LL:INFO: Left After breakfast returns
Left After Breakfast returns to 3CR this coming Friday 2 February. Susanna and the Bagman, open up the 2001 radio programmes with a talk back on gay and lesbian parenting from 9.30 a.m. http://www.SusannasSoapBox.homestead.com http://bnjweb.community.everyone.net -- 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: Anarcho-Syndicalism 101 updated
For all you budding class warriors out there in cyberspace: The Anarcho-Syndicalism 101 site has just been updated. Check it out. http://flag.blackened.net/huelga/ Ben -- 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: IWD march/rally Monday March 10
International Women's Day 2001 march and rally is to be held on March the 10th at 12 noon, beginning at the State Library. The demands decided by the Collective are 1. Cancel 3rd World Debt - End poverty and trafficking of women! 2. Open the borders - Free the refugees 3. Rights for working women - here and overseas 4. Reproductive Freedom - Abortion and IVF on Demand 5. Stop Attacks on Women and the Disabled on Welfare! These are the demands we will highlight on the day and seek to win! The focus on working women's issues will be drawn out on the day through looking at conditions of garment workers here in Australia (Fairwear) along with other issues. If you would like to support the day in any way(bring a contingent of your union/donate finances/provide street theatre around an issue to do with working women's rights etc )then please call Rachel E 9639 8622 or Sharon Simons: 0413 384 028/8344 4817 Also: IWD Collective meeting are on every Thursday at 6pm, 489 Elizabeth St, City. YWCA, Second Floor. All women welcome! We'd love to see you there! -- 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.VC
LL:INFO: Interesting opportunity
The New International Bookshop, Union Promotions (who manages the performance arts venues in Trades Hall) and SKA TV (an independent community TV broadcaster) have received Australia Council funding to develop and integrate their various arts marketing activities. This will involve the development of a combined newsletter to be published twice a month throughout 2001, and the development and integration of the three organisations' websites. Applications and proposals from interested individuals or organisations are sought for one or both of the following roles: Newsletter Co-ordinator This role will involve responsibility for the preparation of a combined bi-monthly newsletter and its distribution to a consolidated mailing list of the three organisations. The first newsletter will be required by 10 March. The successful applicant will be paid a fee for each newsletter, together with a commission on any advertising generated. The position will run until the end of 2001, at which time its future viability will be assessed. Website Co-ordinator The three organisations currently operate websites of varying effectiveness. The role will firstly involve bringing these sites to broadly comparable levels of standard, and linking them through prominent front page links. The role will subsequently involve assisting in the maintenance of these sites, including the capacity to strengthen through training the capacity of each organisation to maintain the currency of their sites. Rates of payment to be negotiated. The position will run to the end of 2001. Applications for both positions close on Tuesday 13 February, and should be addressed to: Jeff Sparrow Co-ordinator New International Bookshop Co-operative Trades Hall 54 Victoria St Carlton Sth tel 03 9662 3744 fax 03 9662 4755 -- 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: Study group IWD - A Day to spark revolution!
Study group: International Women's Day - A day to spark revolution! Wednesday evenings, 21 February and 28 February 2001 March 8 is celebrated around the world as International Women's Day. Find out about the socialist origins of IWD. Be inspired by the women workers whose strike on IWD sparked the Russian Revolution! Hear about the ideas of feminist trail blazer, Clara Zetkin, whose proposal to a socialist women's conference in 1910 put IWD firmly on the calendar. Explore the revolutionary nature of demands raised by women's liberationists in the 1970s. Discuss contemporary debates about socialist feminism and International Women's Day. Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick, phone: 9388-0062 A meal will be served at 6.30 pm for a $6 donation. Sessions run from 7 - 8.45 pm. Reading materials and study guide available for $4. Call Alison on 9386-5065 to arrange an advance copy. Everyone is welcome to participate! Sponsored by Freedom Socialist Party, Radical Women and the Feminist Education Association -- 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.VB
LL:DDV: AAWL general meeting
You are invited to the next AAWL general meeting Tuesday 6 February 2001 at 6 pm 124 Napier Street Fitzroy regional health & safety project visit from thailand, melbourne - february visit from korea, melbourne - february indonesian unions training project with sbsi fnpbi, sbj & sbr brisbane & melbourne - march visit to indonesia, jakarta - may mayday, website, radio All welcome *** Australia Asia Worker Links (ABN 82 920 590 967) PO Box 264 Fitzroy, Victoria 3065, Australia Tel: 61 3 9419 5045 Fax: 61 3 9416 2746 Email: [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.VB
LL:URL: FINAL DUMP SITE CHOSEN! Kungkas lauch website
**Irati Wanti [the Poison-Leave it!] Campaign Office of the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta - Senior Aboriginal Women of Kupa Piti, SA PO Box 1043 Ph[08] 8672 3413 Kupa Piti, 5723 Fax[08] 8672 5483 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thursday Jan 25, 2001 "THE DUMP IS NOT A DONE DEAL" Elders announce website launch in their fight for protection of country. www.iratiwanti.org Today the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta, Senior Aboriginal Women of Coober Pedy, South Australia have stepped up their campaign against the proposed national nuclear waste dump for their country. They have announced the launch of their website: http://www.iratiwanti.org. The site is to be launched in the main street of Coober Pedy today, Thursday 25 January 2001, and chronicles the relentless and inspiring campaign of the elders against the nuclear industry. The website relays stories of the effects of atomic testing on the elder's lives in the fifties and of the Kungka Tjuta's current struggle to stop more poison returning to their country, in the form of the proposed nuclear dump. The launch of the site is a timely response to Senator Nick Minchin, who yesterday announced `Site 52a' within the Woomera Prohibited Area, as the preferred final site for the nuclear dump. This country is the traditional lands of the Kokatha people, who have never been properly consulted or entered into negotiations with concerns to the dump. This is despite the Minister's claims of "extensive consultation with regional stakeholders". Spokeswoman for the group, Ms Rebecca Bear Wingfield said: "Senator Minchin has just confirmed what we've known all along. That the community consultative process has been a sham and has actively excluded traditional owners from dialogue and negotiations as to the proposal for the dump." For further media comment please call Ms Rebecca Bear Wingfield on 0404 204 527 For details and progress of the website launch : Lucy Brown 0409 694 864 Please also find the following statement from Rebecca Bear-Wingfield: I really want to call you a liar Senator Minchin, but I realise that this issue has to be dealt with using rational academic and scientific discourse. My name is Rebecca Bear-Wingfield, I am a senior Aboriginal woman from Kokatha country. I am responding to your press release today that announced the three final site location with site 52A being the preferred site for the location of this 'nuclear waste repository' (dump). Your government and all the successive governments dating back to Menzies's government of the 1950's, the 15th October 1953 when the first atmospheric test was conducted at Emu Plains three years before the Maralinga tests. Are guilty of committing 'ecocide' and genocide against the first nations of this ancient country. By the way the old people are still waiting for a 'sorry' when many of them were exposed to the black rain clouds that spread shortly after the test at Emu Plain. This is why the Kungka's are talking up about this issue because they know first hand about the dangers of nuclear byproducts, bombs, contaminated lands and health problems that have resulted over the last 47 years. Using discourse to disempower Indigenous people in our attempts to oppose the dumping of nuclear waste by products which are always quantified as mainly hospital waste products and low level waste is misleading, a lot of this waste under international standards of classification is medium level. But it does not matter if it is low, medium or high the fact remains that some of us have a moral and cultural responsibility to educate you and your parliamentarians about the facts. Australia talks of reconciliation but how can we reconcile when this waste is going to be dumped on the ancestral lands of the Kokatha people. How can the government continue to negotiate and make decisions about stolen lands, without the consent of all the Kokatha people who are the custodians and who have already had their lands stolen back in the 1950's when their lands were annexed by the Commonwealth Government using the doctrines of ' Terra Nullius'. This is morally wrong and this why the Kupa Piti Kungka's have always opposed this proposal. We know the country, because of our connection to the land that dates back to at least 40,000 years. Scientists don't have the history like us. How can they offer guarantees that this is the perfect environment for storage? If you don't wish to be a member of this group, please send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All previous messages have been archived (and can be viewed)at the website : www.egroups.com/iratiwanti-news Irati,Wanti!! means The Poison - Leave It!! in Yankunytjatjara language, Aboriginal language of the Western Desert, Central Australia. -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists
LL:DDN: anti-racism conference
Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia and the Women's Rights Action Network Australia, I am delighted to be forwarding to you first notice of a one day seminar to be held in Sydney on 23 February, to focus on Race and Gender and the World Conference Against Racism. The Conference is being held the day after the 3 day Indigenous Peoples and Racism Regional Meeting for the WCAR [www.RacismConference.com], and will bring together a really tremendous group of speakers and workshop participants. There is no registration fee for the one day seminar, and we hope that many people will be able to join us as we explore the intersections of gender and race in Australia. We would be very grateful if you could forward this flyer to friends and colleagues, include it in mailouts, or link to the wrana website, which will shortly have this flyer on it [! - www.nwjc.org.au/wrana]. Sincerely, Annie Pettitt for the Conference Support Group Who Speaks, Who Listens, Who Acts? The intersections of Race and Gender at the World Conference Against Racism A One Day Seminar Friday 23 February 2000 Koori Centre, Sydney University 8.30am Registration, 9am-6pm Program of Activities Guest Speakers include: Jackie Huggins, Author and Historian Leah McKenzie, First Nations Canada Includes panels & concurrent workshops, with guest speakers, on: *Gender, Racism and Health *Gender, Racism and Education *Racism and Violence Against Women *Gender, Racism and the Legal System *Gender, Racism and Economic Participation and Social Support *Gender, Racism and Power and Decision Making For updates on speakers please go to www.nwjc.org.au/wrana For further information please contact the Conference Support Group Association of Non-English Speaking Background Women of Australia Maria Dimopoulos M: 0408 419 212 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maria Katsabanis E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Women's Rights Action Network Australia Amrita Dasvarma E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caroline Lambert T: 03 9531 9406 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annie Pettitt E: [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.NB
