On Thursday 23 – Sunday 26 October 2008 an International indigenous
solidarity gathering was held in Melbourne, Australia. The gathering
has featured speakers from Aboriginal Australia, Latin America, Asia
and the Pacific.… Go to Article

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Jumping Fences invites you to Foco Nuevo where we present a mix of musical styles that extends the folk tradition. This regular music event is held on the last Friday of each month and features a diversity of guest singer-songwriters and musicians.… Go to Article

Come one, come all,

From 10 am on Friday, 24 October 2008

to support Lex Wotton and his family.

by Pamela Curr, Campaign coordinator, Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

Dear Friends,

This is not a refugee story- It is a story about Australians- Indigenous Australians.… Go to Article

KATHY BOWLEN, PRESENTER: When Melbourne University Vice-Chancellor Glyn Davis bought into the debate about Victoria’s housing crisis earlier this year, he can’t have known that a group of his students were planning a public statement of their own.… Go to Article

In Celebration of a big, wonderful life…

Bert Nord, a long time leftie in Brisbane; an activist in the Transport Workers Union, former member of the CPA and an enthusiastic member of the Bushwackers, as well as real great bloke, died on Tuesday 7th.… Go to Article

CONTENTS
1) Photos from “Hammered by the Irish” benefit Gig for Anti-War Prisoners Dublin, Oct 9th.
2) Reflections on the Oct 9 Benefit Gig – “Community Building as Basis of Resisting Wholesale & Retail Violence!”… Go to Article

fighting-for-union-rights-under-labor… Go to Article

You are cordially invited to the launch of a new book published by Leftpress:

AFTER THE WATERFRONT —
The Workers are Quiet

A critique of Australian industrial relations since the momentous waterfront dispute of 1998.… Go to Article

WE have mentioned previously the option of running a few more stalls to publicise the campaign against the ABCC.

ABCC stall is held at West End Markets in Brisbane at Davies Park Cnr Montague and Jane Sts West End

Please note the dates for these stalls –
Saturday 1 November
Saturday 22 November… Go to Article

Quotes from participants, media and judges telling their side of the dispute

One of the miners who was there wrote this about the 1908 Broken Hill Dispute:

“The mounted men, like their predecessors, were armed with carbines and revolvers…everything was orderly and the line of route was the same we had traversed many times before.

Jumping Fences are playing this Sunday at the Queensland Multicultural Festival.

3pm – 3.20pm at Roma St Parkland

We will be playing as a five piece band, with Sue (guitar and vocals), Lachlan (bass), Ross Gwyther (tenor sax and clarinet), James Harper (percussion) and Dan Simpson (drums).… Go to Article

TRIPLE TROUBLE
Three events celebrating past and present peace protests

THURSDAY OCTOBER 16
FROM 6PM
BELLA UNION BAR
TRADES HALL
(Corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets, Carlton)

FILM PREMIERE: PINE GAP 2002
A screening of Box 4’s documentary about the 2002 anti-US base protest.

Please pass on

The Land Warfare Conference Welcoming Committee invites you to………

Protest the Land Warfare Conference in Brisbane

“River city to host conference on the best ways to make a killing”

Brisbane will be hosting the 2008 Land Warfare Conference from Oct 27-31, 2008. … Go to Article