Resistance in action

Resistance high school students' magazine focuses on M1

DARWIN — Following a successful first edition of Student Underground, which contained news on local International Women's Day events and East Timor solidarity, Resistance members here are planning a new edition of the radical high school magazine which will focus entirely on the anti-corporate campaign.

"There's already been talk of a high school strike on May 1 in Darwin", said Resistance organiser Ruth Ratcliffe. "We want to make sure that news about the campaign gets out to as many young people as possible."

"Young people are bombarded with advertising promoting brands such as Nike, Mooks and Billabong," she continued, "yet there is a level of outrage amongst young people at the appalling labour standards and exploitation that these companies thrive on. As word spreads that M1 is happening in Darwin I think we can expect many more high school students to get involved in the campaign".

M1 group formed in Wollongong

WOLLONGONG — Activists here have decided to establish a club on Wollongong University to organise a contingent of university students to the planned M1 blockade of the stock exchange in Sydney.

The decision, made at a meeting of the Resistance club on March 6, followed discussion about how the movement against corporate globalisation could be brought onto the local scene.

The first meeting of the M1 club will be on Tuesday, March 13, in the Clubs and Societies Room, near the Wollongong University Student Representative Council offices.

From GLW issue 440