PUBLIC MEETING
Corpocracy vs the Global Commons
6pm, Friday 29th July, 2005
Storey Hall RMIT, 344 Swanston St, Melbourne
Cost $5
Bush and Howard are on the offensive. Their aggressive domestic and foreign policies promote the wealth and power of a few while actively suppressing alternatives to neoliberalism, corporate-led globalisation and war.
The ‘war on terror’, attacks on workers and students, the environment and human rights have stimulated responses from civil societies around the world including Australia, the USA and the Philippines.
Where are we as a progressive force and where have we got to go in order to start to turn the tide?
Click on the speakers' names to read their speeches 
Phyllis Bennis
Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, representative of US anti-war coalition, United for Peace and Justice, and author, USA.
Phyllis Bennis is a representative of the United for Peace and Justice anti-war coalition in the USA, and since 2002 has played an active role in the growing global peace movement.
She is also a fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies, USA, and a of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She has been a writer, analyst and activist on Middle East and US domination of the UN issues for many years, working on Iraq sanctions, disarmament, and later the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq. In 2001 she helped found and currently co-chairs the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation.
Phyllis is frequently published in the Baltimore Sun, Middle East International, Middle East Report, TomPaine.com, and many other publications. She is appears regularly on U.S. and international media.
www.endtheoccupation.org, www.unitedforpeace.org, www.ips-dc.org
Sharan Burrow
Sharan is the president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and President of the International Council for Trade Unions
Rey Casambre
(Rey Casambre is replacing Carol Araullo, from Bayan, who is unable to come at short notice due to health problems)
Rey is currently the Director of the Philippine Peace Centre. The Philippine Peace Center is a non-profit institution committed to the attainment of genuine peace based on freedom, democracy and social justice.
The PPC has been actively involved in the peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines since its inception in July 1992. It has played a major role in facilitating confidence building measures such as the release of government military and police officers held captive by the NPA. It also played a key role in convening and organizing the successful Solidarity Conference for Peace in April 2001, participated in by both the GRP and NDF, and paving the way for the resumption of the peace negotiations which were terminated during Estrada's administration.
Rey and the PPC are two of the initiators and convenors of Pilgrims for Peace, a church-based multi-sectoral network of peace advocates in the Philippines which was instrumental in generating broad support in 2002-2003 for the resumption of formal peace talks between the GRP and NDFP. The PPC supports the people’s just struggle for the solution of their basic problems and of the Moro people and other indigenous peoples for their right to self-determination.
Rey has been detained twice by the military for his political activism.
Margo Kingston
Margo is a well-known political journalist and webdiarist with the Sydney Morning Herald. Following the 1998 federal election, she reflected the campaign of Pauline Hanson in her first publication, the controversial Off the Rails: The Pauline Hanson Trip. In the lead up to the 2004 federal election, Margo wrote 'Not Happy, John!' which inspired The Not Happy John campaign against Howard in his own seat, contributing to a swing against the Prime Minister.
MC - Rod Quantock
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