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BY JEREMY SMITH BALLARAT — When I heard of plans for an action outside the World Economic Forum summit on September 11, I was anxious to find a way for unionists and activists in Ballarat and regional Victoria to be a part of the event. It also
LONDON — London-based activist group Oztudak, the Freedom Prisoners Solidarity Committee, has launched a campaign against the Turkish government's use of isolation cells, in particularly the infamous "coffin cells" introduced by the Turkish
BY STEVE SHEPHERD MELBOURNE — For anyone who's ever wondered what happens to all the toxic waste produced by the global corporations operating in Australia, there is a disturbing answer. It seems a substantial proportion is simply being dumped
BY BEA BREAR HOBART — "No more woodchips!" was the chant arising from 700 protesters outside an international "environment" conference here last week. The Forest Certification Conference, organised by the Forest Industries Association of
The main speaker was Dr , Council of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Island Studies, Wathaurong, BRONWYN JENNINGS"> Geelong meets for reconciliation BY BRONWYN JENNINGS GEELONG — On November 1, about 200 people packed into the Geelong West
In the last issue of Green Left Weekly, in the article titled "What went wrong with O20?", a sub-editing introduced an error. The sentence, "They had the prior agreement of the PRC and Citizens' Action for this announcement", should have read, "They
SYDNEY — Women's Abortion Action Campaign members and supporters gathered outside an abortion clinic near Penrith on November 3 to counter an anti-abortion picket. The anti-choice campaigners have been harassing the clinic regularly. The pro-choice
The following motion was adopted at the November 1 meeting of the Melbourne S11 Alliance. The success of S11 and the continuing international movement against corporate globalisation suggests the need for ongoing coordination and cooperation of
LONDON — Solidarity with Colombian workers will step up a notch here in November, when workers' leader Alexander Lopez visits to tell of his union's fight against privatisation in Colombia's second largest city, Cali, and to urge opposition to the
Global Exchange, a human rights organisation based in San Francisco, has launched an instant fax-away that demands justice for the people of occupied Palestine. Go to <http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/palestinefax.html>, enter
BY PETER BOYLE If anything captured the desperation of the ruling class during the S11 blockade, it was the screaming headlines about "violent protests" accompanied by graphic photographs and TV images of police, with name tags removed, beating up
BY JORGE JORQUERA MELBOURNE — On November 1 a meeting of the S11 Alliance in Melbourne decided to support as a "global strike" against corporate tyranny on May 1, 2001. This meeting of the alliance had been called with the specific intent of