San Jose, Calif. -- Last Friday, when the Bank of America opened a new branch on King Road in East San Jose, protestors holding white flowers in their hands gathered outside the building.

BP is carrying out the final tests on its
so-called "top-kill" plan to choke off an oil leak described as the
worst in US history.

PHOENIX -- President Barack Obama's plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border appears to be a scaled-down version of the border security approach championed by his predecessor.

The Australian left remains heavily divided and fragmented. Will this situation ever change? Is there a road to greater unity of the socialist left?
Speaker: Tony Dewberry.
This is one of a regular series of seminars to be held each Wednesday fortnight on key questions facing the socialist movement; each seminar will feature a talk which will be followed by discussion.

Too much stuff? Too many people? These are often put forward as the root causes of climate change. It this true? Should the focus of our struggle be on these questions, to what extent, or elsewhere?

Speaker: Nick Fredman.

Documentary about America's most outspoken academic and critic of Israeli and US Middle East policy.
6.30pm.

Reportbacks from those recently returned from these countries.
Speakers:
Pier Moro (Australia-Asia Worker Links);
Mark Solly (AMWU);
Paul Allwood (CFMEU);
Karen Odermatt (CFMEU).

Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton.