S11/OLYMPIC PROTESTS -- GLW Global Action #6

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Number 6, September 2, 2000

>>> IN THIS ISSUE >>>>>>
+ Green Left Weekly goes daily
+ Unions to march on Crown Casino
+ Union officials divided over S11
+ PR firm provides anti-S11 brief
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===GLOBAL ACTION HEADLINES===================
=== SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 02====================

Unions to march on Crown Casino
BY SEAN HEALY & MELANIE SJOBERG
MELBOURNE -- Victorian Trades Hall Council has confirmed that its labour
rights rally, scheduled for September 12, the second day of planned
protests against the World Economic Forum, will now march on the forum
site at Crown Casino.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11/daily/000902_04_unions.shtml

Union officials divided over S11
BY SEAN HEALY and MELANIE SJOBERG
MELBOURNE -- The planned protests against the WEF continue to polarise
union officials across the country.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11/daily/000902_03_unions.shtml

PR firm provides anti-S11 brief
BY SEAN HEALY
MELBOURNE -- A copy of a briefing paper on planned S11 protests,
prepared
by one of the world's largest public relations firms, Hill and Knowlton,
has been leaked and posted on the Melbourne Independent Media Centre
site.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11/daily/000902_01_pr.shtml

Stakes high on S11
COMMENT BY SEAN HEALY
MELBOURNE -- The temperature in this city, still desperately trying to
recover from winter, will rise dramatically in the next week, as both
sides of the looming political and physical confrontation at the Crown
Casino begin their final, frantic preparations for the opening of the
World Economic Forum.
http://www.greenleft.org.au/globalaction/s11/daily/000902_02_stakes.shtml

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