[Muanet] Public Meeting - The Criminalisation of Protest in Australia

[Chris Latham]

I thought some members might be interested in this meeting with Rob Stary. Rob is a prominant defence lawyer from Melbourne who has been involved in a number of prominant civil liberties cases in the past 5 years.
 
Chris
 

Public Meeting with Rob Stary

The criminalisation of protest 

 

This public meeting will discuss how the Howard government has used the so-called 'war on terror' to attack our basic democratic rights. The definitions of terror are so wide and vague as to criminalise peaceful protest. At the same time the government's Building and Construction Improvement Act has stripped construction workers of rights that effectively leave them as second class citizens. Rob Stary is a prominent Victorian lawyer and former chair of the Criminal Law Section of the Law Institute of Victoria and is the President of the Criminal Defence Lawyers Association. Stary represented former Victorian AMWU state secretary Craig Johnston, Jack Thomas, the Barwon 13, G20 protestors and construction workers appearing before the AustralianBuilding an d Construction Commission. 

 

3pm Saturday May 12, 

Maritime Union Hall, 

2-4 Kwong Alley, North Fremantle. 

Entry $10/$5

Contact Fremantle branch Socialist Alliance for details 0412 751 508.

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