Month: October 2012

Aboriginal Nations issue Assange with passport

It is with a sense of pride and complete social justice that this Association has worked with the Sydney Support Assange and WikiLeaks Coalition to have the privilege of successfully arranging for Julian Assange to be able to be issued with an Aboriginal Nations Passport that his father, John Shipton, will accept on his behalf at the Welcome to Aboriginal Land Passport Ceremony to be held at The Settlement, 17 Edward Street, Darlington from 11am to 4pm on Saturday 15 September, 2012.… Go to Article

NTEU eNews 24 October 2012

eNEWS Bulletin of the University of Queensland Branch of the NTEU

24 October, 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

  • Fair Shares Staff and Student Forum: Budget Monster Strikes Again
  • National Office Media Release: $1 Billion Cuts to Higher Education
  • Colleagues at UQ: Celebrate the End of Semester
  • Solidarity Concert: Voices for Victory
  • Brisbane Labour History Symposium: Back to the Future…

FAIR SHARES Staff and Student Forum
Budget Monster Strikes Again:
Tales of Disappearing Funding

Wednesday 31 October 12 noon – 2 pm

Room 212 Goddard Building (8) St Lucia

The draft UQ budget is taking even more funding from Faculties and Schools into central administration.… Go to Article

Workplace Guilt by Association

[This Paradigm Shift  was broadcast on 19 October 2012 on 4ZZZ fm 102.1]

A derelict house slumps to one side
Poster peels on a bolted gate
Its faded but not forgotten
“An injury to one is an injury to all”

 — ‘View From A Wooden Chair’
Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk

Contents

Intro
Song – View from a wooden chair
The Long Night
Song – La Guittara
Voices for Victory
Song – Cantombe Mullatto
Wide Awake – the rise of union solidarity
[All songs are sung by Jumping Fences – more details can be found at their website]

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Intro
Jumping Fences – View From A Wooden Chair Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk

It is not coincidental that Paradigm Shift address the question of the Politics of Repression (second part in the series).… Go to Article

When will Spring rain?

This is how I see it

Black throated pied butcher bird
picking up sticks
sees bicyclist
Pied strikes like a drone in Yemen
2 metre tall cyclist
Takes refuge
under Poinciana
Juveniles join in
Kamakase air raids
triangular strafing with clapping beaks
30 centimetre birds can cower a man

Takes off helmet to expose every grey hair
now sitting on dew covered grass
afraid to leave or to shout out
Raid after raid comes in and then…

Two women with pram appear
on Milne Lane

Beautiful pink baby inside sucking buttons of shirt,
Grey-hair tells them of attacks,
One woman, the mother’s mate,
says how territorial butcher birds are

Shared millisecond of concern
by all three for pink baby
blinking in morning sunlight
Mother and friend confident birds will give pram right of passage
down Parooba Avenue

Grey-hair takes flight down the road
only to come across an old lady on the path
who admonishes him
saying “Should you be on this path?… Go to Article

Don’t Block the Sun

Picture the good news: a third industrial revolution, powered by decentralized energy and massive digital connectivity. Picture the bad news: the residual institutions of the second industrial revolution, powered by oil and 20th century transportation habits, threaten to hold this third revolution back, maybe kill it.

… Go to Article