LL:ART: All the News That Fits
Tim Collins, one of the people accused of helping refugees escape from Woomera, is now out on bail. This week's stories: US Liberates More Iraqis...To the Joy of the Australian People...All The News That Fits Editor Blows Own Trumpet...Quotes of the Week. US troops killed seven Iraqi women and children at a checkpoint when their van would not stop as ordered, a US military official said. (Australian Associated Press, April 1). Claims that a majority of people now support the government's decision to go to war without UN backing are wrong, according to a Sydney Morning Herald survey. The survey found that, while support for the war had risen, more people oppose the war than support it. (Australian Associated Press, April 1). The Community and Public Sector Union has agreed to only buy tshirts from suppliers who are accredited as not using sweatshop labour. Previously the CPSU bought tshirts from China and Australia, any of which could have been made in sweatshop conditions. This follows a campaign initiated by me. Quotes of the week: The Iraqis are sick people and we are the chemotherapy...I am starting to hate this country. Wait till I get hold of a friggin' Iraqi. No, I won't get hold of one. I'll just kill him. US Corporal Ryan Dupre. Reported in Frontlines (US), March 31. Chemical warfare suits had to be worn because of the threat from the depleted uranium used in the American weapons The Guardian (UK). The media and US government generally insist that depleted uranium is not a health hazard. The United Nations has passed two resolutions which include depleted uranium weapons among weapons of mass or indiscriminate destruction. Professor Doug Rokke, a former US Army physicist, sees it as a form of nuclear weapon that contaminates everything and everyone. I've invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage with us. They are here in solidarity with me because we like nonfiction. We like nonfiction and we live in fictitious times. We live in the time when we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons, whether it is the fiction of duct tape or the fiction of orange alerts. We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you. Mike Moore, accepting the Oscar for his documentry Bowling for Columbine. Most newspapers reported that Moore received cheers and boos in equal numbers. Moore says that in fact he got a standing ovation, but five stagehands who were near the microphones all booed loudly, making it appear to the TV audience that the reaction was mixed. I'm fed up with this war in Iraq!!! I wanna go back home!!! I don't wanna stay here no more!!! I don't wanna die in this war!!! PLZ make that motherfu--er called Bush to set us free!!! We don't need this war!!! If I keep stayin' here in Iraq I'm sure very soon I'll be dead! I don't wanna die!! I wanna live!!! I'm so young yet! FU-- BUSH!!! Please do something to help me and my friends here in Iraq. We wanna come back home! Bush is a big bastar-, he drinks our blood. Anonymous US soldier, in an email. The mother held one child after another. Her eight-year-old daughter had been killed. A small girl, half naked, was cradled in one of the woman's arms, emitting tearing screams whenever she was moved -- into the X-ray room, out again, into the treatment room. Her face was ripped by shrapnel. Another child was in a bed. The doctor lifted the blankets to reveal a bloody mess of open leg. She howled and screamed as they tried to clean it, called out to Allah while her mother and aunt held her. Her head was heavily bandaged and one eye closed and swollen. 'The skull is also open,' the doctor said. - Jo Wilding, activist staying in Baghdad. anarchist news service write to James, PO Box 503, Newtown NSW 2042 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] contact us to get ATNTF emailed directly to you. If you like All the News That Fits, forward it on. Some other Australian anarchist contacts: Love and Rage is a new anarchist, non-profit record label. The first CD is currently being mastered. 20 songs for $10 within Australia (overseas prices available soon). Address for orders is PO Box 1191, Richmond North VIC 3121. Please make cheques or money orders out to J. Hutchings. www.angry.at/thegovernment - anarchist website with fliers for download, contacts etc. Please note, this is the same website that was at the address www.angry.at/politicians. www.angry.at/racists - Anarchist/anti-racist music site with free mp3s, Real Audio, Real Video, internet radio, band interviews etc. Also includes the text of 'Escape', an anarchist novel - www.geocities.com/skipnewborn/novel.doc www.dolearmy.org - information for unemployed people. www.activate.8m.com - anarchist magazine aimed at teenagers. All the News That Fits appears in the Anarchist Age Weekly Review
LL:PR: Open letter to Bob Carr
Defend the right to protest peacefully without police intimidation. Join thenbsp;April 2 rally, Sydney 12.30pm Sydney Town Hall Open letter to Bob Carr from Books not Bombs [EMAIL PROTECTED] April 1, 2003 'We are peaceful, the WAR is violent!' You call us violent demonstrators but we are for peace. We want the bloody, unjust and illegal war in Iraq to stop. We want the bombing to stop. We want the troops to be brought home now. You call OUR protests violent. But YOU called out hundreds of armed police against high school students. Instructed them to use force instead of reason to resolve conflict. But you cannot bully us, Mr Premier. We will show you peaceful protest. We will show you the OPPOSITE to what we see on the news every hour, every day. The celebration of MURDER by the armies of the rich and powerful. By the armies of President Big Oil. We young people have minds of our own. We don't follow orders blindly. We are not like the soldiers who were ordered to 'kill those that need killing. We are a coalition of the unwilling. We are not like the Premier's Office. We are not like the union bureaucracy. We don't jump when you say jump. We won't shut up when you say shut up. People are being massacred and we won't just watch it on TV. We are taking to the streets. We will be peaceful, you watch us Mr Carr. But the world will be watching too how well you keep your police under control. April 2, Sydney Town Hall. We are peaceful protesters. It is the WAR that is violent. Books Not Bombs Coalition [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone Kylie Moon 0411 104 813 Simon Butler 0405 733 768 -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDV: Wednesday Night at the New International Bookshop
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BOOKSHOP Series 2/2003 March - May 2003 6.30 p.m. at New International Bookshop Trades Hall, Victoria Street, Carlton. Members $5 Others $6 Concession $2 Events are presented by a consortium comprising the Australian Fabian Society (Vic); the New International Bookshop Co-operative; Arena Publications; Overland Publications; the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Inc. (Melbourne Branch); the Swinburne Institute for Social Research; and the Don Dunstan Foundation (Vic). DateSponsorTopic Speaker(s) Wed. 2 AprilAFS Undemocratic Schooling. Melbourne University Associate Professor and 2002 Woodward Medal winner, Richard Teese follows up his memorable 2001 AFS education conference address with a compelling account of entrenched educational disadvantage and social inequality. Wed. 9 AprilAFS Iraq and After: Regional Implications for Australia. Monash University Senior Lecturer in Asian Politics, Dr Joan Grant discusses regional reactions to the Iraq crisis and their significance for Australia. Wed. 16 April NIB Australia's Welfare Wars. Philip Mendes, Senior Lecturer in Social Policy Community Development at Monash University, draws on his new book to mount acase for the relevance of social democratic ideals in the welfare sector. Wed. 23 April NIB Ned Kelly Rides Again. Ian Jones, the pre- eminent expert on the Kelly Gang, talks about the rise and rise of the last outlaw. Wed. 30 April ASSLH Not Before Time: The Triumph of Victorian Legislative Council Reform. Victorian Finance Minister John Lenders and Monash University Politics ProfessorBrian Costar analyse Steve Bracks' radical upper house reforms and their significance for Victoria. Wed. 7 May AFS Partnerships at Work: the Challenge of Employee Democracy. Workplace relations panellists led by Labor Essays editor Glen Patmore launch and discuss a new addition to the annual AFS Labor Essays series. Wed. 14 May AFS A Federation of Regions. Former Hawke government Minister Chris Hurford proposes radical reforms to the fraught fabric of Australian federalism. Wed. 21 May AFS What Next for Labor, Social Democracy and the Left? Labor Deputy Leader Jenny Macklin returns to the AFS lectern with a further progress report on her ALP policy review. Wed. 28 May AFS Privatisations and What to Make of Them. Monash Law Professor Graham Hodge discusses the why and how of privatisation evaluation. Wed. 4 June NIB Student Radicalism Then and Now. Graham Hastings, Research Officer for the National Union of Students, leads a launch and panel discussion of his new history of Australian student radicalism. Wed. 11 JuneOverland Broken Song. Journalist and author Barry Hill, discusses his massive new biography of T. G. Strehlow who collected the songs, genealogies and sacred artefacts of the Arrernte people. Wed. 18 JuneAFS/DRS Saving the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, Fighting the Pharmaceutical Marketing Dollar. La Trobe University Senior Lecturer Dr Ken Harvey talks about threats to the PBS. Wed. 25 JuneOverlandMargaret Simons delivers the second 2003 Overland Lecture on the Hindmarsh Island Affair and its repercussions for indigenous Australians. For further information on any of the above events call the New International Bookshop on 03 9662 3744. .. -- -- 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 Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:DDS: 36th Justice and Peace Candle Light Walk
Subject: 36th Candle Light Walk - Treaty-Bill Of Rights - NO SA NUCLEAR
DUMP - Friday 4/4/03 - 6.45PM - Around Government House, North Tce,
Adelaide20
THE CANDLE LIGHT WALK HAS AN ON-LINE FLYER AT:
http://www.country-liberal-party.com/pages/adelaidemob.htm
Just a reminder that the 36th Candle Light Walk for Justice Peace is
on Friday 4 April, 2003, in Adelaide - starting at ex-daylight saving
time: walkers gather from 6.45pm for a 7.15pm start. Feel free to use
the item in italics below as a template for your publicity for the
Justice Peace Candle Light Walk in support of a Treaty Bill of
Rights.
JUSTICE PEACE CANDLIGHT WALK: Australians can show their support for
a treaty with Australia's Indigenous peoples. Candles will be lit for
justice and peace advocating an Indigenous treaty on Friday 4 April,
2003, and every following first Friday of the month throughout 2003.
Walkers can gather with candles at Government House from 6.45.PM for a
7.15PM start. The walk aims to protect Ngarrindjeri culture, spiritual
beliefs, lands and waters, to stop any nuclear waste dump on traditional
lands, and from affecting the environment via a Treaty Bill of
Rights.
Candle Light Walks are held in Adelaide at Genocide Corner in front of
Government House on the first Friday of the month. These walks express
the concern of those who wish justice for Indigenous peoples. There's an
opportunity to listen to Ngarrindjeri, and other Indigenous Elders speak
on issues affecting their people.
The microphone remains open for anyone to offer their thoughts on
current issues, to sing a song, or to share stories of struggle. Please
feel free to attend, and show support for a Treaty with Indigenous
people, a Bill of Rights, justice and peace, as well as opposition to
any nuclear dump in South Australia.
Another monthly Candle Light Walk is to begin in Sydney, and soon Candle
Light Walks in other States may follow. Don't worry if it will just be a
small group of you to start with as Vincent Lingiari said: from
little things big things grow ! Respect Indigenous people's traditional
land and waters. Light a candle and walk for justice and peace. Join the
Indigenous call for a TREATY.
Respect Indigenous rights. Recognise Ngarrindjeri culture and spiritual
beliefs. Look after the Coorong and its wildlife. Protect this unique
Australian wetland. Look after Lake Eyre. Conserve this unique cultural
environment. Protect its cattle and tourist industries.
NO SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP20
For further information contact the organisers and register your fax
number or e-mail address.
DONATIONS: Ngarrindjeri Justice Fighting Fund c/: BANK SA - BSB 105-165
A/c No. 015569840
Ngarrindjeri Contacts:
Victor Wilson - Kalparrin Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Farm at Murray
Bridge - email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
{W} 85 324 940 / FAX 85 325 511 / mob. 040 718 2353;
Pastor Ken Sumner - Raukkan Community Council - Co-ordinator
{W} (08) 85 740 096 / {Fax} (08) 85 740 096;
Tom Trevorrow - Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association - e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
website: http://ngarrindjeri.tripod.com/
www.ngarrindjeri.com
{W} 85 751 557|657 / FAX 85 751 448
*
Support the Justice and Peace Candlelight Walk at 7.15 PM on 4 April,
2003, around Government House, Adelaide, and oppose any nuclear dump in
South Australia, by walking in your State/Territory around your local
government domain to advocate a Treaty with Indigenous people.
P.S. If anyone in other States (or the TERRITORIES) is interested -
please give the Ngarrindjeri Land and Progress Association (NLPA) an
email/phone call. We hope that there will soon be monthly walks all over
Australia EVERY first Friday...
JOIN IN A CANDLELIGHT WALK FOR JUSTICE AND PEACE AN INDIGENOUS TREATY
- MEET ON FIRST FRIDAY OF EACH MONTH ON GENOCIDE CORNER AT YOUR
GOVERNMENT HOUSE WITH A LIGHTED CANDLE AND WALK AS ONE TO END GENOCIDE
AND TO CALL FOR A TREATY VIA A BILL OF RIGHTS PLEASE ADD YOUR
ORGANISATION'S ENDORSEMENT TO THE LIST BELOW WHEN YOU RE-SEND THIS
E-MAIL:
original message
Dear all, ...
I think the concept of the Candlelight Walks in the evenings is just
brilliant. So yes, Candlelight Walks on the evening of
Invasion/Australia Day.
In solidarity always, Maureen Riches-Brown
Defenders of Native Title - Victorian ANTaR
Ballarat Branch
-Original Message-
From: Len Lindon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Bigger Picture [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, 11 January 2001 16:09
Subject: Re: Press Release: Candle Light Walk for Justice, Peace
Treaty via a Bill of Rights - 26 January - Genocide corner, North
Terrace, ADELAIDE Twelve candlelit walks around Government House. Have
these gubs no shame?
Don't they get it yet? How much more serious mental harm has to be
caused here? When will they stop imposing conditions of life likely to
destroy Ngarrindjeri, Arabunna, Kupa Piti and other Original Owners of
the Land?
Keep walking.
