STOP MAI

MEDIA RELEASE -for immediate release, 29 June, 2004 Authorised by the STOP-MAI Campaign Coalition (WA) Website http://members.iinet.net.au/~jenks/fair.html Affiliated with the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network (AFTInet) and with the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)

WA Globalisation Roundtable to discuss Australia's
role in "terror" issues with Tariq Ali

At tomorrow's (June 30) Roundtable seminar, visiting celebrity author and film-maker Tariq Ali will be invited to comment on a range of current issues, including:

• the exercise of US 'imperial' control over Australian politics, foreign policy and trade
  
• Australia's role in the Iraq occupation
  
• proposed US military, naval and air bases in Australia
  
• patterns of global civil society rebellion against corporate-controlled politics
  
• role of mainstream media in buttressing official propaganda
  
• Australia's accommodation of Islamic interests, both domestically and in the SE Asian region
  
• Australia's treatment of Muslim refugees and "illegal" immigrants

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PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Tariq Ali will be available to media at 10.30 to 11 am
(Wednesday, 30 June) at the WA Conservation Council Conference Room,
Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth. No other time will be available.

PHONE CONTACTS: Brian Jenkins +61 8 9528 1864, Mobile 0414 730 096