Palestine and the UN bid for statehood
by Duncan Shipley-Smith
A recent legal opinion highlighting the challenges and risks facing the Palestinian people in their quest for statehood in the lead up to the Palestinian Liberation Organisation’s bid at the United Nations in September.… Go to Article
Pitstop Ploughshares refered to as “the Fab Five” in new set of WikiLeaks released U.S. embassy cables
(SBU) On July 25, five anti-war protesters, the so-called “Fab Five” or “Shannon Five,” were found not guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of criminallydamaging a U.S.… Go to Article
The September meeting of the 17 Group will be held on Wednesday the 7th of September at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End and will be addressed by Ralph Summy on the topic of political power, as entitled and summarized below:
Changing Power Paradigms: From Mainstream to Nonviolent Politics
This talk is directed at the question of how power might be organised and exercised in shifting the paradigm from the mainstream of politics, where violence has occurred on a large scale, to a paradigm of power that nurtures the construction of a nonviolent society.… Go to Article
Green Left Weekly Public Forum:
The major force behind the current environmental crisis is big business and its ceaseless quest for private profit — capitalism.… Go to Article
Australia Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane) presents
Cine Cubano
An irregular screening of Cuban Films!
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: Here is another excellent story of how the workers of Kyneton, a central Victorian town, fought back against economic depression in the middle of the 19th century.… Go to Article
Wayne Swan, come off it – there’s blood in your hot chocolate
Justice for Palestine media statement.
August 29, 2011.
Brisbane BDS supporters have pledged to intensify their campaign following a successful protest on August 27.… Go to Article
Dear Sir/Ms,
I would like to correct your report ‘Senator stands by Israel boycott’ published in today’s (29 Aug 2011) Australian.… Go to Article
This month we welcome Spring with a change to a more intimate version of Jumping Fences, who will be playing as a trio.… Go to Article
Media statement: Justice for Palestine, Brisbane. August 24, 2011.
A protest in support of Palestinian rights will be held in Brisbane on Saturday August 27 as part of the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against apartheid Israel.… Go to Article
[Editors Note: The following short passage is taken from ‘Slouching towards
Bethlehem’ a portrait of modern America by Joan Didion.… Go to Article
1.00-5.00pm Saturday 8 October 2011
QCA Lecture Theatre, Qld College of Art, Griffith University,
226 Grey St, South Bank. (opposite South Bank train station)
Free admission
Red Scare Flier October 2011 V1… Go to Article
You are invited to swing to the blues-jazz-soul big band sound of ZUIT.
SATURDAY, 3rd SEPTEMBER 2011
7pm til 11.30
at YERONGA SERVICES CLUB, 391 Fairfield Road, Yeronga.b… Go to Article
David Rovics – Tunisia 2011 – see Big Red Sessions
British Lockheed Martins, French Mirages and US Tomahawks have done their savage work, during the UK riots last week, the British and the French bombed Tripoli into submission, killing thousands.… Go to Article
A compilation of photos taken since Israel began bombarding Gaza on 18 August. To see a large version, please go to our website and click on the photo http://australiansforpalestine.com… Go to Article
‘608 Brunswick Street, Fortitude Valley’
— a story about a share house in Brisbane
in the late 1970s and early 1980s
by Ian Curr
"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke, "There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.… Go to Article
Phil Monsour News and Information
Hi
The band will be doing a couple of acoustic shows in the next month.
This Sunday the 21 of August at the Crown Hotel at 2 pm in the afternoon.… Go to Article
EIA reports a 3.9-percent increase in U.S. energy-related carbon dioxide
emissions in 2010 –
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of fossil fuels were 5,638 million metric tons carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2010, an increase of
3.9 percent from the 2009 level, according to Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 2010, an online analysis released today by the U.S.… Go to Article
Henri Cartier-Bresson’s ‘Decisive Moments’ to Show at Queensland Art Gallery
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004), the influential French photographer who redefined both photojournalism and his craft as an art form, will be celebrated in a major exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery from August 27 to November 27, 2011.… Go to Article
Mark Holcroft was born in the same year as I, 1950
Mark died in the back of a prison van
Why?… Go to Article
“It is illegal in Australia to mislead consumers regarding country of origin, if the label says ‘Made in Australia’ when it is Made in Israel then that is illegal. … Go to Article
Community notice – please forward through your networks!
IT’S PEOPLE’S DAY
at the QUEENSLAND GAS CONFERENCE!
Join the rising voice of the community at the Queensland Gas Conference, bill as “Queensland’s most important Coal Seam Gas / LNG event”!… Go to Article
[From Site Worker]
The UK construction industry seems set for an autumn of strikes. 500 rank & file construction workers from around the country voted unanimously to organise a series of unofficial wildcat strikes in opposition to the 35% pay cut proposed by the construction employers.… Go to Article
CHILDREN and Young People interrogated for 13 hours upon arrival at Christmas Is. This contrasts with treatment of people arriving on the island of Lampedusa off the Sicilian coast.… Go to Article
[Aboriginal News]
Media RELEASE 15 August 2011
YINDJIBARNDI ABORIGINAL CORPORATION, Roebourne, WA
On Friday 12 August the Full Federal Court handed down its decision rejecting a challenge by the Yindjibarndi People against the grant of three mining leases to Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) for its Solomon Hub project.… Go to Article
From: “Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation” <media>
Date: 9 August 2011 11:04:30 PM
Subject: FMG Solomon Mining Lease Fact Sheet
Dear Madame/Sir,
Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) has made a number of statements in recent weeks regarding the status of their Solomon Hub project.… Go to Article
This is what detention does to people – is anyone listening?
This man is stateless.
Misapprehensions, not facts, drive our dysfunctional asylum-seeker debate
SO we think we have a better political system than the US, where a distorted debate and congressional gridlock can hold an essential debt-reduction policy to ransom?… Go to Article
Memorandum on Libya Handed to British Consul-General in Cape Town by SACP and Allies by the South African Communist Party, Brian Bunting District
12th August 2011
The British Consul-General
The British Consulate
Riebeeck Street, CAPE TOWN
Cc: All Media Houses
Dear Sir,
We, the leadership and members of the following organisations the SACP, ANC, COSATU, SANCO, ANCYL, YCL, ANCWL, MJC and PASOP and all democrats and peace loving peoples of the African continent, demand that you convey to Her Majesty’s Government of the United Kingdom our call for an end to the bombing by NATO forces of Libya.… Go to Article
http://australiansforpalestine.com/49995
MEDIA RELEASE
13 August 2011
Human Rights and Community Organisations
condemn attempts to silence BDS Movement.
We the undersigned call on the Victorian Consumer Affairs Minister Michael O’Brien to withdraw allegations he made singling out several pro-Palestine advocacy groups calling for them to be investigated by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) for an alleged suspicion that they may be involved in secondary boycotts against Israeli-owned businesses in Australia.… Go to Article
The discussion paper is a crucial step in the development of a new National Cultural Policy.
Consultation began on a National Cultural Policy in 2009, and has involved the arts and culture sector, creative industries, the public at large and government.… Go to Article
