APEC Media Roundup: PROTESTS – September 4, 2007

Links to coverage of the APEC 2007 protests in Sydney this week from media around the Pacific rim.

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Sydney Morning Herald

Protesters refuse to rule out violence
Edmund Tadros and Phillip Coorey

THE organisers of a radical protest group said last night they could not rule out violence at the main rally against the APEC forum this Saturday - and have defended a manual they produced which provided controversial advice to protesters. LINK
Police attempt to prevent APEC protest

Tensions between the NSW Police Force and APEC protesters have escalated on the eve of US President George W Bush's arrival in Sydney. LINK

The Australian

Two major protests planned for today

TWO major APEC-related protests are planned for today and police have warned they will use all lawful means to ensure they do not turn into street marches.
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Inymedia Sydney

APEC Climate Change protest shuts down Victorian Coal Power Station

Activists have shut down power generation at the Loy Yang power station in Gippsland's Latrobe Valley on Monday morning for five hours, as a protest against inaction on climate change by the Australian Government of John Howard, and policies that maintain the coal power industry and its contribution to climate change. LINK

Stop Bush 2007

APEC security: treating protesters like terrorists

While the new police minister has inspected the new APEC command in Sydney, in which the NSW government is wasting millions of dollars, anti-war, climate change and workers’ rights activists are preparing to send their message to US president Bush, PM John Howard, and other APEC leaders, in Sydney in early September. LINK

Resistance Social Youth Organisation

The importance of stopping Bush: The power of young people
Tim Dobson & Jay Fletcher

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting will be held in Sydney in September. Twenty-one nations are represented, from both the First and Third Worlds. It describes itself as the “premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region”. In reality, it works to ensure that the Third World nations attending further open their markets. This makes it easier for multinational corporations, along with First World nations, to strip the poorer countries’ natural resources with no regard for the environment and to further exploit their work forces. LINK

Greenpeace

Howard’s real APEC agenda spelled out in coal protest
Newcastle, Australia — Twelve Greenpeace activists are in police custody after painting an APEC protest message on the side of a coal ship this morning. LINK

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