The article below gives quite an insight into the Zionist fund-raising organisations – especially the United Israel Appeal (Keren Hayesod) and the JNF (Keren Kayemeth LeYisrael) and the Jewish National Fund [JNF] subsidiary (Himnutah) that specializes in land theft by subterfuge in the occupied territories.… Go to Article
Month: February 2009
Seminar – TRADE UNIONS: Past, Present, Future
Of special interest are 2 BLHA events coming up in the next couple of months:
7 March – SEMINAR – TRADE UNIONS: Past, Present, Future
Featuring
Dr Joan Corrie – will discuss Union amalgamations, specifically the AMWU & CFMEU
Dr Tom Bramble – will discuss his book: Trade Unionism in Australia: A History From Flood to Ebb Tide
LeftPress Printing Society – will discuss their book: After the Waterfront
Chair – Margaret Lee, Margaret Lee, Queensland Divisional Secretary, NTEUWhen: Saturday 7 March from 3pm
Where: Brisbane Workers Community Centre
2 Latrobe Tce
Paddington
Gold coin donation
Enquiries Greg Mallory: gmallory@vtown.com.au
Book Review: The Lemon Tree
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan is narrative non-fiction, meaning it tells a personal narrative of the people affected by the occupation of Palestine and does it in the context of the history of this unresolved conflict.… Go to Article
Film Screening: ‘Jerusalem – east side story’
The latest shipment of history is the Israeli occupation. In 1948, the western part of the city fell under Israeli control; in 1967, the eastern part fell under Israeli occupation.… Go to Article
Worklife films
At our latest meeting we decided to use our next meeting (Wed 18 March) to view the video which QTU bought to add to the joint QTU/Worklife video library – namely “Amongst Equals” (description is:
“A film (from 1991) about the history of the Australian Trade Union movement – starting with the Shearer’s strike of the 1890’s and leading to the present day, featuring interviews with prominent unionists.… Go to Article
Boycott Starbucks! Protest!
Saturday February 21, 11am
Starbucks Store, Queen’s Plaza (near corner of Adelaide & Edward Sts, City)
Starbuck’s chairperson, Howard Schultz is an active supporter of the apartheid state of Israel.
… Go to Article FOCO NUEVO in February 2009
FOCO NUEVO in February 2009
PARIS DREAMING
AMANDA GILMOUR
JUMPING FENCES
Friday 27th Feb
8.00 p.m.
AHIMSA HOUSE
26 Horan Street, West End
Light savory meals, cakes, tea and coffee available
$10 / $7 concession … Go to Article
Regulation-proof builders
Premier Brumby promises building regulations to reduce the impact of bushfires.
Several outcomes are certain. First, numerous consultants will walk away with buckets of fees from the drafting of the new laws.… Go to Article
Rome Must Go – St Mary’s Stays
The strength of religions, and of the Catholic Church in particular, has lain, and still lies, in the fact that they feel very strongly the need for the doctrinal unity of the whole mass of the faithful and strive to ensure that the higher intellectual stratum does not get separated from the lower.… Go to Article
Marx and the Crisis
British aid convoy to Gaza
Priorities
By Humphrey McQueen
12 February 2009
Two previous items looked at the volume and value of comments from several socialist grouplets on the crisis in the accumulation of capital.… Go to Article
Darwin, Lincoln and the survival of the slave-masters
By Humphrey McQueen
12 February 2009
February 12 is the bicentenary of the births of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. Their personal convictions towards slavery were pretty much the same.… Go to Article
Crisis! What crisis?
by Humphrey McQueen
11 February 2009
Shortly after the Austrian aeronautical engineer Ludwig Wittgenstein arrived in Cambridge in 1911, he drove Bertrand Russell to distraction by refusing to admit that there was not a rhinoceros in the room.… Go to Article
Never mind the quantity – feel the thinness
by Humphrey McQueen
‘Crisis? What crisis?’ sketched the quantity of attention that some socialist grouplets have given to the crisis in capitalist accumulation.… Go to Article
Sorry Day: anniversary of the apology
Apolgy Celebrations 13 Feb 2008
Anniversary of The Apology
13 February 2009
Event Program, http://musgravepark.org.au/anniversary_of_the_apolog_35.html
Musgrave Park Cultural Centre in partnership with Queensland Parliament Stolen Generations Alliance Link-Up Qld Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Health Service Queensland Aboriginal and Islander Health Council
Joins the Community to celebrate the Anniversary of The Apology to the Stolen Generations, given by our Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd on 13th February 2008.… Go to Article
Twilight Walk — Anniversary of The National Apology 2008
Boundary St Spring Hill – Boundary St West End
February 20th
at 5:00pm 2009
Meeting at St James College 201 Boundary St, Brisbane
On February 13th 2009, to celebrate the Anniversary of The National Apology 2008 the people of Queensland’s Indigenous and non Indigenous communities are invited to participate in a walk from Boundary Street in Spring Hill to Boundary Street West End.… Go to Article
Sanctions on Israel: what will they do?
“Let no one say the past is dead.
The past is all about us and within.” —Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) 1970
Even though 2009 is a long way from 1985 when government sanctions were launched against the apartheid regime in South Africa, what effect economic sanctions had on the apartheid regime should be considered by groups launching boycott campaigns against Israel.… Go to Article
Vale Auntie Maureen
