LL:DDV: Anti-Bush tour

2003-09-15 Thread Sandra & Mick
With George Bush on his way to Australia now is the time to find out about the fight back against the neo-conservative agenda in the US. ** National Speaking Tour: Paul D'Amato... RESISTING BUSH'S WAR AGENDA America Since 9-11 **

LL:DDV: Anti-war events

2003-09-11 Thread Sandra & Mick
Victorian Peace Diary at 10 September 2003 Victorian Peace Network THIS FRIDAY... No globalisation at gunpoint Friday 12 September 5pm: FIESTA FOR FREEDOM Rally and fiesta to mark the WTO meeting in Cancun. Starts at State Library, Swanston Street, City. "No globalisation at gunpoint" - bring p

LL:DDV: US anti-war speaker tours Australia

2003-08-26 Thread Sandra & Mick
AMERICAN ANTI-WAR ACTIVIST NATIONAL SPEAKING TOUR RESISTING BUSH'S WAR AGENDA: AMERICA SINCE 9-11 IN MELBOURNE THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 18 7.30 PM, TRADES HALL (cnr Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton) American socialist and anti-war activist Paul D'Amato is coming to Australia in September. An activist in

LL:DDV: Hiroshima Day

2003-07-09 Thread Sandra & Mick
Remember Hiroshima! Rally and March on Saturday 9 August Starting at 12 noon, State Library (Swanston Street, City) Organised by the Victorian Peace Network As the search for "weapons of mass destruction" goes on in Iraq, let's remember the use of nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an

LL:DDV: [VicPeace] Major peace rally 13 April

2003-04-03 Thread Sandra & Mick
*** PLEASE circulate widely ** MAJOR PEACE EVENT 13 APRIL PALM SUNDAY 2003 2pm Sunday 13 April RALLY FOR PEACE, HUMAN RIGHTS & JUSTICE 2pm assemble Treasury Gardens also 2pm Ecumenical Service Federation Square then joining together for rally, speakers & music

LL:DDV: [VicPeace] Victorian Peace Diary at 30 March 2003

2003-03-30 Thread Sandra & Mick
Victorian Peace Diary at 30 March 2003 compiled by Victorian Peace Network More information VPN office 9659 3582 Nic Maclellan 0421840100 David Spratt 0417070099 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to add listings *** MAJOR EVENT: PALM SUNDAY 2pm Sunday 13 April 2pm Rally at Treasury Garden

LL:DDV: ** Stop war rally ** please circulate

2003-03-24 Thread Sandra & Mick
Please circulate as widely as possible S T O P T H E W A R R A L L Y 1 pmS A T U R D A Y 2 9 M A R C H S T A T E L I B R A R Y Bring the troops home! How many more wars? Bring your friends, family and neighbours. Show John Howard we are determined to continue to express our op

LL:PR: Jews Against Oppression and Occupation

2002-07-04 Thread Sandra & Mick
Dear friends, This is a statement we are seeking endorsement for from all left wing and democratic minded Jewish people. Ruth Braham Education Officer Melbourne University Student Union Jews against oppression and occupation With Israeli troops back in the towns and cities of the Occupied Ter

LL:DDV: Why we had to break the law

2002-04-11 Thread Sandra & Mick
Public meeting: Student radicals and the Vietnam War: WHY WE HAD TO BREAK THE LAW TO BUILD A MOVEMENT The protest at the Woomera detention centre has highlighted the central role of civil disobedience actions in building a movement to free the refugees. Today's movement can learn important less

LL:DDV: Woomera report back/debrief

2002-03-31 Thread Sandra & Mick
Friends, Socialist Alternative is holding a forum so anyone who's interested can come and hear EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS OF THE INSPIRING WOOMERA EASTER PROTEST or for those who were there to DISCUSS THE ISSUES THAT ARISE FROM THE PROTEST. There'll be speakers from our 30 odd members who went to Wo

LL:DDV: RALLY IN SOLIDARITY WITH WOOMERA REFUGEES

2002-03-31 Thread Sandra & Mick
Please fwd this notice to all appropriate lists, and tell everyone you know who supports the refugees: THE PROTESTERS AT WOOMERA HAVE PUT OUT A CALL: ALL OUT TO SUPPORT THE WOOMERA REFUGEES WELCOME BACK THE BUSES FROM THE INSPIRING WOOMERA PROTEST AND PROTEST RUDDOCK'S THREATS TO JAIL THE REFU

LL:DDS: Woomera tour

2002-03-11 Thread Sandra & Mick
RALLY FOR REFUGEE FREEDOM AT THE WOOMERA CONCENTRATION CAMP EASTER - THURSDAY 28/3 TO TUESDAY 2/4 This Easter, a demonstration will be held at the Woomera Detention Center in South Australia. Hundreds if not thousands of people disgusted at the Howard government's racist polici

LL:DDV: Socialism 2002

2002-03-06 Thread Sandra & Mick
SICK OF RACISM, WAR AND ATACKS ON REFUGEES? Come to: SOCIALISM 2002 Ideas to change the World A weekend of debate and discussion about how to fight capitalism and make the world a better place. Friday 19 to Sunday 21 April @ Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton, Melbourne Organised

LL:DDV: M1 2002

2002-03-05 Thread Sandra & Mick
M1 -- MAY DAY 2002 Plans are well in advance for this year's M1 -- May Day (1 May 2002) in Melbourne. Building on the great success of last year's M1 which started with a blockade of the Stock Exchange and was followed up with a mass unity march thru the City, this year we are planning to begin

LL:DDV: Fighting back in Bush's America

2002-02-25 Thread Sandra & Mick
PUBLIC MEETING: After September 11: FIGHTING BACK IN BUSH'S AMERICA An eyewitness account American socialist and anti-war activist Ahmed Shawki will talk about the impact Bush's war drive has had on the global justic movement in the US, and at the fight back against Bush's "war on terr

LL:DDV: Anti-war public meeting

2001-09-24 Thread Sandra & Mick
Public meeting: Time to stand up to Bush's war drive Oppose racist scapegoating Socialist Alternative is organising a special public meeting this coming Thursday night at which Sandra Bloodworth will look at the issues behind George Bush's drive to war. There will be plenty of time for discussi

LL:DDV: O3- anti-war protest

2001-09-19 Thread Sandra & Mick
O3: NO TO WAR! NO TO RACISM The major theme of the first day of the protest at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Melbourne on Wednesday 3 October will be opposition to the current build up to war in the Middle East and against the racist scapegoating of Arabs and Muslims in

LL:DDV: Protest against IMF

2001-09-03 Thread Sandra & Mick
PROTEST AGAINST THE IMF This Wednesday one of the top officials of the IMF (International Monetary Fund) which is responsible for imposing draconian austerity programs on the population of over half the planet will be speaking at an exclusive invitation only meeting at Melbourne University's Law

LL:DDV: Commonwealth Business Forum

2001-07-30 Thread Sandra & Mick
PUBLIC MEETING TO LAUNCH THE PROTESTS AGAINST THE COMMONWEALTH BUSINESS FORUM >From October 3-5 the Commonwealth Business Forum, the largest assembly of the world's top business leaders and heads of state seen in Melbourne since S11, will be meeting at the Hilton Hotel. The O3 to CHOGM Alliance

LL:DDV: public meeting

2001-07-17 Thread Sandra & Mick
PUBLIC MEETING: FIGHTING BACK IN THE USA EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT American socialist KATHERINE DWYER'S eyewitness account of the new radicalism: *Mass mobilisations in Seattle and Quebec *Cincinnati riots *Pro-choice movement *Campaign against the death penalty OTHER SPEAKERS: JUSTINE CLARK on the

LL:DDV: SA Conference

2001-07-12 Thread Sandra & Mick
SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE CONFERENCE: Ideas for FIGHTING CAPITALISM Friday 17 August & Saturday 18 August: Two days of discussion and debate about the way forward for the anti-capitalist movement: Starting with the mass demonstrations that shutdown the World Trade Organisation's meeting in Seattle a n

LL:DDV: upcoming events

2001-07-09 Thread Sandra & Mick
Dear Friends, in this week's news: the topics for discussion at both branches of Socialist Alternative, plus advance notice of a conference we are having: Wednesday 11 July 5.15pm, 2nd floor Melbourne Uni Student Union The Blue Army: the cops, the state and capitalism Lizzie O'Shea will speak ab

LL:DDV: M1 meeting

2000-12-05 Thread Sandra & Mick
MI meeting this Wednesday This is a last minute reminder that the next organising meeting for the M1 Alliance (as the S11 alliance has been renamed) will be held this Wednesday evening 6 December at 6.30pm in the Lesley Clucas Lounge at RMIT City Campus in Swanston St. In the spirit of S11 we