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@9point ADELAIDE — A public meeting on January 31 organised by Australians for Democracy in South Africa heard African National Congress chief representative Ndumiso Ntshinga explain that support is still vital to the victory of the ANC in the April 27 elections. The whole electoral process has been marred by violence, but those opposing change are definitely a minority.

BRISBANE — Leoncio Sanic Simon, president and founder of the Achin Ixin Peasant Committee of Guatemala, spoke at sevral meetings here in early February. At a forum at the Resistance Centre on February 1, Leoncio discussed the problems faced by the indigenous rural communities of Guatemala from poverty, human rights abuses and environmental destruction. Other meetings included a dinner and concert at the Migrant Resource Centre on February 4, sponsored by the Guatemala Human Rights Committee, and an evening of solidarity at the Trades and Labour Council on February 7, presented by the ACTU Queensland branch.

  • "No Freight Rail Through Brisbane" read the banner at a picket organised by the Freight Rail Action Group on February 5 at a construction site at Railway Terrace, Dutton Park. Speakers condemned the Goss government's project to push through with the massive upgrading of a freight line to the Port of Brisbane, without proper regard for the noise pollution and other drastic effects on the residents of southside suburbs.

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