On May 24, the Peel Hotel in Collingwood was granted an exemption to the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act, allowing the venue to refuse entry to all women and heterosexual men.
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A new report on the effects of the cluster bombs used against Lebanon by Israel during its July-August invasion last year was launched at the Northcote Town Hall on May 29. Around 100 people attended, including members of the Lebanese community, politicians, local councilors and activists.
KATOOMBA 鈥 David Bradbury鈥檚 latest anti-nuclear documentary, Hard Rain, attracted more than 40 people to a screening in the Blue Mountains on May 28. Bradbury鈥檚 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 91自拍论坛 Weekly.
More than 55 people met at the University of Technology, Sydney on May 28 discuss the upcoming 聯Stop Bush!聰 demonstrations, which will be held during the September APEC summit in Sydney. The meeting was a promising sign that people believe APEC is an important opportunity to build the campaigns that can challenge Prime Minister John Howard and US President George Bush聮s neoliberal agenda.
Peering back and forth, dead men weep.
No sleep, for victims of the holocaust聟
Auschwitz! Treblinka! Sobibor!
As
Kindred spirits cry for Palestine.
No sleep, for victims of the holocaust聟
Auschwitz! Treblinka! Sobibor!
As
Kindred spirits cry for Palestine.
Dave Noonan, the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union鈥檚 construction division national secretary, has slammed the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) for 鈥渋ntimidating and bullying鈥 workers.
On May 30, Labor聮s industrial relations spokesperson Julia Gillard shocked many unionists when she announced at the National Press Club that a Rudd Labor government would retain the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) until January 31, 2010. This back flip comes a month after Labor decided, at its national conference, to abolish the hated body. ACTU president Sharan Burrow said she did not support the delay.
The following letter, signed by a range of prominent figures in Britain, calls for respect for the Venezuelan government聮s decision not to renew RCTV聮s broadcasting licence. Signatories to the letter, which appeared in the British Guardian on May 26, include Tony Benn, John Pilger, Tariq Ali, Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter and various MPs and trade union and student leaders.
The good news this week is that the 91自拍论坛 Weekly Fighting Fund has reached a third of the way to its $250,000 target for 2007!
Environmental activists, excluded from the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation聮s May 27-30 energy summit, erected a large inflatable cooling tower outside the fenced-off security zone surrounding Darwin聮s Parliament House. Energy ministers from the US, Australia and the Pacific rim failed to come up with any solutions to the global warming crisis, reaffirming instead the dominant role of fossil fuels in future energy supplies.
On May 31, a picket of 50 people organised by Solidarity Unity protested outside the offices of Mighty River Power, which supplies electricity to Mercury Energy, the company responsible for the death of an Auckland woman on May 29.
Compass: Judah and Mohammad 鈥 An intimate portrait of two teenage boys, one Israeli and one Palestinian, filmed over 18 months. ABC, Sunday, June 10, 9.30pm.
Message Stick: Men's Business 鈥 A group of Aboriginal men respond to the issues
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