http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/facing-the-facts.pdf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 28, 2002
WTO services treaty expanding into public services and domestic
regulation---Report
OTTAWA--Senior government officials have just returned from a
negotiating session in Geneva to expand the
thanks to GATT Watchdog for this...
Wednesday, April 17, 2002 8:12 PM
EU and GATS
Secret documents reveal EU's tough stance on global trade
John Vidal, Charlotte Denny and Larry Elliott
Wednesday April 17, 2002
The Guardian
The European Union is demanding full-scale privatisation of public
via greens list, apologies for x-posting:
Dirty Tactics Move Into Higher Gear At Fourth WTO Ministerial: Invasion
of the Six Green Men
Third World Network-Africa (Accra)
PRESS RELEASE
November 12, 2001
Posted to the web November 12, 2001
Tetteh HormekuAccra
The undemocratic and
Challenging read - pls. read if you have time:
Subject: Turning Democracy on it's Head
TURNING DEMOCRACY ON IT'S HEAD
John Bunzl
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http://www.simpol.org
To give into the protesters would be to turn
democracy on it's head so responded an angry Tony
Blair to suggestions that
Dear leftlinkers,
A message from:
Tania Clarke
AMWU National Campaigns Co-ordinator
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This should only take a few minutes of your time. I am writing to ask you
to send an email message QLD. (All you need to do is send one email.) Read
on
Anti-globalisation battle shifts into cyberspace
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/2001/06/22/FFXUZ11F7OC.html
By MARK RILEY
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT
Friday 22 June 2001
The anti-globalisation battleground is set to shift into cyberspace as the
World Bank prepares to open a major conference
http://wwwadmin.gn.apc.org/resources/ips/ipsmessage.asp?ID=2551
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Tue, 01 May 2001 20:04:51 -0700 (PDT)
/CORRECTED REPEAT/FINANCE: Learn from Cuba, Says World Bank
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON, Apr 30 (IPS) - World Bank
In Bush's nuclear plan Australia could play a key role. Should it?
http://theage.com.au/news/2001/05/03/FFXCVQZY7MC.html
Star Wars - the sequel
By MARK FORBES
Thursday 3 May 2001
As the 20-metre high rocket shudders into life, a massive, flaming
backthrust from its boosters snakes up its
I'd like to know just where ( how) they get their information from since
there's seldom any balance to it. Where are any of the other groups
interviewed - why haven't they been approached, or should I bother asking.
M1 protesters to use 'black' tactics
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2001/04/15/FFXNZR29ILC.html
Trades Hall to join M1 protest
By PADRAIC MURPHY
Sunday 15 April 2001
Issues: The World Economic Forum
Thousands of trade unionists are expected to increase the number of M1
protesters blockading Melbourne's stock exchange after the
MELBOURNE
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Dear all,
Please find below the program for the Melbourne JSCT hearings into
Australia's Relationship with the World Trade Organization. If you don't
intend to put in a written
Source: http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10695
The Top Ten Censored Stories of 2000: Exposing the News that Didn't Make
the News
by Tate Hausman and Don Hazen and Tamara Straus and Karynn M. Fish
(AlterNet April 9, 2001)
Have you read the one about corporations planning to
http://theage.com.au/breaking/0103/08/A27780-2001Mar8.shtml
School girl unrepentant after anti-Hanson suspension
Source: AAP|Published: Thursday March 8, 3:19 PM
An Adelaide schoolgirl suspended for handing out anti-Pauline Hanson
posters was unrepentant today when she led a protest rally
Surviving without welfare
http://www.theage.com.au/frontpage/20001113/A46895-2000Nov13.html
By XAVIER LA CANNA
THE AGE ONLINE
Monday 13 November 2000
Schemes to force people off welfare were actually making people more
dependent on the government to survive, a new report today claimed.
The
Truth about govt role in waterfront dispute closer
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0010/11/A43766-2000Oct11.shtml
Source: AAP|Published: Wednesday October 11, 7:59 AM
The truth about the government's role in the bitter 1998 waterfront dispute
is a step closer to being revealed following a
Mr Right: Why he's lost the Left
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2920/A7568-2000Sep19.html
By EWIN HANNAN and ADRIAN ROLLINS
Wednesday 20 September 2000
Rod Quantock feels betrayed. After seven years spent working to bring down
Jeff Kennett, the comedian says he has already had enough of
Australia stockpiles deadly gas
http://news.com.au/0,4780,1207003%255E421,00.html
17sep00
THE Australian military is stock-piling a deadly nerve gas called VX to
counter possible chemical weapons attacks.
VX is so potent it is capable of wiping out cities.
A Canadian Security Intelligence
Police violence stemmed from threat to cancel forum: unions
http://news.com.au/0,4780,1199611%255E421,00.html
By Michael Bachelard and Misha Schubert
15sep00
A THREAT by World Economic Forum organisers to cancel their meeting after
protesters blockaded the venue on Monday led to increased
Bracks plan to strip governor's powers
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2915/A266-2000Sep14.html
By GABRIELLE COSTA
Friday 15 September 2000
The Bracks Government has moved to strip Victoria's governor of the power
to dissolve parliament and call an election in the event of a
constitutional
Australian Accountants support Wef Protesters
CANBERRA, Sept 12 (South News) - The Institute of Chartered Accountants in
Australia (ICAA) has expressed support for some of the points made by
protesters outside
UN set to sign historic millennium agreement
http://www.theage.com.au/breaking/0009/09/A55775-2000Sep9.shtml
Source: AFP|Published: Saturday September 9, 11:34 AM
UNITED NATIONS, New York - The UN Millennium Declaration, due to be adopted
today after the largest gathering of world leaders in
Welfare, US-style: put the boot in the poor
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2910/A56177-2000Sep9.html
By LIZ PORTER
Sunday 10 September 2000
Americans visiting Australia are forever remarking on how much at home they
feel here. And why shouldn't they? We watch their TV shows, we sing their
Army powers law not ready for WEF
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2000/09/item2908081413_1.htm
The Federal Government's new defence call-out law may not be in place in
time for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Melbourne next week.
The law lays down provisions for the Government to call out the
THIS WEEK ON INSIGHT...
Inside S11
What is S11 and why is it trying to disrupt the World Economic Forum in
Melbourne ?
This week Insight gets exclusive access into the inner workings of the lose
knit coalition of
Geelong Advertiser 2 September 2000
S11 JAIL OUTRAGE Alarm sparked as Barwon Prison officials make inspection
tour in lead-up to World Economic Forum
Tony Prytz and Mary Papadakis
Geelong jail could be reopened to house the flood of prisoners expected
from S11 protests at the World
Mary O'Brien wrote:
In their attempts to defame the s11 protests, the Australian TV news
bulletins have been showing footage from a police riot outside the World
Trade Organisation meeting in Seattle, USA, in November- December
1999. Australians (especially the media) should read a report
This is a truly scary Brave New World Stuff (for real) - MUST READ
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/original/article/0%2C5744%2C9806%2C00.htm
Sunday, Aug. 27, 2000
Lying with Pixels
By Ivan Amato.
Last year, Steven Livingston, professor of political communication at
George Washington
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2827/A29338-2000Aug26.html
Let's just call them leeches and be done with it
By RAY CASSIN
Sunday 27 August 2000
Do you remember when the public support of the disadvantaged, now
ubiquitously dubbed "welfare", was called something else? It is not so long
ago
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