Leftlink Newsletter for Monday, March 01, 2004 Issue: 13 Events this week:
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: Mar 02, 2004 Meetings - Asia-Australia Worker Links General Meeting: AAWL Annual General Meeting Proposed agenda Present, Apologies, Welcome, Minutes of last AGM [5 minutes - including discussion] Constitutional amendment proposed by AAWL Executive: To change the name of "AWPSL delegates" to "Regional delegates" [5 minutes - including discussion] Financial report - Karen Moran [5 minutes - including discussion] Activities report - Manrico Moro [5 minutes - including discussion] Project reports: China & Hong Kong - Mark Matcott [10 minutes - including discussion] Indonesian & East Timor Union Training Project - Setyo Budi [10 minutes - including discussion] Korea - Andrew Giles [10 minutes - including discussion] Malaysia - John Tebbutt [10 minutes - including discussion] Papua New Guinea - LT [10 minutes - including discussion] Philippines - May Kotsakis [10 minutes - including discussion] Refugees - Abdul Baig & Sarah Pilli [10 minutes - including discussion] Regional Health & Safety Project - Cathy Butcher & Gwynnyth Evans [10 minutes - including discussion] Stolen Wages - Christine Howes & Jan Lacey [10 minutes - including discussion] Election of Public Officer, Executive, Coordinators [10 minutes - including discussion] Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040302&viewtype=details&eid=45&print= Event Date: Mar 02, 2004 Seminars - Canberra - Truth, Lies and the Future of Iraq: Truth, lies and the future of Iraq: a forum with former Australian intelligence officer Andrew Wilkie. Organised by the ACT Network Opposing War. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040302&viewtype=details&eid=74&print= Event Date: Mar 03, 2004 NIBS - Neutralising the NGOs: How the Right targets Non-Government Organisations: NIBS event: 'Neutralising the NGOs: How the Right targets Non-Government Organisations'. Tim Thornton from the Department of Economics at Monash University uncovers the Right's new assault on NGOs and their role in advocacy and public policy consciousness-raising. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040303&viewtype=details&eid=9&print= Event Date: Mar 04, 2004 Theatre, Film and Humour - Victorian Womens' Trust International Women's Day event: WOMEN OF WIT - International Women's Day celebration BOOK EARLY, DON'T MISS OUT!!! Melbourne's annual International Women's Day celebration is on again hosted by absolutely women's health, International Women's Development Agency, The Victorian Women's Trust & YWCA Victoria. SPEAKERS/PERFORMERS ANNABEL CRABB (The Age's political correspondent and 'House on the Hill' columnist) TRACEY BARTRAM (Entertainer) DENISE SCOTT (Comedian) Hosted by LYNNE HAULTAIN (774 ABC Melbourne), & KATE KANTOR appearing as Paul (from 'The Business') Performances by LITTLE G (Hip Hop Artist), HIP-POPOTAMUS, and LEMONGRASS. START TIME: 5:00pm (Community Expo), Speeches and Performance from 7:30pm END TIME: 10:00pm Payment can be made by Credit card (Visa, Mastercard or Bankcard) over the phone or by cheque made out to VWT or at the door on the night. Prepaid tickets can be posted out or picked up at the door on the night. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040304&viewtype=details&eid=43&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: Mar 04, 2004 Rallies - Adelaide - Stop the SA Nuclear Dump: Please come to the second important public meeting organised as part of the SA government's review into In Situ Leach uranium mining. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040304&viewtype=details&eid=56&print= Event Date: Mar 04, 2004 - Mar 08, 2004 Campaigns - Nimangarn - Opoeia Arts/Music Cultural Gathering: NiMaNGaRN OPoeia aRTS/MuSiC CuLTRuRaL GaTHeRiNG We ProViDe THe SpaCe aND SeT The PaCe, You FiLL The GaPS aND HeLP DRaW The MaPS Seed camp for an annual Gathering See the web site for workshop, dj, band, performance listings. At Opoeia we are finally putting together a seed camp (to borrow the Rainbow term) for an annual event. This time around though we are not attempting the big festival thing. Rather we are calling out for very creative/innovative and passionate crews to come together for an event of about 300-400 punters to set the groundwork for a unique on-going gathering. We are only aiming to cover costs this time around, so we will keep the price low at .00 for 5 days. For next year we will set up a not-for-profit wing of our little retreat to run the annual gig. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040304&viewtype=details&eid=67&print= Event Date: Mar 04, 2004 Seminars - Melbourne - Behind the Business of War: A public forum with special guest: HUMPHREY McQUEEN From his groundbreaking work "a new Britannia" through to his most recent book "the Essense of Capitalism" McQueen has consistently exposed and explained capitalism, war and imperialism. This forum uncovers the economic and political agendas at play behind the war drive. Don't miss one of Australia's most eloquent and informed left commentators as he lays bare the politics power and profit of war. proudly presented by Socialist Alliance. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040304&viewtype=details&eid=69&print= Event Date: Mar 04, 2004 Seminars - Melbourne - What Resistance Stands For: what resistance stands for - an introduction to the socialist youth group. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040304&viewtype=details&eid=72&print= Event Date: Mar 04, 2004 Meetings - National Occupational Health & Safety Campaign Launch: Work strain causes real pain Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040304&viewtype=details&eid=77&print= Event Date: Mar 06, 2004 Rallies - Melbourne - International Women's Day Rally: International Women's Day Rally Women Against War, Racism and Sexism. We demand jobs, education, childcare, reproductive rights, health - not warfare. Find out more. : http://www.leftlink.net/index.php?module=PostCalendar&func=view&Date=20040306&viewtype=details&eid=46&print= Leftlink's News: : News Articles : All The News That Fits - February 24 - March 1 The Victorian government has abandoned women who are smuggled from overseas to work in brothels, according to an advocacy group. Georgina Costello from Project Respect said that the Victorian government had not delivered new legislation outlawing sexual servitude, and was not providing funding for the agency. Ms Costello said that although the agency had Federal funding and there were Federal laws against the practice, federal laws were ineffective unless police could prove state borders had been crossed. Read More...: http://www.leftlink.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=20 : News Articles : Will Vanuatu be Australia's next target? by Tom Orsag Since the official end of the war in Iraq, Australia, the former British colonial settler-state, has gone on to send troops and police to recolonise parts of the South Pacific, its so-called backyard. Prime Minister John Howard is US President George Bush's only loyal ally in the southern hemisphere. Around 800 Australian troops remain in Iraq. A new US troop base in Australia is being discussed as the US finds its military forces unwelcome in Okinawa and South Korea. Read More...: http://www.leftlink.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19 : General Information : 'Terror' law threatens the right to organise As part of the raft of 'terror laws' being passed through parliament, the Howard government is wanting to pass a law in this coming session of parliament giving the government the power to ban organizations and prosecute individuals who are involved directly or indirectly in such an organization. This is a threat to our right to organize politically. Read More...: http://www.leftlink.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=18 : General Information : Real Learning, Real Futures (an Education Report) In this useful report, Roger Holdsworth (Australian Youth Research Centre, University of Melbourne) explores the Real Learning Real Futures project in the Derwent Valley, Tasmania, which stands out as an educational model on three grounds: first, it involves ten schools and a District Office working in collaboration; second, it strongly argues that students "at risk" should not be isolated into an "alternative" program; third, it is grappling with issues about authentic learning in which students are engaged in real and community-based projects. Read More...: http://www.leftlink.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=17 Please forward as appropriate. All browsers of the site can read the news articles and add calendar events. 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