Union members and labour activists attending the Labor Notes conference dinner on April 12 were attacked by bus loads of staff and members of the Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) 聴 wearing purple SEIU t-shirts 聴 who forced their way into the conference venue in Dearborn, Michigan. In the ensuing melee a number of people were injured.
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Adverse financial conditions
聯The financial market crisis that erupted in August 2007 has developed into the largest financial shock since the Great Depression聟 Adverse financial conditions are likely to have a continuing negative impact on activity in the United States聟 The United States remains plagued by profound errors in risk management.聰 聴 From the International Monetary Fund聮s latest World Economic Outlook survey, released April 9.
Below is abridged from an April 11 statement by the Zimbabwean International Socialist Organization (ISO). A much longer version can be read at http://links.org.au.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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