LL:INFO: NZ Greens win six seats

1999-12-07 Thread janet ricew
- Original Message - From: Oquist, Ben (Sen B. Brown) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tuesday, 7 Dec 1999 at 5:59pm; NZ Greens win six seats with historic election count WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Dec 7 AP - The Green Party won six seats and the balance of power in New Zealand parliament following a

LL:ART: EDITORIAL: "DEMOCRACY" IN SEATTLE

1999-12-07 Thread Communist Party of Australia
Editorial: "Democracy" in Seattle The following article was published in "The Guardian", newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, December 8th, 1999. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 57

LL:ART: THE CLIMATE BOMB

1999-12-07 Thread Communist Party of Australia
The climate bomb The following article was published in "The Guardian", newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia in its issue of Wednesday, December 8th, 1999. Contact address: 65 Campbell Street, Surry Hills. Sydney. 2010 Australia. Phone: (612) 9212 6855 Fax: (612) 9281 5795. CPA Central C

LL:INDEX: What's in Green Left Weekly this week

1999-12-07 Thread Agit Prop Central
GLW: http://www.greeenleft.org.au/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription hotline: 1 800 634 206 Freecall Green Left Weekly, Issue #388 December 8, 1999

LL:PR: MARXISM 2000 Conference

1999-12-07 Thread Agit Prop Central
Marxism 2000 conference: confident in the future of socialism By John Percy Whose century was the 20th, and whose century will the 21st be? As the millennium draws to a close, we should reflect on this. Capitalism is still in power across most of the globe. C

LL:DDV: PARTY at the New International Bookshop

1999-12-07 Thread jimcros
8.00, Thursday 9 December The Bookshop's CHRISTMAS BREAK-UP PARTY All welcome to our break-up party - volunteers, customers, supporters, inquisitive people, kids and pets The break-up will follow the talk at 7.00pm by DICK GROSS, mayor of Port Phillip, about his new book, THE GODLESS GOSPE

Public Statement on Refugee Laws

1999-12-07 Thread DSP National Office
Public statement Reject Australia's racist laws on refugees In 1997 Australia became infamous around the world because of the rapid rise of the overtly racist Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Following a wave of anti-racist protests, One Nation went into decline but Hansonism is far from d

LL:DDN: BHP DENIES WORKERS RIGHTS

1999-12-07 Thread Dilum Dassanayake
Forwarded from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The CFMEU (Miners Union division) is asking people to show their support to miners in the Pilbara. Their employer, BHP Iron, is attempting to put them on individual contracts. Below The CFMEU explains what is going on. Read that and then ... LET THE WORKERS

LL:URL: post-privatisation electricity prices

1999-12-07 Thread Essendon Community Legal Centre
The first post-privatisation inquiry into monopoly electricity prices in now underway. The electricity distribution businesses have made their submissions to the regulator re prices/service standards/quality of supply. They have proposing only minor price cuts when substantial cuts (especially

LL:AA: NSW Bev-Pak workers on strike over forced introduction of AWAs

1999-12-07 Thread Ben Donnelly
Bev-Pak Workers sacked for saying no to AWAs Around 80 workers at the Bev-Pak bottle packaging company in Condell Park NSW have been sacked following a walk-out of employees last Wednesday (30th November) after they refused to sign Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) effectively putting the

LL:ART: Seattle Doctor's Searing Statement On Police Brutality

1999-12-07 Thread S. Plunkett
Seattle Doctor's Searing Statement On Police Brutality From Dr. Byron Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12-5-99 My name is Richard DeAndrea. I'm a medical doctor. What I saw up here was martial law. This turned into a police state. Everything you have seen on television regarding local news broadca