Month: November 2011

Rally at Labor conference: not in malaysia – not in nauru – end mandatory detention – refugees are welcome

Hi all,

The rally for refugees at the national Labor Party conference is now just over a week away. We are pleased to be able to announce that Ged Kearney, President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions has now confirmed to speak.… Go to Article

Australia shatters its party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child

by Gerry Georgatos

It is indeed now common knowledge that Australian adult prisons are incarcerating children as young as 13. The human rights struggle to free these children from our adult prisons has been an arduous one, with the major obstacle the Australian government and the horrific prejudices and stereotypes they have shoved down throats so as to perceptually modify views.… Go to Article

Book Launch at the New International Bookshop: Humphrey McQueen, ‘We Built This Country’

You are invited to attend the launch of historian Humphrey McQueen’s
seventeenth book:

*We Built This Country: Builders’ Labourers and Their Unions*
(Ginninderra Press, Port Adelaide, 2011)

At* The New International Bookshop*
Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St Carlton, Vic
*Wednesday 30th November 2011
6.30 to 7.30pm*

Humphrey McQueen is a freelance historian and cultural commentator who has written extensively on Australian society, culture and the labour movement.… Go to Article

‘Poultry’ pay not OK: Baiada workers on why they’re striking

‘Poultry’ pay not OK: Baiada workers on why they’re striking
By Sue Bolton
From Green Left Weekly, Saturday, November 19, 2011

The main slogan on the Baiada workers’ picket line in Melbourne’s western suburbs is “No more $10!… Go to Article

“Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” by Adrian Caneris

From: WPSQ Brisbane Branch
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 9:45 PM
To: brisbane
Subject: “Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” by Adrian Caneris

Hi,

This Tuesday night we have our last presentation for the year “Urban Wildlife – The good the bad and the just plain ugly” By Adrian Caneris, Managing Director, Biodiversity Assessment and Management, 7.30pm, at RGSQ.… Go to Article

BHP in front line as Marines take Darwin

fyi
contention & collusion
betwixt & between the imperium
& its pretender are looking more than a tad hot
jim

BHP in front line as Marines take Darwin
By John Helmer

MOSCOW – The share price of OM Holdings, one of the few pure manganese miners in the world to be listed on an international stock exchange, fell 9% the day after the Australian and United States governments signed a new military pact, inviting 2,500 US Marines to a base in Darwin, and threatening China with as yet undisclosed new military measures.… Go to Article

Remarkable scenes of nonviolent resistance to in the face pepper spraying at Occupy U.C. Davis, California

From: Ciaron OReilly
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 7:56 PM
To: ENGOXFORDCWCliveMeena ENGOXFORDCWCliveMeena
Subject: Remarkable scenes of nonviolent resistance to in the face pepper spraying at Occupy U.C.… Go to Article

Local coalition to oppose US military presence in Australia and an independent security policy for Australia?

Hi friends,

you may be interested in a new initiative which JustPeace is launching – a coalition around US military presence in Australia and an independent security policy for Australia.… Go to Article