Venezuela solidarity, Cuba solidarity, Environment, Workers struggle, Anti-war, Women's liberation
Anti-war veterans group calls for protests when Barack Obama visits Australia
Anti-war veterans group calls for protests when
Barack Obama visits Australia
Press release
5 February 2010
"Think Obama is against war? Think again," said Stand Fast spokesperson and East Timorveteran, Hamish Chitts. “Obama is not a force for progress, he is not a man of peace - from his first day in office over 12 months ago he has firmly placed himself in the camp of the warmongers and war-profiteers.”
Stand Fast, he Australian-based veterans group which is comprised of veterans and former military personnel who oppose the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, is calling on all people of conscience to protest the upcoming visit of Barack Obama in the 2nd half of March.
Anti-war veterans group calls for protests when Barack Obama visits Australia
From Brisbane Westender
Call to protest Obama
"Think Obama is against war? Think again," said Stand Fast spokesperson and East Timor veteran, Hamish Chitts.
“Obama is not a force for progress, he is not a man of peace - from his first day in office over 12 months ago he has firmly placed himself in the camp of the warmongers and war-profiteers.”
Fidel Castro on Haiti: Cuba `sends doctors, not soldiers'
By Fidel Castro Ruz
January 23, 2010 -- In my reflection of January 14, two days after the catastrophe in Haiti, which destroyed that neighbouring sister nation of Haiti, I wrote:
Direct Action Forum: Capitalism, Copenhagen & Climate Change: what solutions are needed to save the planet?
Feb 27 2010 2:30 pm
Australia/Melbourne
Speakers: Alex Whisson ( COP 15 protest participant); Win Padauk Wah, member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party
Plus video footage of:
* COP 15 protests (filmed by Ray Grenfell & Alex Whisson)
Obama visit: Melbourne call to action
Feb 11 2010 6:30 pm
Australia/Melbourne
Please distribute to your network....
Apologies for crosspostings...
Obama is coming to Australia in the second half of March.
Obama visit: Brisbane call to action
Feb 11 2010 6:30 pm
Australia/Melbourne
Obama is coming to Australia in the second half of March
It's time to get organised...
Stop the War organising meeting:
Che Guevara & 21st Century Socialism
Mar 9 2010 1:00 pm
Australia/Melbourne
ORIENTATION WEEK FORUM
Tuesday March 9, 1pm
Room to be confirmed
Organised by the Latrobe University Cuba-Venezuela Solidarity Club & supported by Direct Action
HAITI: Open Letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith
By the Australia Cuba Friendship Society Western Australia Branch
PO Box 6022
PO Box 901
House of Representatives
Inglewood WA 6932
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
To the Honourable Stephen Smith
We write with a letter of request for you to consider sending financial assistance from Australia to supply medicines and medical supplies to the Cuban doctors in Haiti.
