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GLOBAL PEACE AND JUSTICE AUCKLAND
NEWSLETTER No. 347, September 14, 2010

WHAT’S ON IN AUCKLAND

Wednesday, September 15, 12 noon, Albert Park, City
PPTA Day of Action: Rally followed by march to QE2 Square, Downtown

Thursday, September 16, University of Auckland
You are invited to meet Joe Cirincione • President of the Ploughshares Fund; • Member of the Council on Foreign Relations; • Former Vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress; •    Former director for non-proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; • Author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, 2007) and Deadly Arsenals: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Threats (Carnegie Endowment, second edition 2006).
Two events in Auckland: Disarmament Discourses:  A Roundtable on Nuclear Elimination, 16 September (12-1:30 pm) University of Auckland, HSB 370.
What’s Interesting About Nuclear Weapons?  A Conversation with Joe Cirincione (geared toward students)
16 September (1:45-2:30 pm), 16 Symonds Street meeting room
For more details or contact: Maria Rost Rublee, Ph.D., Lecturer, International Relations, Department of Political Studies
University of Auckland. 64-9-373-7599 x 83725; m.rublee@auckland.ac.nz

Friday, September 17, 7-9am, Ellerslie Racecourse, Newmarket Room, 80 Ascot Ave, Remuera
Women’s Health Action presents the 2010 Suffrage Breakfast. Join us to hear Judy McGregor, EEO Commissioner at the Human Rights Commission, speak on “Sex and Power”. Cost: $35 per ticket, $330 for a table of 10. Book online now : http://www.womens-health.org.nz/index.php?page=breakfast

Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September, 11am, Mt Eden and Ponsonby Rd
The Auckland Peace Heritage Walk was launched during the 2009 Auckland Heritage Festival as part of the World March for Peace and Non-Violence. This year the Walk starts at two places simultaneously and ends at QEII Square where participants can together form a human peace sign (organised by members of the United Nations Youth Association of NZ). It is a self-guided walk, with participants able to choose from the brochure provided which of the peace sites they would like to visit, and depending on what distance they want to cover. There is also the option to run or cycle a route of approx 7km or 12 km. This is an event organized by the United Nations Association of NZ (Northern Region Branch) as a UN Peace Day event, together with Civic Trust Auckland. Groups such as walking or cycling groups, as well as families and individuals, are encouraged to participate. For further information please phone Audrey van Ryn on (09) 368 1516 or email audrey@writeaway.co.nz

Saturday, September 18, 8pm, Basement Theatre, Lower Greys Ave, (backs onto the carpark at the bottom of Lower Greys Ave, opposite the Auckland City Council building)
Kia Ora Gaza and Nocturne Theatre invite you to the fundraising performance of MY NAME IS RACHEL CORRIE A one-woman play. On the same weekend that six Kia Ora Gaza team members will join the mass land convoy departing London en route to Gaza, the one-woman play My Name is Rachel Corrie – taken from the writings of the 23 year-old US citizen who was killed in Rafah while protecting the home of a Palestinian family – will open at The Basement Theatre in Auckland. Rachel Corrie was a uniquely perceptive, generous and brave individual. Growing up in Olympia, Washington, she developed a strong social conscience, along with a sharp sense of humour. In January 2003 she travelled to Palestine-Israel as a member of the International Solidarity Movement. On 16 March 2003, Rachel was killed by an Israeli military bulldozer while protecting the home of Palestinian pharmacist Dr Samir and his family. Combining an activist’s passion with an artist’s sensibility, Rachel was a great writer. Even in the tragedy of her young death, there is hope in the legacy of her writing. ‘I think my soul is nomadic’, Rachel once wrote. And the words she left behind encourage readers and audiences across the globe to meet her in a search for justice and truth. Edited by British actor and director Alan Rickman and Guardian journalist Katharine Viner, My Name is Rachel Corrie has been produced in over 13 countries. It is a testament to the power of individual bravery and collective hope. On Saturday 18 September, when Kia Ora Gaza’s six-person Kiwi Team depart London with convoy members from around the globe, we invite you to come and hear the words of a fellow activist intent on seeing the people of Gaza enjoy the same freedoms we take for granted. We know Rachel would certainly be there with the convoy were she here today. Her words live on.
‘I should at least mention that I am also discovering a degree of strength and of basic ability for humans to remain human in the direst of circumstances – which I also haven’t seen before. I think the word is dignity. I wish you could meet these people. Maybe, hopefully, someday you will.’ – Rachel Corrie, 2003. ‘Rachel Corrie reveals that the principled courage of youth, idealism we used to call it, has not been extinguished, as the propaganda tells us. Indeed, it flourishes and Rachel’s legacy is its beacon.’ – John Pilger, 2008. Tickets: $40. Tea and coffee and light snacks will be available after the performance. You are invited to stay after the show and have a chat with performer Kate Prior.
HOW TO GET TICKETS. STEP ONE – BOOK YOUR SEATS: Email Kia Ora Gaza’s co-organiser Grant Morgan grantmorgan@paradise.net.nz with ticket numbers and contact details. STEP TWO – PAY FOR YOUR SEATS: Make a direct payment to our bank account: Kia Ora Gaza, 03-0211-0447718-000, Westpac Bank, Onehunga branch. In the “details” section put your name alongside the words “Rachel Corrie”. Or else write a cheque to “Kia Ora Gaza” and post to: Kia Ora Gaza, PO Box 59-007, Auckland. Enclose a note saying the money is for the Rachel Corrie play.

Sunday, September 19, 2pm – 3:30pm, Khartoum Pl, Auckland CBD
Join us on this day of Suffrage to celebrate our Auckland Suffrage Memorial. Come and join Megan Hutching the author of Leading the Way, and Councillor Cathy Casey as they conduct lively and informative tours of the memorial every 30 minutes (2pm, 2.30pm and 3pm) bringing the “Ladies of Khartoum Place” to life! NCW Auckland women will be there to talk to about women’s issues, past, present and future. There will be female pipers to welcome and close, a coffee van on site, afternoon tea and lots of fun. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE

Sunday, September 19, 7-9pm, BigUps, 30 Frost Rd, Mt Roskill
CITY VISIOIN: COME AND HAVE A BALL WITH THE FAMILY AT BIG UPS, MT ROSKILL – This is our last fundraiser and it will be a great family occasion!  Great safe fun for adults and kids.  BigUps is a wonderful fun place for adults and kids (over 5 years).  So bring your kids and grandkids and join in the fun with them. Check out the website : http://www.bigups.co.nz/2010/05/31/bigups-auckland-now-open/ This is the new business of Mike Treen’s partner Heidi and she wants to promote it and City Vision wants your money. It is being opened especially for us!  Big Ups will get $5 for every body through the door and City Vision gets the rest. If you are bringing your family, we are happy if you make a donation. Please please please let me know by return that you would like to come! This is the first time our entire family has wanted to come to a City Vision fundraiser!  So that will be two adults and three kids (and I think the kids are each bringing someone!) It would be great if we could get 50 for our last fundraising hoorah! If you  join us and I promise never to hassle you for money (again until the next election …).xxx Cathy Casey cmcasey@xtra.co.nz

Friday, September 24, 3pm, AUT Business School Building WF711, 42 Wakefield St
The Employment Relations Act: A decade in review. A decade ago on 2 October 2000 the Employment Relations Act came in to force. The Act rejected labour market efficiency as the sole criteria for regulating workplace relations and looked to good faith, collective bargaining and mediation to redress power imbalances in the workplace and to foster productive employment relationships. To mark ten years of the Act’s operation, the Employment Law Forum has asked a range of speakers to comment on their experiences of the statute. Speakers: • Charles Chauvel, MP; •Robin Arthur, Member, Employment Relations Authority; •Peter Cranney, Partner, Oakley Moran; Commentary by Simon Mitchell, Barrister. Please join us for drinks and refreshments after the presentations. There is no charge for this event but please RSVP to nzwalmi@aut.ac.nz by 20 Sept for catering purposes. Sponsored by the New Zealand Work and Labour Market Institute and with the support of the Auckland Labour History group.

September 29-30, Telstra Clear Pacific Events Centre, Manukau City
JUST ACTION CONFERENCE: Just Action is for all those with a heart for The Salvation Army’s mission to fight suffering in all its forms, to speak out and act against injustice, and to be a force for justice, faith and mercy in the world. Here’s some information to bring you up-to-date on plans for next year’s Just Action Conference, ‘The Power to Change’, which is being held as part of Mission 2010, a combined congress of The Salvation Army New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga Territory. Full Conference details and registration information will be available next year. For more information, contact Major Ian Kilgour, The Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit. p: (09) 261 0883 or e: ian_kilgour@nzf.salvationarmy.org Plan to join us and explore how the Gospel can bring international, national, community and neighbourhood change. Plan to join us and explore how the Gospel can bring international, national, community and neighbourhood change. SPEAKERS: Jim Wallis is a best-selling author, public theologian, speaker, preacher and international commentator on religion and public life, faith and politics. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of Sojourners, where he is editor-in-chief of Sojourners magazine. Dave Andrews, Coordinator for training with the Community Initiatives Resource Association, and educator-atlarge for TEAR Australia. Dave, his wife Ange, and their family, have lived and worked in intentional communities with marginalised groups of people in Australia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nepal for more than 30 years.

Wednesday, October 27, 6.30pm, Maidment Theatre, University of Auckland
2010 Bruce Jesson Lecture Annette Sykes Ngäti Pikiao Lawyer and Activist. “The Politics of the Brown Table”. A self-annointed Iwi Leaders Group, a Maori Party that supports a National/ACT government, and a group of Crown mandated intermediaries drawn from retired politicians and bureaucrats, are today’s agents for the manufacturing of consent and the management of discontent amongst Maori. The commercial deals on Treelords, the Emissions Trading Scheme, geothermal resources, national parks, private prisons, mining, whanau ora are all harnessing Moari to a global capitalism that impoverishes the mass of working class Maori and making them dependent on its survival. Most whanau and hapu are excluded from decision-making and denied the rights over their resources just as they always have been. Bruce Jesson foresaw these trends back in the 1980s. This lecture challenges this agenda and identifies the basic principles for a politics that genuinely empowers the people. Professor Margaret Mutu, chairperson of Te Runanga-a-Iwi o Ngäti Kahu, will be the discussant on the lecture.

Thursday, November 4, 9am-5pm, Conference Room 1 – Copthorne Hotel Auckland City 196 – 200 Quay Street
Globalisation and Labour in the Pacific: Re-evaluating the 1890 Maritime Strike. Organised by the Auckland Labour History Group and the Labour History Project in association with the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History and NZWALMI. Papers will be presented on the 1890 strike, its broader political and historical impact, the nature of Pacific Rim connections in the labour market and between labour organisations, lessons for contemporary labour relations in the maritime industry in the Pacific, and the impact of globalisation generally in Pacific Rim labour relations. Attendance: All welcome. Fee: $40 includes lunch and refreshments. All registrations to Ann Williamson at nzwalmi@aut.ac.nz Information subject to change

Sunday, November 21, 9.30am – 4pm, AUT Wellesley Street Conference Centre
Refugee Stories Symposium: This Symposium will consist of a day of testimonies about various aspects of the refugee experience, presented by former refugees who are now resident in New Zealand. REGISTRATION: Early bird Registration (by 1 October 2010) $75.00. Standard registration (after 1 October) $90.00. How to register and further information at www.aut.ac.nz/cre The day will also include a keynote speaker and cultural items. For all enquiries contact AUT Centre for Refugee Education Ph administration 921 9367 | refugeecentre@aut.ac.nz

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

The law locks up the hapless felon
who steals the goose from off the common,
but lets the greater felon loose
who steals the common from the goose.
–          Anonymous, England, 1821

“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent”: Gore Vidal

“Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.”: Noam Chomsky

ANNOUNCEMENTS

INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN OF SUPPORT FOR MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE IN CHILE
Friends, Amigos,Today (9/9/10) is the 56 Day of HUNGER STRIKE by a group of MAPUCHE POLITICAL PRISIONERS held in Chilean Prisions. They are demanding a review of their imprisonment due to the use of SECRETIVE  witnesses and cocked up evidence in their struggle for the protection of their indigenous rights. Some of the Mapuche in the strike are suffering serious health deterioration and many thousands of people around the world have united to support their call for a Just Trial . Below is a petition and a Link to a page lifted up by a Canadian support group. We encourage you to sign and to spread this mail to all your contacts. We must put all pressure possible the next few days to the Chilean government to do all human possible to review this unjust trials against this Mapuche indigenous leaders who all they are doing is to struggle to protect their sacred lands from voracious Multinational companies. The Chilean government is been using all the Antiterrorist legislation  available to them and as legacy of the now defunct military dictatorship in order to suppress their struggle. WE CANNOT STAND AND BE WITNESS OF THIS CRIME AGAINST THE MAPUCHE PEOPLE
PLEASE  CIRCULATE. http://www.freedomtoallmapuchepoliticalprisoners.blogspot.com/ Your signature is valuable and makes a real difference. Please encourage others to sign the petition as well. Forward the text below to everyone who might be interested:
——- FORWARD THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS ——-
Hi, I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I recently signed:
“LIBERTAD A LOS PRESOS POLITICOS MAPUCHE: 32 EN HUELGA DE HAMBRE ”
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/libertadparalospresospoliticosmapuche/
I really think this is an important cause, and I’d like to encourage you to add your signature, too. It’s free and takes just a few seconds of your time.

KIA ORA GAZA POETRY & ART FUNDRAISER
Art by Ellie Smith, Wilson O’Halloran & Tim Reed. Poems by Vaughan Gunson (Kia Ora Gaza website administrator). Hello, I’ve just produced three broadsheets of poetry that also feature the artworks of three New Zealand artists: Ellie Smith (photographer), Wilson O’Halloran (collage artist) and Tim Reed (drawer & printmaker). I’m making copies of the these poetry broadsheets available for sale to raise funds for sending Kiwi aid to Gaza. For more information on Kia Ora Gaza go to www.kiaoragaza.net The broadsheets are folded A3 sized paper, printed high quality on both sides. When folded the broadsheets are sized A6 (pocket sized).  I’m selling them three for $20 (postage included). All money to go to Kia Ora Gaza. To purchase, make a direct payment to the Kia Ora Gaza bank account: Kia Ora Gaza, 03-0211-0447718-000, Westpac Bank, Onehunga branch.  Or write a cheque for Kia Ora Gaza and post to: Kia Ora Gaza, PO Box 59-007, Auckland.  Afterwards, email Vaughan at svpl@xtra.co.nz with your name and address. The broadsheets will be posted to you. The poems are about the personal and the political, parenting, the town of Hikurangi in Northland, love, creativity, escape, and social responsibility. Some of the poems have been published previously in New Zealand poetry journals and magazines. Be in quick, as the money is urgently needed by Kia Ora Gaza to fund the six member team to the other side of the world, and to purchase the necessary aid for the people of Gaza. Regards, Vaughan Gunson, (09)433 8897, 021-0415 082, svpl@xtra.co.nz

CAMPAIGN TO REMOVE GST FROM FOOD CONTINUES
By voting down Maori Party MP Rahui Katene’s bill to remove GST from healthy food (see below), National, ACT and United Future have shown themselves to be offside with grassroots sentiment. The majority of New Zealanders think it’s criminal that food, a necessity of life, is made more expensive by this hated tax. The Tax Justice campaign is circulating a petition which calls on GST to be removed from food and for financial speculation to be taxed instead. 12,000 signatures have been collected since the campaign was launched in late May. And we’re just getting warmed up. We’re planning to collect many more signatures so that out-of-touch politicians in parliament are forced to listen to the will of the people. That’s what democracy should be about. On 1-2 October we’re planning a Double Day of nationwide signature collecting for the Tax Justice petition. With GST going up to 15% on 1 October we expect a tremendous response from people who are angry at the escalating cost of living. It’s good news that the Maori Party wants to continue its opposition to GST on food. The more parties and grassroots organisations working together on this, the better chance of success.
YOU CAN HELP: Take part in the nationwide Double Day of signature collecting for the Tax Justice petition on 1-2 October. Contact Vaughan Gunson, the campaign coordinator, right now. Email svpl@xtra.co.nz or ph/txt 021-0415 082.
To download copies of the Tax Justice petition go to the website http://www.nogstonfood.org/ Post completed petition sheets to the address on the bottom of the petition. To join the campaign on Facebook go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/No-GST-on-food/119541161411953?ref=ts 2,250 people already have.

EXCELLENT NEWS! GAZA APPEAL PASSES THREE-QUARTERS MARK
by Grant Morgan, Co-organiser of Kia Ora Gaza, 9 September 2010: Truly heart warming. That phrase best describes Kiwi support for Kia Ora Gaza. Our fundraising target was big: $100,000 to finance a six-person Kiwi Team and their aid vehicles to Gaza. To make things harder, little more than two months were available in which to raise this one hundred grand. And guess what? We have passed the three-quarters mark. That’s a testimony to the generosity of spirit shown by many, many hundreds of good people. As of 6pm today, we’ve raised $77,300. In addition, there are about $5,000 in firm pledges, lifting us to $82,000. That leaves $18,000 to go. This last $18,000 goes into an Emergency Reserve to protect our Kiwi Team from the many dangers and difficulties they will face as they aid the people of Gaza and break the inhumane Israeli siege. Our team are flying to London on Tuesday 14 September. That’s not far away. Can you donate towards the Emergency Reserve that will help to safeguard our brave volunteers? Here’s how you can donate:

• Direct payment to our bank account:  Kia Ora Gaza, 03-0211-0447718-000, Westpac Bank, Onehunga branch.

• Write a cheque for ‘Kia Ora Gaza’ and post to: Kia Ora Gaza, PO Box 59-007, Auckland.

And please ask your friends and family to donate as well. Let’s all get together to raise the last $18,000. Kia Ora Gaza is a Charitable Trust incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act 1957. The accounts of Kia Ora Gaza are audited by a professional auditor who is independent of our Board of Trustees.

JUSTICE AND LIBERATION: THE ROAD TO PEACE – FILIPINO PROGRESSIVELEADERS TO TOUR NZ OCTOBER/NOVEMBER
Luis Jalandoni is the International Representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF, http://www.ndfp.net), a post that he has held since 1977, and since 1994 he has been the Chairperson of the NDF’s Negotiating Panel for peace talks with the Government of the Philippines. The NDF is the coalition of several underground groups, including the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People’s Army, which has been waging a war of liberation throughout the Philippines for more than 40 years, making it one of the longest running armed struggles in the world. The country desperately needs peace with justice and security, so resolving this people’s war is central to that. Luis will be accompanied by his wife Coni Ledesma, who will also be speaking. She is a member of the NDF Negotiating Panel for peace talks; and is the International Spokesperson of MAKIBAKA, a revolutionary women’s group which belongs to the NDF. Luis and Coni are both veteran leading figures in the Philippine revolutionary Left. He was a Catholic priest in the 1960s and she was a nun.  Both were founders of Christians for National Liberation, a member group of the NDF. When Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972, both went underground. They were both arrested and spent time as political prisoners. They left the clergy, and got married in 1974. They have lived in The Netherlands since 1976; they were the first Filipinos to apply for and receive political asylum there. They hold Dutch passports and travel extensively as NDF representatives. We are appealing for funds. PSNA will underwrite the tour, but we definitely need financial help because we are hosting two people. The amount needed is $10,000. The two international fares from Europe is the biggest cost, at $6,000. We will keep their domestic travel costs as cheap as possible. Please make cheques to PSNA, Box 2450, Christchurch, with a note saying that it is for the Jalandoni tour. Or, we will supply our bank account details upon request.
ITINERARY
Tuesday October 26 – Christchurch: Public Meeting – 7.30p.m. Knox Presbyterian Church Lounge, 28 Bealey Avenue. Contact: Murray Horton,0274 307742 cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
Wednesday October 27 – Blenheim: Public Meeting, 7.30pm,Nativity Centre Lounge, cnr Alfred and Henry Sts. Contact: Steffan Browning,021 725655 greeny25@xtra.co.nz
Thursday October 28 & Friday 29 – Wellington: PublicMeeting – 7.30 p.m. Thursday 28, St John’s Hall, corner Willis& Dixon Streets. Contact: Rod Prosser 021 0744992 communitymedia@paradise.net.nz
Monday November 1 – Palmerston North: Public Meeting – 7.30 p.m., Catholic Diocesan Centre (Te Rau Aroha), 33 Amesbury Street Contact: Dion Martin(06) 3569658 (w), 021 776029 Dion.Martin@ndu.org.nz
Tuesday November 2 & Wednesday 3 – New Plymouth: Public Meeting – 6p.m. Wednesday 3rd, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, 42Queen Street. Contact: Fiona Clark (06) 7547014; fionaclark@clear.net.nz
Thursday November 4 – Hamilton: Public Meeting –7.30 p.m., Waikato Trade Union Centre, 34 Harwood Street. Contact: BobAnderson, (07) 8297882, 021 776023; ban@xtra.co.nz
Friday November 5 – Whangarei: Public Meeting Manaia PHO Rooms, Rust Ave,central Whangarei. Contact: Tim Howard 027 3089216 the-farm@ihug.co.nz
Tuesday 9 November – Auckland: Public Meeting, Trades Hall, 147 Great North Rd, Grey Lynn, 7pm
Wednesday 10 November – Auckland: Women’s Forum with Connie Ledesma, Auckland University, Maori Studies 9am – 12pm (RSVP to Maori Studies)
Friday 12 November – Auckland: 7 p.m. Solidarity Dinner for Justice and Peace in the Philippines, Civic Building, Strata 17, Civic Building, Mayoral Drive: Tickets $30 (Dinner, entertainment cash bar)
Contact: Luke Coxon (09) 8276059, 028 25803203 luke_coxon@yahoo.com

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Westin Hotel workers protest job losses http://www.3news.co.nz/Westin-Hotel-workers-protest-job-losses/tabid/423/articleID/174680/Default.aspx
Judy McGregor: Most vulnerable won’t get a fair go under work trial
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10672928
Job loss a big blow – A 90-DAY trial left a man out of a job he had been in for almost two years. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/4088907/Job-loss-a-big-blow
Retailers not serious about Easter trading vote http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1009/S00085/retailers-not-serious-about-easter-trading-vote.htm
Lockout threat raises stakes in health disputes http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10672630
Resident doctors threaten pay-row action http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10673253
Holding the Workers to Ransom – A Different Perspective on the Hospital Workers’ Strike http://brianedwardsmedia.co.nz/2010/08/holding-the-workers-to-ransom-a-different-perspective-on-the-hospital-workers-strike/

NZ ECONOMY
Gareth Morgan: Too big to fail Kiwi style http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10671545
Bryan Gould: Spare a thought for victims of unemployment crisis too http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10671813
The Resilient Economy – Why not just fix child poverty? By Susan St John August 2010 http://www.fabians.org.nz/administrator/components/com_civicrm/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=301&qid=6693
The harsh truth on Hubbard By ROD ORAM http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion/4096745/The-harsh-truth-on-Hubbard
Greedy investors damned by critics hiding own secrets By FINLAY MACDONALD – http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion/4096746/Greedy-investors-damned-by-critics-hiding-own-secrets
The Hubbard halo is more than dented http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/opinion/4107028/The-Hubbard-halo-is-now-more-than-merely-dented
Opinion: BNZ sees ‘long slog to sensibility’ for house prices, farm prices and commercial property prices
http://www.interest.co.nz/news/opinion-bnz-sees-long-slog-sensibility-house-prices-farm-prices-and-commercial-property-prices
Opinion: Why the ‘new normal’ means years of deleveraging, slow growth, lower consumption and a new frugality http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/opinion-why-new-normal-means-years-deleveraging-slow-growth-lower-consumption-and-new-frugality
Brian Gaynor: Savings big issue for capital-starved NZ
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10672583
Time out for ‘The Bank of Allan’ http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/4119997/Time-out-for-The-Bank-of-Allan
Arrogant banks humbled – Bollard http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/4120000/Arrogant-banks-humbled-Bollard

CULTURAL DISSENT
Review: Norman Finkelstein, This Time We Went Too Far – Published just over a year after Israel’s 2008 attack on Gaza and drawing on a wealth of evidence Finkelstein’s book is first and foremost a stunning indictment of that attack. http://tinyurl.com/2f5yzw5
Film: Lions and Jackals: Review of The Leopard http://tinyurl.com/29k4b7
A ferocious assault on Stalinism – War correspondent Vasily Grossman’s heart-stopping depiction of the Ukrainian famine is a must-read, but he proved unable to grasp the sources of Stalinism, says Peter Arkell.  http://www.aworldtowin.net/reviews/EverythingFlows.html

LAND, LABOUR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
So Said Tony Hayward – a music video, a tango about the BP oil spill and its disastrous impacts; the story of BP CEO Tony Hayward’s hapless efforts to spin and manage; a mediation on capitalism’s indifference toward human lives and ecological health.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4li0MzzRXMU
Frozenology – Tony Wood reports from Siberia http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n17/tony-wood/frozenology
Globalization, Neoliberalism, and Climate Change http://tinyurl.com/2foxohs
Scientists conclude: Chernobyl killed nearly 1 million people http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3146#more-3146

FEATURES
Disaster management: New Zealand, Haiti and the ‘Cuban way’ http://links.org.au/node/1890
Robert Fisk: Nine years, two wars, hundreds of thousands dead – and nothing learnt – Did 9/11 make us all mad? Our memorial to the innocents who died nine years ago has been a holocaust of fire and blood . . . http://tinyurl.com/3452zc2
Peter McLaren on Academic Repression http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrsSGKH8amo&feature=related
Why We Need To Tax Financial Speculation by Vaughan Gunson http://www.converge.org.nz/watchdog/24/05.htm
Der Zor Diary: A Pilgrimage To The Killing Fields Of The Armenian Genocide By Lucine Kasbarian
http://www.countercurrents.org/kasbarian070910.htm
Trotsky: past, present… future? An interview with Tariq Ali http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/trotsky-past-present-future-an-interview-with-tariq-ali/
Flying The Flag; Faking The News By John Pilger http://www.countercurrents.org/pilger040910.htm
Stitched Up Part 1: Fashion from production to consumption – In the first part of a new series, Tansy Hoskins examines who shapes what we wear, tracking the power of the fashion industry. http://tinyurl.com/283y72n
The Cosmetics Racket: Why the Beauty Industry Can Get Away with Charging a Fortune for Makeup http://tinyurl.com/2ckztef
The Spectre of Barbarism and its Alternative – Faced with the rising threat of capitalist barbarism, socialists need a clear vision for the struggle by Michael A. Lebowitz http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3162#more-3162
Indigenous Nations and Marxism: Notes on an Ambivalent Relationship BY Charles R. Menzies – New Proposals Editorial Collective http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/newproposals/article/view/1565/1616
The Crimewave That Shames The World By Robert Fisk – It’s one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of ‘honour’. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly http://www.countercurrents.org/fisk130910.htm

WORLD ECONOMIC CRISIS
The Wall Street Collapse and Return of Reality-Based Economics by Robert Pollin – This is a review of John Cassidy’s How Markets Fail: The Logic of Economic Calamities http://monthlyreview.org/100901pollin.php
The Slump Goes On: Why? Paul Krugman and Robin Wells http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/sep/30/slump-goes-why/

AFGHANISTAN
Collapse of Kabul Bank Points to Fatal Corruption of Karzai Government http://www.juancole.com/2010/09/collapse-of-kabul-bank-points-to-terminal-corruption-of-karzai-government.html
For the People of Afghanistan, Things Have Gone from Bad to Worse  http://tinyurl.com/2386my4

AUSTRALIA
Golden age is over for the millionaires factory – Once upon a time, back when investment bankers ruled the world, Macquarie Bank’s Nick Moore and his cronies were pushing the hierarchy to rid the organisation of its banking licence. http://tinyurl.com/2baovgg
Australia: Interview with new Greens MP Adam Bandt: ‘I’ll give a voice to the social movements’ http://links.org.au/node/1875
COMMONWEALTH Bank has pulled out of a CLSA investor conference in Hong Kong. The withdrawal came a day after the independent broker accused CBA of “self-serving rhetoric” in downplaying the threat of a housing bubble http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/industry-sectors/analyst-blasts-cba-for-denying-home-bubble/story-e6frg96f-1225919848419
Australian banks ‘at risk’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7989962/Australian-banks-at-risk.html

BOLIVIA
The Lessons of Potosí http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2010/09/bolivia-lessons-of-potosi.html
Bolivia: Evo Morales faces new challenges http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2010/09/bolivia-evo-morales-faces-new.html
Bolivia: Behind the ‘MAS crisis’ http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2010/09/bolivia-behind-mas-crisis.html

CAMBODIA
Cambodian garment workers strike over pay http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100913/wl_asia_afp/cambodiatextilelabourstrike

CHILE
Salvador Allende: His Example Lives On http://amistadphils.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/salvador-allende-his-example-lives-on/

COLOMBIA
The Heirs: Video report: Right-wing paramilitaries, the heirs of the infamous death squads, have started to re-emerge in Colombia. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2010/09/20109864414388536.html

CUBA
Fidel calls on young people to fight to prevent a nuclear war http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/3sept-fidel.html
Fidel: Message to Cuba’s university students http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/7septiembre-36fmensaje.html
Fidel on homosexual persecution in Cuba  http://www.granma.cu/ingles/cuba-i/3septiembre-36F-entrev2.html
Fidel in Havana University, (pictures) http://videos.cubasi.cu/galeriafidelenlauniversidad/galeria.htm
Cuban Vaccines Cross Borders, But Barriers Remain – Patricia Grogg interviews scientist CONCEPCIÓN CAMPA, director of Cuba’s Finlay Institute http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52748
Castro Blasts Ahmadinejad for Holocaust Denial http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/09/fidel-to-ahmadinejad/62566/
ELAM: Cuba’s Latin American Medical School http://ratbnews.blogspot.com/2010/08/elam-cubas-latin-american-medical.html
`Orientalism’ and Cuba: How Western media get it wrong http://links.org.au/node/1891
The Infinite Hypocrisy Of The West By Fidel Castro – What will happen if the French extreme right decides to force Sarkozy to maintain a racist policy, opposite to the norms that prevail within the European Community?
http://www.countercurrents.org/castro130910.htm
State employees to lose jobs in Cuba shift http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/4127861/State-employees-to-lose-jobs-in-Cuba-shift

FRANCE
French officials unfazed as thousands rally for Roma http://www.smh.com.au/world/french-officials-unfazed-as-thousands-rally-for-roma-20100905-14w3t.html
French Unions to Strike as Parliamentary Debate Over Pensions Begins http://revitalisinglabour.blogspot.com/2010/09/french-unions-to-strike-as.html
‘Two million’ protest in French pensions strike http://tinyurl.com/29uodma
Persecution of Roma worsens in Europe http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/45277

GREECE
EU austerity policies risk civil war in Greece, warns top German economist Dr Sinn http://tinyurl.com/27dnlf5

HAITI
Haiti’s election: Unfair and undemocratic Haiti’s election: Unfair and undemocratic

INDIA
The Trickledown Revolution By Arundhati Roy http://tinyurl.com/36g6mj6
General Strike Brings Most of India to a Halt http://www.prensa-latina.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218438&Itemid=1
Millions Join India Strike, Shutting Banks, Canceling Flights http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-09-07/millions-join-india-strike-shutting-banks-canceling-flights.html

INDONESIA
Australia paying troops who ‘torture’: Australia has sent an official to the Indonesian province of Maluku to investigate claims that Indonesia’s elite counter-terrorism unit, Detachment 88, which receives millions of dollars from Australia each year, brutalised a group of separatists last month, repeatedly beating them in detention. http://bit.ly/9369LG

IRELAND
Derry Foyle Pride Parade 2010 http://vimeo.com/14508038
Ruling class gambling on gullibility of the people http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0914/1224278824694.html?sms_ss=facebook

MEXICO
Mexico’s Drugs War: A Crime Writer’s Perspective – BBC Interview with Paco Ignacio Taibo: “The president of Mexico is mad… he started, 3 years ago, a war against “narco”… 28,000 people have been killed in these 3 years”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26340.htm
Viva la Revolución ! The Mexican Revolution at 100  by Dan La Botz http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article18509

MOZAMBIQUE
Raj Patel: Food rebellion — Mozambicans know which way the wind blows http://links.org.au/node/1878

PAKISTAN
Mike Marqusee: Behind cricket’s latest scandal — Pakistan cricket and its discontents http://links.org.au/node/1876
VIEW: Flood disaster in Pakistan – For decades, the Pakistani ruling classes have done nothing but pillage and plunder this land in their frantic greed and lust. http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=201095\story_5-9-2010_pg3_5

PALESTINE
Anti-Israel economic boycotts are gaining speed – The sums involved are not large, but their international significance is huge. Boycotts by governments gives a boost to boycotts by non-government bodies around the world. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/business/anti-israel-economic-boycotts-are-gaining-speed-1.312210
Global BDS Against Israel Is Working http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman070910.htm
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin’s admission: Israel “expelled Arabs” across Palestine in 1948 http://tinyurl.com/2akfbwk
Goldstone Facts-The Real Story Behind Israel’s Invasion of Gaza-Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIpA6sXksNw&feature=related
Palestinian recognition of Israel, a Jewish state – Why? http://www.sott.net/articles/show/214850-Palestinian-recognition-of-Israel-a-Jewish-state-Why-
Imagining Palestinians as equal. http://palestinechronicle.com/view_article_details.php?id=16246
The silent treatment – Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack tells William Parry why he is boycotting Israel. http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2010/09/israel-interview-boycott-naja
Michael Warschawski (Mikado) Speaks about Zionism http://tinyurl.com/2637pqh
Video: Human Rights Group Accuses Israel of Sexual and Physical Abuse of Child Detainees CNN http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=69638&s2=11
Video: POLITICS OF PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE – El-Natour: Palestinian resistance more than Fatah and Hamas – The Real News Network http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=69615&s2=10

PHILIPPINES
Two men who lived, fought for the ‘masa’  http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=610923&publicationSubCategoryId=64
Militants to Aquino: Ask Obama about ‘overstaying US troops’ http://www.gmanews.tv/story/200893/militants-to-aquino-ask-obama-about-overstaying-us-troops

SOUTHAFRICA
Strike ends, workers’ anger remains http://links.org.au/node/1880
Communist youth leader — `Black economic empowerment becomes Zuma economic empowerment’
http://links.org.au/node/1881

THAILAND
Red Shirt protests on the rise again http://links.org.au/node/1884

UK
Coalition of Resistance declares war on coalition government – The coalition government will be struck by a “wave of protest” which may crack the Conservatives and Lib Dems apart as pensioners, trade unionists, and black rights groups unite. http://tinyurl.com/2bxypqd
Interview With Kate O’Sullivan after making Citizen’s Arrest on Tony Blair (Ireland) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz0YMMkNF8M&feature=player_embedded
Protests at Blair’s first book launch http://vimeo.com/14724546
Coalition cuts will hit poor 10 times harder than rich, says TUC http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/sep/10/coalition-cuts-poor-tuc

USA
That ’70s Feeling – TODAY we celebrate the American labor force, but this year’s working-class celebrity hero made his debut almost a month ago. Steven Slater, a flight attendant for JetBlue, ended his career by cursing at his passengers over the intercom and grabbing a couple of beers before sliding down the emergency-evacuation chute — and into popular history. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/06/opinion/06Cowie.html
American students face US$830 billion of debt and the inability to find a job http://tinyurl.com/399ghss
The United States of Inequality – a viual guide http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entry/2266026/
Hard times for workers on Labor Day 2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/05/AR2010090502815.html
Court Dismisses a Case Asserting Torture by C.I.A. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/09/us/09secrets.html?_r=1
Michael Moore Teaches Rahm Emanuel a F**cking Economics Lesson – Moore responds to Obama’s chief of staff, quoted as saying he didn’t care that tens of thousands of jobs would be lost if GM and Chrysler collapsed. http://tinyurl.com/27fqnzj
Former Police Chief: Legalize Pot, Now – As San Jose’s retired chief of police and a cop with 35 years experience on the front lines in the war on marijuana, I’m voting yes on Prop. 19. http://www.alternet.org/story/148149/former_police_chief%3A_legalize_pot%2C_now
Los Angeles Launches Nation’s First Israel Divestment Campaign http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/09/10/los-angeles-launches-nations-first-israel-divestment-campaign/

VENEZUELA
Chavez’s base, the poor, wobbles as election looms http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1367033&lang=eng_news
The Venezuelan Economy: Media Sources Get It Wrong, Again http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/5628
Food Sovereignty in Venezuela – How Venezuela is transforming its economy and empowering its citizens thru nine distinct features of Social Production Enterprises – the antidote to neoliberalism. http://climateandcapitalism.com/?p=3153#more-3153

OLDER ANNOUNCEMENTS

DECEMBER 13-21, 2010. 17TH WORLD FESTIVAL OF YOUTH AND STUDENTS, IN SOUTH AFRICA. AN INVITATION FOR YOUTH AND STUDENTS IN NEW ZEALAND AND THE PACIFIC
Join thousands of youth and students from around the world discussing and debating the future of humanity under the banner, “Let’s defeat imperialism, for a world of peace, solidarity and social transformation.” The festivals began in 1947 as young people reacted to the brutalities of world war and have continued through the decades since, addressing the political challenges for youth and students. A week of activities will include conferences, seminars, workshops, sporting and cultural events. Each day is dedicated to a different region of the world and their particular struggles, and one day to South Africa as the host nation. Full details of the call describing the political focus for this year’s festival can be found at the festival website, along with a programme of activities. http://www.wfdy.org/17wfys/ Your organisation may be interested in sending a representative to the festival or would like to assist in building a delegation from New Zealand to South Africa, or you may be an individual keen to join a delegation. All participants will need to cover their own travel costs and pay a one off registration fee for the festival which will cover accommodation, transport and food while in South Africa. For more information contact Annalucia Vermunt, Tel: 09-525-7407. Communist League & Young Socialists E-mail: ysnz@xtra.co.nz or P.O. Box 3025, Auckland, New Zealand.WELCOME TO THE MEDIA, INVESTIGATIVE

JOURNALISM & TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2010
Practitioners, journalists, academics, researchers and students who work in the creative industries are invited to participate in a Fourth Estate “conversation” at the inaugural Media, Investigative Journalism & Technology Conference 2010. The conference will be held at AUT University in Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, on December 4 & 5, 2010. This international conference is dedicated to exploring investigative journalism and documentary techniques, methodologies and technologies of critical value to public interest issues and to identify and support journalists, photographers and film makers facing pressures and obstacles.