The Stick Together Show
Week beginning: 14/6/99
Duration: 26' 30"
Starts: Theme as per usual
Ends: "...see you next week." + Theme as usual
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National community radio's weekly look at issues of industrial & workplace
justice.
The Stick Together Show is produced at the studios of 3CR, with the
assistance of the Search Foundation. For details of where you can hear the
program, see end of page.
FREE TRADE & CORPORATE CONTROL
Today's program looks at issues of global economics & international trade
agreements. And at local community efforts to resist the wave of globalised
business and economic liberalisation policies currently holding sway around
the world.
DISAPPEARING PUBLICS - NIKOS PAPASTERGIADIS is a Research Fellow at the
Universities of Manchester & Melbourne. As such, he's in a good position to
compare the disappearance of public culture, institutions &
political/social/economic space in the UK, Europe & Australia. Over the
past few months, he's been coordinating a series of public forums on just
this issues entitles "Disappearing Publics". He discusses the privatisation
of the public sphere & the importance of community resistance against this
global trend.
The 3rd & final Disappearing Publics Forum will be held in Sydney at 7pm on
Tuesday June 29 at the Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Woolloomooloo. Ring
(03) 9368 1899 for details.
WOMEN AGAINST APEC - This year New Zealand plays host to the Asia Pacific
Economic Cooperation Forum & an offical APEC Women Leaders Meeting has been
planned for the end of June as part of the APEC activities. This week, NZ
women opposed to the agreement are holding their own conference in protest
against global corporatisation & free trade. MAXINE GAY is one of the
organisers of the Fourth Anti-APEC Women's Conference which starts this
Saturday in Wellington. She's also the Secretary of the alternative trade
union peak body, the NZ Trade Union Federation & believes unions should be
strongly opposed to trade liberalisation agreements like APEC.
FRIDAY JUNE 18 - has been dubbed "a day of protest, action & carnival in
financial centres across the globe" against global exploitation &
corporatisation & in support of local community-based initiatives.
Activities are taking place around the world to mark this day. Keep an eye
out for J18 activities in your local area this Friday.
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For information / with information or to purchase tapes of the program,
contact the producers:
Julia Scott and Meredith Butler
phone - (03) 9419 8377 fax - (03) 9417 2247
e-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [please mark: "attention: stick together
show"]
post - STG, c/o 3CR, PO Box 1277, Collingwood 3066.
Where you can hear the show...Melbourne, on 3CR 855am, Friday at 8.30am,
repeated Monday at 6am - Gippsland, on 3GCR, Thursdays at 11.30am -
Canberra, on 2XX, Tuesdays at 6pm - Katoomba, on 2BLU, Wednesdays at 5.30pm
- Omeo, on 3HCR, Tuesdays at 6pm - Adelaide, on 5UV, Wednesdays at 2pm -
Sydney, on 2SER. Wednesdays at 8pm - Brisbane, on 4ZZZ, Tuesdays at 1.30pm
- Woomera, on 5RRR - Perth, on 6RTR - Alice Springs, on 8CCC
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