09 Aug 2004 Melbourne Indymedia

from the newswire
In June 2004 I flew to California to stay with friends. Days after my arrival, we heard through a friend that a young man's home had been raided by 20 special FBI agents who questioned him closely about his activist activities and then proceeded to make arrangements to have him go before the Grand Jury. It was alleged that he was involved in the burning down of an apartment complex in California. I tried to contact this man to do media coverage, but was told that he was so
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06 Aug 2004 QC IMC

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) has called for an independent investigation into the killings of journalists and on Vice President Noli de Castro to help protect his colleagues in the media. This developed as two journalists have been killed in the past five days alone.
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06 Aug 2004 Melbourne Indymedia

After eight months and 4500 km of walking on the long road from Roxby Downs, the International Peace Pilgrimage (IPP) will arrive at Hiroshima Peace Park. The walk will join the commemorations at the Atomic Dome, to remember the hundreds of thousands of people who were killed by the atomic bomb on this day in 1945, and acknowledge the millions of others who continue to be affected by the nuclear industry globally.
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05 Aug 2004 Manila Indymedia

TAKEN FROM THE NEWSWIRE: Kung susumahin ang kabuuang halaga na binabayaran ng mga konsyumer ng Meralco, lumalabas na mula sa dating P5.58/kwh ay magiging P7.08/kwh na ito. Samaktwid, mayroon ngayong P1.50/kwh na kabuuang dagdag na singil sa kuryente. Ibig din sabihin nito, ang mga konsyumer halimbawa, dito sa Metro Manila na komukonsumo ng 200kwh/kada buwan ay magbabayad ng P1,415.00 kumpara sa dating P1,131.00. Ang FDC (Freedom from Debt Coalition) ay mahigpit na kinokondena ang ganitong uri ng
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05 Aug 2004 QC IMC

On July 31, past midnight, the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) General Council reached an agreement in Geneva on a number of controversial trade issues. The corporate media were quick to hail the ‘July Package of Framework Agreements’ as a breakthrough for the World Trade Organization's Doha Round of negotiations that had been stalled after the failed ministerial meeting in Cancun, Mexico last year.
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05 Aug 2004 Melbourne Indymedia

from the newswire
Well it was probably predictable, but today the Labor party caucus meet today and confirmed they would be voting for the FTA in the senate. But it was not totally without conditions. One being an amendment to protect Australia's TV content rules and more importantly an amendment to the PBS legislation that would try to protect against delaying tactics (applying for dummy patents) that drug companies employ to delay generic drugs after there 15 year patent is up. [ Full
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31 Jul 2004 Perth Indymedia

FINAL APPROVAL GIVEN TO TUART FOREST DESTRUCTION On Friday the 23rd of July, Acting Environment Minister Kim Chance signed off on the Tuart Preservation Plan; the last document in the way of Cable Sands going ahead with its Titanium Mine proposal in Ludlow. The Environment Minister Judy Edwards, as she has been for much of the process, was missing in action, yet 5 days later she was there with a friendly handshake for Cable Sands CEO Collis Thorpe, for a photo opportunity at the announcement
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31 Jul 2004 QC IMC

The Lopez-owned power company Meralco has recently lost its case for rate unbundling in the Court of Appeals (CA).
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28 Jul 2004 Darwin Indymedia

Redfern No Justice for 'Australians' under an English court system Large view of image "Your law does not belong to this land. You are invaders and you have come into my house, and you have raped and pillaged my people." "You will carry that scar on your mind and on your body. You will not be able to wash it away. The blood is upon the land until the end of time, and it is upon you until the end of time." (Sam Watson - 'The Kadaitcha Sung')
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28 Jul 2004 Manila Indymedia

The President's State of the Nation address is nothing but a new round of rhetorics and empty promises, said one activist who belongs to thousands of protesters that braved to march along the stretch of Commonwealth avenue outside the Congress hall in Quezon city, yesterday, despite of heavy police presence and stormy rain. Among the reform packages given by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during her speech inside the Congress hall are: job creation through economic growth; anticorruption
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27 Jul 2004 Manila Indymedia

[26 July 2004]REPORTS FROM THE FRONT LINES: 9:00 a.m.> Police cordoned the House of Representatives in Quezon City for security, putting barricades against protesters. 3,000 number of anti-riot police deployed the main thorough fare of Commonwealth Avenue. 10:35 a.m.> 10,000 members of Alternatiba!- a broad coalition of progressive blocs occupied the road near Batasan Complex. Gabriela and more mass-up at the Quezon City memorial circle. 11:55 a.m.> Police stops the protesters' march to Batasan
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22 Jul 2004 Perth Indymedia

IMCistas and other media activists travelled from around the Asia Pacific region to gather in Melbourne for the first ever Oceania Indymedia Conference. Highlights from the four day conference included workshops on online video compression and distribution, writing news and features, analysis and direction of the Indymedia project. Alex, visiting from Quezon city in the Philippines, said "The record of the Philippine progressive press shows that journalists can indeed be powerful catalysts for
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20 Jul 2004 Aotearoa IMC

WHAT: Aftermath - Unanswered Questions From 911, Followed by Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11
WHEN: Friday, 23rd July 5.45pm (NOTE EARLIER TIME... note... attendees can skip aftermath and come at 6.30pm too...)
WHERE: Reading Cinemas, Courtenay Place, Wellington
HOW MUCH: $17 Waged $11 Unwaged
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19 Jul 2004 Aotearoa IMC

IMCistas and other media activists travelled from around the oceania region to gather in Melbourne for the first ever Oceania Indymedia Conference. Highlights from the four day conference included workshops on online video compression and distribution, writing news and features, analysis and direction of the Indymedia project.
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17 Jul 2004 Darwin Indymedia

Darwin indymedia now planetary Darwin Indymedia has been accepted into the Global IMC network. Much thanks to Perth IMC and our international sponsors. Independent media "The need for an alternate media source in the NT is a pressing one, given the limited and biased mainstream press here. Most of the Darwin IMC face prison terms for protesting the blatant racism and corruption that seems invisible to the mainstream press." "We consider the NT Courts, NT
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