Monthly Archives: September 2009

The Paradigm Shift on Food, Conflict …

The Paradigm Shift on Food

eliza, thomas and sarah
September 22nd, 2009

This week ‘The Paradigm Shift’ looked at food, production and consumption generally. We spoke a bit about the current food system and went on a dumpster diving tour with a Food Politics class. We also spoke to Robina McCurdy who is, among other things, a food self-reliance consultant. She told us a bit about how food self reliance can be achieved and what it might look like in a urban environment like Brisbane.

We also played some wicked songs which we can’t include here because of copyright restrictions! See our playlist http://www.4zzzfm.org.au/nowplaying/index.cfm?action=dsp_show&showID=194&day=6

To Listen Now:

The Paradigm Shift

The Paradigm Shift on Conflict

• September 19th, 2009

Eliza and Thomas present The Paradigm Shift’s debut show on Brisbane’s community radio station 4zzz. This show features discussion about violence and conflict resolution; the ways they are dealt with and different ways they can and are being dealt with. Features interviews with Rachel Herzing from U.S. based group Creative Interventions and Heather Millhouse from the Queensland chapter of the international Alternatives to Violence Project.

Music has been removed due to copyright restrictions.

FOCO NUEVO in September 09

Foco Nuevo Sept 09

Sue Monk & Lachlan Hurse from Jumping Fences - at this foco nuevo they played with Robbie Stewart (lead guitar), Dan Simpson (drums) with special guest Leonor Orellana who (with Sue Monk) sang a beautiful version of "Al Otro Lado Del Rio"

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Jumping Fences play

“The Other Side of the River”

[“Al Otro Lado Del Rio” (In The Other Side Of The River) the theme song to The Motorcycle Diaries by Jorge Drexler]

Magill

Migill - Gillian Smith (fiddle, mandolin and vocals) and Michael Bourne (guitar and vocals)

Migill

“Wild” by Ichabod’s Crane

Foco Nuevo Sept 09

Ichabod's Crane plays "Wild" - c.carleton - vocals, guitars, keys s.adamus - cello m.laidlaw - drums

Apologies for the high sound levels on the recordings.

They may take a while to load.

Ian Curr
Sept 09




KURILPA HALL
174 Boundary Street,
West End

Hot Latin American meals, cakes, tea and coffee available

$10 / $7 concession


N.B. BYO
web

www.foconuevo.org.au
email enquiries:

lachlan@foconuevo.org.au

sue@foconuevo.org.au

With a cloud over the future of the Ellen Taylor Community Centre we have changed our venue to the Kurilpa Hall in Boundary Street, West End (next to the West End library).

The Kurilpa Hall has been the venue for many wonderful functions in the past, and we’re sure that it will be a welcoming space for Foco Nuevo. Continue reading

Reviews of Palestinian Days Films

The Palestinian Days film festival, Brisbane,

6pm Fri to Sunday, October 16-18, 2009
Schonell Theatre, University of QLD

Sponsored by Justice for Palestine and the Palestinian Association of QLD

Reviews

by Pam Rosengren

Lemonade'  Director: Hicham Kayed Duration: 13 minutes Language: Arabic with English subtitles
‘Lemonade’ , a short film which came out of a storytelling workshop for the children of a refugee camp. Inspired by a girl who takes flowers from her grandmothers garden to the people in the camp every day, one of the boys began to make lemonade to sell in the camp. It is a simple yet profound story of transcending limitations. Although the other films at the festival are not really for a child audience, children feature prominently in the festival overall.
Arguably the masterpiece of the Palestinian Days film festival is “Since You Left” directed by Mohammad Bakri. It is a literary, performative reflection on the filming of “Jenin Jenin” and the events in the directors life subsequent to that. The film is structured around a soliloquy at the grave of Bakris former creative mentor. The philosophical conversation between Bakri and his Israeli lawyer, who donated his time to try to reverse the order banning “Jenin Jenin” had me wishing I could obtain a transcript of the movie. The film explains, but does not explain away.  This is particularly the case when unexpectedly a member of Bakris extended family becomes involved in terrorism. It documents the reaction of the family which might not be what you think.

Watani Habibi, My Beloved Homeland” is a documentary of Palestinian  protest music by John Mandelberg and Janice Abo Ganis. It ranges from traditional music with no political message other than that is is  Palestinian culture with its roots in antiquity, through traditional  works with a message strong enough to have the musician exiled, to  lyrical contemporary pieces and even Palestinian rap.
Singer Rim Banna says she is unable to take up arms in the struggle,  so uses her voice to convey it. As well as having an exceptional  voice, Rim has exceptional insight into the creative process and its  relationship to society. (She has a Facebook page.)
“Watani Habibi – My Beloved Homeland” will be screened at 6pm Sunday  18th at the Schonell Theatre, along with “The Iron Wall” which maps  both the history of this vision from its inception in 1923 (yes, 1923)  and the tortuous path of the wall which not only divides Palestinians  from Israelis, but divides Palestinians from their farmlands and water supply.  Although the other films at the festival are not really for a child audience, children feature prominently in the festival overall. One script, “Letter from Sarah”, was written by a twelve-year-old girl.

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‘Killing no Murder’

Humphrey McQueen at Leightons in Eagle Street Brisbane 21 Sept 09

Humphrey McQueen speaking about 'Framework of Flesh' with building workers at Leightons in Eagle Street Brisbane. 21 September 2009. Photo: Ian Curr

The factory-owners of the time formed a “trade union” to resist the factory legislation, the so-called “National Association for the Amendment of the Factory Laws”, based in Manchester, which collected a sum of more than £50,000 in March 1855 from contributions on the basis of 2 shillings per horse-power, to meet the legal costs of members prosecuted by the factory inspectors and conduct their cases on behalf of the Association. The object was to prove “killing no murder” if done for the sake of profit.

Karl Marx, Capital, III.[1]

Why OHS injuries are not real crimes

More than buildings rise on “a framework of human flesh”.

So, too, do the profits of Messrs Construction Capital.

The opening 80,000 words of Framework of Flesh carry our understanding of that reciprocity past the level of generalisation. The next step is to foreground the concepts embedded in that analysis by asking how the il-logic that compels capital to expand also

”]# McQuillan, Ern, 1926- # Member of the Builders Labourers Union carrying a banner on the 6 Hour March, Sydney, 6 October 1964makes it injure human capacities.

Investigating this relationship between the needs of capital and the frequency of harms will proceed through four phases.

The first is a reminder that the assaults suffered by builders’ labourers are but a microcosm of the gore that has accompanied  capital accumulation around the globe. Continue reading

Gallery

50 Years ago: Brisbane Peace activist, Norma Chalmers, met Chairman Mao

This gallery contains 6 photos.

“In Politics there is no such thing as the Centre” —visiting Guatemalan revolutionary, Walter Felix, at the TLC [QCU, sic] Brisbane in September 2009. “In hollows behind outhouses or back of a wall of pepper tree, tanks are sleeping, stirring. … Continue reading

Aside

Down came a jumbuck to drink at that billabong, Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee, And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker bag, “You’ll come a-Waltzing Matilda, with me”. Local Arts received a … Continue reading

Seeing through Empire’s clothes

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Dear all,

the conference �Seeing through Empire�s New Clothes: extending strategies for anticapitalist struggle against the economic crisis� is coming up on September 12-13 (next weekend), starting at 10am . It is free to attend, though donations would be appreciated.

It will be held at the Redfern Community Centre, 29-53 Hugo Street, Redfern. This is a 5 minute walk from Redfern Station. More details on the website:

http://crisisconference2009.wordpress.com/

There is a facebook event too:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=135405350308&ref=share

It would be great to see you there! There will be a wide range of excellent workshops and discussions. A full program, with outlines, is available, and is also attached:

http://crisisconference2009.wordpress.com/discussions-and-workshops/

There will also be an amazing dinner and drinks, on Saturday 12th September, at The Workshop, 16 Sloane Street, Newtown, from 7pm, to which everyone is welcome.

Protest against more settlements in Palestine

Editor’s Note: It is interesting that these marches are being led by secular groups such as The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front.
Look closely at the flags at the head of the marches and read the reports from the Democratic front website:

In Bil’in, a village in western Ramallah, Israelis used force to disperse demonstrators, injuring dozens and asphyxiating two.

On Monday, 25 July [2008], a video was broadcast revealing Isreali forces deliberately shooting at Palestinians, who were participating in a peaceful march against the Wall.

These groups are for unity and a secular opposition to the settlements. Their leaders are in jail, many have been killed.

Ian Curr
September 09

A report from al jazeera in Bil’in

Hundreds of Palestinian villagers have made a short but symbolic march to the separation wall that Israel has built on their land, a non-violent protests that they regularly undertake.

Equally, the protesters, marching from the village of Bilin, are regularly met with a violent response from the Israeli army.

“The village of Bilin is literally on the frontline of Israel’s confiscation of Palestinian land and the construction of its separation barrier,” Jacky Rowland, Al Jazeera’s correspondent reporting from the village, said.

“Later today the villagers of Bilin will protest the fact that not only they, but also five neighbouring villages, have lost their land which has been seized to build an Israeli settlement.

“This huge settlement will result in 40,000 Jewish settlers living on occupied land here in the West Bank and as Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu is planning to give the go ahead for even more of these settlement homes to be built,” she said.

Netanyahu is set to approve plans to build hundreds of new homes on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, before considering US demands for a construction freeze.

Victorian Union’s rally to demand "Best Practice" National OHS Laws

by Peter Curtis AEU

Meanwhile Unionists support Ark Tribe outside court. Ark faces ABCC charges.

7,000 workers marched on the Victorian Parliament, and a further thousand in Geelong, calling on the Brumby ALP Government to pressure their federal counterparts to make the best Occupational Health and Safety laws possible through the national ‘harmonisation’ process. The federal government should be taking the best laws that each state has to offer if they are to set a new national minimum standard. Continue reading

East Timor: 10 years since the vote for freedom

East Timor Poster 10 years onDirect Action public forum
East Timor: 10 years since the vote for freedom
Hear long time solidarity activist, Jon Lamb and East Timorese community member, Alfonso Corte Real speak about the significance of the 1999 independence referendum and the present situation in East Timor. The meeting will also feature film screenings of:

  • Scenes From An Occupation, by award-winning film maker Carmela Baranowska, which covers the last 6 months of the Indonesian occupation.
  • Doctors of Tomorrow, a documentary made by Tim Anderson about the role of Cuban doctors in building East Timor’s health care system.

September 12, 3pm
Southbank QCA, Cnr Sidon & Little Stanley Sts (opposite Maritime Museum),
Building S07, room 1.23
Entry: $5/$3 concession
Phone: 3391 1903 or 0438 162 597 (Jon)
Email: brisbane@rsp.org.au
www.directaction.org.au


Womens’ Rights

Drop the charges public meeting

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