[Editorial Note: Please show your support for indigenous Australians that lost their land under this settler state.]
From Lauren Mellor, Aboriginal Rights Coalition
To help with getting the Human Rights Day [HRD] statement out and endorsed by as broad a selection of organizations and individuals as possible below are the list of endorsements already received.… Go to Article
Activists Occupy Raytheon Lifts
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An invitation to attend this community event from Sam Watson:
COMMUNITY NOTICE
SACRED TREATY SERVICE
TO BE HELD AT ST. MARY’S CHURCH, SOUTH BRISBANE, 4 PM SUNDAY, 30TH.… Go to Article
Please feel welcome to pass this invitation on to your friends and networks.… Go to Article
6.30pm Wednesday, November 26
At the Direct Action Centre
8 Gillingham St, Woolloongabba… Go to Article
Figs do not grow on barren trees — Ernie Lane in Dawn to Dusk – reminiscences of a rebel.
Were current and recent Labor leaders ever political activists in Queensland?… Go to Article
by Humphrey McQueen
As part of his PR campaign, K. Rudd proclaimed that he had never been any kind of socialist.… Go to Article
by Paul McKinnon
Human Rights Day is Wednesday, 10 December. It is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.… Go to Article
Union members may be interested to hear that legislation to repeal WorkChoices will be introduced on Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008.
The deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, will introduce ‘Fair Work’ legislation in the Federal parliament to repeal WorkChoices and rewrite the Workplace Relations Act that was introduced in the parliament in 1996 at the beginning of the Howard era.… Go to Article
Presently workers at QRail are discussing new enterprise agreements. In June 2008 QR signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with unions setting down rules for the current round of enterprise bargaining as agreements expire towards the end of 2008.… Go to Article
Review by Humphrey McQueen
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism by Rick Kuhn Illinois University Press, 2007, 352 pp, $60
hpk, $25 pbk.… Go to Article
Come along to our last Foco Nuevo for the year and celebrate!
JUMPING FENCES
MIC TRAVERS BAND
MARK SHORTIS AND FRIENDS
AHIMSA HOUSE
26 Horan Street, West End
Friday 28th November
8.00 p.m.… Go to Article
Worklife members,
See the attached note re a union rally to be held on December 2 in support of the ABCC campaign.… Go to Article
To ABC Television
re Infamous Victory, Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal
TV programme ABC1 6/11/08 8.30pm
The ABC and Bob Ellis are obviously intrigued by the story of the 1949 Coal Strike – revisiting it once more with Chifley and the two Ross brothers as the main protagonists – First came, ” The True Believers” and now “Infamous Victory, Ben Chifley’s Battle for Coal” 6/11/08.… Go to Article
DAVID ROVICS and ALISTAIR HULET
Sunday the 21st of December 2008
AHIMSA House 6.30 pm. (BYO)
Phone 0400 912550 for bookings
Tickets $25/20
The Scots singer and songwriter, Alistair Hulett, http://www.alistairhulett.com/… Go to Article
We are not terrorists.
As part of a joint effort by Zapata’s Bookshop and the LeftPress collective
(26 Horan Street,
West End) this
In the evening the dry wind blows from the hills and across the plains
I close my eyes and I’m standing in a boat on the sea a-gain
And I’m holding that long turtle spear and I feel I’m close now
To where it must be and my island home is waiting for me
And my island home my island home my island home is waiting for me
– My Island Home, The Warumpi Band
The Townsville Correctional Centre replaced the old Townsville Prison at Stuart Creek.… Go to Article
SOLIDARITY RALLY
Come rally in support of Venezuela and Cuba!
Stand up against U.S.aggression and interference in Latin America!
* US hands off Venezuela!… Go to Article
… Go to ArticleStatement from people in Villawood
Saturday Nov8
After months and sometimes years of indignant treatment, the detainees of the Villawood Immigration and Detention Centre announce a general hunger strike demanding that this open ended policy of indefinite indignity ends.
An afternoon discussion on the government’s response to the NTER Review.
In particular we will look at a brief history of the ‘outstations’ movement, community-run programs in the NT, and why the government continues to refuse funding for remote Aboriginal communities and how the ‘End the Intervention’ campaign should respond.… Go to Article
marx & t.i.n.a.… Go to Article
Izzat Abdulhadi the Ambassador of Palestine (and Head of the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and Pacific) will be attending a multicultural dinner in Brisbane on 14th November 2008 with Senator Chris Evans, Minister of Immigration and Citizenship (and will be leaving Brisbane on Sunday afternoon 16th November).… Go to Article
