German rightwing rock fans tricked in anti-extremist T-shirt stunt
Nationalist message on T-shirt changes to call for tolerance when taken home and washed
- Helen Pidd, Berlin
- guardian.co.uk
Month: August 2011
LONDON – Reflections on a week of riotin’, tweetin’, lootin’, burnin’, 1500 arrested & countin’ following the police killing of Mark Duggan
by Ciaron O’Reilly
Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?
— ‘Ballad of a Thin Man’, by Bob Dylan
‘LONDON – Reflections on a week of riotin’, tweetin’, lootin’, burnin’, 1500 arrested & countin’ following the police killing of Mark Duggan’ by Ciaron O’Reilly, Giuseppe Conlon House, Harringey, London.… Go to Article
Streets of Our Town
Radio Station 4ZZZ (FM 102.1) is running a radiothon under the theme ‘Streets of Our Town’.
Local writer, Bernie Dowling, puts his own spin on the streets of greater Brisbane in the Crime Thriller Iraqi Icicle.… Go to Article
Film Night this week – “When the Dust Settles” (about uranium)
DATE CLAIMER ……
FILM NIGHT …. “When the Dust Settles” (about uranium) ….. about 40 minutes long
Presented by Redlands Greens
SUPPER provided by Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Wednesday 10 August, 7pm … Community Language Centre, Cleveland High School, Russell St, Cleveland
ALL WELCOME
Inquiries: Norma Forrest … ph 07 3207 7929… Go to Article
Attempts to stop ‘BDS’ campaign
The Australian newspaper has published an article (8 Aug 2011) ‘Israeli boycotts: ACCC called in about the 19 people arrested in Melbourne protesting against the Max Brenner store’s support of the Israeli Defence Force.… Go to Article
Lies that fed the NT Intervention.
Benefit for Ampilatwatja Nation:
Saturday. 13 Aug 2011
Refreshments from 4pm, presentation by Chris Graham at 5pm, music until midnight.
Ampilatwatja Nation (pronounced um-bludder-witch) is a community of up to 650 people 350 km north-east of Alice Springs (Mparntwe Country) and affected by the NT Intervention.… Go to Article
Tent 1948
‘This week, Israeli Knesset passed the anti-boycott bill, which outlaws the non-violent action of economic, academic and cultural boycott.
Last week, it attacked another non-violent action, the fly-in campaign, and week before that, it was the flotilla.… Go to Article
Boycott Apartheid Israel!
Hi everyone,
There will be a Justice for Palestine meeting this Wednesday (Aug 10), 6:30pm at the TLC Building (2nd floor), 16 Peel St, South Brisbane.… Go to Article
Capital against Capitalism: a conference of new Marxist research
Fire Brigade Employees Union, Sydney, 25 June 2011
as reported by Humphrey McQueen
In memory of a life-long sparring partner – Bob Gould
[This report does not summarise all the twenty-one papers.… Go to Article
Xstrata’s massive mine proposal
Foe v Xstrata Info Night – Thursday 4 August
Come along to the Abel Smith Lecture Theatre at UQ this Thursday at 6pm for an update on our case against Xstrata and their mega coal mine.
… Go to Article Open Letter to UN High Commissioner – Malaysia Solution Begins
Dear High Commissioner of UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR),
It is with terrible sadness that I send you this report.
While millions of people are dying of starvation in Africa, while others are drowning in the Mediterranean, in Australia with 1600 plus people arriving by boat in this rich empty land, our brutal politicians are planning a war against asylum seekers.… Go to Article
Just Like US, Education Program
COMMUNITY WELCOME PROJECT 
Community responses to Refugees and Asylum Seekers
ll programs are linked to VEL.Artwork by Kate Durham ‘Each one an optimist’
Where: The Multicultural Hub 506 Elizabeth Street (opposite the Queen Victoria Market) Melbourne.… Go to Article
Book Launch – ‘Union Jack’ by Dale Lorna Jacobsen
Jack O’Leary went as a young man from
the coalfields of Wales to the railways in
Queensland. Details of his life were sketchy
– he had taken his bride to live in a navvy
camp on the Mary Valley branch line out
from Gympie; then to Ipswich working
in the Railway Workshops; then service in
World War I; and finally holding a full-time
position in the Australian Railways Union (the forerunner of the RBTU), playing a significant role in this organisation.… Go to Article