[DEBATE] : Anti-APEC protesters: defiant and united - Green Left Weekly #724 September 19, 2007

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Green Left Weekly #724 September 19, 2007
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Anti-APEC protesters: defiant and united
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37562>

There were at least 10,000 people gathered at 11am at Sydney’s Town
Hall. Despite an intensive campaign aimed at keeping people away, and
provocative policing on the day, up to 15,000 people come out on
September 8, asserting their right to protest against US President
George Bush and Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Hundreds of high
school students chanting “Troops out now!” joined with hundreds of trade
unionists chanting “The workers united will never be defeated!” ensured
that the crowd swelled onto George Street, sending the riot police
scampering to take up new positions in front of their mobile prison buses.

More anti-APEC coverage below

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"Fighting and organising globally against neo-liberalism"
LATIN AMERICA AND ASIA PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY FORUM - OCT
11-14, 2007
Trades Hall & RMIT Storey Hall. Melbourne, Australia
Trade unionists, social movement activists, academics, students,
progressive political parties and all interested members of the
community are invited to participate in the Latin American & Asia
Pacific International Solidarity Forum. The four-day forum aims to
strengthen international coordination and solidarity with those fighting
neoliberalism.

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Bolivia needs our solidarity
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37573>

BOLIVIA: For Bolivia’s indigenous majority there is no going back. The
election in 2005 of Bolivia’s first indigenous president, Evo Morales,
marked a watershed — a before and after in Bolivia’s history — after
more than 500 years of struggle against imperialism and colonialism. It
marked a conscious step forward by Bolivia’s indigenous majority in its
struggle for justice and equality. »

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International News

*Bolivia needs our solidarity <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37573>
*Bolivia: No longer victims and slaves
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37576>
*Washington’s silent war on Venezuela and Bolivia
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37577>
*East Timor: Challenges for the Xanana alliance
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37566>
*East Timor: DSP calls for Australian troops’ withdrawal
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37564>
*Britain: TUC gives Brown a frosty reception
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37565>
*Cambodians set up Casa Cuba <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37581>
*Chile: Echoes of dictatorship in the Latin ‘jaguar’
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37579>
*China: Strikes and riots <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37571>
*Leaving Ecuador's oil in the ground
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37563>
*El Salvador: Nurses’ union leaders detained
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37592>
*Iraq: Deadliest summer yet for US troops
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37553>
*Palestine: Remembering Sabra and Shatila
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37569>
*Palesine: A small victory against apartheid wall
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37570>
*West Papua: FREEPORT McMORAN KILLINGS (advert)
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37593>

Protests against APEC

*Students led the anti-APEC way <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37572>
*Police state no match for people power
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37586>
*Anti-APEC protesters: defiant and united
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37562>
*APEC fails on climate change, pushes nukes
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37584>
*APEC anti-Bush protests: the voice of the people
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37560>
*Massive Stop Bush protest rains on Howard's APEC parade
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37578>
*NSW police: mission accomplished?
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37561>
*Western Sydney charges Bush with war crimes
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37575>
*Walkout Against George <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37554>

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Comment & Analysis

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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37585>
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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37582>
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<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37583>
*Textile workers resist AWAs <http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37588>

Cultural Dissent

*Some glimpses of revolutionary insight - Revolutionaries Revised and
Updated Edition By Eric Hobsbawn
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37555>
*Joe Strummer - the gentle rebel of punk music
<http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/724/37557>
*Wobbly workers’ words of wisdom - Fanning discontent’s Flames:
Australian Wobbly Poetry, Scurrilous
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