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Green Left Weekly issue #787, 18 March 2009
’Stop the war on women’

BRIEF One hundred and fifty people, including members of the Tamil and Turkish communities, attended an International Women’s Day rally against war on March 8. The event was initiated by the Anatolian Cultural Centre. » Rally to save apprentices jobs

BRIEF, AUSTRALIA The VicTec apprentices committee has organised a rally on Victorian parliament steps to protest the increasing number of retrenchments of apprentices, to take place on March 19. » Sri Lankan crisis statement gaining support

BRIEF Human rights lawyer Julian Burnside AO QC, world renowned landscaper and TV personality Jamie Durie, and three NSW Greens MLCs are just some of the prominent Australians that have added their signature to the Sri Lankan Crisis Statement (available at www.srilankancrisis.com ). » Students to debate Palestine issue

BRIEF University of Sydney students will vote on the position their Student Representative Council (SRC) takes on Palestine at a student general meeting on April 1. » VU strike suspended

BRIEF The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has suspended scheduled rolling strike action across all Victoria University (VU) campuses in Melbourne. » World at a crossroads: From Palestine to Venezuela

AUSTRALIA US imperialism’s war of terror and solidarity with Palestine will be big features of the World at a Crossroads conference to be held in Sydney from April 10-12. » Native title under attack from ALP

AUSTRALIA Under a scheme about to be rolled out by the Rudd government, Aboriginal communities living in remote parts of Australia will be forced to bargain for access to public housing by surrendering control of their land for at least 40 years. » Jobs and housing crisis looming

AUSTRALIA The economic outlook for working people is becoming even bleaker. » NSW police pay for wrongful arrest at APEC

AUSTRALIA NSW police have entered an out-of-court settlement with anti-war activist Paddy Gibson after he sued them for wrongful arrest during the APEC protests in Sydney in September 2007. » Rio Tinto targeted for Colombia investment

AUSTRALIA A protest was held outside Rio Tinto’s Melbourne offices on March 13 to launch a campaign against multinationals investing in Colombia. Rio Tinto has several exploration projects in Colombia and it plans to start mining next year. » Solidarity forged at Foster’s

AUSTRALIA On March 12, the maintenance crew from Foster’s Brewery, sacked by the company in February, set up a protest outside their old workplace in Abbotsford, Melbourne. » Who’s afraid of a peace activist?

AUSTRALIA After the Australian Jewish News decided on March 11 to pull a paid advertisement for the upcoming lecture tour by Professor Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, the Emanuel Synagogue, which had agreed to have Halper speak to a class of 12 people, suddenly withdrew its inv... » Protests against PacBrands sackings continue

While Pacific Brands continues to show contempt for its workers and refuses to reverse its decision to axe 1850 jobs, trade union and community opposition to the cuts is gaining momentum. » Workers take on construction giant Holland

Forty workers on the Melbourne Westgate Reconstruction project have lost their jobs after construction giant John Holland’s refusal to honour a collective agreement. »


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