Month: February 2015

Selling manhood

Qld Reds[Publisher’s Note: Geoffrey Blainey had a different take on manhood than Andy Paine:

“The idea of distance throws new light on the rise of and importance of whaling, wool, gold and the dynamic export industries of the nineteenth century, on the immigration of Chinese in the 1850’s and Italians a few decades later, and on immigration from the British isles throughout Australian history.

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“Stolen Generations are worse than ever before”

Testament by affected Aboriginal Families on Anniversary of National Apology
“Stolen Generations are worse than ever before”, testify affected Aboriginal Families on Anniversary of National Apology

10am Thursday 12 February, 2015
Room S23, Federal Parliament House, Canberra

Hosted by Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Speakers include:

Debra Swan (NSW)
Former Child Protection worker from North-West NSW, who quit after a decade of service, saying Aboriginal child removals are driven by racism.… Go to Article

A new revolution in Australia

Indigenous Australians are regrouping after more than two centuries as the socially disadvantaged ‘other’ people.

Native Australians demonstrate for their rights [Al Jazeera]

Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders activists hope 2014 will be remembered as the year they said: “Enough is enough.”… Go to Article

Greece is Chile? Syriza, Allende?

Sitting in the sun
 Live to Fight - Fight to liveon Scorpius
 1963
 a very
 good year bad year
 Greek democracy died
 political assassination grew
 to national proportions
 with the victims
 the President and Lee
 Harvey Oswald
 on live tv
 in front of my eyes
 living in a house covered
 with snow and sunlight
 falling through the lace
 curtains in the tv room
 on Scorpius
 the play of weather
 on real-time screens
 batch processed
 through megabit
 disks to predict
 weather
 here
 and there
 in the Chile streets
 to the victor
 belongs the spoils
 in Greece
 the winter stadium
 become prison
 as bare months ago
 so too the stadium
 became the prison as the
 shudder
 of spring turned red
 with the blood of brothers
 ya estan matando a Chilenos
 and now they are killing Chileans
 in the Greek sports stadiums
 too
 they are showing
 how they define
 spoils
 justice
 live to fight
 fight to live
      - Daniel del Solar To the Victor belongs the Spoils

 After the election of Syriza in Greece – Power is not in Parliament

Today, across Europe, the left is excited by the likelihood of Syriza topping the polls in the Greek election.… Go to Article