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An overview of the Conference Agenda

For agenda details:

Public Meeting: 'The crisis in the Asia Pacific: building solidarity'

7.30PM THURSDAY, April 9. At Glebe High School, Taylor St, Glebe, Sydney.

Speakers:

REFRESHMENTS SERVED AFTER MEETING - A CHANCE TO MEET THE INTERNATIONAL GUESTS

Friday April 10

8.00-9.00 Registration
9.00     Welcome from conference organisers: Max Lane, Conference convener.
           Welcome onto Aboriginal land by Jenny Munro, Chairperson,  Aboriginal Metropolitan Lands Council.

9.30-11.00
PLENARY SESSION:
The economic and political crisis in Asia
Speakers:

CHAIR: Marina Carman, Resistance National Executive member; Vice-President, Students Representative Council, University of Sydney

11.15-1.00
PLENARY SESSION:
Democracy and colonialism in the Pacific
Speakers:

CHAIR: Ana Maria Nemenzo, Chairperson, Women's Health Foundation, the Philippines

1.00-2.00  LUNCH

2.00-3.30
Workshops

3.45-4.30
Keynote address: An agenda for peace and justice: Nobel peace prize co-laureate, Jose Ramos Horta

4.45-5.45
Film showing: "JABILUKA"
The story of the campaign to stop the building of a uranium mine in Kakadu, on the land of the Mirrar Aboriginal people. Introduced by film maker, David Bradbury.

5.45-7.00
PLENARY SESSION:
The struggle for indigenous rights in Australia.
Speakers:

CHAIR: Carla Gorton, Anti-racism campaign coordinator, member national executive, DSP.

7.15   Welcome BBQ to meet international guests

Saturday April 11

8.30-9.30 Registration
9.30-11.00
PLENARY SESSION:
Overthrowing Suharto and beyond: the struggles in Indonesia and East Timor
Speakers:

11.15-12.45
(I) MAJOR SESSION:
The Left in the Philippines
Speakers: (II) Workshops 1.45-3.30
PLENARY SESSION:
Imperialism's new neo-liberal initiatives: From APEC to IMF interventions
Speakers: CHAIR: Dr Syed Husin Ali, President, Malaysian Peoples Party.

3.45-5.00
PLENARY SESSION
Fighting military repression: strategies and experiences
Speakers:

5.15-6.30
Workshops 6.30-7.30  Bar and beer garden open

7.30  Night of Political Solidarity

Main speaker: Dorotea Wilson, member national directorate, Sandinista National Liberation Front, Nicaragua: "International Solidarity and lessons of the Nicaraguan Revolution, then and now" plus international greetings from outside the Asia Pacific region, including from:

A Southeast Asian dinner will be served.There will be an entry charge for this evening to cover cost of meal. The evening will be concluded with dance music. Bar will be open.

Sunday April 12

8.30-9.15 Registration
9.15-11.15
PLENARY SESSION
Women's struggles in the Asia Pacific region
Speakers:

11.30-1.00
(I) MAJOR SESSION
Challenges for the Indonesian opposition
Speakers: CHAIR:  Renato Constantino Jr, National Chairperson, SANLAKAS, the Philippines.

(II) Workshops

2.00-3.30
PLENARY SESSION
Strategies for defeating neo-liberalism: Parties, movements, NGOs.
Speakers:


3.45-5.00
PLENARY SESSION:
The workers struggle in South Korea
Speaker:

CHAIR: Dick Nichols, Industrial Campaigns Coordinator, National Executive, DSP.

5.15-6.30
Workshops

6.15-7.00  Bar and Beer Garden open

7.00 Cabaret and Cultural night
Dinner served, music, dance, songs of struggle, an entrance fee (for with or without dinner) will be charged to raise money for the Free the Political Prisoners in Indonesia campaign

Monday April 13

9.30-11.00
PLENARY SESSION:
Japanese politics, the region and the Left
Speakers:

CHAIR:  Zanny Begg, National Executive, Resistance; Education Officer, National Union of Students, Queensland.

11.15-12.30
Workshops

1.30-2.45
(I)  MAJOR SESSION
The Left in South Asia
Speakers: CHAIR:  Sue Bolton, National Committee, DSP.

(II) Workshops

3.00-5.00
FINAL PLENARY:
Countering APEC, Defeating Neo-Liberalism, Ending Repression: Prospects and Projects

Speakers:

5.00pm Conference Close

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