Month: May 2012
Protected: Who took Ridha?
Flowers at the Gorge on Straddie
- JOHNNY MONTANA Creative Genius’s SkyDrive ►
- Thanks to BUSHCARE these wonderful plants have somewhere to live at the Gorge!
… DOGITs over Musgrave Park — government deception
There is a common misunderstanding that all DOGITs are for Aboriginal people, but this is not so.
Musgrave Park itself is all a DOGIT (Deed of Grant in Trust), with Brisbane City Council being the trustees.… Go to Article
The right to strike, strikes and workers’ control
‘The right to strike, strikes and workers’ control’.
Speech by Chris White at ACTU Congress fringe event 2012.
Unionists need to organise for the right to strike, for the effective strike and for workers’ control.… Go to Article
Justice4Palestine—photos of Nakba action/next meeting
Hi everyone,
Here’s a link to some great photos of yesterday’s action to commemorate Al Nakba: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.360619227336411.85261.100001650097091&type=1
The next Justice for Palestine meeting is next Wednesday (May 23), 6:30pm at 8 Gillingham St, Woolloongabba.… Go to Article
From little things, big things grow
Musgrave Park — Sovereignty!
In 1998 the Qld government handed over a section of land at Musgrave Park to the Yaggera people.
FOLLOWING a struggle that lasted more than 20 years, the Musgrave
Park Aboriginal Corporation (MPAC) secured a portion of Musgrave Park in South Brisbane to build a cultural centre.… Go to Article
Al Nakba
Salam all
There will be no meeting this week as it is Al-Nakba (the “Catastrophe”), an international commemoration of the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948.… Go to Article
PUBLIC FORUM: 20 years too long: why mandatory detention must end
Dear supporters of refugee rights,
You may be aware that the 20th anniversary of the introduction of mandatory detention passed about a week ago.… Go to Article
Greece 15-40% pay cut
Collective agreement continuance expires today; hundreds of thousands of private sector workers face 15-40% wage decrease
As mainstream national and international media occupy themselves with the forming of a coalition government, an extremely significant story has received little coverage in Greece: today marks the expiration of the collective agreement continuance (metenergeia ) for 80 out of a total 0f 220 branch collective agreements in the private sector in the country.… Go to Article
URGENT: Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy supporters needed at Musgrave Park
Brisbane City Council to try to forcibly remove Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy supporters urgently needed at Musgrave Park
14 May 2012
Brisbane City Council has turned its back on negotiations with the Brisbane Sovereign Embassy over its right to exist in Musgrave Park, South Brisbane.… Go to Article
Police amass at James Price in the Kimberley after Mothers Day protest by 600 outside Broome Police Station – Save the pristine Kimberley
by Gerry Georgatos
Today, Monday May 14, after yesterday’s peaceful protest by 600 folk outside Broome Police Station, police are amassing in large numbers at Blacktank camp access route – to ensure Woodside Petroleum geophysical site work for the proposed gas hub precinct at James Price Point.… Go to Article
Driven by competition with China, US escalates military presence in Australia
by Alison Thorne
U.S. President Obama and Australian Prime Minister Gillard shake hands and cement an alliance to boost the U.S.… Go to Article
Recognise the traditional owners of Musgrave Park
The Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman Graham Quirk, has done his council and the people of this city a disservice by his failure to seek a genuine accommodation with the traditional owners of Musgrave Park over the Tent Embassy.… Go to Article
IWW – then and now
By Humphrey McQueen
Given the parlous condition of the organised labour movement, it is hardly surprising that attempts are underway to revive the IWW (Wobblies – Industrial Workers of the World).… Go to Article
Brisbane Mayor to attend Embassy at Musgrave Park
URGENT
THE LORD MAYOR ( CR. GRAHAM QUIRK ) IS ATTENDING THE GENERAL MEETING AT THE EMBASSY (Musgrave Park, South Brisbane) ON SATURDAY 12TH.… Go to Article
LONDON – Solidarity with Nonviolent Resistance to Military Base Construction on Je Ju Island, South Korea
LONDON – Wed May 9th 2pm-5pm *Gather outside the South Korean Embassy in Solidarity with Nonviolent Resistance to Military Base Construction on Je Ju Island, South Korea
Wed May 9th 2pm-5pm
Peace activists, Catholic Workers & Veterans for Peace UK, a gorup of Swedish students will join Angie Zelter (recently arrested at JeJu Island) and others at the South Korean embassy/London in solidarity with residents of Je Ju Island nonviolently resisting the construction of a U.S.… Go to Article
What’s the plan, comrades?
I got a call from a friend this week asking if I had seen the front page of Wednesday’s Australian. It was covering the 2012 Federal Budget.… Go to Article
Radical Memory Collective
PRESENTS FREE FILMS
At Brisbane City Council Library, Brisbane Square
Saturday, 19th May
Community Room, Ground Floor
1:30—2:30 p. m
FREE VOICE OF LABOUR
Tells the history of the Jewish Anarchist workers’ newspaper that was published for 87 years in New York
3:00—4:15 p.… Go to Article
The Australian prison system has failed — warehouses of illness & death.
Bring on Bastoy for starters
by Gerry Georgatos
PhD researcher Australian Deaths in Custody, Masters Social Justice Advocacy, Masters Human Rights Education
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.… Go to Article
Swimming Free Palestine!
Swimming Free, Palestine
Emad, Gareth and I walked to the
starting line at Wategos beach, near the
Byron Bay lighthouse.
As we entered the water with the other
swimmers, the organisers called off
the race because of treacherous
conditions.… Go to Article
Proposal to start a Brisbane University Staff & Students Assembly
To our friends
We are writing to you to announce the formation of, and invite you to participate in, the Brisbane University Staff & Students Assembly.… Go to Article
“Al Nakba” – 15th May
“Al Nakba” is the name for the day that marks the start of the dispossession, ethnic cleansing, apartheid… for the Palestinian people, officially commencing in 1948.… Go to Article
Launch of Brisbane Workers Assembly
Meeting – Launch of Brisbane Workers Assembly
Dear friends and comrades
Recently a small group of us looked around and realised that we need to do something about the lack of self-organisation in the working class.… Go to Article
2 June Benefit Concert for APHEDA
Benefit Concert CD Launch and Dinner
Saturday 2 June 6.30pm
CEPU Hall 41 Peel St South Brisbane
$25/20 (children under 12 free)
Bookings essential for catering 0400720757 or contact RSVP 27May
All proceeds to Union Aid Abroad- APHEDA.… Go to Article
That is why they call him a bookie
That is why they call him a bookie
BOOKMAKER Tom Waterhouse is at again.
The son of leading Australian racehorse trainer Gai Waterhouse is fresh from betting on the Sotheby auction of the Edvard Munch pastel The Scream.
… Go to Article Stolen Children – high noon at DoCS
Video of rally and march in Brisbane (Wednesday 2 May). People describe how their children were taken away by authorities — removing Aboriginal children from their families and their culture.… Go to Article
Latest on the trial of the Max Brenner 19
Dear Palestine supporters.
Some messages of support for and news about the Max Brenner 19 who are currently on trial in Melbourne for standing up for Palestine:
This video clip from the Australian Jewish News.… Go to Article
Horseys painties and big bucksies
REMIND me not to bet on anything with fewer than four legs.
Aussie bookmaker Tom Waterhouse was betting $1.90 Edvard Munch’s pastel painting The Scream would fetch more than $106.5M at an auction at Sotheby’s auction in New York.
… Go to Article