On April 9, some 700 workers employed at the Port Melbourne-based Boeing subsidiary Hawker de Havilland went on strike. They were protesting against the company聮s April 7 sacking of an Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) member without going through the agreed dispute-settlement procedure. The HDH plant makes parts for Boeing聮s new 787 airliner.
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Bush vs Chavez 聴 Washington聮s war on Venezuela
By Eva Golinger
Monthly Review Press, 2008
$26.00 (pb), available at <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
By Eva Golinger
Monthly Review Press, 2008
$26.00 (pb), available at <http://www.resistancebooks.com>
Ruth Coleman, veteran ALP senator and feisty leftist died peacefully of cancer in her home in Bassendean, Perth, on March 27. She was the last of a generation of left-wing ALP members whose example shames the current neoliberal crop of Laborites.
Australia鈥檚 military 鈥渨ould contain a careful mix of capabilities that could in extremis rip an arm off any major Asian power that sought to attack Australia鈥, said Professor Ross Babbage of the Kokoda Foundation in a private lecture to Australian Defence Force officials according to a March 25 AAP report.
Black Soldier Blues 鈥 Black GIs from the US during WWII were initially turned away from Australia due to the racist White Australia Policy. SBS, Friday, April 25, 12.55am.
True Stories 鈥 Looks at an exhibition of Aboriginal art from the East
In an obvious attempt to silence political dissent, on April 14, 10 G20 protesters who had pleaded guilty to charges of common law riot, criminal damage and recklessly causing injury received severe sentences in Melbourne鈥檚 Magistrates court.
On April 15, 200 people attended a public meeting entitled 聯Putting the terror laws on trial聰 at the Kaleide Theatre, RMIT. The meeting was jointly sponsored by the Civil Rights Defence campaign group and Amnesty International.
NASA聮s chief climate scientist, Dr James Hansen, wrote an open letter to Kevin Rudd on March 27 urging him to halt the construction of new coal-fired power stations. He also demanded that Rudd implement the Garnaut report聮s recommendations.
ACT police have been given enhanced stop-and-search powers for dealing with protests planned for the Canberra leg of the global Olympic torch relay on April 24. This comes as protests by the Tibetan diaspora and their supporters have turned the torch聮s world tour into a public relations disaster for the Beijing Olympics.
On April 3 Fremantle wharfies stopped work for two hours to commemorate the 1998 Patricks dispute and thank all those who generously and courageously supported the Maritime Union of Australia. Nearly 1500 MUA members and other members of the community marched through the streets of Fremantle. In other ports the anniversary was marked with a one-minute stop work on April 7.
鈥淭he intervention is an apartheid system. It鈥檚 an abuse of our human rights 鈥 but we blackfellas are used to that鈥, Mutitjulu elder Vince Forrester told a meeting of 130 people in Redfern on April 12.
For Mel Barnes of the Tasmania-based group Students Against the Pulp Mill (SAPM) and Resistance, 聯young people have the authority to decide our future聰, and they can inspire others to take action. Barnes was speaking at the Climate Change 聴 Social Change Conference in Sydney, April 11-13, on a panel with other young environment activists.
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