S11 Uses Internet To Link Protest Groups
Sun Herald
Sunday September 3, 2000
SOME months ago, before the name S11 aroused the kind of feelings we usually reserve for outfits like the PLO, Halina Strand received a leaflet in the mail.
It invited the Humanist Society of Victoria, to take part in S11, a planned peaceful protest encircling Crown Casino on September 11, the opening day of the World Economic Forum.
Leigh Hubbard of Trades Hall said he met S11, asking for guarantees about how the day would be run. ``They couldn't give any," he said, ``because they didn't know."
Scheduled to appear and raise the protestors' ire are Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, Prime Minister John Howard, the World Trade Organisation's Supachai Pantichpakdi and Telstra's Ziggy Switkowski.
According to the opening page of S11's website: Seattle plus Washington equals Melbourne.
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