At 08:05 AM 5/15/98 -0700, Nathan Newman wrote:
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>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
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>>As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any coverage of the Australian
>>wharfies strike in the U.S. corporate media.
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>This is from the April 9 SF CHRONICLE and comes under the "If you don't
like the
>news, make your own" category:
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>SAN FRANCISCO
>Protesters Arrested At Australian Consulate
> Thursday, April 9, 1998
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>Ten picketers were arrested at a maritime labor demonstration outside
>Australia's Consulate in downtown San Francisco yesterday afternoon.
>Police released the protesters without citing them and no charges were filed,
>officers said.
>Police said the arrests were made after a sit-down in front of the doors at One
>Bush Street, where the Australian government has its consulate and trade
office.
>The incident, at 5 p.m., occurred during a protest by about 50 labor
supporters,
>called by the International Transportworkers Federation, a worldwide body of
>waterfront unions, to condemn policies in Australia.
>Unionists said the Australian authorities had assisted Patrick Stevedoring Co.,
>a major dockside employer, in firing 2,100 workers.
>Australian Consul General Joe Hlubucek met with the group's representatives but
>consul representatives would not comment further on the matter.
>Gunnar Lundeberg, president/ secretary treasurer of the Sailors' Union of the
>Pacific, which backed the demonstration, said, ``the Tory government in
>Australia has taken aim at the maritime unions in a general anti-labor
>offensive. Australia's labor traditions are too strong and too connected with
>ours, for us to sit back and watch this happen.''
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