Asia Pacific Solidarity Conference Australia 4/98 Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit source: owner-asietnews-l@peg.apc.org Fri, 31 Oct 1997 ASIA PACIFIC SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE 9-13 April, 1998 Sydney, Australia. Tel: 61-(0)2-96901230 Fax: 61-(0)2-96901381 Email: apiaustralia@peg.apc.org Sender: owner-asietnews-l@peg.apc.org Precedence: bulk Participants Update No. 2 October 31, 1997. The following organisations and individuals have indicated their intentions to participate in the conference. Additional confirmations will be broadcast as they come available. Papers by academics and researchers will be announced in January. The conference will comprise a series of workshops, feature talks, panels, country reports plus a conference dinner and cabaret and cultural night. All sessions will be open to the public. ** Bougainville Interim Government All Burma Student Democratic Front All Burma Students League (India and Thailand) [Maung Maung Naing, Australian Rep] Jose Ramos Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate for East Timor Mari Alkatiri, Foreign Affairs head, FRETILIN, Revolutionary Front for Independent East Timor Peoples' Democratic Party (PRD) of Indonesia Indonesian National Democratic Struggle Committee Democratic Socialist Party (DSP) of Australia Dr Jayanta Rongpi, Member of Indian Parliament representing the Autonomous State Demand Committee, Assam. (A part of the progressive mass movement in India.) Malaysian Peoples Party (PRM) Communist Party of Nepal (UML) Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers (USTKE), New Caledonia NewLabour Party (NLP) of New Zealand Malik Miah, Solidarity (US) and Indonesia Alert! Labour Party of Pakistan Melanesian Solidarity (MELSOL), Papua New Guinea Prof Francisco Nemenzo, founding chairman, Union for Socialist Ideas and Action (BISIG), the Philippines Renato Constantino Jr., Chairman SANLAKAS democratic federation, the Philippines Anna Maria Nemenzo, Vice-Chairman, AKBAYAN (Citizen's Action Party); National Co-ordinator, Women's Health Philippines Inc. Campaign for Popular Democracy, Thailand New Socialist Party of Sri Lanka (NSSP) Australasian Federation of Tamil Associations Free West Papua Movement (OPM) Communist Youth League of Russia (KOMSOMNOL) ************ ISSUES and TOPICS The struggle for democracy and the end of the Suharto dictatorship Self-determination: East Timor, Sri Lanka, West Papua, Bougainville Indigenous people's struggles and land rights in Australia and New Zealand Labour and the struggle against neoliberalism Neoliberalism and its social impact APEC and counter-APEC Asian Tigers and NICs _ who's benefiting, who's battling Women's liberation, development and democratisation NGOs, political movements and the universities Democratisation, development and social class Global capital's economic police _ the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Country Reports Australia - Bougainville - Burma - China - East Timor - India - Japan - Indonesia - Malaysia - New Zealand - Pakistan - Papua New Guinea - Philippines - South Korea - Sri Lanka - Thailand - West Papua ASIA PACIFIC SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE APRIL 9 - 13, 1998 GLEBE HIGH SCHOOL, GLEBE, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT: The conference secretariat in Australia is based in the national office of the Democratic Socialists, who will also be participants at the conference. Contact Max Lane, P.O. Box 458, Broadway 2007, Australia. Tel: 61-02-96901320; Fax: 61-02-96901381 oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo LEFTLINK - Victoria's Broad Left Mailing List http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Publication of a message on this list does not indicate endorsement by either LEFTLINK or the New International Bookshop. oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo=oo ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nytpac-10.31.97-23:58:10-6065