Dear friends and supporters of the Mary River,

Just a reminder to all those who have shown interest in the Mary River campaign that the first Brisbane info night is coming up

THIS WEEK on Thursday 6.30pm at the Worker’s Community Centre at Paddington.

Please come along and bring your friends to find out why the proposed Traveston Crossing Dam is a terrible idea for both the Mary Valley _and_ Brisbane.
Leaflet is attached.

saving-mary-just-for-workers-centr-e.pdf

*Brisbane Workers Community Centre*

2 LaTrobe Tce, Paddington (enter
from Given Tce)

*Thursday December 6*.

Meet at 6.30pm for a 7pm start.

Contact me on 54829831 or Mob 0439 130 537

or to the e-mail address:

Zela Bissett [zela@spiderweb.com.au],

cheers,

Zela

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John Howard will be in Brisbane on Monday 12th November for the Liberal’s national election campaign launch at QPAC

Tell Howard it’s time to go

PROTEST

11.30am, Monday 12th November, QPAC

Corner of Grey and Melbourne Street, South Bank

Say no to war, racism, workchoices, nukes and more

Supported by the Refugee Action Collective, Stop the War Collective, Friends of the Earth and more….

For more information ring Mark on 3123 8585

 

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Community Forum:

The Case of Dr Mohamed Haneef

Sunday 22 July 2007

Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University (Nathan Campus)

PROGRAM:

8:45 – 9:15 Arrival of participants – tea/coffee

9:15 – 9:20 Welcome, Sandy McCutcheon

First Session: Presentations

Facilitator: Sandy McCutcheon

9:20 – 9:40 Peter Russo and Stephen Keim

Dr Haneef’s legal team

9:40 – 9:50 Prof Ross Homel

Director, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice, and Governance,

Griffith University

9:50 – 10:00 Michael Cope

President, Queensland Council for Civil Liberties

10:00 – 10:10 Andrew Boe

Lawyer (criminal defence and administrative review)

10:10 – 10:30 Tea Break

10:30 – 10:40 Dr Brian Bell

Acting District Manager, Gold Coast District Health Services

10:40 – 10:50 Andrew Schwartz

President, Australian Doctors Trained Overseas Assoc.

10:50 – 11:00 Sasha Jesperson

Amnesty International

11:00 – 11:10 Rev Prof James Haire (tbc)

President, National Council of Churches Australia

11:10 – 11:20 Dr Mohamad Abdalla

Muslim community leader and

Director of the Griffith Islamic Research Unit

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Haneef Rally today

12 Noon Thursday July 19

Where: Department of Immigration Offices, 313 Adelaide St, Brisbane

Why: To condemn the government’s use of the Migration Act to detain Dr Haneef, and the undemocratic nature of the recently introduced “terror” laws.

The following is a report from Pamela Curr, Campaign Coordinator, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre ASRC, www.asrc.org.au

As the detention of Doctor Haneef once more highlights the seemingly limitless power of the Immigration Act, it is worth remembering other cases where people have been released by the Courts and the Immigration Minister has then turned gaoler under his own powers.

When charges were dismissed for lack of evidence, the 27 crew members of the Pong Su were released by the Court, only to be scooped up by the Immigration department (then DIMA-now DIAC) and taken out to Baxter detention centre. There they languished in secret in a formerly, unused compound until the day that other detainees became aware of their presence.

Policy changes in the Baxter hellhole allowed detainees to be escorted on foot between compounds instead of in locked vans. On one such occasion, detainees attention was called to this never used compound by cries and eyes peering over the compound walls.

Detainee contacted advocates with their concern for these people. “We don’t know who they are but they are crying for help and we can only see their eyes. We don’t think that they are Chinese- we can’t understand their language.” The guard asked them to disregard what they had seen because “you will get me in trouble”.

Subsequent investigations revealed that they might be the crew of the ‘Pong Su’. This was confirmed when a list of names was produced. The list indicated the likelihood that many of these sailors were most likely fathers and sons. They were not seeking asylum. They desperately wanted to go home to their families but DIMA were holding them for their own purposes. It was only after it was revealed how distressed they were at being held incommunicado that they were finally granted their wish to leave- 13 weeks after the Courts had found them not guilty of any crime.

Technically the power to detain under the Migration act is so that persons can be removed from Australia, however as we have witnessed in the case of long term detainees, this power in reality allows the Australian government to hold a person for their entire lives without charge or judicial oversight.

Pamela Curr http://justfreedom.org.au

12 Batman St West Melbourne 3003,

ph 03 93266066

fax 03 93265199

 

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COMMUNITY MEETING
JAGARA HALL
12 NOON
WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2007
AGENDA -
(*) JULY 14TH NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
(*) PUBLICITY
(*) COMMUNITY ORGANISING
(*) SPEAKERS
(*) THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AMALGAMATIONS
(*) DEATHS IN CUSTODY BUSINESS
(*) GENERAL COMMUNITY BUSINESS
ALL WELCOME
BRING A PLATE
( contact sam watson 0401227443 )

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TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LEADERS AND ABORIGINAL LEADERS
WILL MARCH ON PARLIAMENT HOUSE
GEORGE STREET
BRISBANE CITY
1 PM ON FRIDAY
22ND JUNE 2007
TO DEMAND THAT PREMIER BEATTIE
MEET WITH ALL INDIGENOUS COUNCILS
AND JUSTIFY THE NEW GOVERNMENT
AMALGAMATIONS OF COUNCILS

WE DO NOT WANT TO LOSE OUR LAND
WE DO NOT WEANT TO LOSE OUR CULTURE
WE MUST STAND AND FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS
AND FOR THE RIGHTS OF OUR CHILDREN

COME AND SUPPORT OUR COMMUNITIES
HANDS OFF OUR COUNCILS
PAY THE STOLEN WAGES
GIVE US BACK OUR DEPARTMENT
GIVE US BACK OUR MINISTER

 

COMMUNITY NOTICE

URGENT COMMUNITY MEETING

JAGARA HALL

MUSGRAVE PARK

11 AM

FRIDAY 22ND JUNE 2007

AGENDA

(*) THE FORCED AMALGAMATION OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTHORITIES

(*) DEATHS IN CUSTODY

(*) THE PALM ISLAND TRIAL

(*) POLICE

(*) ANY OTHER COMMUNITY BUSINESS

This meeting will be attended by representatives from local government authorities from across Queensland. There will be senior people and leaders from the Torres Strait and from mainland communities.

Please come to the meeting and support our people on the Islands and people on the DOGIT communities.

• People intend to march on Parliament and demand a meeting with the Premier and his government.
• Beattie and his government have sold our people out, they have not repaid the Stolen Wages! They have wiped out our Minister for Indigenous Affairs! They have closed down the Department of Indigenous Affairs!
• It is time for this government to be held accountable!!

( All inquiries – Sam Watson 0401227443 )

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IRAQ OIL LAW

Dear Sisters and Brothers:

Below is an announcement of a demonstration being called in San Francisco on Monday in solidarity with the oil workers in Iraq on the occasion of their planned strike against privatization of Iraq’s oil.

Please consider organizing a similar protest. This could be in the form of a picketline, a vigil, a rally, a delegation to a member of Congress — whatever is possible on short notice. Please let us know what you are planning to do and send digital photos that we can send to our sisters and brothers in Iraq.

The Congress is being sold the idea that Iraq’s adoption of the oil law will assure equitable distribution of the oil revenues, but what they are not being told (or refuse to acknowledge) is that the law has one sentence about equitable distribution, but page after page about how foreign oil companies can secure contracts to control the 2/3 of Iraq’s oil that is yet to be developed and retain that control for a generation or more. To the extent there is equitable distribution, it will be only of the profits that are left after Big Oil takes their cut.

The Bush administration and IMF are pressing Iraq to adopt this law. It is shameful for the Congress to become partners in shoving a law that was conceived by, drafted for, and will benefit only the rapacious oil corporations down the throats of the Iraqi people.

LET’S SHOW THEM PEOPLE DO NOT APPROVE OF THE HIJACK OF IRAQI OIL SO THAT THE OIL CARTEL CAN FATTEN THEIR PROFIT MARGINS EVEN MORE THAN THEY ALREADY HAVE.

HANDS OFF IRAQI OIL! CAN THE OIL LAW! BENCH THE BENCHMARKS!

Please pass this on to other. Apologies for duplicate messages.

EMERGENCY DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE OIL LAW

in solidarity with the oil workers of Iraq

DEMAND CONGRESS DROP THE OIL LAW BENCHMARK

MONDAY, MAY 14TH NOON

SAN FRANCISCO FEDERAL BUILDING
450 Golden Gate Ave.

The Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions has put the Iraqi government on notice that it intends to strike on Monday , May 14th to demonstrate the union’s strong opposition to the proposed oil (theft) law now pending action by the Iraqi parliament.

The Bush administration and Congress have made adoption of the oil law one of the “benchmarks” of “progress” and Iraqi “cooperation.” The law has been unanimously and strongly condemned and rejected by all of Iraqi’s major labor federations. If adopted, it would allow foreign oil corporations to obtain contracts to exploit up to 2/3 of Iraqi oil reserves for as long as 30 years and to reap the lion’s share of the profits earned on that oil. It makes a mockery of the notion of Iraqi sovereignty and would deprive the Iraqi people of the resources they require to rebuild their shattered nation.

The leadership of the Democratic Party has embraced this oil law and put it into the supplemental funding bill as one of the benchmarks by which the Iraqi government will be measured. In doing so, they have become complicit in a backdoor effort to privatize Iraq’s publicly owned oil resources - second largest in the world.

The Federation of Oil Unions in Iraq has given the Oil Ministry a list of demands in addition to their opposition to the oil law relating to wages and working conditions. They delayed their strike from Friday to Monday to give the Oil Ministry time to respond.

PLEASE JOIN THIS DEMONSTRATION TO SHOW OUR SOLIDARITY WITH THE WORKING PEOPLE OF IRAQ IN THEIR EFFORT TO DEFEND THEIR NATIONAL LEGACY AGAINST THE DESIGNS OF THE OIL CARTEL TO SECURE CONTROL OVER THEIR OIL.

TELL SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI TO
ABANDON THIS SHAMEFUL RAID ON IRAQI OIL.

Sponsored by U.S. Labor Against the War and the Bay Area Labor Committee for Peace & Justice

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Visit: www.uslaboragainstwar.org
www.iraqoillaw.com

 

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Back to El Alamein
…And lonely lonely lonely
are the hearts of men;
the waves the waves the waves
break, forever break,
against the stone in our breasts

Currently hundreds of Australian soldiers are camped above the Baxter Detention Centre in tents waiting for the last detainees to leave so that they can move in and take it back. They are training at Port Augusta for deployment to Afghanistan. The Baxter Detention Centre was originally an army base called El Alamein until 2002 when the Immigration Department took it over to imprison asylum seekers and their children.

There are nine compounds. Only 1 compound is in use today as the numbers of people detained have dwindled. The last statistic (April 2007) was 18 in Baxter and 10 in Port Augusta Housing Detention Centre, 2 are woman. Not all are asylum seekers- some are people transferred from the Prison system who are waiting to be removed from Australia.

Millions of dollars are being spent to maintain this inhumane place. Some of these asylum seekers are desperately ill, having attempted suicide. They come from countries known for their brutality and lack of human rights. Some have waited years for a decision.

Closing Baxter is a political decision- the soldiers will have to wait as the asylum seekers have waited. Will the soldiers feel the ghosts of the broken spirits of the hundreds of Afghani refugees who were imprisoned in these compounds? One day refugees locked up in Baxter, the next Australian soldiers training there to go off to war to create more refugees.

Detention Camps Closed

Woomera, Port Hedland, Curtin, Manus Island.

Pamela Curr
Ayslum Seekers Refugee Centre, Melbourne (ASRC)

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April, 2007

CD LAUNCH SUN APRIL15TH
RISE UP and Speak the Truth!
You are hereby invited to the official launch of this new CD with:
DAVE ANDREWS AND ALEC BURNS SINGING THEIR AND OTHER’S SONGS FROM THE CD; ANNE RAMPA AND HER DANCE TROOP PERFROMING TO THE SEIZE THE DAY SONG “WITH THIS HAMMER”; DONNAMULHEARN TALKING ABOUT THE
PINE GAP ACTION AND COURT CASE.
WHERE: St Mary’s Church, cnr Merivale and Peel Sts, South Brisbane WHEN: 6.30pm for pumpkin soup 7pm for music and talk
ADMISSION FREE
Rise Up and Speak the Truth is a compilation CD with inspirational peace and anti-war music created as a fundraiser for the Pine Gap war resisters presently facing trial.
Artists include: Shane Howard (ex-Goanna lead singer), Seize The Day (U.K), David Rovics (U.S), The Love Bombs (Cairns), Myrrh (Melbourne), Steve Bevis (Blue Mountains), Dave Andrews (Brisbane), Penelope Swales (Melbourne), Solidarity Choir (Sydney), Trisha Watts (Sydney), Peter Kearney (now in Ireland), Andorra (Sydney), Dana Lyons (remember the big hit “Cows with Guns”-U.S), Alec Burns (Brisbane).

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Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
FILM SCREENING
Oppose a nuclear future for Australia
on
Sunday 15 April 2007, 1.00 – 4.00 pm at Community Room, Brisbane City Council Library, George Street, City
(entrance from Reddacliffe Place)
In the lead-up to the ALP conference which will consider extending uranium mining in Australia, WILPF presents two important films on the implications of the nuclear industry.

1. “A Hard Rain” by David Bradbury - Traversing five countries, China, France, UK, Japan and Australia, A Hard Rain takes a close look at the global nuclear industry in its entirety from the mining of uranium through to the nuclear power plant to the radioactive waste and weapons manufacturing. Included are interviews with some of the world’s top scientists and environmentalists on the subject such as Dr Rosalie Bertell from Canada, Dr Chris Busby from the UK, , Dr Mark Diesendorf (Ex CSIRO), University of NSW, Professor Ian Lowe, President Australian Conservation Foundation, and Dr Gavin Mudd, Monash University.
2. “Vieques: Worth Every Bit of Struggle” by Mary Patierno - Once a tropical paradise, the island of Vieques off the coast of Puerto Rico was expropriated by the US Navy in the 1940’s. In this film, the islanders recount the grim story of the “occupation,” their suffering from high cancer rates due to the fall -out of heavy metal particles, and the poisoning of the fish. Gradually a protest movement grew among the peace-loving islanders and finally, in 2003, the Navy ceased all testing and training on the island.

The program will include a welcome by the WILPF Choir and a discussion following the films.

Entrance by gold coin with afternoon tea included.

And afterwards, contact your nearest ALP MP and tell them you don’t want a nuclear future for Australia!
WILPF Qld Branch Contact: Norma Forrest, PO Box 5151, Victoria Point, Qld 4165 Phone (07) 3207 7929 or normrod@dodo.com.au

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REMINDER

COMMUNITY NOTICE

THE NEXT COMMUNITY MEETING TO PLAN
FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1967 REFERENDA

WILL BE HELD AT THE JAGARA HALL IN MUSGRAVE PARK

AT 11AM

ON WEDNESDAY, 28TH. MARCH.

ALL WELCOME
BRING A PLATE FOR SMOKO

THE FIRST MEETINGS HAVE BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL
AND THE PLANNING FOR THE MAY CELEBRATIONS
ARE NOW WELL UNDERWAY

THERE WILL BE TWO WEEKS OF EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES BEGINNING ON MONDAY THE 21ST. OF MAY
AND FINISHING ON FRIDAY THE 1ST OF JUNE

SO FAR WE HAVE COMMUNITY BBQs, DINNERS, DANCES, RALLIES, MARCHES, DAWN SERVICES AND FORUMS

DO YOU AND YOUR MOB WANT TO DO SOMETHING AS WELL?!
COME ALONG AND PLAY A PART!!!

THE 1967 REFERENDUM WAS A VERY IMPORTANT TIME FOR US,
AS ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE

WE MUST HONOUR OUR ELDERS,
INDIGENOUS AND NON INDIGENOUS,
WHO FOUGHT AND STRUGGLED FOR US.

WE WILL NOW FIGHT FOR
OUR CHILDREN AND OUR GRANDCHLDREN
AS A COMMUNITY LET US COME TOGETHER AND REMEMBER THAT INCREDIBLE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN THAT CHANGD THIS NATION FOREVER.

REMEMBER THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE WHO FOUGHT
THE GOOD FIGHT.

ON MAY 27TH., 1967 – 91% OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATION VOTED TO CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER PEOPLE

THIS IS A TIME TO CELEBRATE
THIS IS A TIME TO SAY THANK YOU
TO OUR ELDERS AND OUR LEADERS

( all inquiries – SAM WATSON 0401227443 )

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URGENT COMMUNITY NOTICE

There will be a meeting to discuss the community’s response to the Qld Police planned rally against the decision to charge Sgt Chris Hurley with the manslaughter of Mulrunji. (Even the Courier Mail ran the headline “A law unto themselves”).

DATE: TUESDAY 6th FEBRUARY 2007
TIME: 1 pm – 2:30 pm
VENUE: JAGERA ARTS HALL, MUSGRAVE PARK

ALL WELCOME!
Please bring a plate to share for lunch.
JUSTICE FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE - JUSTICE FOR ALL

For more details, contact Sam Watson 0401 227 443 /
Email: sam.watson@uq.edu.au

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Palestinian Human Rights Campaign

Izzat Abdul-Hadi, Head of the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia will visit Brisbane on Sunday, 4 February.

There will be two public events on Sunday afternoon.

The venue for both events will be Ahimsa House, 26 Horan St, West End. Further details of the location, including a map, are available at:

First Event: 2.30 - 4.30 pm Australia Palestine Network Queensland

Izzat Abdul-Hadi will facilitate a consultation with individuals and groups involved in the establishment of a Queensland chapter of the Australia Palestine Network. This network, sometimes also described as the Australia Palestine Council, is a national advocacy project that was launched in Canberra in November 2006. The project aims to advocate in support of a viable and independent Palestinian state within the “two-state” model endorsed by the major international powers.

We invite the widest possible participation in this session by members of local organisations involved in the national Palestinian advocacy project. In particular, we hope to have people from Fair Go For Palestine, Friends of Sabeel, Palestinian and Jewish Unity, and QPSC.

Individuals who are not affiliated with any of these organisations but who are interested contributing to the national Palestinian advocacy project are most welcome to participate as well. Needless to say, we would also welcome the involvement of any Palestinians from the SE Queensland community.

Second Event: 5.00 pm - Palestine Today: A political and social update

This session will also be held at Ahimsa House and will begin at 5.00pm. This is an opportunity for anyone who wishes to get an update on the current political and social situation in Palestine to hear firsthand from Izzat. The session will conclude at 6.00pm. Please make the event widely known among your friends and associates.

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URGENT COMMUNITY NOTICE

THERE WILL BE AN ALL DAY
WORKSHOP, FORUM AND TALKING CIRCLES
AT JAGARA HALL IN MUSGRAVE PARK
ON THURSDAY 25TH JANUARY
From – 10am

TO PREPARE FOR INVASION DAY MARCH & RALLY

“PAINT BANNERS, MAKE POSTERS, CONTACT MEDIA
HELP PREPARE FOOD ETC MANY JOBS TO DO”
ALL WELCOME

­­­­­­­­­­­­
INVASION DAY PROGRAM
( Friday 26th January )

7AM – CITY POST OFFICE, QUEEN STREET
MOMENTS SILENCE AND CEREMONY
TO HONOUR “DUNDALEE”
GREAT WARRIOR AND LEADER
HUNG IN 1855 BY THE COLONIAL AUTHORITIES
FOR DEFENDING HIS LAND, HIS PEOPLE AND HIS CULTURE

10AM – RALLY AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE
SPEAKERS / CEREMONY

11AM – POLICE HQ / ROMA STREET
SPEAKERS / CEREMONY

11:30AM – MARCH TO MUSGRAVE PARK

12 – 4PM COMMUNITY BBQ & ENTERTAINMENT

ALL WELCOME

JUSTICE FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
HONOUR OUR HEROES & PATRIOTS

( contact SAM WATSON – 0401227443 )

NO MORE DEATHS IN CUSTODY
JUSTICE NOW
POLICE WHO MURDER ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
MUST BE CHARGED
AND MUST BE SENT TO JAIL !!!

ALL INQUIRIES – SAM WATSON 0401227443

( BRING A PLATE FOR SMOKO )

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Self-Determination?
Here is part of the story of one homeless Aboriginal man in Brisbane http://paradigmoz.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/give-the-man-a-life/

He has considerable assets held by the Public Trustee and is eligible for the disability pension.

Yet he is given an allowance of only $150 pw from his own assets - $100 pw less than the disability pension with no discounts and entitlements that pensioners have.
He has spent the last six weeks living on the streets with no access to money at all except what he can beg.

He can afford to own his own home and be on the pension and live a comfortable life.

Yet he is not allowed to do this and has been kept in a state of impoverishment by those agencies who are supposedly protecting his interests.

Please read the link and send a message of concern to the email contacts on that link. Thank you.

John Tracey
<kurityityin@yahoo.com>

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ORGANISING MEETING
All Aboriginal people and supporters are invited, to help prepare for and organise the rally and march. All hands needed!
This Saturday, December 16, 4pm
Brisbane Activist Centre, 74B Wickham St (in Metro Central), Fortitude Valley
Phone Sam on 0401 227 443, Paul 3831 2644 / 0410 629 088

EMERGENCY COMMUNITY RALLY AND MARCH
JUSTICE FOR MULRINJI, NOT MORE COVERUPS
Rally 12noon Wednesday December 20
Queens Park (Cnr George/Elizabeth Sts, opp casino)
March on state parliament

For info or interviews, phone Sam on 0401 227 443 or email <brisbane@greenleft.org.au>

Jagara Community Meeting postponed
Sam Watson advises that he was unable to book Jagera Hall for 11am Wednesday 29th November 2006, so the Community meeting has been postponed.
Sam could not make an alternative booking for Thursday 30th November 2006 because that is the day of the Unions Anti-WorkChoices rally.

Hence the Jagara community meeting has been postponed to the following week with Sam to advise the day and time. All queries to Sam on 0401 227 443

Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Please let anyone who is likely to attend know about the new arrangements. A notice will be posted @ http://bushtelegraph.wordpress.com/whats-on/

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Rank and File Group Speaking Platform at WorkChoices Rally on Thursday 30th November 2006
Some unions (including ETU and LHMU) will march to and from the Union rally at South Bank on Thursday morning.

The West End Rank and File group has organised a speaking platform at South Bank on Thursday morning.

Contact Bernie Nevile on 3300 1405 or annacal@uqconnect.net

The QCU website states:

“Take action on November 30 - all around Queensland! Attend a venue from 8:30am onwards to watch the ACTU broadcast from the MCG”

So no march is planned and no speakers apart from the broadcast from the MCG.

In Brisbane, the Rank and File platform may be the only live platform on the day! I heard from a couple of rank and file people on the weekend that the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union (LHMU) are marching from Musgrave to South Bank for the broadcast and then marching back after.

The Qld Council of Unions (QCU) do not appear to be even pretending that they are doing anything anymore.

If the Left were properly organised it could (in alliance with the Communications Electrical & Plumbers Unions (including the ETU), Construction Forestry Mining & Engineering Union & Builders Labourers Federation (Qld), the Qld Teachers Union, the LHMU (Misos) and Australian Manufacturing Workers Union) probably take over the entire day.

It is clear that these unions will be the mainstay of the protest.

Come to the open platform organised by the Rank and File Group.

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COMMUNITY MEETING

The next community meeting will be at Jagera hall at
11am on Wednesday
29th November 2006.

Please endorse Mulrunji letter

NO MORE DEATHS IN CUSTODY
NO MORE POLICE VIOLENCE
POLICE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
JUSTICE FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
JUSTICE FOR ALL
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Towards a Nuclear Free Queensland…
workshop, skillshare and strategy weekend

Come for one activity or stay for them all!!!

When: November 25 (Sat) & 26 (Sun) 2006

Where: CEPU building, 41 Peel St, South Brisbane

Cost: Free! (Saturday’s dinner extra)

RSVP: Please book if possible!
Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance
Mbl: 0411 118 737 office: (07) 3846 5793
email: nuclearfreequeensland@yahoo.com.au

The Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance (QNFA) invites interested members of the public to come along and be informed about nuclear issues, see what peace, environment and other local groups are up to, and get involved in the campaign for a nuclear free Australia! Below is a draft program. A final program will be available on our website closer to the date.

PROGRAM (subject to change)
Saturday November 25 - Forums & Workshops Day

All day: Activist Fair: stalls of QNFA member groups and friends
9:00 -10:00 Irradiation Free Morning Tea/ breakfast – hosted by Food Irradiation Watch
10:00 -11:30 Clean Energy Forum:
Opening statement: Sam Watson
Energy options and our community - Wendy Miller (Queensland Sustainable Energy Industry Development Group) and Sustainable Living - Jeff Poole - (Queensland Conservation Council)

11:30 -12:00 Nuclear Power and Global Warming workshops/skillshares (2- 3 groups)
12:00 -1:00 LUNCH

1:00 -2:00 Indigenous perspectives
Baganan Kurityityin Theresa Creed of the Kalkadoon and Pitta Pitta nations of
North West Qld and John Tracey, Kalkadoon.org research coordinator.

Workshops Sessions
2:00-3:00 Workshop Theme: Nuclear Industry and Health
Your future with Depleted Uranium - Pauline Rigby - (Depleted Uranium Silent Killer) and Radiation Health - Alison Stewart - (Medical Association for the Prevention of War)
Workshop Theme: Activist Strategies
Non Violent Direct Action Training – Asger Strodl

3:00 - 3:30 AFTERNOON TEA

3:30 - 4:30 Workshop Theme: Military development
“Militarism in Australia” - Frank Bruinstroop and Annette Brownlie - (Just Peace Qld) and Shoalwater Bay - too precious to bomb! Steve Bishopric - (Shoalwater Wilderness Awareness Group)

Workshop Theme: Movement building
Unions, Labor and Uranium - Evan Moorhead MP (Member for Waterford) and Andrew Dettmer State Secretary, Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU)
Overview of mining and waste in Australia - Friends of the Earth Brisbane

4:30 - 6:00 Sessions carry over, open space, short films

6pm - fun, drinks, films and dinner

Sunday November 26 - Strategy Day

All day: Activist Fair: stalls of QNFA member groups

9:00 - 9:30 QNFA intro/welcome session
Special Guest: ACF Anti-nuclear campaigner Leanne Minshull

9:30 -11:00 Strategy Session 1: (proposed to run concurrently)
“Uranium, Dumps and National Nuclear campaigns”
“War Games: Talisman Sabre 07 and Beyond- Peace campaigns

11:00 -11:30 Morning Tea

11:30 -1:00 Strategy Session 2: (proposed to run concurrently)
“Uranium, Dumps and National Nuclear campaigns”
“War Games: Talisman Sabre 07 and Beyond- Peace campaigns”

1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH

2:00 - 3:00 Strategy Session 3: (proposed to run concurrently)
“Uranium, Dumps and National Nuclear campaigns”
“War Games: Talisman Sabre 07 and Beyond- Peace campaigns”

3:00-3:30 AFTERNOON TEA

3:30-4:30 Wrap up Strategy Session: Everyone together - Report and
wrap up - including joint Timeline creation
Contact us! Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance Office (07) 3846 5793 mbl. 0411 118 737 email: nuclearfreequeensland@yahoo.com.au www.nuclearfreequeensland.org

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URGENT
COMMUNITY MEETING

ON - WEDNESDAY 15th. NOVEMBER
12NOON

AT – THE JAGARA HALL,
MUSGRAVE PARK

TO ORGANISE
THE RALLY AND MARCH

ON SATURDAY 18TH. NOVEMBER.

ALL WELCOME

NO MORE DEATHS IN CUSTODY
NO MORE POLICE VIOLENCE
POLICE MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
JUSTICE FOR ABORIGINAL PEOPLE
JUSTICE FOR ALL

ALL WELCOME
BRING A PLATE

WORKING BEE TO
PAINT PLACARDS AND POSTERS

NEED ARTISTS AND SCRIBES
AND WORKERS

THIS SUNDAY ( 19TH / DECEMBER )
IS THE 2ND ANNIVERSARY
OF THE
DEATH IN CUSTODY

OF MULRUNJIE DOOMADGEE

IN THE PALM ISLAND WATCH-HOUSE IN 2004

( all inquiries – SAM WATSON - 0401227443 )

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LATIN AMERICA

BOLIVIA’S REVOLT AGAINST THE MULTINATIONALS —
AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT

Evo Morales, the leader of the left wing MAS party, was elected as the new president of Bolivia in December. His victory is a reflection of the mass movement against neo-liberalism that has shaken the country to its roots.
Mark Goudkamp was in La Paz at the massive May Day demonstration when it was announced that Bolivia was nationalizing its vast hydrocarbon reserves.
Mark will speak with Rafael Pacheco the coordinator of Australian Solidarity with Latin America on Bolivia’s revolt from below. All welcome.

3pm Saturday 11th November
Ahimsa House, 26 Horan Street, West End

Organised by SOLIDARITY.
For more information phone Mark on 3891 5385