On March 8 at the Brisbane Activist Centre, 30 people attended a forum to discuss the Aboriginal movement in Australia and indigenous struggles in Bolivia and Venezuela. Sam Watson, Aboriginal rights activist and Socialist Alliance member, spoke about recent developments over the Palm Island killing of Mulrunji and how the case has galvanised the whole of Aboriginal Australia. He said it has renewed activism within the community and made Aboriginal people aware of the broader support for their struggle.
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Political fervour, passion and a fighting spirit marked the 聯Fighting racism in the NSW state election聰 forum held by the Socialist Alliance Parramatta branch on March 6.
At noon on March 8, 50 protesters gathered outside James Hardie Industries聮 Pitt Street offices to express outrage at the company聮s decision to lock out 12 maintenance workers at its Rosehill plant in western Sydney and to strip them of entitlements.
A spirited demonstration of 200 people marched to state parliament on March 9 to protest the poisoning of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, who is imprisoned in Turkey. Waving Kurdish and Australian flags and holding pictures of Ocalan, the founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), the protesters chanted 鈥淔reedom for Ocalan, long live Kurdistan鈥 and called for an end to the war in Kurdistan.
Several NSW unions have decided to endorse the March 17 Sydney rally against the war in Iraq, organised by the Stop the War Coalition. They are the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA); the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union; the NSW Fire Brigade Employees Union; and the National Tertiary Education Union.
Women's day
Happy Women's Day, health minister Abbott. Just a reminder that undermining the independent choices of women has alienated nearly half the voting population. And, as a parent of an autistic child, whose expensive therapy is not
Some 40 Sydney University students held a speak-out outside the army recruitment stall during orientation week on February 28, drawing attention to campus anti-war sentiment. Sydney University anti-war activists passionately poured their knowledge of the war聮s criminality into the megaphone and the action was a spectacle of peaceful dissent.
The reason for the existence of the Redfern-Waterloo Authority (RWA) can be summed up in just two words: corporate greed.
PM John Howard and US President George Bush are in trouble over their 聯war on terror聰. Two things help illustrate why this is the case, and how we can hasten them both into the dustbin of history.
During May-June this year, Queensland聮s Shoalwater Bay will host tens of thousands of Australian and US troops engaged live-fire, large-scale military exercises that will pose grave risks for the environment and people聮s health. The Shoalwater Military Training Area (SWMTA) is located inside the Great Barrier Reef National Park.
A satirical website created by climate action group Rising Tide Newcastle (RTN) has twice been shut down by the powerful coal industry lobby group, the NSW Minerals Council.
One of Resistance聮s main campaigns is to strengthen the movement across Australia to end the occupation of Iraq. As well as building the biggest possible protests on March 17-18, the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, we are helping to organise contingents from around the country to join the mass convergence in Sydney when US President George Bush comes to the APEC meeting in September.
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