LL:ART: Pastry Action Reports From the UK and OZ
From: Biotic Baking Brigade [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pastry Action Reports From the UK and OZ
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Report from Down Under:
"Meanwhile another corporate nasty got pied in South Australia - Chuck
Foldenauer, head of a uranium mine owned by General Atomics (US-based
nuclear giant). Perpetrators of the pieing: the 'humps not dumps' women,
anti-uranium camel crusaders.
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"Minister Pays For Farm Fury"
Excerpts from the Evening Standard (London, UK), February 2, 2000, Front
Page Chocolate attack farce on Nick Brown sends serious warning to Blair.
The fury of Britain's farmers impacted directly on the Government today
when Agriculture Minister Nick Brown had his face smeared with chocolate
eclair by a woman protester.
The incident came half way through an angry confrontation between Mr. Brown
and farmers at their union conference. Delegate after delegate, at least
one of them in tears, lined up to berate the minister over the Government's
lack of help for agriculture.
[The perpetrator] is said to have links with anti-genetically modified crop
protest groups, and later said the attack was a spontaneous protest at how
the Government is treating farmers in Britain.
General Public Release (special pie technical data follows 'for your pies
only!')
Tuesday, 1st February 2000. Grosvenor House Hotel, London.
Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid arrived in the UK today along with
10 ministers and 100 Indonesian corporate directors for a business seminar
with 400 invited delegates from British industry. They were in the UK as
part of a tour of Europe and Asia designed to drum up business and rescue
the Indonesian economy from the doldrums. It was a carefully crafted PR
exercise aiming to spread the illusion that Indonesia is no longer run by a
despotic regime that murders people and plunders the land to maintain the
wealth of its ruling elite.
The Indonesian delegation flew in from Davos in Switzerland only this
morning where they had been attending the World Economic Forum which had
been besieged by more than 500 rioting demonstrators disguised with
ski-masks. Escaping this, they arrived at the Grosvenor House Hotel in
London's Park Lane where they were met by 25 demonstrators hastily
assembled at only two days notice. The demonstrators, disguised with masks
of a West Papuan tribesman, blockaded the entrance preventing the
delegation entering the hotel and sprayed fake blood across the hotel
steps. The delegates were harangued through a megaphone and greeted with:
'Good morning suits! You are not anonymous, you are not invisible--if you
invest in genocide we will target you! Your offices will be occupied, your
homes will be visited. Welcome to the world of resistance!' Custard pies
were flung at the alarmed Indonesian delegates, while demonstrators chanted
'Papua Merdeka'! ('Free Papua!').
The demonstrators blockaded both the front and the back of the hotel to
prevent delegates arriving unnoticed and were joined by an East Timorese
exile who proceeded to attack the Indonesians in their own language.
After about an hour, when delegates had ceased arriving and the number of
police outnumbered protestors by about 2 to 1, the protestors decided to
leave. A successful, if small, action that hopefully scared off British
companies from dealing with the murderous Indonesian regime and investing
in 'developing' West Papua. Unfortunately the photographer wasn't pie-eyed,
BBB needs specialist photographers with fishpie lenses to capture the action.
http://www.eco-action.org/opm/london/index.html
But if you look closely there are some mysterious white dots on 'london4'
-- by the french window.(well ok, its the lights inside...) And pie
shrapnel from previous slaughter is visible everywhere.
A portable pie strategy was decided on, and piers were issued with foil pie
trays, a carton of ready made custard and an aerosol can of whipped cream.
This proved useful as the piers were able to hide behind a second banner
set at an angle and thus could continue making new pies as and when needed.
The Pies, although none made a full-on direct hit in the face, got
everyone; delegates, security and blockaders. One pier was overheard saying
'we need a training camp with lots of pie'. They claim to have got about
10-15 of the delegates with a sufficient amount of pie to cause annoyance,
and knowledge that they were not welcome.
It was obvious from their faces that they were not used to this treatment,
and would normally have had everyone shot. Security guards promised to
'get' the pie people later.
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very tasty
for a pastry--
must've cost
a lot of dough--
and the bakers
are good makers
of news stories
you can throw.
in the kitchen
they must pitch in,
arms in flour
to the elbows,
while creating
innovating
tarts to fling
LL:DDV: DINNER AND DISCUSSION - WEST PAPUA'S FUTURE
- -- - DINNER AND DISCUSSION - WEST PAPUA'S FUTURE The Australian Council for Overseas Aid (ACFOA) is pleased to invite you to meet... Mr. Mus Pigai Mr. Albert Rumbekwan Human Rights Activists from West Papua, Indonesia - Mus Pigai is a lawyer and member of the Amugme Consultation Council in Timika - Albert Rumbekwan works at the Institute of Human Rights Study and Advocacy in Jayapura/Port Numbai Mus and Albert will discuss recent events in West Papua and civil society plans and hopes for the future in West Papua. ACFOA will also launch the report "West Papua: Past, Present, Future" from the seminar held on 12 Nov 1999, the 30th anniversary of the "Act of Free Choice." Tues 22 Feb 2000 6.30 - 8.30 The Upstairs Room, Cafe Nova, 307 Brunswick St, Fitzroy Please RSVP to Marg Clausen by Feb 17 on 03 9417 7505, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Australia Council for Overseas Aid, Human Rights Office 124 Napier St, Fitzroy, Melbourne VIC 3065, Australia tel: +61 3 9417 7505, Sri Lanka Project: +61 3 9417 7238 Indonesia Project: +61 3 9415 8219 fax: +61 3 9416 2746 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.acfoa.asn.au LL.VB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:ART: Free trade leaves the poor marginalised: UN
The Australian http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,2294,318236%255E401,00.html Free trade leaves the poor marginalised: UN 14feb00 BANGKOK, Thailand: The world's 48 poorest countries are failing to benefit from free trade and globalisation and face worsening poverty, inequality and marginalization, according to a United Nations report released today. Economic production has declined for three straight years in the least-developed countries while their share of global trade has plunged, said the report issued by the UN Conference on Trade and Development. "There is no greater challenge facing the international community today than integrating the least developed countries into the world economy,'' said UNCTAD Deputy Secretary-General Carlos Fortin. "They are being increasingly marginalized." Since 1971, the number of countries categorised by the United Nations as extremely poor has risen from 25 to 48. During that period, only one country, Botswana, has graduated from the list. Thirty-three of the poorest nations are in Africa, nine in Asia, five in the Pacific and one in Latin America. The report, released at an UNCTAD meeting in Bangkok, said rich countries should remove all tariffs and quotas on products from the poorest countries to allow them to sell more. Developing countries have complained that trade agreements negotiated by the World Trade Organisation have cut tariffs on many products exported by rich nations, while falling to address agriculture, textiles and garments - key products for poorer countries. The report also urged donor countries to provide more aid to enable poor countries to produce more so they can benefit from free trade. "The main problem of the least developed countries today is they don't produce enough,'' Fortin said. In real terms, aid provided to the least-developed countries has fallen by 23 per cent in the past decade, the report said. Unlike wealthier developing countries, the poorest nations are generally unable to turn to private investment for capital, and attract less than 1 per cent of all foreign direct investment, the report said. * This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: New International Bookshop
FORTHCOMING EVENT The New International Bookshop presents a forum with Jane Nicholls (author of Flight 642: Jakarta to Dili) and Fretilin leader and CNRT official Father Filomeno (to be confirmed). Tuesday 22 February 6.30 pm. New International Bookshop Trades Hall - LOST TEXTS FOUND Left-linkers interested in Marxism might be interested to know we now have a few copies of The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism. It contains major essays by Max Shactman, Hal Draper, CLR James, Al Glotzer, Joseph Carter, Leon Trotsky and other revolutionaries grappling with the question of how to understand the degeneration of the Russian Revolution. A must read for those associated with the Trotskyist tradition. LL.VB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDW: Mandatory sentencing vigil - the time of the event
From: Executive Officer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Mandatory sentencing vigil - the time of the event For those of you who wondered why i didn't put the time of the vigil in my last email - I forgot. (damn those aluminium saucepans!) The service/vigil will take place at 12.00 midday on Thursday February 17th, at Parliament House, Perth Regards Theo Mackaay Tel 9321 7033 Theo Mackaay Executive Officer Anglican Social Responsibilities Commission LL.WB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:ART: New 'overclass' out of touch: welfare group
THE AGE http://www.theage.com.au/news/2215/A18402-2000Feb14.html New `overclass' out of touch: welfare group By DARREN GRAY CANBERRA Tuesday 15 February 2000 An "overclass" of people who earned massive six-figure salaries, owned numerous properties and were out of touch with the rest of society was emerging in Australia, a leading welfare group said yesterday. The president of the Australian Council of Social Service, Mr Michael Raper, said the term "overclass" was a new and undefined term but applied to people whose incomes and lifestyle meant they did not share common experiences with those on low incomes and the unemployed. "They no longer ride public transport; they certainly don't rent properties - they rent out properties instead; they don't have any trouble paying their bills; they holiday elsewhere or in resorts; they live in areas that have high employment," he said. "The essential ingredient is that they are largely decision-makers as well. They are in positions in the public sector and in the private sector where their income and experience is just very different to those for whom they are making decisions," he told The Age. The so-called Australian "overclass" included senior managers in large corporations, chief executives - some of whom were given multi-million-dollar payouts when they departed - and professionals in the investment and information-technology sector, Mr Raper said. In addition, the "over-class" did not attend public schools. However, he did not include politicians in this category. Mr Raper was speaking after the launch of ACOSS's 2000-2001 federal Budget submission at Parliament. The ACOSS submission called for a $3.3billion spending boost next financial year on social services and welfare payments. It called for a $693 million boost to employment, education and training, a $300million increase in public-housing spending and a $19.90 a week increase in dole payments for unemployed single people. Mr Raper said the emerging "overclass", which was now larger than at any other time, had the ability to expand and protect its wealth via investments, negative gearing and the establishment of family trusts to minimise tax. Many in the overclass did not know how much better off they were than most, he said. "Single or individual income earners over $100,000 (a year) are really in the rarefied atmosphere and don't realise it," he said. ACOSS also warned yesterday that Australia risked growing social problems, including rising crime and suicide rates, if it failed to address the growing gap between the rich and poor. Despite apparently rosy national economic indicators, Mr Raper said the benefits from economic restructuring were not being shared evenly in the community. * This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV:Protest Ruddock- No slave labour of refugees!
NO SLAVE LABOUR OF "ILLEAGAL IMMIGRANTS"! PROTEST AGAINST PHILLIP RUDDOCK!!! Demand: - End mandatory sentences of refugees - Let the refugees stay - Reverse the cuts to migrant services One address in Melbourne only: MARCH 2, THURSDAY, 6:30PM @ Bayswater Phone RESISTANCE 9639 8622 ask for Sarah, Arun or Jorge (note- the exact venue has not been announced... to prevent protests such as this one. ring us to be put on a phone tree to be contacted when the venue is confirmed) _ Ruddock is currently considering "using" illegal immigrants for fruit picking. The only criticisms that the Labor party have raised involve logistical and security concerns. Amidst media hype about "hordes of boat people" and a bipartisan policy attacking refugees ... who needs Hanson? Australia has some of the harshest refugee laws in the world. In most Western countries once someone applies for refugee status they are released into the community while their case is reviewed. Here, thanks to the Labor party, they are detained, breaching sections of 9.1 and 9.4 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Liberal's recent rejection of 1650 East Timorese asylum seekers, despite the Australian governments complicity in the invasion and occupation of that country, is the latest example of hypocrisy. Asylum seekers are fleeing desperate situations: war, poverty and repression, that have often been caused by foreign policies of Western governments. We can not let our government widen the already huge chasm between rich and poor countries. Reject their use of refugees: for cheap labour one day and scapegoats for their economy the next... Demand an immigration and foreign policy based on people not profits! PROTEST AGAINST RACISM! PROTEST AGAINST RUDDOCK! organised by RESISTANCE, socialist youth organisation. _ THE NEW RESISTANCE CENTRE 5th floor, Druids House 407 swanston st, (opp rmit) melbourne ph:9639 8622 http://www.greenleft.org.au/resistance __ LL.VC -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
