LL:DDN: Sydney Social Forum will be action-packed

SYDNEY SOCIAL FORUM TO BE ACTION PACKED Over 30 NGOs, unions and community and activist organisations will be participating in the Sydney Social Forum in what will be an action-packed weekend of discussion,debate, networking and strategising. In addition to six Thematic Forums (below), the SSF w

LL:URL: Memorial to the 353 deaths on SIEVX

Last October, in the waters to the north of Australia, 353 people, including nearly 300 women and children lost their lives when the boat that has since become known as SIEVX foundered and sank in international waters. I would be grateful if leftlinkers would circulate this message within their n

LL:INFO: Where's the Leftlink email...?

Dear all, My apologies for the lack of Leftlink during the past few days. Due to someone subscribing Leftlink to another email list, which subsequently went insane, Leftlink was bombarded with a huge number of emails, causing it to overload itself. I have sorted through the emails and am pos

LL:URL: Leftlink's new archive home

After trying out several mail archive web sites, I've moved the Leftlink archive to the following address: http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ This site is hosted by cat a community technology group. If you're looking up the Leftlink archive, you might want to drop

LL:INFO: Leftlink

Leftlink is being brought to you experimentally from the CAPA Annual Council Meeting in Perth. I apologise for any delay in posts and any strange formatting problems you might experience - this is the first time I've tried to moderate the list while being away from my normal computer. I have

LL:INFO: Watch and laugh as One Nation implodes

The following letter was forwarded to Leftlink. It is from One Nation's former web site author. Leftlink subscribers might remember this man's near-hysterical attacks on Leftlink due to its role in publicising anti-One Nation demonstrations around the country. The situation described made th

LL:INFO: South Melbourne CPSU members motion

<> This motion was passed at a CPSU members meeting held on Friday 22nd October. "This meeting moves that we no longer accept that this office is adequately funded for the work it does. We demand that staffing levels and resources are allocated on the basis of actual workloads. We will initiat

LL: THE KEMP SONG

From somewhere in cyberspace ... Pass it on if you like, just clip the headers please. It might be libelous, but it's certainly funny. :-) -- THE KEMP SONG He's been a frickin' evil doctor For thirty frickin' years The place he wants to ruin Is the space between your ears. He wants to

LL:AA:Urgent Action needed on East Timor

Date sent: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 23:31:37 +1000 From: John Percy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Urgent action needed on East Timor September 6, 1999 Dear friends, Urgent a

LL:Attack on Trade Unions Survey

Time to stand up and be counted. Another attack on Trade Unions by the popular media. Would Australia be better off without trade unions? So called survey run by Channnel 9 on the net, Make sure you influence the vote!! Current State of Play Yes 422 No

LL: MR: Indigenous Elders call for direct action to save old

growth From: Friends of the Earth Fitzroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk dear friends, attached are two recent media releases from traditional owners from western Victoria, Australia, who have called for direct action to defend old growth forests. A small camp of

LL: Art: Kurdish militants supplied Stinger missiles to

Tigers From: "Wendell W. Solomons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk DIVAINA Centre-Right Sri Lanka Daily Monday Feb. 22, 1999 Page 1/s-c. KURDISH MILITANTS SUPPLIED STINGER MISSILES TO TIGERS International police sources claim that Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan ar

Anti-racism protest against One Nation - Sun 28th, 9:30am

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party will be holding its national conference on Sunday 28th of Feb. The Western Sydney branch of the Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) and Resistance have called a protest in front of the conference venue - Rooty Hill RSL club, at 9:30am (The conference starts around 1

LL:ART:Fizzing with PMZ, Germaine boxes some ears/She's back

and she's angry From: Paul Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:59:20 +1100 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Sydney Morning Herald Monday, February 22 Fizzing with PMZ, Germaine boxes some ears "It would have been inexcusable to remain silent" ... Greer lashes "li

LL:INFO:Heather Osland case

[Crossposted from Ausfem-polnet] Date sent: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 21:35:57 +1100 From: jocelynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] * Write to release Heather Osland.. WHY WRITE? Heather Osland and her children were subjected to 13 years of severe physical, sexual and psych

LL:AA:Tent Embassy Monday 15 Feb

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:59:57 +1000 Subject:ACTION ALERT: TENT EMBASSY ACTION, MON 15 FEB, 8am. To: "ANTaR ACT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi all, The Aboriginal Tent Embassy is calling for supporters to f

LL:INFO: One Nation AGM Agenda and dinner details

Leftlink subscribers may be interested in the following information: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:06:40 +1000 (GMT+1000) From: Interactive Presentations Pty Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: One Nation AGM Agenda and dinner details Saturday night pre-AGM dinn

LL: Join the Reconcilliation Float for Mardi Gras Parade

1999 From: Paul Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk ®Apologies for duplications + unrequested mail -Please circulate this message! - Tell your friends and colleagues! Reconciliation Float for the Mardi Gras Parade 1999

LL:URL: new syndicalist text online

DIRECT ACTION by Emile Pouget http://www.xchange.anarki.net/~huelga/101/da.htm "Direct Action . . . implies that the working class subscribes to notions of freedom and autonomy instead of genuflecting before the principle of authority. Now, it is thanks to this authority principle, the pivot

LL:PR:Resolution of 4th World Archaeological Congress...

Kakadu National Park Thursday, January 21, 1999 Resolution of the 4th World Archaeological Congress, Cape Town South Africa 10-14th January 1999 The 4th World Archaeological Congress (WAC4) held in Cape Town between 10th-14th January 1999 was attended by over 800 participants from 70 cou

LL:FW: A Luta Continua Newsletter, English text links,

15/1/99 From: "margaret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk >Subject: [alter-ee] A Luta Contínua Newsletter, English text links >Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:40:21 -0200 >From: "Marko Ajdaric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Alternative Network for Eastern Europe" ><[EMA

LL:ART: The most brilliant subversive coup of modern

times From: "margaret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk -Original Message- From: Bureau of Public Secrets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, 16 January 1999 17:05 Subject: The Most Brilliant Subversive Coup of Modern Times > >"The accused have never denie

EMERGENCY APPEAL: LAPTOPS FOR PRD FIELD ORGANISERS

ASIET is making an appeal for anybody in Australia who is upgrading their laptop computers to donate their old laptops to the Peoples Democratic Party (PRD) in Indonesia. PRD organisers need computers for the production of leaflets, bulletins, newsletter and magazines for their dfifferent s

LL:MR: Open letter to UN Sect General re human rights

abuses in Indonesia From: "Andrew Haydon Alcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:17:50 +1030 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Dear Comrades and Friends The following letter was sent to His Excellency Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, regarding further acts of brutality com

LL:AA: We condemn the murder of Gugu Dlaminin, South

African AIDS activist From: Paul Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WE CONDEMN THE MURDER OF GUGU DLAMINI, SOUTH AFRICAN AIDS ACTIVIST WOMAN LIVING WITH HIV Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk The New York Times recently reported the death of Gugu Dlamini in South Africa. A 36-year-old mother of

LL:ART: [Reuters] Colombian death squads launch

cyber-offensive From: Paul Canning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Reuters Monday, December 28, 1998 Colombian death squads launch cyber-offensive BOGOTA -- Colombia's ultra-right death squads have joined other warring factions in the country's long-running ci

LL: MR: Portugal seeks extradition of Suharto for

genocide From: "Andrew Haydon Alcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:44:42 +1030 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Campaign for an Independent East Timor (S.A.) Inc. (Member of the Australian Coalition for a Free East Timor and the East Timor Relief Association/Affiliate

LL:Day of Shame on Indigenous Rights- Yorta Yorta

decision From: Friends of the Earth Fitzroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk dear friends it's been a shameful day here, with the native title claim by the Yorta Yorta people being dismissed in the federal court. The Yorta Yorta have been in court for more than fou

LL:Scott Balson the author

Leftlinkers will be amused to hear that Pauline Hanson's webmaster now has so much time on his hands that he has launched himself into print with a new book: _Murder by Media_ (self-published of course) For a good belly laugh, sneak a peak at its table of contents: http://www.gwb.com.au/NEWS/mur

LL:Apology

Yesterday an article was posted on Leftlink with the subject heading "MUA: Snatching defeat from the Jaws of Victory" that did not meet the guidelines for the list, being basically a discussion piece regarding an intra-organisational struggle. It is Leftlink policy not to publish discussion i

LL:INFO:Scores of Students shot and wounded in Jakart

SCORES OF STUDENTS SHOT AND WOUNDED IN JAKARTA == ASIET - December 18, 1998 The following summary was prepared by ASIET (Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor) based upon initial reports posted by the Committee of the Disappeared and Vict

LL:URL:Resist to Exist

http://www.gn.apc.org/june18/home.html Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/

LL: ART: PNG government will recognize Bougainville

People's Congress From: Norbert BRAumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Technical University Braunschweig (Germany) Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/PIReport/1998/December/12-16-01.htm > PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT > > Pacific Islands Development Program/East-

LL:Air strike against Iraq begins

>From ABC website: Air strikes against Iraq begins Thursday 17 December, 1998 (9:36am AEDT) The United States and Britain have confirmed they have launched air strikes against Iraq. The announcements came as explosions believed to be anti- aircraft gun fire rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghd

LL:DDA: Rally call for Labelling on genetically modified

food. From: "ACF Canberra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk - Original Message From: Bob Phelps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: GeneEthics Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, 15 December 1998 16:54 Subject: Thursday: Canberra Rally at Health Mini

LL: (Plus subject type and heading eg DDV: Meeting in

Northcote) From: "margaret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk -Original Message- From: Treena Lenthall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, 14 December 1998 00:25 Subject: Jabiluka Ploughshares Verdict >>JABILUKA PLOUGHSHARES VERDICT - 14/12/98 >>SENTENCED TO

LL: DDV 10 Dec. Reformasi Total- Dynamics of the

Indonesian REvolution From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Reformasi Total': The Dynamics of the Indonesian Revolution Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk Speaker: Max Lane, Coordinator, Action in Solidarity with Indonesia and East Timor (ASIET) Resistance Centre, 14 Anthony St, Melbourne Thursday

LL: (Plus subject type and heading eg DDV: Meeting in

Northcote) From: "S. Plunkett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk >From Fin Rev, at: http://www.afr.com.au/content/981210/news/news6.html Australia fails its youth with low-skilled part-time jobs By Stephen Long Australia is failing to create h

LL: DDV, 11dec 5pm: Rally for people's democracy in

Malaysia Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk >Dear leftlink can you put this oou ASAP cheers ian >Solidarity for Peoples' Democracy in Malaysia > >Press Release > >Tian Chua Released > >Malaysian human rights activist Tian Chua has been release on bail after >sending 15 days in detenti

LL: Art: Talking about the Univ Delaration of Human Rights

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, 6 December 1998 07:20 Subject: Suveillance... Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk >== >Revealed: secret plan to tap all mobile phones > >By Duncan Campbell > >Observer (London) Sunday

LL:OTWAYS UPDATE - Activists defeat protest charges -Further

violence against Protesters. From: OREN propaganda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk So much has been happening over the last few days. The media along the surf coast have picked up on the assault by a member of a logging crew on two OREN activists with the blunt end

LL:IMPORTANT Please read

Over the next six weeks, while Alister Air (the main Leftlink moderator) is away on holiday, Leftlink will be running at a reduced capacity, as we have been unable to find anyone with Majordomo experience to fill the gap. I will be filling in for Alister, but due to other calls on my time, I am o

LL:ART: Ireland Left Merge

Ireland's Left-Wing Parties Agree To Merge PA 11/20/98 16:36 Copyright 1998 PA News By Chris Parkin, PA News Ireland's two main left-wing political parties, Labour and the Democratic Left, tonight agreed terms for a merger. The amalgamation proposal, finalised after two days of i

LL:Virtual sit-in - Don't Bomb Iraq

Subject: Virtual Sit-in: Don't Bomb Iraq!/Electronic Disturbance Theater FWD From: Tom Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:24:50 -0400 Message-ID: Mailing List: fnb-l Word Matches: IRAQ FWD ELECTRONIC DISTURBANCE THEATER EMERGENCY BULLETIN Friday, Nov

LL:AA:Iraq:International Action Bulletin

[LL Editor's note: See bottom of message to have your details included in the next bulletin] Subject: [DEMSOC-L] (Fwd) IRAQ CRISIS DAILY BULLETIN, 11/13/98 From: International Action Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:46:04 -0500 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> O

LL:URLS:Some Gulf Links

Mailing Lists and News Groups: ~~~ IRAQ ACTION COALITION To subscribe send an e-mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with 'subscribe iac-list' in the body of the message IRAQ-L (can be read using http://www.reference.com ) Web sites GULF PEACE PROJECT (AUS) http://www.parad

LL:URL:Y2K- Social Chaos or Transformation

***PLEASE CIRCULATE*** The Year 2000: Social Chaos or Social Transformation? by John L. Petersen, Margaret Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers An electronic copy of this paper (word processor compatible) can be obtained from: http://www.peg.apc.org/~psutton/petersen.rtf A web-format copy can be o