KATOOMBA 鈥 David Bradbury鈥檚 latest anti-nuclear documentary, Hard Rain, attracted more than 40 people to a screening in the Blue Mountains on May 28. Bradbury鈥檚 film thoroughly debunks the many myths now being pushed hard by big business and the major parties, and documents how immensely dangerous and destructive to human beings and the natural environment both uranium mining and nuclear power are. The film prompted a wide-ranging discussion about alternatives to nuclear power and solutions to global warming. The event was organised by the Socialist Alliance and 麻豆传媒 Weekly.
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More than 55 people met at the University of Technology, Sydney on May 28 discuss the upcoming 聯Stop Bush!聰 demonstrations, which will be held during the September APEC summit in Sydney. The meeting was a promising sign that people believe APEC is an important opportunity to build the campaigns that can challenge Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush聮s neoliberal agenda.
KURANDA 聴 More than 100 people took part in a march and festival to mark Recognition Day on May 27. The march was organised by the Kuranda Women聮s Group. Speakers at the festival opening included Judi Enoch, secretary of the Ngoonbi Cooperative Society, Terry O聮Shane and other local Indigenous activists and elders. They highlighted the need to be conscious of Indigenous people聮s history of struggle and the sharp attacks on their rights and living conditions in the decade the Howard government has been in power.
A June 1 student conference held at Sydney University resolved to make George Bush鈥檚 visit to Australia and the September APEC summit in Sydney a focus for the anti-war and environment campaigns on campus.
On May 30, an Australia-Venezuela Solidarity Network forum heard from Adam Leeman and Federico Fuentes, two participants in this year聮s May Day brigade to revolutionary Venezuela.
聯These are exciting times for Resistance聰, Emma Clancy, a member of the socialist youth organisation聮s national executive, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly. 聯In the past year we have gone from strength to strength.聰 Clancy is helping to organise the 2007 national conference of Resistance, which will be held at Sydney聮s Glebe Town Hall from July 5 to 8. The conference will involve 聯in-depth strategic discussions about all of the protest movements in Australia聰.
On May 31, the nine Sydney men who were arrested in raids on their homes in November 2005, and who have been incarcerated in Goulburn maximum security prison since, finally faced a hearing in the Supreme Court. The nine men pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiring to organise a terrorist act under the Howard government鈥檚 so-called anti-terror laws.
On May 31, 300 people packed the Wesley Uniting Church in Melbourne鈥檚 CBD for a public meeting organised by the LinkUp Melbourne campaign for the city鈥檚 train and tram systems to be put back under public ownership when the contracts with the current private operators expires in November.
On May 30, the crown prosecutors opened their argument in the trial of Bryan Law, Jim Dowling, Adele Goldie and Donna Mulhearn from Christians Against All Terrorism (CAAT) in the Alice Springs courthouse. The 鈥淧ine Gap Four鈥 were charged under the Defence (Special Undertakings) Act 1952.
On May 28, 30 people picketed an administration building at the Queensland University of Technology s Gardens Point campus to support Dr Gary MacLennan, a long-time radical activist and academic at QUT, who was facing disciplinary charges over his criticism of a PhD film project mocking disabled people.
On May 12, 400 people from the NSW mid-north coast packed the Kempsey Anglican Hall for a public meeting organised by the Macleay Nuclear Free Alliance (MNFA). With the theme 聯Nuclear power 聴 not the answer to climate change聰, the afternoon forum had as its featured speakers anti-nuclear campaigner Dr Helen Caldicott and NSW Greens MP John Kaye.
More than 400 people protested against Prime Minister John Howard鈥檚 anti-union government outside Bathurst鈥檚 Carrington restaurant on May 25. Howard was in town to address a fundraiser, part of a desperate attempt to save Liberal MP for Macquarie Kerry Bartlett from likely defeat at the federal election.
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