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GLW on Shutting down Ferra Engineering
Shutdown Ferra organised a blockade of Ferra Engineering on April 15 as the latest action in a campaign to close…
Gareth Smith on Greens call for ban on weapons trade with Israel
Ambassador Beate Grzinski 119 Empire Cct, Yarralumla, ACT 2600 Dear Ambassador Grzinski, My family, friends and I are shocked by…
Armann and Kaymann on Greens call for ban on weapons trade with Israel
Why has Israel attacked Palestine?
Mazin Qumsiyah speaks in Brisbane on News from Palestine
New event: Panel with Mazin Qumsiyah (Resistance and Environment) @ Sun May 5, 2024 3pm – 4pm (AEST) (jfpbrisbane@gmail.com) When…
Book launch: Australian Women's Justice on Women call for a week of action in Magan-djin
Book Launch Australian Women’s Justice by Deb Jordan When? Saturday April 20th 2:00 pm Where? Electrical Trades Union Training Rooms, 41 Peel…

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Sam Watson at Ferra Engineering Shutdown
Samuel Watson speaking at Farah on 15 April 2024 and drawing the parallel between aboriginal and Palestinian struggles.
Kat and Ollie on the roof at HTA
Today the Paradigm Shift was about local responses to the ongoing genocidal slaughter in Gaza. I speak to Cat and Ollie who this week climbed on the roof of HTA's Brisbane office to disrupt its work on weapons that are sent to Israel.
Paul Keating MUA calls out the Australian Government
Australia stands with the Palestinian people. We call on the Albanese government and, for that matter, all state governments to call for a permanent ceasefire. The crimes that are unfolding and the ethnic cleansing in Gaza must end. We call on the Albanese government to put sanctions on Israel. Now. We call on the Albanese […]
Ciaron, Stella and Dermot speak up for Julian Assange
On the eve of the high court judgement concerning Julian Assange's appeal against extradition to the United States, Ciaron O'Reilly had this to say outside the British consulate in Brisbane. Meanwhile, Stella Morris slams British Justice. Stella Morris speaks outside the High Court in London after Julian Assange was heard by two judges. Song 'Killing […]
Scousers for Palestine
Here is an independent candidate against the Labour Party in Liverpool in England speaking about the genocide in Ghada at the Palm Sunday Peace rally in Brisbane

Palestine and the Labour movement

“I wish to make it perfectly clear, on behalf of our people, that we accept no condition of inferiority as compared with European people. Two distinct civilisations are represented by the respective races. On one hand we have the civilisation of necessity and on the other hand civilisation coincident with a bounty of supply of all the requirements of the human race. That the European people by the arts of war destroyed a more ancient civilisation is freely admitted, and that by their vices and diseases our people have been decimated is also patient, but neither of these facts are evidence of superiority. Quite the contrary the members of the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association have also noted the strenuous efforts of the trade union leaders to attain the conditions which existed in our country at the time of invasion by Europeans – the men only worked when necessary – we called no man ‘master’ and we had no ‘king’.” – Fred Maynard (AAPA) to the Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang, on receipt of a letter dated 23 August 1927 containing a racist attack by the Premier.

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