GLW issue 712, published 2007-06-06.

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Come to the Resistance conference!

“These are exciting times for Resistance”, Emma Clancy, a member of the socialist youth organisation’s national executive, told Green Left Weekly. “In the past year we have gone from strength to strength.” Clancy is helping to organise the 2007 national conference of Resistance, which will be held at Sydney’s Glebe Town Hall from July 5 to 8. The conference will involve “in-depth strategic discussions about all of the protest movements in Australia”.

Student activists to target Bush, Howard

A June 1 student conference held at Sydney University resolved to make George Bush’s visit to Australia and the September APEC summit in Sydney a focus for the anti-war and environment campaigns on campus.

Unions must act to end ALP backflips on Work Choices

The union movement must take urgent action to end the ALP’s backflips on industrial relations.

Hard Rain hits home

KATOOMBA — David Bradbury’s latest anti-nuclear documentary, Hard Rain, attracted more than 40 people to a screening in the Blue Mountains on May 28. Bradbury’s 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 Green Left Weekly.
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