LL:DDV: AWOL - Liberate the Streets MAYDAY call to action
From: DOWN SHUT [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:55 PM Subject: AWOL - Liberate the Streets MAYDAY call to action Mayday ( May 1st 2001 ) 'Liberate the Streets ' A W O L Autonomous Web of Liberation CALL FOR DIRECT ACTION RESISTANCE TO CAPITALISM Mayday ( May 1st ) is a day to celebrate working class solidarity and resistance to Capitalism. In keeping with this tradition AWOL ( Autonomous Web of Liberation ) is calling for an anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian day of action. AWOL is working towards an action around the idea of 'Liberate the Streets ' in the City of Melbourne. We are calling on all anti-capitalist groups and individuals who believe in consensus decision making, direct action and who organise on the basis of non-hierachy ( autonomous from all centralisation and bureacracy ), to co-ordinate with us for this action. We are also calling on you to organise your own actions, affinity groups, clusters, net-works and co-ordinations against Capitalism on Mayday. M A Y D A Y M A Y D A Y M A Y D A Y Mayday , May 1st is a day of anti-capitalist action and to remember and take inspiration from those who have fought before us. To fight back against bosses and Capitalists at work and in the unions and those who try to control our lives. Mayday incorporates the struggles of all oppressed peoples, resistance to police corruption and surveilance, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and for radical egalitarian futures. It is a time to remember struggles like the workers struggle for the 8 hour day in Chicago, USA, 1886. The demonstration was attacked by 176 armed police, a bomb thrown by unknown persons, resulted in open fire on the crowd, killing 4 workers and some of their own officers. 8 Anarchists were framed for this attack, a number not even beign in attendance at the time of attack, 'Anarchy was on trial. ' These events and the recognition of brave struggles against bosses and bureacrates and capitalists are a reminder of what the state and capitalists do to us everyday, and why it is important to resist on Mayday, bring struggles together and always fight back. L I B E R A T ET H ES T R E E T S We hope to occupy and liberate a piece of land, to create a commons for community celebration, a world turned upside down, a glimpse of freedom and ecological survival. A place to share our dreams and visions, an example of a world of respect for diversity and acceptance of difference, direct democracy and community control of resources, free from the tyranny of money, bosses and leaders. L I B E R A T E T H ES T R E E T SO N M A Y-D A Y 2001 AWOL is organising every thursay at the BOWLS CLUB - 14 Pearl St - Northcote @ 6.30 pm. *** meetings are run on consensus decision making *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antimedia.net/awol -- 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.VE
LL:PR: What's on the Stick Together Show this week
THE STICK TOGETHER SHOW National community radio's weekly program of industrial, social workplace justice issues. = Heard on 3CR Community Radio (855AM) this week: Friday 18/01/01 at 8.30am Saturday 19/01/01 at 10.30am Monday 21/01/01 at 6.00am -- MAUDE BARLOWE Maude Barlow is the Chairperson of the Council of Canadians, an activist organisation with 100,000 members working to preserve Canada's social programs, culture, wilderness and domestic regulatory powers. She is also a Director of the International Forum on Globalisation and has been listed by the New Internationalist magazine as one of six key economic thinkers who have dared challenge dominant economic views. She is co-author of the book The MAI and the Threat to Canadian Sovereignty (Stoddart Publishing, Toronto). Maude has been involved for a decade in campaigns around free trade agreements in the Americas, especially the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and was a key international campaigner against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI). She visited Australia in June 2000, addressing a conference in Melbourne on the globalisation of arts culture, and presenting a public lecture entitled What's Wrong with Free Trade?, held at the University of Sydney on June 27, 2000. On today's program, you'll hear excerpts from the Sydney lecture, which was sponsored by the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTINET). Thanks to Patricia Ranald, Principal Policy Officer at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) for permission to use this material to 3CR's Helen Lobato for bringing it to our attention. More information on Maude Barlowe is available on the Council of Canadians website: www.canadians.org The Stick Together Show will be broadcasting throughout January as usual. -- For information / with information or to purchase tapes of the program, contact: Meredith Butler [Producer] phone - (03) 9419 8377 fax - (03) 9417 2247 e-mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] [please mark: "attention: stick together show"] post - STG, c/o 3CR, PO Box 1277, Collingwood 3066. -- 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:PR: Iraqi sanctions miss target say distinguished Australians
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION for PREVENTION of WAR (Australia) Media Release 17 January 2001 Iraqi sanctions miss target say distinguished Australians Forty-three distinguished Australians have written to Prime Minister John Howard and the Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Downer calling for their support for the lifting of economic sanctions against Iraq. The letter states: "After a decade of suffering by innocent people, and the deaths of children on a scale far exceeding that caused by any military weapon in history, the sanctions continue to bring misery and degradation to all sectors of Iraqi society except their target, the Iraqi government". Signatories to the letter include former Prime Minister and current chairman of CARE Australia, Malcolm Fraser, over a dozen Church leaders, six medical professors, several distinguished members of the legal profession and prominent individuals such as Major-General Sir William Refshauge AC, CBE, ED (ret'd) and former Human Rights Commissioner Chris Sidoti. Wednesday 17 January 2001 marks the tenth anniversary of the commencement of the Gulf War. After the war finished in April 1991, economic sanctions were kept in place in an attempt to ensure the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Ten years later, while the vast bulk of Iraq's weapons have been eliminated by United Nations inspection teams, the sanctions have not been effective in securing Iraqi government compliance with further inspections. Meanwhile, the people of Iraq bear the ongoing impact of the sanctions. The letter notes that the scale of the tragedy is not questioned by any humanitarian agency and says: "It is time for a change of direction. In particular it is time to allow the people of Iraq to re-build their society, to create a future for their children, and to engage with the international community. Economic sanctions should be lifted, but strict sanctions on military materials must remain." It concludes with a call to the Australian Government to "review Australia's policy towards Iraq so that it properly reflects our common aspirations for peace with justice for all people, including the people of Iraq". The Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW) initiated the letter as part of its ongoing campaign to raise awareness of the devastating impact of economic sanctions on the ordinary people of Iraq. Dr Susan Wareham MAPW National President was part of an international delegation to Iraq in 1999. She says: "The sanctions against Iraq have brought death to hundreds of thousands of children, and misery and despair to a whole generation of innocent people. We are seeking an end to Australian government support for this morally bankrupt policy." NO NUKES! Clare Henderson Executive Officer Medical Association for Prevention of War PO Box 197 O'Connor ACT 2602 AUSTRALIA Ph: (02) 6262 9345 Fax: (02) 6262 9346 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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:INFO: suwa show: eat timor and free koori flags
EAST TIMOR this friday the squatters and unwaged airwaves (suwa) show (11am- noon on 3cr) will be featuring a lengthy interview with a technician from the east timor community computer project. rowan has recently returned from timor and will be discussing conditions in timor and the continuing struggles of ordinary people there for justice and a decent standard of living. He will also discuss the state of the project which is aiming to both establish a community run and owned computer centre for education and to continue providing NGOs, schools and others with free computers and training. FREE KOORI AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER FLAGS the suwa show would also like to remind people that all australian citizens (and anyone who wants to claim they are one) are entitled to one free koori and one free torres strait islander flag from their local federal member of parliament. so look them up in the phone book, give them a call, get your flags and then fly them on january 26th, invasion day. p.s.- you can also get an australian flag should you wish to save one for later burning or desecration. -- 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:PR: Perth Fringe Festival
Mayu Kanamori's "Heart of the Journey" will be shown at the Perth Fringe Festival from 31 Jan to Feb 3, 2001. http://www.mayu.com.au/info/news.html mayu kanamori philosopher's photos wa fringe festival presents The Heart of the Journey 31 Jan - 3 Feb 2001 Time: TBA. Admission: $10 The Blue Room Theatre 53 James Street, Northbridge Advance bookings: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 041 924 5036 The WA Fringe Festival is an initiative of the Perth International Arts Festival. August 2000 The Heart of the Journey A sound and slide documentary photographed and recorded on location in Bro= ome, Perth, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Taiji. Premier showing was part of Broome's annual Shinju Matsuri Festival. May 2000 Sugao no Australia Black and white documentary exhibition of images taken in the state of New= South Wales between 1995 - 2000. 1999 Shelter From The Storm Siobh=E1n McHugh Allen Unwin: 1999 * 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] 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
