LL:DDV: Coming Soon at Trades Hall
GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL, the home of conscience culture ... Bloomsday in Melbourne presents JAMES JOYCE HITS TRADES HALL; their 9th annual celebration of Ulysses Bloomsday tramps the worn steps of the Trades Hall to follow the progress of James Joyce's enterprise bargaining case. Listen to what the workers at Trades Hall and some from the slums of Dublin have to say to him. This one-day festival will raise many questions in different media: theatricals, music, mime, seminar papers, and even in the form of a musical (Ulysses Cantabile, a musical in four movements) in the evening. It employs a cast of several dozen professional actors, musicians, theatre directors, as well as a legion of once-a-year readers. The seminar will feature papers by Ross McMullin (on the first Labor government anywhere in the world in Australia in 1904, the auspicious year of the setting of Ulysses), Jim Cusack (on Union conditions in Ireland in 1904), and Philip Harvey (on Joyce and work in Ulysses). Time to Re-Joyce! from 10:30am until late, Sunday June 16 All Day Tickets $65, tickets also available for individual events Bookings Ph: 9819 0209 http://arts.deakin.edu.au/Bloomsite/Program.htm WEST PAPUA: TROPICAL PARADISE SOAKED IN BLOOD Public meeting - West Papua is another East Timor. An eye witness report by Kel Dummett including a slide presentation and 5 minute film screening. Benny Wenda, West Papuan Resistance Leader Secretary-General of Koteka Tribal Assembly, was arrested last Saturday by Indonesain military forces. Wenda was taken by force without anyone showing him a Letter of Order or telling him why he was being arrested. His arrest comes after Papuan resistance leader, Dortheys Hiyo Eluay was kidnapped and assassinated last year, allegedly by Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus). Indonesia gained control of West Papua in 1963 from its Dutch colonisers. An estimated 300,000 Papuans have been killed or disappeared under Indonesian rule. A struggle for independence from Indonesia and against multinational mining corporations, has been long and ongoing. 6:30pm Thursday, June 20th The New Ballroom FREE Event - all welcome supported by: Free West Papua Collective, Asia Pacific Human Rights Network www.koteka.net/ - Koteka Assembly of Tribes WAKING UP THE NATION - Journal from the Freedom Bus Film Screening presented by No One Is Illegal in support of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre In the summer of 2002 a group of people, concerned about the mistreatment of asylum seekers inside Australia's detention centres decided to embark on a 2 months/15 000 kilometres journey around the continent Villawood Maribyrnong Woomera Perth Port Hedland Curtain . . . and back!! THE MISSION - Visiting people inside the camps and creating more awareness among the population, especially in rural towns. THE FILM - Waking Up The Nation takes you on this inspiring journey, and introduces you to many of the hundreds of people still incarcerated. It also exposes some of the mistreatments at the hands of the private corporation, which runs the camps, and the government who supports it. One of the most significant events for people in their time in detention. Psychiatrist, Dr. Zachary Steele describing the Freedom Bus journey. 8pm Thursday, June 20th The New Council Chambers Tickets $10 Full/ $7 Conc - Tickets at the door on the night www.angry.at/videoteppista BIG RED BOOK FAIR The Big Red Book Fair is the major fund-raiser for Trades Hall's New International Bookshop, one of Australia's last remaining left-wing book co-operatives. It's a bonanza of Bolshevik book-selling, transforming for a weekend the historic corridors of Trades Hall into an emporium of pre-loved books. The Big Red Book Fair featuring a gourmet barbecue, raffle of signed literature and more books that you can poke a sickle at! 11am - 5pm Saturday Sunday, June 22nd 23rd Victoria St entry - Trades Hall www.nibs.org.au FOOD NOT BOMBS BENEFIT ART AUCTION Throughout the book fair Food Not Bombs will be exhibiting artwork by some of Melbourne's brightest up and coming visual artists in the Trades Hall Bar. The works will be auctioned in the Trades Hall Bar at 6:30pm Monday June 24th. GET IT LIVE - GET IT AT TRADES HALL 54 Victoria St (Cnr Lygon St) Carlton Ph: 9662 3555 Trades Hall Bar - open nightly from 5pm 'til late Friday Happy Hours 4-7pm more info visit www.tradeshallarts.com.au There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns - that is to say, there are things that we now know we don't know but there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know . . . And each year we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns. - Donald Rumsfeld, United States Defence Secretary Huh? - Pass it on -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International
LL:PR: Lie Leads to Suicide Attempt
ACM Lie Leads to Suicide Attempt On June 2nd, a woman who had travelled from Adelaide to visit a refugee nurse incarcerated at the Woomera Detention Centre, was told that the young woman she wished to visit did not want to see her. The visitor had a letter from the refugee nurse requesting the visit. It had been officially approved by the Department of Immigration. It would have been the nurse's first visit from anyone in Australia, in the many months that she has been held at Woomera. The truth was that the anxious young mother, who holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in nursing, had eagerly anticipated the visit. The ACM guard lied. He was simply too lazy or uncaring to go and inform the woman that she had a visitor. The guard apparently acted arbitrarily in cancelling the visit. Later in the day, the same guard co-operated in organising a visit with another female detainee, but he insisted on sitting in on the conversation and interjected every time that he disagreed with anything that the detainee said. His manner, according to the woman from Adelaide, was overbearing and obnoxious. Any time he was challenged or questioned, his reply was, Tell it to Canberra. When the refugee mother who had missed the visit was told that her only visit had been denied, it became the last straw in a series of disappointments. It appears that in the same week, she had been approved for a visa, and then the Department of Immigration had decided to appeal against the decision. Rather than being free while the appeal is processed, she was told that she would still be held in custody. (NOTE: This information has not yet been conclusively verified, although the woman is definitely still being held in custody, and she is not being allowed visitors.) She wrote a letter the next day to a pen friend in Melbourne. She said of the cancelled visit, that it was because they don't want anyone to know about our suffering in here. Then the letter continued: I've prepared something for dying. Just I tell you before. I can't continue. It means I must lose the time. I can't more. I will die because Ruddock and Howard's dirty policy. Goodbye. After posting the letter, she seriously slashed herself, and was rushed to the Woomera Hospital, where she is still being treated. It is only a matter of time before one of these suicide attempts is successful. Another mother is in the same hospital, recovering from serious burns that she received in a suicide attempt nearly two months ago. It is rumoured that the DIMIA reaction to that suicide attempt has been to charge the woman with arson. (That information also has not been verified.) Dave McKay Refugee Embassy Post Restante Woomera 5720 Phone: 0407-238805 -- for the moment, mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will be automatically forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so you may reply to either address and it will reach me. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDV: Skilled 6 organising meeting
A meeting to organise a benefit and public meeting in support of the Skilled 6 is to be held on Monday 17 June 2002 at 5pm at the John Curtin Hotel in Lygon Street, Carlton. All welcome. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:URL: Day 3 - Trust the Women Convention
TRUST THE WOMEN: WOMEN'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION - FINAL DAY PAPERS - The available papers presented on the final day of the Trust the Women Convention today are now available on the web site. Additional papers presented on Day 1 and 2 are also now on the site at: http://www.wcc2002.asn.au/program/index.htm The Convention finished with a summary of the themes from presentations and workshops and a number of resolutions. These should be on the web site by tomorrow night (Friday 14th June). - DEBATE AND TOUR - Tonight in Canberra there has been a free public debate at Old Parliament House. The topic was 'That Women Should Never Have Got the Vote,' with Rachel Berger. Tomorrow some delegates are staying in Canberra to take a tour that includes the National Archives, National Library and Parliament House on the theme of women's suffrage and women's social and political participation. - FOLLOW ON COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS - Many delegates are going back to their communities buzzing with information and enthusiasm to discuss the issues further. For those who were unable to attend the Convention but are interested in leading a workshop in your area, there are ideas on the web site at: http://www.wcc2002.asn.au/ideas.htm or contact National Community Coordinator, Robin Tennant-Wood, at the Conference Coordination Office from next week ph: 02 6247 6679 fax: 02 6247 4669 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community workshops are coming up as follows: 17 June, Katanning, Western Australia 20 June, MT Gambier SA 28 June, north east of Alice Springs, hosted by the Marle Ingkhereke Arndaritjika Aboriginal Corporation 29 June, Tennant Creek, NT 29 June, Broulee, NSW Contacts for these workshops are on the web site at http://www.wcc2002.asn.au/community_events.htm - REMEMBERING THE CENTENARY AND THE 40 YEAR ANNIVERSARY - If you would like to order a copy of the Trust the Women Convention photo or postcards or tea towel that have the Convention logo on them, you can use the order form on the web at: http://www.wcc2002.asn.au/program/merchandise.htm Or phone the Coordination Office from next week to have the order form faxed or posted to you. Regards, Judy Harrison For the Canberra organising committee -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
