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>>> 4 weeks to go! <<<
Just some of the speakers from over 25 countries:
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Tahmeena Faryal, RAWA, a courageous young Afghani woman activist, exiled
in Pakistan
Dita Sari, the Indonesian union leader who rejected Reebok's $50,000
"human rights" award
Farooq Tariq, Pakistani socialist & peace movement leader
Michael Albert, founder of ZMagazine
Victor Briz, young Filipino union leader
Leaders of Brazil's MST (Landless Rural Workers Movement)
Luis Pelayo, US advocate & activist for Hispanic workers' rights
Boris Kagarlitsky, renowned Russian socialist writer & commentator
Alex Callinicos, British Marxist intellectual
From the Pacific Region:
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Jimmy Naouna, Pacific Concerns Resources Centre (PCRC), Fiji - Assistant
Director - Decolonisation & Indigenous Rights [ depending on funding ]
Dr. John Ondawame, (West-)Papuan Presidium Council, and
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, Uni Sydney
John Paska, President of PNG Trades Union Congress & PNG Labor Party
Powes Parkop, Melanesian Solidarity (MelSol), Papua New Guinea
Moses Havini, Bougainville Interim Government (soon Autonomous
Government)
Sem Karoba, West-Papuan student leader [
depending on funding ]
( and more to be confirmed, plus of course the
Australian Solidarity Groups for West-Papua, PNG, and Bougainville )
Featuring:
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Global Solidarity Action for Refugees, March 31, Villawood refugee
prison
(see [1] below)
Discussion towards an Asia Pacific Social Forum
(see [2] below}
Opening public meeting: 7pm, March 28
>>> Register now! <<<
Phone: ((+61)(0) 2) 9690 1230
FreeCall: 1800 634 206 (only in Australia)
Mobile: (+61)(0)421 322 175 (Mobile)
Email: APISC2002@greenleft.org.au
WWWeb: www.global-revolt.org
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Second Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference 2002
SYDNEY BOYS HIGH, MOORE PARK, SURRY HILLS (Sydney-Australia)
Easter 2002: Friday, March 29 - Monday, April 1
(Conference launch & rally on Thursday, March 28 at 7:00 pm)
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[1] Breaking down the Borders:
Global Solidarity Action for Refugees
Villawood Refugee Prison: Sunday, March 31
Featuring speakers from the
Asia Pacific International Solidarity Conference
Endorsed by:
Free the Refugees Campaign, Rural Australians for Refugees, United
Nations Association of Australia, Refugee Action Coalition,
International Federation of Iraqi and Iranian Refugees, Refugee Action
Collective (Melbourne Central), Refugee Action Collective (Canberra),
Refugee Action Collective (Lismore), Edmund Rice Centre, Mary McKillop
Institute, Father Claude Mostowik, Progressive Young Hazaras, Health
Professionals for Global Responsibility (NSW), Action for World
Development, Nicholas Poynder QC, Peter McGregor (Lecturer in Media &
Social Studies, UWS Penrith), Thang Ngo (Fairfield Councillor), PNG
Solidarity Action, Women Against War & Racism, Action in Solidarity with
Asia and the Pacific, Socialist Alliance, Labor for Refugees,
Resistance, Democratic Socialist Party, Refugee Action Collective (Illawarra),
Newcastle Action for Refugee Rights, Actively Radical TV, Bougainville
Freedom Movement, Australian West Papua Association, Australian East
Timor Association
[2] Towards an Asia Pacific Social Forum
The following media release was sent out to Australian media on February
7 by the conference organising committee:
Region’s activists to discuss launch of Asia Pacific Social Forum
In the wake of the second successful World Social Forum in Porto Allegre,
Brazil, activists from the Asia Pacific are to meet in Sydney on March
31 to discuss the formation of a regional social forum to oppose
corporate globalisation and the stepped up US-led military intervention
in the Third World.
Activists from the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia who recently
attended the WSF (which attracted 50,000 activists from around the
world) will be part of this important discussion, to be hosted by the
2nd Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference (Sydney, March 31-April 2, 2002).
“The Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference will show that movement against
corporate globalisation and war is alive and well in this region”, said
Mr Peter Boyle, a conference organiser.
“The bullying by the US President George Bush and his Pacific deputy
sheriff John Howard is going to meet serious resistance.”
The 1st Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference – held in Sydney April 10-13,
1998 – attracted 750 participants including 67 international
representatives, including leading activists from Indonesia, India,
Pakistan, Malaysia, South Korea, East Timor, PNG, New Zealand,
Singapore, Sri Lanka and the Philippines.
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