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Socialist Alliance stands for Moreland council

MELBOURNE — The Socialist Alliance will stand two candidates in the Moreland City Council elections on March 16. Jonathan Sherlock will contest Hoffman ward, where he received 4.7% of the vote in a by-election last year. Judy McVey will contest Merri ward.

Sherlock and McVey are both activists in the Community and Public Sector Union, as well as being long-term local residents and activsts in local community campaigns.

The Socialist Alliance will be campaigning around four key issues: Making the City of Moreland a refuge for refugees, protecting the Merri creek valley from environmental destruction, improving public transport through campaigning for its renationalisation and building a fighting council capable of winning the funds needed to provide quality services for Moreland residents and good working conditions for council workers.

Those wishing to help with the campaign, phone (03) 9388 0062.

Big turn-out for pride parade

MELBOURNE — On January 30, 50,000 spectators watched the annual gay pride parade in St Kilda. More than 60 groupings including social and community organisations, health, welfare, political and religious contingents participated.

The largest and most vocal political group to march was the Socialist Alliance, with a contingent of seventy alliance members.

Saharawi solidarity action

SYDNEY — Forty people, including many union officials and employees, demonstrated at the Sydney Town Hall on January 23 to protest the torture and other maltreatment of Saharawi prisoners by the occupying Moroccan army.

Greens councillor Jamie Parker, Labor MP Meredith Burgmann, NSW Labor Council secretary John Robertson and Kamal Fadel, representative in Australia of the Polisario Front, which is struggling for Western Sahara's self-determination, spoke to the crowd.

From Green Left Weekly, January 30, 2002.
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