Leftlink Newsletter for Monday, February 23, 2004 Issue: 10 Below are links to the news articles submitted to Leftlink over the day. Calendar items are for the coming week.
What's going on? From the 1st of March, all Leftlink news items will be posted to the web site, and a daily summary will be emailed out to all list members (that's about 600 people). Between now and then, I will duplicate the list and the site, so that all list news will also be posted to the web site. Events this week: Event Date: Feb 18, 2004 - Feb 28, 2004 Theatre, Film and Humour - The Crass Motor Show, by Keep Left Theatre: KEEP LEFT THEATRE Presents The CRASS Motor Show By Chris Gaffney (adapted from the Motor Show by Paul Thompson & Steve Gooch) Directed By Susanna Duffy Keep Left Theatre presents the story of Henry Crass, a no nonsense, in your face entrepreneur based loosely on Henry Ford who in 1903 founded the Ford Motor Company. Ford was a noted union hater and anti Semite who brought Ford To Australia in 1923. The rise and rise of Crass from bastard to corporate bastard has touched quite a few hearts and even more pockets. Crass employs many a theatrical device, a broad comic vision and some really great songs With a top cast of 16, and over 61 characters, this is a fast moving, satirical musical comedy about greed on wheels and the people who are run over. . This night of Keep Left Theatre is not to be missed. Meet one of the new rulers of the world. Meet Mr. Crass at 8.00P.M. from the 18th to the 28th of February at Trades Hall Victoria Street Carlton South. 3053 Concessions available Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040218&viewtype=details&eid=42&print= Event Date: Feb 09, 2004 - Mar 02, 2004 Meetings - Organising Meetings for International Womens' Day Rally: International Women's Day is fast approaching, the theme for this years rally is Women Against War, Racism & Sexism. Please help spread the word, and forward this email and its details on to as many people as possible. All are welcome to attend the rally. If anyone is interested in getting involved the collective mts are on Monday evenings 6.30pm @Trades Hall in the Evatt Room. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040209&viewtype=details&eid=49&print= Event Date: Feb 24, 2004 Meetings - AAWL Executive Meeting: AAWL Executive meeting Proposed agenda Finances Union affiliation International Women's Day Annual General Meeting Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040224&viewtype=details&eid=63&print= Event Date: Feb 24, 2004 Fundraisers - Michael Moore film - Roger and Me: Michael Moore Yarraville screening: Roger & Me Presented by Green Left Weekly. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040224&viewtype=details&eid=71&print= Event Date: Feb 25, 2004 NIBS - Fabian Society - Workplace Relations: AFS Event ALP Shadow Minister for Workplace Relations Craig Emmerson compares the Labor and Liberal approaches to workplace relations, and discusses Labor's plans for workplace relations reform. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040225&viewtype=details&eid=14&print= Event Date: Feb 25, 2004 Seminars - Melbourne - Sex and Drugs Historical Tour: Below please find details of the 'Sex and Drugs Historical Tour' proudly sponsored by Port Phillip Local Drug Strategy. Join us for a jaunt through the laneways and byways of St. Kilda as we explore how drugs and sex work became a part of the City's identity and allure. Music and performance bring to life the experience of sex workers, drug users, residents and police as they play out the conflicts that have been repeated on our streets since the 1880s. 7.30-9pm, Wed 28/1; Tues 10/2; Wed 25/2. Meet O'Donnell Gardens Fountain (next to Luna park), St Kilda. If you interested in attending one of the performances, please email Krys Galas or phone on 9209 6852 ASAP as places are strictly limited to 30 per performance Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040225&viewtype=details&eid=26&print= Event Date: Feb 25, 2004 - Feb 26, 2004 Rallies - Adelaide - Stop the Nuclear Dump in SA: Stop the Nuclear Dump! Two Important Public Forums Wednesday 25th February Thursday 26th February, 2004 Adelaide Convention Centre, North Tce (next to Railway Station) As part of its licensing process, the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA), the federal nuclear regulator, is holding a public forum in Adelaide on the plan to build a national radioactive waste dump here in South Australia. It is important that we let ARPANSA know that the dumping of nuclear waste is unacceptable. We urge as many people as possible to attend either or both days of the forum. In particular, we ask people to make every effort to come to a protest against the dump out the front of the Adelaide Convention Centre on Wednesday, February 25, at 9.30am. And please: spread the word. The planned dump is opposed by key Indigenous groups such as the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the Kokatha Native Title Group, and ATSIC. Last year the federal government seized control of land near Woomera for the dump site using compulsory land acquisition powers, annulling Native Title rights in the process. The dump is illegal under SA law and is clearly against the will of the SA people. ARPANSA has received over 1000 written submissions, over 99% of them opposing the dump. Wednesday, February 25 the ARPANSA panel - comprising ARPANSA CEO John Loy, Dr Ian Lowe from Griffith University, and George Jack, recently retired from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission - will hear from representatives of the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, the SA Government, the Australian Conservation Foundation, Friends of the Earth Australia, and other critics of the planned dump. Thursday, February 26 the federal overnment will appear before the panel, as well as the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation which operates the nuclear reactor plant at Lucas Heights in Sydney. ANSTO is responsible for 81-90% of the waste destined for the shallow, unlined dump. Come along and show your opposition to South Australia becoming Australia's Radioactive Waste Dump. Endorsed by: Irati Wanti Campaign Office Adelaide Kungkas Friends of the Earth Australia Australian Conservation Foundation Greenpeace Australia Campaign Against Nuclear Dumping Conservation Council of South Australia Australian Peace Committee (SA) Nuclear Information Centre (SA) Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (SA) Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040225&viewtype=details&eid=55&print= Event Date: Feb 25, 2004 Seminars - Sydney - Women's Freedom in Iraq: NSW Greens MP Sylvia Hale is holding a reception for Layla Mohammed who will speak about her recent work in Baghdad, problems of the occupation and political Islam. RSVPs to Office of Sylvia Hale 9230 3030 Women's Freedom in Iraq - Sylvia Hale's reception for Layla Mohammed NSW Greens MP Sylvia Hale is holding a reception for Layla Mohammed who will speak about her recent work in Baghdad, setting up a women's shelter and organising aid for women in camps. She will also speak about the problems of the occupation and the danger to women's rights posed by the adoption of Shari'a family law by the US backed Coalition Provisional Authority. Refreshments will be served. Donations to Organisation for Women's Freedom in Iraq. For more information about women's freedom in Iraq, contact Nicola Joseph 0401 769 167 or Janet Burstall - 0428 957 704 Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040225&viewtype=details&eid=70&print= Event Date: Feb 26, 2004 Trades Hall - Memorial for John Halfpenny: Dear Comrades, I write to confirm that the date for the memorial for John Halfpenny will be at 3pm on Thursday, 26 February in the New Council Chambers at Trades Hall, Cnr Victoria Pde & Lygon St, Carlton. The event is jointly sponsored by the AMWU and VTHC. Can you please relay this information to anyone who knew John, including ex VTHC staff or union officials, national unions and ex MP's. The memorial will be followed at 4.30pm by drinks in the OId Ballroom. Yours in solidarity Leigh Hubbard VTHC Secretary Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040226&viewtype=details&eid=40&print= Event Date: Feb 26, 2004 - Apr 02, 2004 Seminars - Melbourne - Imagine Socialism Discussion Group: Do you think it is time to just dump the rotten system we live under - and replace it with something better? Are you interested in radical ideas that will help us to achieve this? Would you like to explore what a socialist feminist society might look like? This discussion group is for you! Stimulated by readings from a range of socialist and socialist feminist thinkers, discussion will be based on your hopes and visions for a socialist future. Readings will include Socialism for Skeptics by Radical Women co-founder Clara Fraser and Imagine: A Socialist Vision for the 21st Century by Scottish Socialist Party leaders Tommy Sheridan and Alan McCombes. We'll also read essays and speeches by historical and contemporary activists, including James Cannon, Megan Cornish and Nancy Reiko-Kato, who outline their ideas of what a socialist world will be like. 26 February - Capitalism sure sux! 4 March - Human nature: Are we really greedy, lazy and individualistic? 11 March - Answering the skeptics who argue "socialism won't work" 18 March - Socialism: getting there will be exciting! 25 March- Painting a brighter future 1 April - Imagine Socialism! Dinner is served at 6.30 pm for a .50 donation Sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040226&viewtype=details&eid=44&print= Event Date: Feb 26, 2004 Meetings - How can we end the occupation in Iraq?: One year after the monster peace marches, the International Socialist Organisation invites you to a Marxist Forum to discuss how we should respond to the US-led occupation of Iraq. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040226&viewtype=details&eid=68&print= Leftlink's News: : Demonstrations and Rallies : Motion for Union Support of March 20 Anti-war Demonstrations Below is a motion which Socialist Alliance members are taking to union meetings to gather support for the 20 March anti-war demonstrations. So far it has been passed by the Victorian AMWU state council, the Victorian CFMEU branch meeting, the Geelong Trades & Labor Council, the WA MUA state conference, the South Barwon AEU meeting, the Canterbury-Bankstown NSW Teachers Federation meeting, the University of NSW NTEU branch and the University of WA NTEU branch. It is being taken to the Victorian ETU state council and the NTEU Victorian division council this week. Read More...: http://www.leftlink.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=13 : General Information : Sydney's Channel 31 may cease operation As some of you may have heard, Channel 31 may cease operation as early as three weeks which would put an end to community television in Sydney. If you don't want to see this happen, write, e-mail, call or fax in expressions of your support to the ABA. Please note that expressions of support must be made about Community Television Sydney (CTS) rather than Channel 31. Read More...: http://www.leftlink.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=12 : Media Releases : Indigenous Redfern is right to resist! For your information, the following media release was issued by SA on Tuesday, Feb 17. -------------------- No justice, no peace! Indigenous Redfern is right to resist! The death of Thomas (TJ) Hickey is a direct result of institutionalised oppression and state racism, the Socialist Alliance declared today. 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