This is just a bit of report about the Brisbane leg of the Mark Fordham tour and the Jobs with Justice campaign.… Go to Article

From: Blacklist Support Group [mailto:blacklistsg@googlemail.com]

London protest in support of Ark Tribe

Australian High Commission,

The Strand, London

4.15pm prompt – 2nd November 2010

Ark Tribe is an Australian construction worker and trade unionist who faces jail for refusing to face an interrogation by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC), an anti-trade union body set up by the previous Howard government.… Go to Article

The Australian Human Rights Commission has this morning released its 2010 report Immigration detention on Christmas Island. The media release and the report are attached for your information.… Go to Article

STOP THE NT INTERVENTION

SPEAKOUT AND DEMAND:

JOBS WITH JUSTICE
Not work for rations

Speakers include:

Laura-Jane Phoenix Williams (Indigenous Director, QUT Student Guild)
Sam Watson (Aboriginal Rights Activists)

Picket Centrelink
12pm Friday, Oct 29th
21 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane

Under the NT Intervention Aboriginal people are compelled to work 16 hours a week for $115 cash, plus $115 credit on a ‘BasicsCard’ which can only be used on ‘priority items’ in government approved stores.… Go to Article

With thanks to Greg Adler and Dan O’Neill for sending this on:

As usual Fisk hits the nail on the head this stuff is not a secret to its victims

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-shaming-of-america-2115111.html… Go to Article

Beyond the National Gasworks!….

A dialogue on contributing to building extra parliamentary politics in Australia…

What lessons can we learn from the Anti-Communist referendum of 1951, the growth of Green politics, and the struggle of building workers against the new Construction Stasi?… Go to Article

GCI Insights Seminar with Naomi Oreskes:

Merchants of Doubt

How a handful of scientists obscured the truth on issues from tobacco smoke to global warming

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have demonstrated what many of us had long suspected: that the debate over the climate crisis – and many other environmental issues – was manufactured by the same people who brought you safe cigarettes.… Go to Article

Attached is the flier and some other information for the “My Name is Rachel Corrie” play. The play is bring performed at the La Boite theatre on Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove.… Go to Article

Democracy Now (10 mins) Interview with Daniel Elsberg on Wikileaks Second Release – Free Bradley Manning

*Bradley Manning is being held in military prison accused of being the source of the Wikileaks on the U.S.… Go to Article

[Aboriginal News]

Genetic resources, Indigenous rights link a “red herring”: Duncan NATIONAL NEWS
22. OCT, 2010 BY JBARRERA

By Nigel Newlove and Annette Francis APTN National News

Indian Affairs Minister John Duncan said Friday there was no link between Indigenous rights and the control over genetic resources, dismissing criticism from Aboriginal leaders over Canadian moves this week at UN talks on biodiversity.… Go to Article

May I please share with you a letter sent to an Indian magazine, Outlook, by an American back in 2003. What is said in the letter could hold true for any Australian who is against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan or who sympathises with Palestinians or stands up against the maniacal Islamophobia currently gripping the Australian media.… Go to Article

Hi all,

Here’s a flyer with contact details and information about JfP that we can use to distribute at some of the upcoming activities.… Go to Article

Dear all

Please feel free to forward to your contacts

Regards

David Forde

Labor 4A Just Palestine

Weekly update for week beginning 18/10/10

This week’s articles

· UN Protection of Civilians Weekly Report 13 October – 19 October

· IPS – This Peaceful Position Takes Courage

· Australian – Anna Baltzar: Palestinians’ human rights key to peace

· Amnesty – Illegal Israeli settlement plans threaten Palestinian Human Rights

· KiaOraGaza – Kiwis on aid convoy which breaks Gaza siege

· Ma’an – Demolition orders issued to Hebron community

· Mondoweiss – 60 Minutes (America) ‘marks the end of the two-state solution’

· Haaretz – Settlers have broken ground on nearly 550 West Bank homes since end of freeze, survey shows

· IMEMC – Israeli settlers begin new settlement expansion outside Jenin

· Yahoo news – With statehood, Palestine ready to end all claims

· Haaretz – ADL slams Shas spiritual leader for saying non-Jews ‘were born to serve Jews’

· B’tselem – Israel prevents entry of materials needed to repair (water) system

· Guardian – Israeli Arabs fear for their future

· APHEDA Middle East Study Tour – Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan.… Go to Article

LATIN AMERICAN
FILM FESTIVAL
Sat Oct 30 – Sun Oct 31

Delicious Latino dinners (incl vego/vegan) nightly, drinks & Latino cocktails available

TICKETS: Per session $10 waged / $6 conc; Both sessions $18/10
Gold pass (both sessions, both dinners + complementary drink nightly) $35/20

Bookings / inquiries
Ph (07) 3831 2644 or 0423 741 734
email brisbane
Funds raised to Australias leading progressive paper,
Green Left Weekly <www.greenleft.org.au… Go to Article

Three Cups of Tea

One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace …

One School at a Time

This remarkable US bestseller was first published in 2006.… Go to Article

Thanks Ian/Sandy. And they are not even wars.
In solidarity
kay… Go to Article

please distribute widely/apologies for cross postings…

AUSTRALIA BDS CONFERENCE LAUNCH

THE INTERNATIONAL BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN AND THE STRUGGLE FOR A FREE PALESTINE

29th October 2010 @ 7pm

Theatrette, State Library of Victoria

cnr of La Trobe and Swanston St,

Melbourne City (entrance on La Trobe St)

$5 entry

(or included in your conference registration

if you register for the entire conference)

Endorsed by the Palestinian BDS National Committee

Speakers:

Rafeef Ziadah – Palestinian activist, unionist and spoken word artist.… Go to Article

interesting facts on the 1967 referendum: what it did and did not do.

it removed some of the racism from the constitution but allowed for the continuation of the state and territory racist policies to continue unabated.… Go to Article

With parliament debating the war in Afghanistan, the occupation and the role of Australian troops is back in the spotlight.

There has been a huge increase in the deaths of Afghan civilians as well as Australian troops.… Go to Article

Let us try to understand debt and who owes it. In our quest please let us not go searching desperately for dubious ill-defined argument that masquerades as data (i.e.

… Go to Article