6/28/10
Press Statement - Toronto Community Mobilization Network
June 27, 2010 For Immediate Release Press Statement - Toronto Community Mobilization Network The G8/G20 are anti-democratic illegitimate institutions that inflict daily violence on our communities. Everywhere the G8 and G20 have met to further their exploitative agendas – from London to Pittsburgh to Toronto they have faced huge opposition from local communities. The kind of mass resistance we have seen in Toronto has and will continue to follow them wherever they go. For several months, communities across Toronto have been coming together to resist the imposition of austerity measures advanced at the G8/G20 summits. The Harper government spends 1.2 billion taxpayer dollars to host the G8/G20 summits while it cuts social spending in ways that have drastic impacts people in the Toronto area and other parts of Canada. Since these communities have come together, the police have been using intimidation tactics to repress and silence people in the Toronto community. Police and intelligence officers went to community organizers' homes and harrassed them in the streets. Now they have arrested many of these people, many of them young organizers of color, and charged them with conspiracy. These people hold the Harper government to account and they speak out against policies that are making ordinary people poorer, sicker and more desperate. As a result, they have been intimidated, harassed, and imprisoned. They are political prisoners in this country, where the police repression shows that its claims of democracy are simply window dressing. While police continue to intimidate people, individuals and community members keep going out in the streets to show that they are not afraid and stand with political prisoners as well as oppressed peoples – first nations communities, immigrants and refugees, poor people, people of color, women, trans people, people with disabilities and queer communities. The police intimidation and repression added to the anger and frustration people have with the G8/G20 policies and leaders that destroy their lives and the lives of people around the world. This is why people targeted banks and multinational corporations, and the property of police. Ultimately, 1 billion dollars were spent on beating people who were demonstrating throughout the week, on intimidating community members in the streets, on arresting organizers of color and indigenous solidarity organizers, on sending demonstrators to hospital with broken bones, and on using tear gas on those in the so-called designated “free speech” zone. 1 billion dollars has not been used to protect people and to keep the city safe. Instead it has been used to repress the people who are working to make this city, and planet a fairer, more just, and more humane place. Toronto Community Mobilization Network
6/27/10
6/26/10
6/25/10
Mo Ake
Music Video for "Mo Ake", track 4 from Dubstep / Drum & Bass album TOHE by Upper Hutt Posse, released July 2010. Footage taken from "Ka Whawhai Tonu Matou" music video by Upper Hutt Posse
6/24/10
Bobby Seale Speaking Across America (Part 1)
Bobby Seale takes to the stage with his charismatic and activist eloquence, illuminating the true sixties birth and youthful intelligentsia of the BPP. Mr. Seale transports the audience back to the mini-civil-war turbulence of the late sixties and early seventies. Defining himself as "revolutionary humanist" Mr. Seale brings the 60's protest movement era full circle showing how times have changed. How we must reach for the future: Protest, organize peoples programs and evolve a greater direct [participatory] community control democracy.
Bacon Bitz
http://submedia.tv
Day three of subMedia.TV's G20 Rebellion coverage. Today we bring you updates on the Canadian Police State and we follow the Toxic Tour of Toronto.
6/22/10
Escape the Freedom Fence
Our first day in T-Dot and already shit's hectic. If you plan on being here and have a bike, make sure it's equipped with front and rear lights and a bell. Helmets are not mandatory in Toronto. For info on the days of actions visit the Toronto Community Mobilization Network http://attacktheroots.net/ . Stay tuned tomorrow seems for more updates from the streets of resistance.
6/21/10
6/20/10
6/19/10
6/18/10
6/16/10
6/13/10
Palestine/Gaza: The Siege
The three year old siege on the Gaza Strip and its 1.5 million inhabitants is a testament to the Israeli regime's disregard of law, decency and morality. This siege amounts to collective punishment, an action outlawed by various conventions and humanitarian laws. This is not to mention the suffering and humanitarian crisis caused by this law. This siege has been disgracefully condoned by the "international community" and justified by the "free world" as a measure that safegurads the security of the Israeli regime.
The same position was applied to the various humanitarian aid ships that were attacked and abuducted in international waters, and the aid carried by those ships confiscated. The killing of 9 Turkish activists on the the Freedom Flotilla on 1 June brought an abrupt end to international silence regarding the siege. It is unfortunate that the world needed to see the blood of those brave men to realize the brutality of the siege and of the besieger.
Nevertheless, it is our duty to finish what the brave men and women of the Freedom Flotilla and the campaigns that preceded it. It is time to break the siege
Aamer Rahman (Fear of a Brown Planet) - Free Gaza
Supporting Ahmed Ahmed at the Anahita Persian Basement in Sydney
A Good Day to Die
Dennis Banks co-founded the American Indian Movement (A.I.M.) in 1968 to call attention to the plight of urban Indians in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The film presents an intimate look at Dennis Banks' life beginning with his early experience in boarding schools, through his military service in Japan, his transformative experience in Stillwater State Prison and subsequent founding of a movement that, through confrontational actions in Washington DC, Custer South Dakota and Wounded Knee, changed the lives of American Indians forever.
A Good Day To Die is
Produced & Directed by: David Mueller & Lynn Salt (Choctaw)
Executive Produced by: Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation
Co-Produced by: Tashina Banks (Lakota-Ojibwa), Takeo Koshikawa
Associate Produced by: Bob Hicks (Creek-Seminole), Matt Martinez (Ohkay Owingeh)
Edited by: Robert McFalls
Trailer Edited by: Garrett Castillo
Music Composed by:Michel Tyabji
Music Supervisor: Michel Tyabji
Sound Mixed by: Rosa Costanza Tyabji
Poster & Website Design: Adil Tyabji
For more info go to the website: http://www.agooddaytodiefilm.com/
6/8/10
Drop the charges against political activists
Media Release:
Date: 8 June 2010
From: October 15th Solidarity Wellington
The case of the 18 defendants arrested in the nation-wide raids of 15 October 2007 is in the Court of Appeal in Wellington this week.
"The Crown is persisting in this case to encourage the climate of fear arising from 9/11 and pushed with Operation 8. Most sensible people in this country can see that these are politically motivated charges targeting political activists and aimed at silencing dissent" said Peter Steiner, a spokesperson for the Wellington October 15th Solidarity group.
"At present all of the 18 accused face minor firearms offences - something that might ordinarily be treated by police with a warning. However, in this case, the crown are desperately trying to save face for invading and terrorising communities around the country. They have added the charge of 'participation in a criminal group' to five of the defendants, in order to justify the existence of these so-called 'anti-terror' police, and the huge waste of resources" said Mr. Steiner.
"The crown and police have wasted more than $20 million in this ridiculous farce already. They spent millions surveilling activists all over the country in Operation 8. It is time to pull the plug on this travesty - these charges should be dropped immediately" concluded Mr. Steiner.
ENDS
NOTES
1. The Court of Appeal hearing is set down for two days, 8/9 June 2010. Due to suppression orders, we can't say what the Court of Appeal Hearing is about. The Court is open to the public though.
2. A trial is currently set down starting 30th May 2011, lasting 12 months in the Auckland High Court.
3. The Wellington October 15th Solidarity group was formed in the days after the nation-wide raids in 2007. Our organising objectives are:
- To drop the charges
- To repeal the Terrorism Suppression Act
- To seek justice for those affected by the raids
- To support Te Mana Motuhake o Tuhoe and Tino Rangatiratanga
for all Maori
4. www.October15thSolidarity.info for more information
Date: 8 June 2010
From: October 15th Solidarity Wellington
The case of the 18 defendants arrested in the nation-wide raids of 15 October 2007 is in the Court of Appeal in Wellington this week.
"The Crown is persisting in this case to encourage the climate of fear arising from 9/11 and pushed with Operation 8. Most sensible people in this country can see that these are politically motivated charges targeting political activists and aimed at silencing dissent" said Peter Steiner, a spokesperson for the Wellington October 15th Solidarity group.
"At present all of the 18 accused face minor firearms offences - something that might ordinarily be treated by police with a warning. However, in this case, the crown are desperately trying to save face for invading and terrorising communities around the country. They have added the charge of 'participation in a criminal group' to five of the defendants, in order to justify the existence of these so-called 'anti-terror' police, and the huge waste of resources" said Mr. Steiner.
"The crown and police have wasted more than $20 million in this ridiculous farce already. They spent millions surveilling activists all over the country in Operation 8. It is time to pull the plug on this travesty - these charges should be dropped immediately" concluded Mr. Steiner.
ENDS
NOTES
1. The Court of Appeal hearing is set down for two days, 8/9 June 2010. Due to suppression orders, we can't say what the Court of Appeal Hearing is about. The Court is open to the public though.
2. A trial is currently set down starting 30th May 2011, lasting 12 months in the Auckland High Court.
3. The Wellington October 15th Solidarity group was formed in the days after the nation-wide raids in 2007. Our organising objectives are:
- To drop the charges
- To repeal the Terrorism Suppression Act
- To seek justice for those affected by the raids
- To support Te Mana Motuhake o Tuhoe and Tino Rangatiratanga
for all Maori
4. www.October15thSolidarity.info for more information
6/7/10
Celebrating Merata Mita
Compose
Come celebrate the life of Merata Mita!
Former students and friends will be hosting a tribute to the extraordinary life of this amazing woman, mentor, teacher, colleague, friend, mother, and filmmaker:
Purpose: Share a meal and remember Merata through our stories and footage
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010...
Time: 5:30pm – 8pm
Place: Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Halau o Haumea 2645 Dole Street
Parking is $3 in the adjacent structure
Please bring a potluck dish and your fondest memories of Merata to share. There will be a receiving table for anything you would like to send to the family (her youngest son will be in Hawaii later this month). Please extend this invitation to anyone you deem appropriate.
Email Punihei Lipe at kaiwipun@hawaii.edu with any questions
Come celebrate the life of Merata Mita!
Former students and friends will be hosting a tribute to the extraordinary life of this amazing woman, mentor, teacher, colleague, friend, mother, and filmmaker:
Purpose: Share a meal and remember Merata through our stories and footage
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010...
Time: 5:30pm – 8pm
Place: Kamakakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Halau o Haumea 2645 Dole Street
Parking is $3 in the adjacent structure
Please bring a potluck dish and your fondest memories of Merata to share. There will be a receiving table for anything you would like to send to the family (her youngest son will be in Hawaii later this month). Please extend this invitation to anyone you deem appropriate.
Email Punihei Lipe at kaiwipun@hawaii.edu with any questions
6/6/10
Gary Foley at Chicka Dixon's funeral
'Native title is NOT land rights; reconciliation is NOT justice" Free Lex Wotton
Chicka's state funeral, Sydney Town Hall, 31 March 2010
6/2/10
Gaza and Flotilla Solidarity Action Melbourne
Gaza and Flotilla Solidarity Action in Melbourne Australia 1st June 2010 Video by Izzy Music by Monkeymarc
We Are The Pacific's Best Frenemy
Lamenting the poverty in our region, both the Government and the Opposition overlook the fact that their own policies are set to make things worse, writes Wesley Morgan
The story last week that more than half of Australia’s $400 million in aid to PNG was spent on consultants has had the unusual effect of actually putting the issue of our foreign aid on the agenda.
Following those reports came a call from the federal Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop for an independent inquiry into the design and delivery of our foreign-aid program.
For his part, the Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said he welcomed the increased media attention on the overseas aid budget, claiming it gives "those of us committed to the fight against global poverty the opportunity to make our case".
Certainly there is a lot to be done in the fight against poverty in our near region. The Australian aid agency, AusAID, estimates that one third of the population of the Pacific island countries to Australia’s north — roughly 2.7 million people — do not have the income or access to subsistence production to meet their basic human needs.
Rejecting Bishop’s claim that Australia’s aid priorities are being shifted away from poverty in our region and towards Africa and Latin America to support our bid for a UN Security Council seat, McMullan points out that Asia-Pacific remains the "principle focus" of Australia’s aid program. It’s also true that some of Australia’s aid to the Pacific islands is aimed at meeting the basic needs of people living in poverty. Australia provides more than half of all aid to the Pacific island countries, and McMullan is rightly proud that Australian aid has contributed to reducing the incidence of malaria in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and improving education outcomes in Papua New Guinea (where currently less than half of all students finish primary school).
But alongside this benign aspect of Australia’s relationship with its poorer island neighbours is a more self-interested approach — one which suggests that neither Bishop nor McMullan are really doing as much as they could to address poverty in our region.
In 2009, the Australian Government launched negotiations for a free trade agreement (PACER-Plus) in the hope of gaining increased access to Pacific markets — so Australian companies can sell more goods and services in the islands.
That plan was one the Rudd Government had inherited from its predecessors, who were very clear that a trade deal with the Pacific was about protecting Australia’s trade interests. Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer explained that the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER), the precursor to the current trade negotiations, "protects Australian interests in the event that Forum Island Countries begin negotiations for a free trade agreement or offer improved market access to another country".
When PACER was tabled in the Australian Parliament for ratification, an accompanying "national interest analysis" found that "without ratification of PACER, Australia would be denied an enhanced opportunity to negotiate better market access to Pacific markets for Australian businesses and industry while any other country could enjoy duty free access to FIC’s [Forum Island Countries] for their goods".
But somehow along the way, this self-serving trade deal got dressed up as an aid arrangement.
When Bob McMullan toured the Pacific last year, to try to convince island leaders to launch PACER-Plus negotiations, he said: "this is not about Australia, there’s nothing in [PACER-Plus] for us, we think it’s good for the region. And it is an initiative that we want to extend because it is beneficial to reduce poverty in the region… it doesn’t have any economic significance for us; it’s just good for the region as a whole and that’s why we’re doing it".
If there is to be no economic benefit for Australia from a free trade deal with the Pacific, one wonders why corporations like the ANZ bank, Honda and Qantas have all made submissions on PACER-Plus to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade — calling for things like lower tariffs and binding rules to protect Australian investors in the Pacific. Or why Phillip Morris wants PACER-Plus to allow them to export more cigarettes to the Pacific. Or why the Australian Services Roundtable, a peak-body for Australian services companies, has undertaken a review of "limitations and restrictions" affecting trade in services in the Pacific island countries — which is effectively a "wish-list" of laws and regulations that Australian businesses may want to see changed to allow them to do business in the Pacific. Clearly Australian businesses do think there is something in PACER-Plus for them.
Pacific island countries are strung out across the largest ocean on earth, and they already face incredible hurdles to developing new industries and generating employment — like small domestic markets, expensive and infrequent inputs and geographic isolation. While competition is sometimes welcomed, open slather from the islands’ "big brother" neighbours may not help Pacific businesses "embrace the global economy", it may instead just wipe many of them out.
Many in the Pacific feel that Australia’s interest in the PACER-Plus negotiations is driven by its own trade interests, and not by concern for the poor in the region. In April 2009, Vanuatu Foreign Minister Balkoa Kaltonga met with McMullan and the Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean in Port Vila to talk about PACER-Plus. Kaltonga told media that "[Australian Government representatives] are coming to force Pacific island countries into signing the PACER agreement with the view, for example, for Vanuatu to reducing tariffs on Australian imports".
Then, when Pacific Trade Ministers met to discuss PACER-Plus in June 2009, the Cook Islands Trade Minister Wilkie Rasmussen said "Ministers at the trade meeting were concerned about the haste of the push by New Zealand and Australia for PACER-Plus negotiations to start, and the intrusion of the agreement on the sovereign rights of each country".
Another problem for McMullan’s argument that PACER-Plus is just "good for the region as a whole", is that there is very little evidence that a standard free trade agreement will reduce poverty in the Pacific.
Pacific island countries already have duty-free and quota-free access to Australian markets for most of their exports, and most Pacific countries are already integrated into the global economy, with trade-to-GDP ratios that are well ahead of Australia’s own.
What we do know is that PACER-Plus has the potential to increase poverty in the island countries. Forcing deep cuts in tariffs will slash government revenue across the region — further undermining attempts to realise health and education outcomes. Expected increases in Australian imports are also likely to displace local production, leading to job-losses and business closures.
The Rudd Government knows deep down that PACER-Plus will hurt the Pacific. The most recent Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Duncan Kerr — who vacated the position in October last year — acknowledged that PACER-Plus "will not come without some pain — all reforms do. However, as Simon Crean, Bob McMullan and I have said on many occasions, Australia stands ready to support the region through such tough transitions."
The inconvenient truth is that the parts of PACER-Plus that will hurt the Pacific are just not necessary — and McMullan, Crean and Kerr all find it hard to acknowledge that these are the very parts that are designed to benefit Australian and New Zealand exporters.
The Solomon Islands Government has pointed out that the linking of a trade agreement to Australia’s aid program will make it very difficult for any island countries to refuse a final PACER-Plus agreement. A briefing paper prepared by the Solomon Islands Department of External Trade explained that "Australia has made it clear that they are seeking to push the negotiation of a new free trade agreement as quickly as they can. Realistically, it is difficult for Pacific islands — many of whom are highly dependent on aid from Australia — to resist this pressure."
Perhaps it is time for the Australian Government to put aside its template for a standard free trade agreement — to stop pretending that its trade interests are the same as the interests of the poor in the Pacific — and start asking what Pacific island countries want out of a trade agreement.
The Pacific’s lead spokesperson on PACER Plus, Solomon Islands Trade Minister, William Hoamae, told trade ministers last year that his "greatest concern is the possibility that we might not be able to involve all the groups that will be affected by a PACER-Plus agreement from the very start of the negotiating process. I want every one of my countrymen that will have a stake in this agreement to have a say. And I believe that this must happen before my country’s position is finalised and important decisions are made."
Forget about Julie Bishop. Here’s a real voice speaking on behalf of poor people in our region. Are McMullan and Crean listening?
Following those reports came a call from the federal Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop for an independent inquiry into the design and delivery of our foreign-aid program.
For his part, the Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, Bob McMullan, said he welcomed the increased media attention on the overseas aid budget, claiming it gives "those of us committed to the fight against global poverty the opportunity to make our case".
Certainly there is a lot to be done in the fight against poverty in our near region. The Australian aid agency, AusAID, estimates that one third of the population of the Pacific island countries to Australia’s north — roughly 2.7 million people — do not have the income or access to subsistence production to meet their basic human needs.
Rejecting Bishop’s claim that Australia’s aid priorities are being shifted away from poverty in our region and towards Africa and Latin America to support our bid for a UN Security Council seat, McMullan points out that Asia-Pacific remains the "principle focus" of Australia’s aid program. It’s also true that some of Australia’s aid to the Pacific islands is aimed at meeting the basic needs of people living in poverty. Australia provides more than half of all aid to the Pacific island countries, and McMullan is rightly proud that Australian aid has contributed to reducing the incidence of malaria in the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, and improving education outcomes in Papua New Guinea (where currently less than half of all students finish primary school).
But alongside this benign aspect of Australia’s relationship with its poorer island neighbours is a more self-interested approach — one which suggests that neither Bishop nor McMullan are really doing as much as they could to address poverty in our region.
In 2009, the Australian Government launched negotiations for a free trade agreement (PACER-Plus) in the hope of gaining increased access to Pacific markets — so Australian companies can sell more goods and services in the islands.
That plan was one the Rudd Government had inherited from its predecessors, who were very clear that a trade deal with the Pacific was about protecting Australia’s trade interests. Former foreign affairs minister Alexander Downer explained that the Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations (PACER), the precursor to the current trade negotiations, "protects Australian interests in the event that Forum Island Countries begin negotiations for a free trade agreement or offer improved market access to another country".
When PACER was tabled in the Australian Parliament for ratification, an accompanying "national interest analysis" found that "without ratification of PACER, Australia would be denied an enhanced opportunity to negotiate better market access to Pacific markets for Australian businesses and industry while any other country could enjoy duty free access to FIC’s [Forum Island Countries] for their goods".
But somehow along the way, this self-serving trade deal got dressed up as an aid arrangement.
When Bob McMullan toured the Pacific last year, to try to convince island leaders to launch PACER-Plus negotiations, he said: "this is not about Australia, there’s nothing in [PACER-Plus] for us, we think it’s good for the region. And it is an initiative that we want to extend because it is beneficial to reduce poverty in the region… it doesn’t have any economic significance for us; it’s just good for the region as a whole and that’s why we’re doing it".
If there is to be no economic benefit for Australia from a free trade deal with the Pacific, one wonders why corporations like the ANZ bank, Honda and Qantas have all made submissions on PACER-Plus to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade — calling for things like lower tariffs and binding rules to protect Australian investors in the Pacific. Or why Phillip Morris wants PACER-Plus to allow them to export more cigarettes to the Pacific. Or why the Australian Services Roundtable, a peak-body for Australian services companies, has undertaken a review of "limitations and restrictions" affecting trade in services in the Pacific island countries — which is effectively a "wish-list" of laws and regulations that Australian businesses may want to see changed to allow them to do business in the Pacific. Clearly Australian businesses do think there is something in PACER-Plus for them.
Pacific island countries are strung out across the largest ocean on earth, and they already face incredible hurdles to developing new industries and generating employment — like small domestic markets, expensive and infrequent inputs and geographic isolation. While competition is sometimes welcomed, open slather from the islands’ "big brother" neighbours may not help Pacific businesses "embrace the global economy", it may instead just wipe many of them out.
Many in the Pacific feel that Australia’s interest in the PACER-Plus negotiations is driven by its own trade interests, and not by concern for the poor in the region. In April 2009, Vanuatu Foreign Minister Balkoa Kaltonga met with McMullan and the Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean in Port Vila to talk about PACER-Plus. Kaltonga told media that "[Australian Government representatives] are coming to force Pacific island countries into signing the PACER agreement with the view, for example, for Vanuatu to reducing tariffs on Australian imports".
Then, when Pacific Trade Ministers met to discuss PACER-Plus in June 2009, the Cook Islands Trade Minister Wilkie Rasmussen said "Ministers at the trade meeting were concerned about the haste of the push by New Zealand and Australia for PACER-Plus negotiations to start, and the intrusion of the agreement on the sovereign rights of each country".
Another problem for McMullan’s argument that PACER-Plus is just "good for the region as a whole", is that there is very little evidence that a standard free trade agreement will reduce poverty in the Pacific.
Pacific island countries already have duty-free and quota-free access to Australian markets for most of their exports, and most Pacific countries are already integrated into the global economy, with trade-to-GDP ratios that are well ahead of Australia’s own.
What we do know is that PACER-Plus has the potential to increase poverty in the island countries. Forcing deep cuts in tariffs will slash government revenue across the region — further undermining attempts to realise health and education outcomes. Expected increases in Australian imports are also likely to displace local production, leading to job-losses and business closures.
The Rudd Government knows deep down that PACER-Plus will hurt the Pacific. The most recent Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Duncan Kerr — who vacated the position in October last year — acknowledged that PACER-Plus "will not come without some pain — all reforms do. However, as Simon Crean, Bob McMullan and I have said on many occasions, Australia stands ready to support the region through such tough transitions."
The inconvenient truth is that the parts of PACER-Plus that will hurt the Pacific are just not necessary — and McMullan, Crean and Kerr all find it hard to acknowledge that these are the very parts that are designed to benefit Australian and New Zealand exporters.
The Solomon Islands Government has pointed out that the linking of a trade agreement to Australia’s aid program will make it very difficult for any island countries to refuse a final PACER-Plus agreement. A briefing paper prepared by the Solomon Islands Department of External Trade explained that "Australia has made it clear that they are seeking to push the negotiation of a new free trade agreement as quickly as they can. Realistically, it is difficult for Pacific islands — many of whom are highly dependent on aid from Australia — to resist this pressure."
Perhaps it is time for the Australian Government to put aside its template for a standard free trade agreement — to stop pretending that its trade interests are the same as the interests of the poor in the Pacific — and start asking what Pacific island countries want out of a trade agreement.
The Pacific’s lead spokesperson on PACER Plus, Solomon Islands Trade Minister, William Hoamae, told trade ministers last year that his "greatest concern is the possibility that we might not be able to involve all the groups that will be affected by a PACER-Plus agreement from the very start of the negotiating process. I want every one of my countrymen that will have a stake in this agreement to have a say. And I believe that this must happen before my country’s position is finalised and important decisions are made."
Forget about Julie Bishop. Here’s a real voice speaking on behalf of poor people in our region. Are McMullan and Crean listening?
Links:
[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/25/2908239.htm?section=justin
[2] http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-bishops-gambit/effectiveness-matters-in-aid-debate/20100526-wbc4.html
[3] http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/poverty-knows-no-borders-20100526-wdii.html
[4] http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/track_devgov09.pdf
[5] http://peb.anu.edu.au/pdf/PEB25_1_Penjueli_Morgan.pdf
[6] http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/12March2002/pacernia.pdf
[7] http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200904/s2531920.htm
[8] http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/spacific/pacer/index.html
[9] http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200904/s2535733.htm
[10] http://www.cinews.co.ck/2009/July/Wed01/local.htm#11
[11] http://newmatilda.com.au/2008/09/23/balancing-trade-and-aid
[12] http://www.trade.gov.sb/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=0907_status_update_on_pacer_plus.pdf
[13] http://www.trade.gov.sb/doku.php?id=press:pacer_statement_to_ftmm
[14] http://newmatilda.com.au/2009/06/18/trade-winds-blow-pacific-away
[15] http://newmatilda.com.au/2008/09/19/whats-so-new-about-rudds-pacific-policy
[16] http://newmatilda.com.au/2007/11/28/view-honiara
[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/25/2908239.htm?section=justin
[2] http://www.nationaltimes.com.au/opinion/blogs/the-bishops-gambit/effectiveness-matters-in-aid-debate/20100526-wbc4.html
[3] http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/poverty-knows-no-borders-20100526-wdii.html
[4] http://www.ausaid.gov.au/publications/pdf/track_devgov09.pdf
[5] http://peb.anu.edu.au/pdf/PEB25_1_Penjueli_Morgan.pdf
[6] http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/jsct/12March2002/pacernia.pdf
[7] http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200904/s2531920.htm
[8] http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/spacific/pacer/index.html
[9] http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200904/s2535733.htm
[10] http://www.cinews.co.ck/2009/July/Wed01/local.htm#11
[11] http://newmatilda.com.au/2008/09/23/balancing-trade-and-aid
[12] http://www.trade.gov.sb/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=0907_status_update_on_pacer_plus.pdf
[13] http://www.trade.gov.sb/doku.php?id=press:pacer_statement_to_ftmm
[14] http://newmatilda.com.au/2009/06/18/trade-winds-blow-pacific-away
[15] http://newmatilda.com.au/2008/09/19/whats-so-new-about-rudds-pacific-policy
[16] http://newmatilda.com.au/2007/11/28/view-honiara
6/1/10
CTU Calls for Stronger Action over Gaza
CTU media release
1 June 2010
...
The CTU has called for stronger action over the Israeli attack on the humanitarian flotilla attempting to breach the blockade of Gaza.
Peter Conway, CTU Secretary, said: “It is not enough for our Government to simply call the new Israeli ambassador Shemi Tzur in for a chat. The new Israeli embassy in Wellington should be closed and the special arrangement for young Israelis to travel to New Zealand should be revoked.”
“The Government should also call for an end to the blockade.”
ENDS
For further information contact:
Fraser Pettigrew, Communications and Campaigns Advisor
04 802 3817 / 027 243 7031 / fraserp@nzctu.org.nz
Peter Conway, Secretary, CTU
04 802 3816 / 027 493 9748
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