“Art is not a mirror held up to reality
but a hammer with which to shape it.”… Go to Article
Council’s case against Homer reaches new depths
Month: February 2013
Foco Nuevo in March: Our 5th Birthday
FOCO NUEVO in MARCH
Our 5th birthday! Friday, 1 March 2013, 8.00 p.m.
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary Street West End
Aris / YellowBird / Jumping Fences
As always Maggie’s delicious cakes tea and coffee will be on sale.… Go to Article
Stradbroke island sand still being sold unlawfully
Stradbroke island sand still being sold unlawfully – http://www.riversideindustrialsands.com.au
The Supreme Court in 2010 ruled that the company could not sell silica sand under its mining leases for purposes such as mortar and render.… Go to Article
The Wed 6th March meeting of the 17 Group
The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 6th of March at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End for a discussion based on a talk to be given by Dr Piero Georgi, Assistant Professor at the National Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ.,… Go to Article
Bugger the Bankers
LONDON – Report on Bradley Manning 1,000 days in custody.
Bradley Manning’s http://www.bradleymanning.org/ 1,000th day in U.S. military custody was marked in solidarity actions in 70 cities around the world on Saturday Feb 23rd.… Go to Article
Palestinian Detainee tortured and murdered
Minister Qaraqe holds Israel fully responsible for the murdering of detainee Arafat Jaradat, who was martyred on Saturday in the Israeli Prison ‘Majido.… Go to Article
Imperfect solution
Pakistan Refugee confusion grows
As Hazaras are grieving for their families who are being killed daily by militias in Pakistan, the confusion about who said what and who promised what, grows.… Go to Article
New Drone Base in Niger Builds U.S. Presence in Africa
[Editor’s Note: The French military have become bogged down
in Mali. As a result the US has intervened and provided support using
its superior logistics and use of extra-judicial
assassinations with drones.… Go to Article
The Canyons is the greatest story being told
A movie might save Lindsay Lohan from Hell – no not jail, reality TV.
THE crazy true story of the making of the neo-noir Hollywood film The Canyons for $250,000 will be turned into a film one day and it will make hundreds of millions of dollars one day.
… Go to Article Community Bingo at Jagera
Another Bahraini youth dies from tear gas canister head injury
Yesterday, Mahmoud Al Jaziri, 20 year old Bahraini youth was pronounced dead after being hospitalized since February 14 when he was shot in the head with a tear gas canister at close range by Government security forces.… Go to Article
Foco Nuevo in March 2013
Friday, March 1, 2013
8:00pm
Kurilpa Hall, 174 Boundary St, West End 4101
Our 5th Birthday Celebration
Aris / YellowBird / Jumping Fences
$10/$7 – BYO – Maggies delicious cakes, tea coffee on sale
With over 50 concerts presented over the past 5 years we’re in a party mood!… Go to Article
Afghanistan: the rights of Hazaras
22 feb 2013 PShift
Australian soldiers have been a force of occupation in Afghanistan on and off since 2001.
I say on and off because the Australian contingent left Afghanistan to assist in the invasion of Iraq in 2003.… Go to Article
RAC: Rally for Hazara rights and other events
Several events are coming up which are not RAC events, but are of interest to refugee supporters and deserve our support.… Go to Article
Deepen the Conversation: A Burning Landscape
Historian Bill Gammage explodes the myth that pre-European settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.… Go to Article
The People’s Voice – Newman breaks pledge to keep royal children’s hospital
NEWMAN BREAKS PLEDGE TO KEEP ROYAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
The government has kept the public in the dark about closure of the -Royal Children’s Hospital
• Brisbane North will be deprived of the readily accessible and comprehensive paediatric accident & emergency service currently provided by Royal Children’s.… Go to Article
‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland
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‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland Queensland Police Headquarters: Sunday 24 February 2013: 10.30 am to 12.30 pm Inquiries to : Ms Lisa Jones (Police Museum Curator) on 3364 6425 |
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Time |
Speaker (Participants’ biographical details overleaf) |
Topic or comment |
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1030 |
Mr David Fagan |
Chairperson |
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1035 |
Professor Mark Finnane |
‘Australia, South Africa and apartheid’ |
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1045 |
Mr Terry O’Gorman |
‘The Right to protest in 1971 and looking ahead to the G20 conference to be held in Brisbane 2014’ |
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1105 |
Professor Alan Knight |
‘Queensland radicals and the Springbok protests‘ |
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1125 |
Questions from the floor to Professor Finnane, Mr O’Gorman or Professor Knight. | |
The Australian Green Development Forum hosting Cuban Professor
The Australian Green Development Forum is hosting eminent Cuban Professor for their roadshow on April 1st.
Follow the hyperlink for more information and registration
Professor Fernando Martirena from Santa Clara University in Cuba will be our special guest for the 2013 AGDF Building Resilience Roadshow.… Go to Article
Black, Red and White Wars
Most people in the U.S.A. have heard of Crazy Horse that Indian folk hero who demolished Custer's force 'Sitting Bull', the Nez Perce 'Joseph' 'Cochise' 'Geronimo' Indigenous Americans whose deeds of long ago brought a blaze of glory to the red man in his land But do we heed our native heroes who trod this southern strand?… Go to Article
Hazara Genocide continues in Quetta
Another Bomb went off in a Hazara area in Quetta on Saturday (16 Feb 2013).
One of the men at the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) refugee centre said that his 9 year old neice was injured by the blast which was near a school.… Go to Article
Musgrave Park Heritage Register
Musgrave Park (incl former South Brisbane Bowls Clubhouse)
SUMMARY
Gazetted in 1865, Musgrave Park is one of the oldest public parks in Brisbane.… Go to Article
Lazarus Syndrome inspires comic short story
Return from the dead: read a fictional short story about a true-life medical condition
ANOTHER LAZARUS
Belinda Janz
DEAR Aunty Jo,
This last fortnight has been such an emotional rollercoaster ride that I have decided to write this letter as we can hardly believe it.
Face to face with Fukushima
As the Qld government makes motions to open an uranium mining industry in this state, the anniversary of the ongoing disaster at Fukushima serves as a timely reminder of the dangers of the nuclear industry…
BRISBANE
TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2013:
WHAT: Public Forum
WHERE: Brisbane Parliament House – cnr George & Alice Streets, Brisbane
TIME: 11am
Organised by: Friends of the Earth Brisbane, Queensland Nuclear Free Alliance and others.
Community Bingo at Jagera
… WOMADelaide takes money from Israeli Embassy in Canberra
WOMADelaide 2013 has taken money from the Israeli Embassy and ignored the call of Palestinian civil society for an academic and cultural boycott of Israel until it respects human rights and complies with International law.… Go to Article
Refugee homestay initiative fails
Another positive initiative killed off before it could really begin.
… Go to Article“THE federal government’s much-heralded “homestay” program for asylum seekers has collapsed, with just four people who have arrived on boats currently staying with Australian families.
Autistic boy teaches colorful magic
Enjoy this illsutrated short story from the anthology
BRILLIANT COLOURS
Kay Curran
THERE are many ways of experiencing colour!
Bahrain: no hope for the Al Khalifa regime
Bahraini nurse calls on international support after police kill 16 yr old during crackdown on anniversary of democracy protests.
Hussain Al Jaziri, 16 years old, was killed by Bahraini security forces yesterday as the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters intensifies around the second anniversary of Bahrain’s ‘forgotten Arab Spring’.… Go to Article