Month: July 2014

My grandfather, the blackfella who ran away from himself

[Editor’s Note: Callum talks of trans-generational trauma caused by the ongoing stolen generation.

WBT publishes Callum’s story here (from the Guardian) because it is important … it helps us understand what it is to identify as an aboriginal person, to be an aboriginal person …

WBT thanks brother Callum for having the courage and the intellectual honesty to share his story.… Go to Article

The Liberal Zionists

[Editorial: I post this article from the New York Review of Books in an attempt to understand the delusional nature of zionists who broadcast their inhumane views openly to a world that bears witness to wholesale killing of children in Gaza – a place where the average age is 17 years which means that a quarter of the population are less than 10 years old. … Go to Article

No Peace without Justice

We will not “return to a living death” of siege and blockade, 
say Gaza civil society leaders.
[Editor’s Note: Readers can see from the signatures below that No Peace without Justice  is a sentiment shared by Palestinian community both inside and outside Gaza – people who are losing loved ones, people who have lost so much and who will not give up.
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Seeking Humane and Positive Solutions: Asylum Seekers and Refugees

PUBLIC MEETING- what communities are doing as our country descends into cruelty.
7.30pm

Wednesday – 23 July

Community Hub – Station Precinct, Maryborough

Facilitator: David Sutton, Deputy Principal of the Maryborough Education Centre

The situation of asylum seekers and refugees in our country continues to be grim and we need to speak up on their behalf.

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Wretched of the Earth

Europeans, you must open this book and enter into it. 
After a few steps in the darkness you will see strangers 
gathered around a fire; come close, and listen, 
for they are talking of the destiny they will mete out 
to your trading-centres and to the hired soldiers 
who defend them.
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