SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR/OBSERVER MUST BE CALLED IN. PROMISES MADE TO END PROTESTS.
The Human Rights Alliance
Curtin Detention Centre – UN Special Rapporteur must be called in.… Go to Article
Month: April 2011
4PR – Voice of the People
It was an anti-uranium demonstration on Hamilton No 4 Wharf in August 1977.
We were standing on the railway tracks in our home town Brisbane surrounded by 100 police.… Go to Article
Rally for Palestine – remembering al-Nakba
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Protest against Saud family at Buckingham Palace over Royal Wedding guest list!
GUARDIAN PHOTO/article – Bahranian exiles, Peter Tatchel, O’Reilly brothers (Ciaron & Brendan), Catholic Worker volunteers (Drew, Andre, Marcin) take on Saud family at Buckingham Palace over Royal Wedding guest list!… Go to Article
Brisbane Labour Day Celebrations 2011
The Qld Council of Unions Labour Day Committee have organised a March and Celebration to be held on Monday 2 May, 2011.… Go to Article
“Dispatches from the Dark Side” on Bradley Manning:
YOUTUBE (12 mins 2 secs) – Gareth Peirce Speaks on Bradley Manning: ‘ “Dispatches from the Dark Side”
This speech by Gareth Peirce was first screened on April 17th.… Go to Article
Gig – Steve Tyson @ The Music Kafe
Hi folks,
Just a quick one to let you know that I am playing a show this coming Saturday afternoon, April 30th, at The Music Kafe, in West End, Brisbane.… Go to Article
‘Reorganising Cuba’
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10 May · 18:30 – 20:30
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17 Group discussion in May 2011
Race politics and reading practices: two as pects of the New Australia experiment.
Wide eyed romantics and a heartbreak dream
Your motives aren’t what they seem
You’ve got your feet caked in Australian mud
And you can’t deny what’s in your blood
Under Paraguay skies and the nights so cold
You can forsake your country and lose your soul — ‘Virgin Ground’ by Red Gum
The May meeting of the 17 Group will be on Wednesday the 4th of May at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article
Video Reporting Possible CIA/Saudi Snipers in Syria
Last Updated April 25, 2011 – No sooner was “Color Revolution’s Mystery Gunmen” posted covering the use of provocateurs to escalate foreign-funded color revolutons, when a reader sent in a news clip from Iran’s Al-Alam News Network reportedly indicating Saudi/CIA snipers are in Syria taking out protesters.… Go to Article
Stop the Crucifixion of Bradley Manning, Iraq and Afghanistan!
LONDON – Good Friday Resistance: 3 Catholic Workers Arrested at 10 Downing St. – “Stop the Crucifixion of Bradley Manning, Iraq and Afghanistan!”… Go to Article
The Dark Tunnels
New clip from the recent Artists against Apartheid (AAAA) concert in Brisbane that is dedicated to the people of Gaza, the Stay Human Flotilla to Gaza May 2011 and in memory of Vittorio Arrigoni.… Go to Article
Hunger Strike, Protests, Petitions and the Serco/DIAC Disgrace
Dear MEDIA,
Despite DIAC’s and Serco’s claims that hunger strikes may not have happened, they have and they have escalated at this tiime to thereabouts 800 on hunger strike.… Go to Article
300 Hunger Strike at Curtin Refugee Detention Centre
The Australian government’s refugee policy has failed.
It is inhumane to let people into the country only to keep them in cages.… Go to Article
North Stradbroke Island conflicts
Media Statement
23 April 2011
North Stradbroke Island conflicts
On North Stradbroke Island today, Aboriginal people will gather at Dunwich at 12.30pm to launch new shirts which state “North Stradbroke Island is Aboriginal Land, Always was, Always will be.”… Go to Article
Veterans group calls for troops out of Afghanistan in lead up to ANZAC Day
Veterans group calls for troops out of Afghanistan
in lead up to ANZAC Day
Press release
22 April 2011
Australian based veterans group Stand Fast is calling on people to reject blind flag waving this ANZAC Day and to seriously question Australian support for the war in Afghanistan.… Go to Article
International Solidarity Movement Committed to Staying in Gaza
International Solidarity Movement Committed to Staying in Gaza.
Following the murder of our comrade and friend Viktor (Vittorio Arrigoni), we, activists of the International Solidarity Movement, would like to reiterate our commitment to remaining in Gaza.… Go to Article
After Marrickville?
Can workers & their organisations succeed where political elites have failed?
— A response to Marrickville Council vote against Boycott, Divestments & Sanctions BDS of Israel (BDS) on 19 April 2011 … click title to read more
See also After the Marrickville Council Vote Tonight from KADAITCHA — POLITICS, POETRY & SATIRE… Go to Article
Detention Centres at Crisis Point – more deaths will come, we are visiting.
The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:
Urgent Action Required to Stop Detention Centre Deaths in Custody and the rise of mental illnesses.… Go to Article
FRIDAY! Irish Republican Solidarity evening & film “Hunger”
Help organise Al Nakba commemoration rally
Help organise a protest in Brisbane to commemorate 63 years since al-Nakba (the Catastrophe).
The protest will be held on Friday May 13, 5pm at Brisbane Square
Rally organising meeting:
Wednesday April 27, 6:30pm
TLC Building (2nd floor), 16 Peel St
South Brisbane
Remembering al-Nakba 15 May 1948:
http://1948.com.au/1948.html… Go to Article
Deaths in Custody – of Tasers and still another Qld
two police incidents, one in wa and one in qld,clearly shows the problems with the police of this country when they refuse to accept the royal commission recommendations.… Go to Article
Les Malezer, co-chair elect of National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples, vows to end NT Intervention
[Aboriginal News]
STATEMENT BY LES MALEZER
CO-CHAIR ELECT
NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AUSTRALIA’S FIRST PEOPLES
19 April 2011
I pay my respects to the Gadigal peoples and the Eora nation on whose land we stand today.… Go to Article
Support Boycott of Israel (BDS) in Marrickville
Thank you all for your previous support for Marrickville Council’s decision to endorse the international BDS movement. Unfortunately that decision is still under threat.… Go to Article
Workers Memorial Day in Melbourne
Thursday 28 April 2011
MOURNING THE DEAD AND FIGHTING FOR THE LIVING
At the Remembrance Rock
Corner Victoria and Lygon Streets
Carlton South
The ceremony will commence at 10.30am
Speakers include:
Brian Boyd, VTHC Secretary
Deanne May, Executive Director IDSA
Judge Jennifer Coate, State Coroner of Victoria
The ICFTU has announced the international theme for 2011 is the crucial role played by trade unions, strong regulation and effective enforcement in securing safer workplaces.… Go to Article
Celebrate May Day in Canberra
Sunday May 1st
3 p m
Garema Place
with Civil Libertarians Greens Teachers Scientists Socialists Unionists
Peace activists in a FESTIVAL OF RESISTANCE FESTIVAL OF THE OPPRESSED (An initiative of Workers Solidarity Network 0417283719 wsncampaigns@gmail.com… Go to Article
May Day 2011
See below for the story about the Haymarket Martyrs and a certain Chinese Chicken dish by Lachlan Hurse. Featured photo in the masthead depicts the Workers Self Management Group at 1971 May Day march (Fortitude Valley Brisbane) Photo: Graham Garner
The Brisbane May Day Celebration Committee
invites you to the
May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day May Day
International Workers’ Day Concert
Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo Primer de Mayo
SUNDAY, 1st MAY, 6 p.m.
… Go to Article Why are deaths in custody rising?
a very good article ( Why are deaths in custody rising?) from ms. inga ting on the abject and sorry state of the national gaol systems and the horrific number of deaths in custody but especially nsw.… Go to Article
Two hundred and twenty years but still not free
"Write of life / the pious said
forget the past / the past is dead.
But all I see / in front of me
is a concrete floor / a cell door / and John Pat"
- by Jack Davis
Yesterday (15 April 2011) was the 20th anniversary of the royal commission into black deaths in custody in 1991.… Go to Article
Town camp leader outraged by Bess Price claims on Q and A
Barbara Shaw, spokesperson for the Intervention Rollback Action Group in Alice Springs and resident of Mt Nancy Town camp says that comments by Bess Price on Q and A about the “success” of the Intervention ignore the huge evidence of continuing failure.… Go to Article