR tickets: $35.00 (solidarity price), $25.00 waged, $15.00 concession for bookings call 9639 8622 (entry for band AZUCAR only: 9.30pm - $12.00 waged, $8.00 concession) -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
World Refugee Day - Victoria
Glossy posters and leaflets are available at the Trades Hall bookshop Pls forward this email around World Refugee Day RALLY - Melbourne =AD SUNDAY 22 June 2003 Meet 1pm State Library (Cnr Swanston Latrobe sts) marching to Federation Square by 2pm STOP THE WAR ON REFUGEES RESIDENCY NOT REJECTION The rally will be chaired by ACTU President Sharan Burrow. SPEAKERS INCLUDE Usama Mohammed Aljanabi Fivo Freitas Pamela Curr Arnold Zable There'll be theatre, singing, speakers and puppets. Women for a Humane Refugee Policy will meet beforehand at 12.00pm in the Carlton Gardens (Cnr Victoria Rathdowne sts) and march to the State Library. Actors for Refugees will perform at the Yarra riverside. Please bring your banner and march as a contingent. END MANDATORY DETENTION END THE 'PACIFIC SOLUTION' HONOUR THE CONVENTION PERMANENT PROTECTION THIS ACTION HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY: Victorian Alliance for Refugees, Australian Council of Trade Unions, Rural Australians for Refugees, Refugee Action Collective, Victorian Trades Hall Council, Labor Coalition of Friends of Asylum Seekers, Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria, Labor for Refugees, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, A Just Australia, Women for a Humane Refugee Policy, Permanent Protection for All Network, International Federation of Iranian Refugees, The Victorian Deaths in Custody Watch Committee, The Greens, Socialist Alliance, Darebin Community Legal Centre, Australians Against Racism, Action in Solidarity with Asia and The Pacific, Bula Bula Health Project at the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Good Shepherd Social Justice, Actors for Refugees, Brigidine Community for Justice, Kurdish Turkish Human Rights Group, Islamic Girl's/Women's Group, Friends of the Earth, Amnesty International, Melbourne Congregation of Sisters of Mercy, Fitzroy Learning Centre, Labor Council of NSW, Walk Against the War Coalition, Free the Refugees Campaign, CFMEU (Construction) NSW, Campaign for the Protection of Asylum Seekers, Islamic Society of Victoria, Geelong Refugee Action and Information Network, Port Phillip Council, and many more. Victorian Trade Unions: AEU, AMWU, ANF, AWU, ETU, VIEU, MEAA, NTEU, TCFUA. to add your name to the list of supporters please contact Victorian Alliance for Refugees working party members: Judy McVey [EMAIL PROTECTED]0418 347 374 Steve Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0413 021 412 Vicki Doherty [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0419 503 077 Harvey Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9531 5941 .. -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:ART: Colonial Ambitions Aust Govt plan to take over Solomons
The following articles were published in The Guardian, newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, June 18th, 2003. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central Committee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Guardian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webpage: http://www.cpa.org.au Subscription rates on request. ** INDEX 1. Colonial Ambitions : Australia's plan to take over the Soloman Islands 2. Israeli assassination condemned 3. Editorial : Round one to Crean 4. ASIO set to get enhanced secret police powers 5. Culture and Life : Dusted 1. COLONIAL AMBITIONS Aust Govt's plan to take over the Solomon Islands The Howard Government is stepping up its activities as the deputy sheriff of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region and even further afield. It is planning its own pre-emptive strike against the Solomon Islands and to send more Australian troops overseas. by Peter Symon The daily newspapers of June 12 reported three planned strategies of the Australian Government: 1) To take over the administration, policing and economy of the Solomon Islands for up to ten years with a police force with orders to kill and a military occupation force on standby. The Australian Government's policy is called cooperative intervention. 2) To commence the interdiction of North Korean ships to be searched for missiles, counterfeit money and drugs. 3) To return Australian troops to Afghanistan where the situation is spinning out of control as resistance to foreign occupation mounts. At the same time, the Australian Government is maintaining occupation forces in Iraq where resistance to the occupying forces is also rapidly gaining strength. A media blitz has been mounted to justify the re-imposition of a colonial regime in the Solomon Islands. It is Time to help thy neighbours, writes a Financial Review (FR) editorial (12-3-03), in an attempt to sugar coat the Howard Government's colonial ambitions. The Sydney Morning Herald claims Australia may lead an armed intervention force into the Solomon Islands while The Australian newspaper claims that Rescuing the Solomons makes sense. What is needed says the FR is leadership in the form of devising and marketing new policy directions. The policies have already been devised and the marketing has begun. The flurry of talk about and preparation for intervention have been promoted by reports released by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and the misnamed reactionary think tank, the Centre for Independent Studies. The proposals of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute are summed up by the FR as a blueprint for a governing council of about 12 people led by a chief executive with a light infantry company on standby, a judicial team of 20, prison staff, a group of accountants and other financial managers to administer the economy. A constitutional review would be held, with a form of federalism as an option. In effect this would turn the Solomon Islands into a sort of corporation to be run by an appointed Board of Directors and a CEO. Nowhere is there any talk of democracy except that to market what the Government has already decided to do it is claimed that the Solomon Island's parliament would have to approve. The media reports that approval has already been given by Solomon Islands' Prime Minister, Sir Allan Kemakeza, Sir John Ini Lapli, Solomon's Governor-General and Sir Peter Kenilorea the Parliamentary Speaker. Parliament has not met for the last 12 months. While railing about the Solomon Islands being a failed state with lawlessness and corruption abounding, the FR reports that Big money has been paid to government figures, for remitting export duties on timber and that Substantial 'compensation' money, mostly from Taiwan in return for diplomatic recognition, has gone to political leaders. It is most likely that the above listed government leaders, all knighted by the British Crown, would have known of this corruption and could have been included among recipients of these payments. After recalling that Australia's merchandise exports to the South Pacific were worth $2.5 billion in 2002, the FR comments, That's worth looking after. But in 2001-2002 Australia exported $62 million of merchandise to the Solomon Islands but imported only $2 million worth. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute document says that The collapse of Solomon Islands is depriving Australia of business and investment opportunities. The truth is that the present crisis in the Solomon Islands has been created by neo-colonialism. The economy is dominated by foreign interests. Neo-colonialism has created competition between different groups for economic and political patronage. The Solomon Islands were settled at least 4000 years ago by
LL:INFO: Sign on to Genocide Prosecution, ICC today
Add your name and mob to this Genocide Notification now... and send this email on to others who would like to consider signing on too, please CONSENT TO NOTIFICATION OF THE CHIEF PROSECUTOR http://www.aboriginalgenocide.com.au/icc/2_consentvic.html See Notification to ICC Chief Prosecutor, 16 June 2003, page 7 http://www.aboriginalgenocide.com.au/icc/1_notifycp.html --- We, the undersigned, hereby consent to the notification made at The Hague on 16 June 2003 by Robert Thorpe, Gunai, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court requesting the commencement of criminal proceedings for the investigation and prosecution of certain perpetrators of genocide against us, the Original Peoples of Country situate within geographic Australia. --- Date: 16 June 2003 Signature: Robert Thorpe, Gunai Name: Robert Thorpe Country/Law: Gunai Contact Details: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Victim/Survivor Case Number: 1 --- Date: 16 June 2003 Signature: Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna Name: Kevin Buzzacott Country/Law: Arabunna Contact Details: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Victim/Survivor Case Number: 2 --- Date: 16 June 2003 Signature: Name: Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma Country/Law: Gungalidda Contact Details: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Victim/Survivor Case Number: 3 --- Date: Signature: Name: Isabel Coe Country/Law: Wiradjuri Contact Details: Victim/Survivor Case Number: 4 --- Date: Signature: Name: Country/Law: Contact Details: Victim/Survivor Case Number: --- To sign on, please send an email to Robbie Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following details: Date: Signature: Name: Country/Law: Contact Details: [email address is fine] By return email you will receive your Victim/Survivor Case Number and details of where to send a copy signed by hand. --- .. -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDV: Book appeal for the Big Red Book Fair
We want your books! The Big Red Book Fair is the major fund-raiser for the New International Bookshop, Australia's only specialist left-wing book co-operative. On the weekend of Saturday 28 June Sunday 29 June, we take over the ground floor of the historic Trades Hall building for an enormous second-hand book sale. To make the event possible, we need books...and plenty of them. Political, non-political, left-wing, right-wing -- it doesn't matter, so long as they can be read. If you're moving house, if you don't want your ex-lover's novels on your shelves, if you've flunked out of uni...whatever the reason, if you have books you don't want, give us a call. You'll be keeping the progressive movement alone while ensuring that your pre-loved books go to a good home. To arrange pick-up, call us on 9662 3744 or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Big Red Book Fair 11 am to 4 pm Saturday 28 June and Sunday 29 June -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDN: Hands of Cuba! Public Meeting in Sydney
Hands of Cuba! - Public Meeting Saturday 28 June 2003 6.30pm CFMEU Building, 10-12 Railway Parade, Lidcombe (opposite Lidcombe railway station) The public meeting will feature talks examining the current international climate and its impact on Cuba, so-called human rights violations and the campaign to free the five. There will also be a special video presentation on five's case. Entry by donation. Food and drink available. Supported by: Amigos De Cuba, Australia Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS), Committee in Solidarity with Cuba, Western Suburbs, Committee In Solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean (CISLAC), Communist League and Democratic Socialist Party. .. -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDV: Coming soon at Trades Hall
GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL ARTS, bringing class back into the class struggle . . . -- THE WISDOM, THE POWER, THE PROPHECY World Peace Pray Day Benefit -- For one night only in Melbourne, Chief Arvol Looking Horse (Spiritual Leader of the Great Sioux Nation) will share the wisdom of the White Buffalo Calf Prophecy. Join us in an extraordinary evening to experience the ancient ways of the People of Lakota, Nakota and Dakota Nations collectively know as the Sioux Nation. Chief Arvol Looking Horse is the President and founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. He is also the 19th generation keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe Bundle and holds the responsibility of Spiritual Leader among the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota People. He will share the wisdom that embellishes the tradition of the White Buffalo Calf. Chief Arvol Looking Horse will be joined by Native American Elders and performers of the World Peace And Prayer Day Delegation. Together they will share their knowledge and culture through talks, dance, song and music. The New Ballroom 7pm - 9pm - Wednesday, June 18th Tickets $20 - Bookings essential, limited seating, be early. Previous WPPD benefits have sold out. Bookings - Ph: 03) 9844 5379, 03) 9534 1262 or Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All proceeds support the World Peace and Prayer Day gathering. Overland 171 Lecture Launch MARGARET SIMONS presents MYTH, EVIDENCE CULTURE WARS Simons talks about Australia's 'culture warriors' and their recent claims against ideological bias and calls for scholarly 'evidence'. Taking on media heavyweights including Piers Ackerman, Ron Brunton and Christopher Pearson, she talks about the media fallout from her explosive book, The Meeting of the Waters, which documents what has come to be known as the 'Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair'. Ron Brunton, Piers Ackerman and Christopher Pearson, says Simons, were key players in the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Affair. Simons explains how their actions, along with evidence buried and withheld from the Royal Commission, led to a dramatic miscarriage of justice. In both Aboriginal culture and in our own, information follows the lines of power, and secrets are the inevitable accompaniment to power. Overland 171 - 'OLD WOUNDS' - focuses on the contemporary 'culture wars' of black and white Australia, and includes also Jeff Sparrow on the media's part in the 'war on terror', Claire Tuke's dramatic account of life at Melbourne University's Ormond College, Michael Wilding on the Sydney 'push', fiction, poetry, reviews and opinion. The New Ballroom 6:30pm Wednesday, June 25th Tickets: $10 Full/ $6 Conc Entry includes copy of Overland 171 - SONGLINES MUSIC FESTIVAL presented by Songlines Aboriginal Music Corporation In conjunction with the City of Melbourne - A night showcasing some of Australia's finest Indigenous performers . . .. Looking after our people, our land, our music! Featuring . . . SHANN DOOLAN LITTLE G - Talented rap artist Georgina Chrisanthopoulos, aka Little G, is wowing audiences with her rapping, beat boxing and break dancing style. Little G is no novice when it comes to rapping either, she has been hard at it for three years DENIECE - Her name is Deniece Hudson and she's rocking Victoria with her groovy contemporary sounds and crowd-pleasing looks. She likes her music to touch people and make them feel good. ARCHIE ROACH RUBY HUNTER - Archie Roach; artist, poet, storyteller, singer, songwriter . . . Ruby Hunter; enjoys the distinction of being the first Aboriginal woman to record solo in the history of Australian music... Archie Roach Ruby Hunter are one of Australia's most respected singer/songwriter teams. Often cited by other musicians as a source of great inspiration, both Archie Ruby have become legends in the Australian music industry. PROPAGANDA KLANN - Ancient sounds combined with the rhythms of new technology, smart lyrics and deadly production values to result in some of the newest amd best contemporary music currently being laid down. WHYLY J and the ROYAL OG's .. The New Ballroom Doors open 7:30pm - Saturday, June 28th Tickets $10 Full/ $8 Conc - Enquiries Ph: 9696 2022 -- FREE TO BE AUSTRALIAN Trade Agreements are threatening our culture -- Our film, television, broadcast print media, and performing arts are vitally important to Australians. However, our small population and geographic diversity mean that in order not only to thrive but also to survive, clear industry regulation and financial support are essential.
LL:ART: All the News That Fits
This week's stories: Only one in five year 12 students who go to university next year will receive the Federal Government's youth allowance, forcing many to forgo the opportunity, a new report reveals. Using previously unpublished Centrelink figures, the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University found that in 2001 only 21 per cent of full-time students under the age of 19 received the youth allowance, down from 33 per cent in 1998. The centre's director, Bob Birrell, said yesterday they were the most recent figures available, but it was likely that the situation was getting worse. The situation could worsen if the Federal Government went ahead with reported plans to allow universities to set higher fees as part of its restructure of the higher education sector. In some countries where fees have been deregulated student costs have spiralled - in some cases by 14 times the rate of inflation. (The Age, May 7). George Bush's surprise announcement of $15 billion in funds over the next five years may have been misleading, and intended to extend America's policy of withholding aid from countries that have liberal policies on abortion. Director of the Africa Action aid agency, Salih Booker, told the Nation magazine that the package was a triumph of Arthur Andersen-style accounting. On Mr Bush's first day in office, he reinstated the global gag rule, which forbids any foreign recipient of family planning funds from even using the word 'abortion', regardless of the law on abortion in that country and even when they use their own money. A message in early 2003 sent to USAID fund managers worldwide regarding AIDS prevention emphasised abstinence and directs that, All operating units should review their own websites and any websites fully or partially funded by USAID to ensure the appropriateness of the material. In the US, the National Cancer Institute put out a fact sheet that referred to a rumour, believed to have been deliberately started by anti-abortion groups, that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer. The original version of the fact sheet said that there was no evidence, a revised version said that research was inconclusive. A television commercial funded by a local government shows a dad telling his son to use condoms followed by a voiceover warning, Condoms will not protect people from many sexually transmitted diseases, and you could be spreading lies to your children. Counselors and teachers say that some teenagers, including one who was an active intravenous drug user, said they no longer bothered using condoms because they'd heard on TV they didn't work. Teachers are being directed to adhere to the Federal Definition of Abstinence-Only Education, which requires that a program teach, among other things, that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity and that any other sexual activity is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects. By law, teachers cannot promote or endorse condoms or show adolescents how to use them, nor can they recognize any relationship outside of heterosexual marriage. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) fact sheet on condoms was removed from the website in July 2001 and replaced with a new version in December 2002. Pre-Bush, the fact sheet had pointed out that the primary reason that condoms sometimes fail, read the original fact sheet, is incorrect or inconsistent use, not failure of the condoms itself. The factsheet had a guide on using condoms, which has been removed. Also removed was a summary of several large studies of teenagers that found no increase or hastening of sexual activity among those who were taught about condoms. A study has found unprecedented rates of mental illness among young asylum seekers. The study of 10 families found that just one child out of a total of 22 children and 14 adults was not suffering a major depression. Some were suicidal, and had harmed themselves. Some were also suffering from post traumatic stress disorders, which started, or worsened, during their detention. There isn't a cohort of children as distressed as this group that we have been able to find anywhere in the medical literature in the world, said clinical pyshologist Zachary Steel. A spokeswoman for the Immigration Department said that as of May 8, there were still 108 children in immigration detention centres in Australia, and 111 in detention on Nauru. Researchers were unable to interview detainees face-to-face but conducted interviews by telephone from last September to February this year. While in detention the group reported having seen riots, fighting, fire, suicide attempts and incidences of self-harm, the report said. Every adult was diagnosed with a major depressive disorder, and the majority were also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorders, said Mr Steel.
