[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.
Human Rights Day
Rally,
2pm Saturday, 13 Dec 2008
Queens Park
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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. NOVEMBER
ALL WELCOME
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Please feel welcome to pass this invitation on to your friends and networks. Continue reading
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6.30pm Wednesday, November 26
At the Direct Action Centre
8 Gillingham St, Woolloongabba Continue reading
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?
Please note: This article was written in response to questions raised by Humphrey McQueen in his piece titled The Very Right-wing Rev. Rudd
It prompted a bizaare exchange of views with a former Qld Special Branch officer which can be read below in the Comments section or in this compilation — After Joh: we’re all mates now Continue reading
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by Paul McKinnon
Human Rights Day is Wednesday, 10 December. It is the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. There is much in the document that is of interest to Worklife members; the right to employment, to decent working conditions, to form trade unions to defend those conditions, to form associations in general, and the right to social security, are all canvassed. See: www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Several groups are holding events on and around the actual day.
I was involved in the meeting that sought to co-ordinate them all. Most of the events are listed below. Continue reading
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Union members may be interested to hear that legislation to repeal WorkChoices will be introduced on Tuesday, 25 Nov 2008.
CPSU Elections 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.
This is one year after the election of the Rudd Labor Government. Continue reading
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.
Workers involved include workshop trade workers (fitters, electricians, carpenters etc).
These people come under a QR Enterprise Bargaining Certified Agreement (EBA) that has recently expired. This agreement was negotiated in 2005 under Qld Industrial Relations legislation. However QRail merged its Queensland bulk freight operations with the Australian Railway Group (ARG) which is a national carrier of bulk freight. As a result it is likely that some EBAs will come under federal awards. An EBA is being renegotiated currently with workshop maintenance workers. There are a number of unions involved in the negotiations. This includes the Automotive, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Industrial Union of Employees (AMWU). Continue reading
Review by Humphrey McQueen
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism by Rick Kuhn Illinois University Press, 2007, 352 pp, $60
Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism
hpk, $25 pbk.
“When will capitalism collapse?” haunted public life until the 1950s. Interest in the work of the Polish Marxist Henryk Grossman (1881-1950) shrank as the terms of economic debate drifted from depression to recession, from collapse to correction. Grossman established his reputation with The Law of Accumulation and the Collapse of the Capitalist System (also a Theory of Crisis) published in 1929, and in Japanese by 1932. An English translation arrived in 1992. Continue reading
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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.
Worklife members,
See the attached note re a union rally to be held on December 2 in support of the ABCC campaign.
Please find attached a flyer for the above Rally to be held 9.30am, Tuesday 2 December at Queens Park. Please distribute widely. Continue reading
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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. With this second attempt / rehash I would have expected more thorough research.
Why are you still perpetuating the Myth that the Communists were responsible for the strike. This latest epic was advertised as Docodrama. There was plenty of drama, but very little doco – Note – documentary means a factual account. Not a complete fabrication of history. Continue reading
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We are not terrorists. Give us back our civil liberties!
Community Solidarity contingent in the annual Fremantle Festival Parade.
Help us make people aware of the ABCC powers. Come in orange overalls (if you’ve got some!).
3pm Sunday
November 16
Fremantle Esplanade (parade starts 4pm).
All out in support of Noel Washigton.
Mass rally & march the day Noel’s case goes to full trial,
11am Tuesday
2nd December
Solidarity Park (near Parliament House),
March at 11:30 on offices of ABCC
250 St Georges Tce Continue reading
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As part of a joint effort by Zapata’s Bookshop and the LeftPress collective
(26 Horan Street,
West End) this
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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!
* End the U.S. blockade of Cuba!
* Rudd: give massive aid to hurricane affected Cuba!
RALLY: Friday November 21, 4:30-6:00pm
Brisbane Square(George St end of Queen St Mall)
Organised by:
Australia Venezuela Solidarity Network
Supported by:
Australia-Cuba Friendship Society, Australian Solidarity with Latin America, FMLN Brisbane Committee, Rally for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament (Inc), Resistance, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Socialist Alliance, Venezuela Cuba Solidarity Club (Griffith Uni)
For further information contact:
Phone: 3391 1903 or 3831 2644, 0438 162 597. Email: brisbane@venezuelasolidarity.org
http://www.venezuelasolidarity.org
Continue reading
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Statement 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. Continue reading
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.
Lunch provided.
Guest Speakers Include:
A WORKSHOP BY THE ABORGINAL RIGHTS COALITION. For more info call 0431041751
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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 with Senator Chris Evans, Minister of Immigration and Citizenship (and will be leaving Brisbane on Sunday afternoon 16th November). Continue reading
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A note to indigenous people, Workers BushTelegraph may contain recordings, images and songs of people who are deceased.
