A meeting of more than 40 activists on March 3 agreed to form the "CHOGM Action Network''.
The meeting was called to plan protest actions during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which will take place in Perth in October.
Meeting participants decided to begin organising a peaceful mass rally on October 28. The protest will coincide with the opening day of the summit. The WA state government has declared the day a public holiday.
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The conflict in Western Sahara, little known in Australia, is at last starting to get some prominence.
Unionists held a protest outside the Moroccan embassy in Canberra on February 9. This coincided with a visit to the Western Saharan capital, El Aaiun, by eight European trade unions to investigate the attack on striking phosphate workers by Moroccan police in August 2010.
A former Spanish colony, Western Sahara has been illegally occupied by Morocco since 1975, in defiance of international law and UN resolutions calling for a referendum on self-determination.
Rally in Perth on the 26 February 2011 in solidarity with the people of Libya in their struggle to overthrow the Gaddafi regime and move towards a democracy.
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