Dear friends,
Please note following Asia-related events - in particular, ASAP has the
pleasure of hosting the visit of Ariel Guides, in conjunction with the
Sydney Social Forum and other organisations in Melbourne. See below for
details. Please mark the date in your diary.
Bitter-sweet: the story of Philippines sugar workers resisting the Empire
Featuring: Ariel Guides, Philipines unionist and leading activist from
Freedom from Hunger Coalition in Negros, Philippines
6.30pm Thu Oct 30
Seminar Rooms 1&2,
Level 7, Storey Hall,
RMIT, 344 Swanston St
Negros was once called the 'Sugar Bowl' of the Philippines, supplying a
large share of the sugar market. But since the 1980s, tens of thousands
of Negros sugar workers have defended their livelihoods from US
agribusiness pushing sweeteners derived from genetically-modified corn,
sugar dumping by the EU and Australia, and stepped-up exploitation at
the hands of the big cane growers.
Theirs is a heroic story including land and granary occupations that
interconnects the daily struggle against hunger with the
global struggle against the US corporate empire, the ages-long labour of
workers on the land with the Brave New World of
GM crops, and the hard reality of trade liberalisation with the utopian
fantasies of neoliberalism.
Ariel Guides is a leader of the Negros BMP (Solidarity of Philippines
Workers) and the Freedom from Hunger Coalition,
actively involved in grassroots organising with 22,000 sugar workers and
their families.
Sponsors: Action in Solidarity with Asia and the Pacific (ASAP), Sydney
Social Forum, Globalism Institute (RMIT), Maritime Union of Australia
(Vic), Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace
REBORN: AMBON AFTER THE CONFLICT
PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION LAUNCH & SYMPOSIUM
Photographs by Tantyo Bangun
Opening: Thursday 23 Oct 6pm
Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room, Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Melb Uni
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