workers rights
Just when you thought it was the yanks about to push the button
Submitted by Freedom Fighter on Mon, 2007-12-03 19:17. Newswire | Northern Territory | Australia | Asia-Pacific | Darwin | International | Papua New Guinea | Timor Leste | West Papua | anarchy | drugs | environment | fascism | human rights | indigenous | indymedia | oil and gas | prisons | protest | race | uranium | workers rightsSome think Immadonjihad is nuts enough to not worry about the following.
2. Israel - God's Timepiece
Whos getting rich from the marijuana drought and ice epidemic?
Submitted by Freedom Fighter on Sun, 2007-12-02 12:47. Newswire | Northern Territory | Australia | Asia-Pacific | Darwin | International | Papua New Guinea | Timor Leste | West Papua | anarchy | drugs | environment | fascism | human rights | indigenous | indymedia | oil and gas | prisons | protest | race | uranium | workers rightsI have been a smoker of the most feared plant in Australia since the 1970s and Goverments in different states usually have a fairly tolerant approach(except the NT) to its sale and use.Since last June 2007 my usual dealer and 2 others that i used to buy from have given up selling marijuana to deal only in ice and other powder forms as there is more money in it and the Law Enforcement Agencies leave them alone, so they tell me.
West Papuan workers walk off at Freeport mine
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2007-04-19 23:59. Newswire | West Papua | protest | workers rightsPress Release: Institute for Papuan Advocacy
West Papuan workers walk off at Freeport mine
West Papuan workers at the Freeport gold and copper mine in the mountains of West Papua have walk off the job on Tuesday 17 April 2007.
Workers are demanding a better deal for Papuans workers and the traditional landowners at the mine.
Freeport is said to have 9,000 employees directly under its management in Indonesia, a third of these are Papuans.
The Unemployment figures scandal
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2007-03-27 10:49. Newswire | Australia | workers rightsUnemployment figures scandal story ( longish)
On the surface it was not too bad an experience. I got a nice redundancy package and almost immediately was able to gain employment in the new privatised sector at a higher salary. Financially it was good. I was deemed to have performed so well for my first “provider” that, when they failed to get a renewal on their contract, I was able to get a new job that was effectively a promotion, managing one of the suburban outlets of my second. Nor, on paper at least, had I thus been promoted to the level of my incompetence (an ambition I eagerly look forward to fulfilling). I got good results in this role, was made “employee of the month” and won generous, tax-free bonuses.
Prohibition. There's got to be a better way.
Submitted by RobFyffe on Fri, 2007-03-23 06:30. Newswire | Northern Territory | Australia | Darwin | anarchy | drugs | fascism | human rights | indigenous | prisons | protest | workers rightsAccording to the National Drug Strategy Household Survey approximately 46% of Australians have used illicit drugs at some time.
This
figure is unlikely to be reliably accurate given the climate of fear
caused by the Governments propaganda war on drugs and criminalisation
of drug users.
Many drug users will not admit to their use even in
anonymous and confidential surveys. I suspect the true figure to be
well over 50%.
Given that drug usage has been a part of human
culture for many thousands of years, this makes the Governments "war on
drugs" akin to the cultural cleansing carried out by Saddam Hussein
against the Kurds, or Adolf Hitler's cultural cleansing carried out
against the Jews.
When a Government declares war on a sector of
their own population it is called CIVIL WAR. It is only the climate of
fear that keeps the Government in control.
The minority is
oppressing the majority. We only need to look to South Africa in recent
history to see the (inevitable) end result of such action. When the
oppressed lose their fear because they have nothing left to lose, the
Government will fall.
It
is therefore in the best interests of our Government, and for the sake
of stability in this nation, for our Government to cease this insane
and immoral war immediately. Before it's too late.
Have we learnt nothing from the days of alcohol prohibition in the United States?
It
seems that the US has learnt nothing from their past experience. Must
Australia continue to blindly follow the US down this socially
destructive path?
Prohibition has had absolutely no effect on
the supply and demand for various drugs. If anything it has worsened
the situation. The police have, for too long, taken the soft option and
gone after the easy target drug marijuana simply to produce headline
stories. In reducing the supply of pot they have increased the demand
for other substances. The current "ice epidemic" is of the Governments
making. All supported by the lie that cannabis "causes" psychosis.
PROVE IT!!!
People
will continue to exercise their right to relaxation and enjoyment of
life, but not everyone wants to, or can safely, consume only alcohol.
Prohibition
is a very expensive failed policy. One which our Government continues
to throw money at to no avail. Taxpayers money that would be better
spent into the education and health systems. The cost, to the health
system, of dealing with the small minority of drug users that suffer
health problems as a result of their drug use would be far less than
the amount of money being currently wasted on policing and
incarcerating ordinary taxpaying citizens who choose to use a drug
other than alcohol for their relaxation and enjoyment.
The drug
industry should be legitimised and regulated to become a contributor to
the economy through employment and associated taxes, rather than a
criminal run industry that corrupts police, politicians and the
judiciary, and is a drain on the economy. People should be educated
properly with accurate information and encouraged to moderation, not
fed a load of sensationalistic propaganda (lies).
If
the alternatives to alcohol were as readily available as alcohol in
quality controlled, known dosage forms, legitimately produced at
reasonable cost, the result would be a huge reduction in crime rates.
And a more contented and thereby less violent community.
We
would, with one single change of policy, free up our courts, reduce our
jail populations (especially Aboriginal), remove one of the main
avenues for police corruption, and could devote more of the budget to
HEALTH & EDUCATION.
Think about it people, PROHIBITION DOES NOT WORK. It never has, for long.
Legalisation, education on moderation and regulation just might save a lot more lives and heartache.
Stop the War
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2007-02-09 01:02. Newswire | International | human rights | oil and gas | protest | workers rightsTurkey: Online Rally Being Organized To Protest US Middle East, Iraq Policy
Report: "Iraq Occupation to be Protested On Line"
- AA Anatolia
Ankara (A.A) - 31 Jan 2007 - DISK (Confederation of Revolutionary Workers Unions), KESK (Small Tradesmen and Artisans Confederation) and trade chambers are going to organize an on-line campaign to mark the fourth anniversary of the occupation of Iraq between 20 February and 20 March.
Kangkushot - Pilbara Indigenous strike leader farewelled (1920-2006)
Submitted by takver on Sat, 2006-09-30 16:12. Newswire | Australia | human rights | indigenous | race | workers rights(Warning: Picture and name of indigenous person, now deceased)
Indigenous Australians and supporters travelled from many communities
in the Northern Territory, Perth and the Western Desert region to
farewell one of the legendary leaders of the 1946 Pilbara strike, Peter
Coppin, also known as Kangkushot, who died in the Pilbara town of Port
Hedland on September 11, 2006, aged 86. Two and a half thousand people
attended his funeral in Port Hedland on Friday 29 September, after
which a cavalcade of 300 cars with police escort travelled to his
burial at the Jinparinya community 30 km away.
Skills share - Solar Village, Humpty Doo, 9am Saturday 9th September
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2006-08-17 21:36. Newswire | Northern Territory | anarchy | environment | human rights | indigenous | protest | uranium | workers rights
Nuclear Industry runs riot:
• Dumping Commonwealth nuclear waste in the Territory
• Mining a nuclear dump at Rum Jungle
• Uranium exploration all over Litchfield
• Expansion of Ranger Uranium Mine in Kakadu
• D.U. bombs, U.S. bases
Time to Tool Up!
