By Emad Sinan
Write it down!
I am an Arab.
Card number, fifty thousand.
I have eight children
and the ninth is due after summer.… Go to Article
Month: March 2009
Direct Action Cinema presents: Power of Community
Spirit of Eureka Anniversary Address
Speaker: HUMPHREY McQUEEN, Australian Historian
I’m glad I’m not in the paid workforce after hearing that introduction! [laughs]
In reflecting on this space and Eureka, and Rod was asked to give the dawn address there, it reminded me of four years ago when I was speaking here for the 150th anniversary, it was an occasion on which I, at the end of the evening, I had a long discussion with a great supporter of Eureka, the late John Cummins.… Go to Article
Dilbert got me a pink slip
By Bernie Dowling and Ian Curr
A DILBERT cartoon started the process which ended with the firing of an Australian public servant with 22 years employment behind him.… Go to Article
The Bligh Era – ‘we are all economic rationalists now!’
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” — Muhammad Ali
In Queensland, a state with the first elected woman premier, the government does not have a women’s honour roll but does acknowledge women in hard hats.… Go to Article
Group of 17: Obama – yes, we can?
The April Meeting of the 17 Group on Wednesday the 1st of April at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End will be addressed by Merv Partridge, who is not long back from the United States where he closely observed and recorded on videotape the recent election campaign of Barack Obama.… Go to Article
Union & Community Weekends
Strategies for Union and Community Organising
Three weekends of reflection, relationship building, and future planning April 18th & 19th, April 25th & 26th, May 1st – 3rd
Over one weekend at the historic Camp Eureka near Warburton, and two weekends at the MUA, we will bring together young union organisers, students, environmental campaigners and social movement activists with veterans of the labour movement and the Left.… Go to Article
Free Gaza Benefit Concert
SATURDAY, 28TH MARCH 7PM
FEATURING:
Phil Monsour and band (Brisbane)
+ SPOKEN WORD AND HIP-HOP from
The Brothahood
Joelistics (TZU)
Zohab Khan
Nour Abouzeid
+ Traditional Arabic music/dance
+ B-boy performances
MUA HALL, 54 Ireland St West Melbourne
ALCHOHOL FREE EVENT, FAMILIES WELCOME!… Go to Article
Federal Government bails out yet another renegade company
Community radio station 3CR has done an interesting interview about 338 Drive Train workers sacked without pay or entitlements.
DriveTrain management has stripped $17M in assets from company using the time worn technique perfected by Corrigan in the Patricks dispute of 1998.… Go to Article
Palestine: best prospect for peace? — Jeff Halper
Israeli Anthropologist Professor Jeff Halper
Coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) Public Lecture Series:
‘A Rights-Based Approach to the Israel-Palestine Conflict: The Best Prospect for Peace’
Monday 16 March 2009
6pm – 8pm
Undumbi Room, Level 5
Queensland Parliament House
(entry via Parliamentary Annexe)
Hosted by Evan Moorehead MP
State Member for Waterford
Framework of Flesh
… Go to ArticleFramework of Flesh
Builders’ Labourers Battle
for Health & Safetyby Humphrey McQueen
This book takes up a 1920s challenge from a militant labourer, Charlie Sullivan:
“few ever think of the great and humble army whose sweat and blood are mingled in the concrete and bricks as surely as if the walls were built over a framework of human flesh.”
“We are from the Streets!”
“We are from the Streets!”— Sam Watson.
On Anna Bligh’s website it says that 516 Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islanders live in South Brisbane (see http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/elections/state/state2006/South%20Brisbane/Profile.pdf… Go to Article
Michael Lebowitz
By Humphrey McQueen
(5 March)
Profits and surplus value
This is the second item in a sequence spotlighting elements in Michael Lebowitz’s ‘Marx’s falling rate of profit: a dialectical view’ from the Canadian Journal of Economics, IX (2), May 1976, pp.… Go to Article
Support Pacific Brands Workers
The Pacific Brand workers are having a rally and it would be great to see some support from FairWear supporters!
Outside Myer in the Bourke St Mall
12 noon Thursday the 5th March… Go to Article
Public Meeting: Stop the Intervention
Monday 9th of March, 6.30pm for a 7pm start.
Level 2 of the Trades and Labour Council Building, 16 Peel Street South Brisbane.… Go to Article
An implosion of knowledge
By Humphrey McQueen
Meanjin, March 2009.
A poor box in the foyer of the National Library of Australia invites tourists to donate to the construction of a Treasures Gallery, a project which further devalues three of that institution’s treasures – its staff, its work-a-day collections and its readers.… Go to Article
Michael Lebowitz: ‘A dialectically materialist critic of political economy’
By Humphrey McQueen
28 February
Yea! Michael Lebowitz is coming to a conference near us. At Easter, this Canadian Marxist will address the DSP’s Sydney conference, ‘World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century’.… Go to Article