http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33160&group=webcast Resistance Conference + Launch: Building a united struggle for socialism .... by Resistance + Scottish Socialist Youth 6:22pm Wed Jul 9 '03 (Modified on 7:48pm Wed Jul 9 '03)article#33160address: PO Box 515, Broadway, NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA - phone: (+61 2) 9690 1230 or 9690 1977 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The conference will be launched on Thursday, 7pm, at the Gaelic Club with a feature talk by KEEF TOMKINSON, former national organiser of the SCOTTISH SOCIALIST YOUTH, the youth organisation of the recently so successful SSParty. Greetings will be given from ALVARO GUZMAN, director of Federation of BOLIVARIAN STUDENTS in VENEZUELA, and DANI BARLEY, ex-national organiser of SOLIDARITY, US. Also speaking and holding workshops at the 32nd Resistance National Conference will be WARATAH (ROSEMARIE GILLESPIE), recently returned human shield in Iraq, and founder of the Bougainville Freedom Movement who risked her life evading the military blockade via the Solomon Islands. Read on... >>> Our World, Our Future: Globalise Resistance <<< "Thousands of young people took part in their first political action this year, protesting the war on Iraq. We didn't stop that war, the world is still full of injustice and we want to try to change that. We've got a lot to discuss and plan for", says Katherine Bradstreet, organiser of the 32nd Resistance national conference, which will be held at the Glebe Neighbourhood Centre here in Sydney on July 11-13, 2003, with the launch on July 10 at the Gaelic Club (see below). Get all the details, including the full conference agenda, and info on the accompanying art exhibition, from http://active.org.au/sydney/news/front.php3?article_id=2485&group=webcast For even more information and to register online, go to http://www.Resistance.org.au/conf2003.shtml -- FRIDAY (day & night) - CONFERENCE DEMONSTRATION AND PUBLIC MEETING: >>> Asia Pacific Under Fire <<< Waratah (Rosemarie Gillespie) will be holding workshops and speaking on her first-hand experience as a human shield during the assault ("war") on Iraq at the Resistance Conference. Having been jailed in the Solomon Islands on her brave journeys into blockaded Bougainville, she will also feature a public meeting on Friday night, which will be co-organised by Action in Solidarity with Asia & the Pacific (ASAP), and which is titled "Asia Pacific Under Fire". All details and background information on Australia's decision to invade the Solomon Islands, as well as the call for a CONFERENCE DEMONSTRATION in SOLIDARITY WITH ACEH on Friday, 4.30pm, at Town Hall, can be found at http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33145&group=webcast -- THURSDAY NIGHT - CONFERENCE LAUNCH: >>> Building a united struggle for socialism - the Scottish example <<< Thursday, 10 July, 7:00pm @ Gaelic Club, 64 Devonshire St, Surry Hills ( 30 seconds from Central Station pedestrian tunnel, eastern exit ) Featuring Keef Tomkinson (Scottish Socialist Youth) and other international socialist leaders. An interview with Keef - as well as his article about the recent union backing of the Scottish Socialist Party - can be found below [not in this copy&paste mail] or in the latest Green Left Weekly @ http://www.GreenLeft.org.au/back/2003/545/ SCOTLAND: SSY: giving voice to young socialists Keef Tomkinson is a member, and former national organiser, of the Scottish Socialist Youth, the youth organisation of the Scottish Socialist Party. He will be speaking in Sydney at the Resistance national conference, July 11-13 at the Glebe neighbourhood centre. Green Left Weekly's Chris Atkinson spoke to him about the success of socialists in Scotland. [..] Taking to the streets - the students ... by KATHERINE BRADSTREET for GLW 7:48pm Wed Jul 9 '03comment#33166address: PO Box 394, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, AUSTRALIA - phone: Free Call in Oz (+61) 1800 634 206 - (+61 2) 9690 1230 - Fax: (+61 2) 9690 1381 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Taking to the streetsBY KATHERINE BRADSTREET SYDNEY — “Where were the students?”, asked the June 20 Sydney Daily Telegraph, in an article by Rachel Morris bemoaning the small numbers of young people that attended the “welcome home” parade of troops who served in Afghanistan and in the Gulf. [..] also @ http://www.GreenLeft.org.au/back/2003/545/ -- -- 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]
