ANN Phone Link-up
7 October '94

Alana - Northern Territory.  Three recent East Timor demonstrations were a
great NvA success and resulted later in some plea bargaining which went wrong
for the court, but right for the activists concerned.  Other issues have been
preparing for input into the ALP National Conference and issues around the
black/green interface.

Kevin - North Queensland.  Two NvA workshops have been held.  One on Oyster
Point development project and the other on the Skyrail construction.  Bryan
Law and James Langley are busy in Queensland with the poster campaign on NvA.

Melissa - Brisbane.  She has just run a two-day NvA session with Kevin, has
been liaising with Brisbane police, and is helping to run the poster
campaign.

Jack - Tasmania.  NvA and Networking workshops have been held in the north of
the state. There are issues about the question of water catchments being
polluted by the Tasmanian Forestry Commission, with the herbicide Atrazine
and the poison 1080.  The ALP National Conference was in Tasmania.  There
have been strong NvA  demonstrations around environmental and forest issues.

Jo - Daylesford, Victoria.  There is NvA by a very active women's group with
at least seven women participating.  The men's group is playing a support
role.  There was a brilliant action a couple of months ago involving the
Melbourne Peace Fleet, etc., culminating in a funeral service.  Jo broke her
leg in an accident when scaling the barracks wall.

Kay - East Gippsland.  Much networking has been happening.  The NvA
facilitation group have been making contact with outlying activists and have
begun the planning for the next ANN gathering (21 - 25 April).  The
Collective have come into windfall funds and are now equipped with a fax and
state-of-the-art photocopier, etc.  Some international networking is
happening.

Paul - Southwest West Australia.  There will be two training sessions in the
next couple of weeks for the Forest Rescue Campaign which is planned to
develop in a much more decentralised way.

Brenda and Sonia - West Australia.  They are involved in the same issues as
Paul.  A reference to 'Alternatives to Violence Project' caused Kevin to
remark that he had problems with the way that this had been developed.

Next PLU - 17 Nov, 6:30 p.m. AEST.
Jack Lomax