UNIONISTS AGAINST CORPORATE TYRANNY
Web site for S11 protests in Melbourne
BY JORGE JORQUERA
MELBOURNE, Australia -- In preparation for the S11 protests against the
World Economic Forum meeting begiining here September 11, Green Left
Weekly, in collaboration with the Democratic Socialist Party has launched a
new web site. The site (<http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11>)
contains background analysis on corporate globalisation, the IMF, WTO and
Third World debt.
Green Left Weekly will have journalists in the city for two weeks before
the beginning of the non-violent mass blockade of the forum site on
September 11. They will cover all the lead-up activities, actions and
preparations exclusively for the site and, during the three days of the
summit, will provide up to the minute reporting of the protest events.
Activist and GLW journalist Susan Price says the site is an exciting new
venture for the newspaper. ``We've put a lot of effort into our coverage of
this new rise of `global resistance to global capital','' she said. ``Given
the S11 protests will be this country's first attempt to replicate the
Seattle and Washington demonstrations, we wanted to do something
appropriately ground-breaking -- that's what this site is about.''
Price says the web site aims to keep Green Left's readers informed no
matter where they are, ``whether they're in Melbourne and participating in
the demo's, or in some other part of the country, or anywhere in the world''.
The site now features more than two dozen articles related to the World
Economic Forum in particular and corporate globalisation in general.
``We've uploaded all of our newspaper's coverage so far onto the site, as
well as some extras, like a list of frequently asked questions about the
WEF and Fidel Castro's speech to the G77 summit'', Price explained. ``And
the contents will be updated as more features are published in GLW.''
GLW writer Sean Healy explained that the site will cover the many debates
over political strategy and tactics going on amongst the protesters.
``There's a lot of discussion, argument even, between different points of
view. We hope to both report those debates and bring a revolutionary
socialist viewpoint and analysis to them.''
Price explains that the GLW will cooperate with other community media
outlets to provide a top-notch alternative to ``what is undoubtedly going
to be a full-scale mainstream media assault on the protesters''.
The web site features an expanding list of links to other progressive
sites, an email newsletter, so you can receive updates as they're posted,
and a calendar of upcoming events. Green Left Weekly is considering
maintaining the site for coverage of days of global action after S11.
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