Dear friends,
Yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan.
While most of Australia has been trying to forget about this war which has claimed 28 Australian and tens of thousands of Afghan lives, some of us felt moved enough to go to the place where many, if not most, Australian troops deploy to fight what is called the war on terror (really, the war of terror).… Go to Article
For every worker who’s sentenced,
Ten thousand won’t forget,
Where they gaol a workers for striking,
It’s the rich buggers country yet
—Helen Palmer, ‘the Ballad of 1891’ .… Go to Article
Passing Of A Great Truth Teller
Suvendrini Perera
Dr Aunty Ruby Langford Ginibi, one of Australias foremost Aboriginal authors, passed away on Saturday 2nd October in a Sydney nursing home.… Go to Article
The Commissioner of Taxation, Michael D’Ascenso, has boasted that he is in line to be given a $295,000 pay rise. This is on top of a 3% rise he gets automatically each year and would take his salary to over $800,000.[Canberra… Go to Article
— from original intent to hyper-inflation
By Humphrey McQueen
With the development of interest-bearing capital and the credit system, all capital seems to double itself, and sometimes treble itself, by the various modes in which the same capital, or perhaps even the same claim on a debt, appears in different forms, in different hands.… Go to Article
Next meeting of the 17 Group: Wednesday the 5th of October at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article
Foco Nuevo continues to bring the best of local artists in Brisbane with our guest musicians this month being Caroline Hammond and The Phil Monsour Band.… Go to Article
Documentary screening: Sling Shot Hip Hop
Slingshot Hip Hop is an 80 minute high energy political documentary about Palestinian Hip Hop.… Go to Article
from Nonviolence Today,
Australia’s nonviolence magazine,
ceased publication August 2000
At 3am on 17 January 1991, members of the Gulf Peace Team camped on the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia were woken by the sound of heavy bombers flying overhead.… Go to Article
