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Independent Media Transcript 15 March 2006

US drumbeat against Iran threatens new war of aggression

by Bill Van Auken wsws.org
Adelaide IMC 12/3/06

With the US war and occupation in Iraq fast approaching its third anniversary, those in the Bush administration responsible for launching this unprovoked aggression based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and through intimidating the American people with fabricated threats of terror are once again beating the same war drums, this time against Iran.

Bush’s remarks echoed those made the day before by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who told the Senate Appropriations Committee that the US faces “no greater challenge from a single country” than from Iran.

 http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php

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The cycle of war from the Allies
by derek lane Melb IMC 12/3/06

If it is not apparent to the world at large that the US and its allies intend to bomb Iran in the future, it would be only due to avoidance of the news. The question is not 'if' but when, and of course, why?

There is much rhetoric flying back and forth across the Atlantic, and between Teheran and the United States, but we must sift the facts out from the fiction, from the lies, and from the war-mongering if we are to make sense of the notion that on the back of a crippling war in Iraq (primarily for Iraqis, but also for the objectives and international standing of the US, the UK and its other allies, such as Australia and Italy) the US seems to be gearing up for yet another large scale conflict, this time in the stronger and more unified state of Iran.

 http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/108385.php

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Camp Sovereignty Established
by Glen Lockitch 13/3/2006

The Stolenwealth Games protest camp has been established in Melbourne Kings Domain Gardens in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games. The camp will serve as a base for actions being coordinated by the Black GST campaign to highlight the ongoing resistance of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people to the illegal occupation of the Australian continent. Ceremonies were opened with the lighting of the Aboriginal Sacred Fire for Peace and Justice from ashes brought from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.

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 http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/108416.php
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Aboriginal Tent Embassy (A.T.E) Lights Sacred Fire At Stolenwealth (Commonwealth) Games.

by Glenn Lockitch for the A.T.E.
Sydney IMC 12/3/06

Today (March 12th) the Aboriginal Tent Embassy (A.T.E) started a Sacred Fire Ceremony in Melbourne to coincide with the Stolenwealth (Commonwealth) Games. Last weekend Isabel Coe combined ashes from a continual link of Fire Ceremonies all around the country with the ashes at the A.T.E. in Canberra (see photos) which were then transported to Melbourne during the week by Robert Corowa.

 http://sydney.indymedia.org/node/35971
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Lake Cowal is calling - Rain Corroboree, 14th-17th April
Sydney IMC via Mia ;-) 11/3/06

Hi everyone... Just a quick update on the Lake Cowal Corroboree, 14th-17th April... The Lake Cowal Gold Mine is due to start full operations in 3 weeks... the open pit is now 20m deep.... cyanide if not already at the site will be there within the next three weeks... we are having a National Day of Action on the 22nd of March,- World Water day... there will be a Melbourne meeting at trades hall on the 20th to finalise the action for the 22nd.

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Protest targets Commonwealth Games?
by SubUrban Grrrl & Boy Adelaide IMC 13/3/06

"Poised, youthful, feminine, perhaps slightly withdrawn into her own pools of silence from which she gains such strength, the Queen might have been any young woman on a great occasion," the page's "editress" wrote. "Yet there is about her something of splendour; behind that fragile glimmer of gold, there is the full panoply of the Throne." Throne out puhlease!
 http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display_any/10540
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France: student and worker protests
by libcom.org Global IMC 11/3/06

Students have occupied half of France's universities while workers strike and protest against the CPE labour reform bill.

France has been hit with a wave of strikes, protests, marches and university occupations in recent days as workers, students and young people fight a new legal state assault on employment rights, reports Jef Costello for libcom.org news.

The ‘first employment contract’ (Contrat première embauche, or CPE) which was adopted by the senate on the 28th of February removes job security from workers under 26. The French Government has claimed that the only way to reduce chronic youth unemployment is by giving employers the right to sack workers under the age of 26 without notice, compensation or even a reason during the first two years of their employment. This proposal has been widely criticised by students’ unions, trade unions and public opinion.

With unemployment amongst under-25s running at 22% many young people feel they have little to lose, even a good degree is no guarantee of finding work. ??The vote in the Senate on the CPE was brought forward by a week to pre-empt the national day of protest called by students’ unions for the 7th of March. The day of protest went ahead in spite of this, with 400,000 people attending 160 demonstrations according to police estimates.

The demonstrations were mixed with trade unionists, students, the unemployed and education workers. Students from the Lycées (roughly equivalent to secondary schools) were well represented at demonstrations. There have been occupations and strikes country wide, mainly focussed around universities. Roughly half of France’s universities have been occupied, Rennes II university has been blockaded by anti-CPE protesters and strikers since early February.

In Tours, several hundred students invaded tracks at the railway station, stopping all trains for three hours on Friday according to the SNCF. On Tuesday 7th the Sorbonne in Paris, a key site in May 1968, which has not been the site of an occupation since was occupied by students. Around 400 students are inside with around 2000 supporters outside. There have also been reports of clashes with riot police in Toulouse.

There has been a call for a day of action by the student’s unions: l'UNSA, la FSU, l'UNEF, Solidaires, la Confédération étudiante, l'UNL et la FIDL, pour les organisations lycéennes et étudiantes. They will be supported by the trade unions CGT, CFDT, FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC, which includes all the main federations. Saturday 18th of March has been chosen as a focal point, but in many cases occupations and strikes are continuing as people refuse to settle for a symbolic action and continue to demand change.

The anarcho-syndicalist union grouping the CNT has called for strike action and is calling upon workers to begin indefinite strikes until the legislation is repealed. In Le Havre the CNT local led a march of 7,000 upon the university and blockaded it (see pic, above left and videos, below). The CNT has called for the repeal of CNE (the sister law of the CPE) which was passed last year and applies to workers in small businesses with fewer than 20 employees. The CNT has recognised that these are two sides of the same coin. The CPE is simply the latest measure aimed at reducing workers’ rights in France. These attempts to reduce job security, a process referred to by the CNT as précarisation, are aimed at taming the strongest union culture in Europe and possibly the world.?
 http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/2006/03/834966.shtml

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