www.socialist-alliance.org
MEDIA RELEASE
August 31, 2001
Local protest to demand:
Admit the Tampa refugees now!
Upcoming Action
Preston Markets
Saturday September 8
10am � 1pm
Speakout and Rally to Free the Refugees
Contact:
Preselected Socialist Alliance candidate for Batman:
Jackie Lynch
0403 693 479
The Socialist Alliance, formed in February, has pledged to do everything it
could to force the Howard government to accept the refugees presently
stranded in appalling conditions on the Norwegian cargo vessel Tampa by the
government�s refusal to allow the ship to dock at Christmas Island.
Jackie Lynch, candidate for the Seat of Batman said that the stance of both
the Howard government and the Labor opposition revealed the deep inhumanity
of both major parties.
"No-one with any human decency left could witness the suffering of these
people in flight from the institutionalised cruelty of the Taliban regime
and not want to help."
Lynch went on to say
"The Socialist Alliance will be initiating and participating in protests all
around Australia: its candidates for the upcoming federal election will be
making the rights of refugees and asylum-seekers a central theme of their
message. In Batman, local Socialist Alliance activists are planning a
protest around the Tampa tragedy and the treatment of refugees in general."
Nine socialist organisations and many individual activists have formed the
Socialist Alliance to contest the next federal election. Supporters include
Craig Johnston, Victorian state branch secretary of the AMWU, Melbourne
University academic Verity Burgmann, comedian Rod Quantock, union and
environmental activist Jack Mundey, Victorian Fairwear organiser
Annie Delaney and Victorian Trades Hall women's and equity officer Ellen
Kleimaker.
The Socialist Alliance will be standing in every state and territory in the
federal election.
Jackie Lynch
Mobile: 0403 693 479
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