20 Apr 2005 Jakarta IMC

hasil pertemuan awal menlu se-Asia Afrika

(indymedia/20/04) - Jakarta

Menteri-menteri Luar Negeri Asia Afrika sepakat mengadopsi sejumlah isu penting seputar politik, ekonomi dan soaial budaya dalam pertemuan Senior Official Meeting (SOM) pra konferensi yang berlangsung sehari penuh di Jakarta Convention Center (JHCC), Jakarta.

Dalam konferensi pers bersama, Menteri Luar Negeri RI, Hasan Wirayudha dan rekannya, Menteri Luar Negeri Afrika Selatan, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, dijelaskan bahwa dibidang politik, semua menlu sepakat (pertama) untuk mengambil sejumlah kebijakan dan tindakan bersama
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20 Apr 2005 Perth Indymedia

RADIO INDYMEDIA - PERTH...Perth Indy Radio show is shifting slots. Tune in to RTRFM 92.1 every Wednesday from 7 - 8 PM for the latest in Activist news, interviews, events, happenings and actions...You can listen via traditional methods - by tuning your radio to the 92.1 frequency. Or go to rtrfm.com.au/listen and stream live on your pooter. Perth Indy Radio is an extention of the work done with perth.indymedia.org - and most content is lifted from the newswires of the site. Indymedia is an anticorporate not-for-profit grass roots global participatory OPEN PUBLISHING network. Review the latest
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20 Apr 2005 Manila Indymedia

From the newswire...........This clearly affirms the historical fact that the World Bank continues to be an instrument of the global power structure, and that at the head of that power structure lies the United States Government. The nexus between economic and military imperialism now stands exposed. The United States Government, through President Bush, has pushed for the election of its former Asst. Secretary of Defense and Architect of the War on Iraq Paul Wolfowitz as head of the World Bank. [ Full Story ]
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19 Apr 2005 Jakarta IMC

Dilanjutkan 27 April 2005

Sidang pertama gugatan LBH Jakarta kepada 5 Presiden RI tentang kasus para korban peristiwa 65 yang dilangsungkan di Pengadilan Negeri Jakarta Pusat tanggal 13 April 2005 akan dilanjutkan pada tanggal 27 April yad.

Sidang pertama tanggal 13 April itu ditunda karena para tergugat (yaitu Presiden SBY, para mantan Presiden Suharto, Habibi, Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati) tidak hadir dalam persidangan. Hanya mantan Presiden Abdurrahman Wahid yang diwakili kuasa hukumnya, yaitu Sri Laksmi Aninditya dari LKBH (Lembaga Konsultasi dan Bantuan Hukum) UI Jakarta. Majelis hakim
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19 Apr 2005 Melbourne Indymedia

The Public Relations Institute of Australia will hold a talk in Melbourne this week titled "Activists : How to beat them at their own game". For the small fee of $595 for the 3 hour session, including a light lunch, you could attend and learn about "How they operate", "Understanding their mindset" and the new tactics you can use against them. Full Story
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19 Apr 2005 Perth Indymedia

From the newswire... Radical Perth activist group the Power From Within [PFW] and friends recently performed acts of street theatre in Perth City to raise citizen awareness and demonstrate the mistreatment of refugees by the Australian Government. Activists, some freshly returned from the BAXTER_05 - Convergence For Human Rights, near Pt Augusta SA, took to the streets on Saturday to express ongoing dissent to the Mandatory and Indefinate Detention of Asylum Seekers in Australia. Hear more about the PFW action on Perth Indy Radio this week - WED 7-8pm RTRFM 92.1. Read More about this PFW
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18 Apr 2005 Manila Indymedia

The Freedom from Debt Coalition reiterates its long-standing call for the immediate cancellation of the Casecnan contract, including other onerous IPP contracts. Casecnan reportedly failed to pay the provincial government a total of P229 million in real property taxes (RPTs) in 2003. Further, the company allegedly failed to remit an estimated P10 million in national wealth tax since Casecnan started commercial operations in December 2001.[ Full Story ]
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18 Apr 2005 Darwin Indymedia

Environment Centre (NT) faces axe "As you may have heard the Commonwealth is planning to cut its grant to Environment Centre of the Northern Territory (ECNT) If you are as concerned as we are about this decision, please contact Ian Campbell’s office: Senator Ian Campbell: Minister for the Environment and Heritage." ( Peter Robertson - ECNT ) Parliament Contact:Tel: (02) 6277 7640 - - Fax: (02) 6273 6101 Email: senator.ian.campbell@aph.gov.auParty: Liberal Party of Australia"The criteria for grants has been rewritten so as to make it almost impossible for peak environment groups
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17 Apr 2005 Melbourne Indymedia

Indigenous Elders from geographic Australia met at the High Court in Melbourne on Wednesday morning to launch a prosecution against the Australian government for genocide. Chanting "always was, always will be, Aboriginal Land," the Elders spoke to the media before the crowd filed in to the building to lodge a writ of mandamus. They are calling on the government to address the issues of Aboriginal Genocide, Sovereignty and Treaty, coined as the Black G.S.T. [Full Story]
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17 Apr 2005 Melbourne Indymedia

Melbourne man Jack Thomas has been committed to stand trial on three charges brought by the Australian government under the Commonwealth's new anti-terrorist legislation. The charges are: receiving funds from a terrorist organisation, providing support to a terrorist organisation and possessing a false passport. Mr Thomas was only recently released on bail from Barwon prison where he was held in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day.
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17 Apr 2005 Aotearoa IMC

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are meeting in Washington DC this weekend. People are protesting all over the globe against these two undemocratic and capitalist institutions.
The World Bank makes loans to its members to restructure a country's economic system by funding structural adjustment programs (SAP). These SAPs pursue economic liberalisation which results in worse conditions and pay for workers. Opposition to the World Bank and the IMF has been huge in recent years and has led to uprisings in Argentina and anti-capitalist struggles all over the world.
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16 Apr 2005 Manila Indymedia

MANILA, Philippines- Some 300 members of Freedom from Debt Coalition, with all its allied organizations, marched to the World Bank- Manila Office and to the Asian Development Bank main headquarters in Ortigas Center and held these institutions, as well as the International Monetary, accountable for the continuing cycle of underdevelopment besetting poor nations.[ Full Story ][ Photos ]
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15 Apr 2005 Darwin Indymedia

Call to end over two centuries of ongoing Genocide Call to end Genocide I Kevin Buzzacott, Arabunna elder, convicted for reclaiming cultural symbols II Autopsy reveals truth about Scott's death I TJ Hickey case gets before EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: Internat. Conf. Rally in REDFERN I 'Australia Day' - change the bloody date I The politics of despair (Perth indymedia) IIPalm Island - Blue Murder I Pt Keats I One Mile Dam community - Photo gallery I aboriginalgenocide.com.au I Perth feature - Indigenous rights
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14 Apr 2005 Perth Indymedia

CALL TO END GENOCIDE – LAST CHANCE FOR DOMESTIC JURISDICTION TO ACT. Indigenous Elders from geographic Australia are lodged a writ of mandamus at High Court Registry in Melbourne at 10.00am Wednesday 13 April 2005, directing the defendants to investigate and prosecute key perpetrators (including top government officials) of acts of Genocide committed against Original Peoples of geographic Australia on 26 September 2002 and daily thereafter. [ Melbourne IMC Story - High Court ] [ ABC Story ] [ WHAT IS THE BLACK G.S.T.? ] [ Howard moves to privatise Indigenous land ] [ Autopsy reveals truth
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13 Apr 2005 Aotearoa IMC

That's right, W((i))ndy presents a series of workshops on independent media making and DIY publishing:
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