VID (20 mins) – Veterans for Peace UK meet with former I.R.A. prisoners in Belfast
Month: March 2015
Cuban Film Night
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The Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane Branch) invites you to a
Cuban Film night
Casa Vieja
(in Spanish with English Subtitles)Friday March 20
6.30 pm Food and refreshments
7 pm Film startsKurilpa Hall
174 Boundary Street, West EndEntry by Donation | Drinks on sale
Bring a Plate of food to shareAbout Casa Vieja (2010)
Based on the classic Cuban piece “The Old House” by writer Abelardo Estorino, the film tells the story of Esteban, who, after learning of the imminent death of his father, returns after a 14-year absence to his mother’s home in Cuba to rediscover a nearly untouched past.
Greece: Phase Two
Publisher’s note: Will the Australian Left continue to criticise the new Greek government from small rooms? Has Greece become Chile in 1973?… Go to Article
Palm Sunday Rally 29th March 2015
Coal, land and country
Paradigm Shift broadcast Friday at noon on 14 March 2015… Go to Article
Magda Community Arts presents Reedy River
DICK DIAMOND’S AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC
‘REEDY RIVER’
Produced and presented by Theatre Genesis and Magda Community Artz
Director Jan Nary
A ROLLICKING AUSTRALIAN MUSICAL PLAY SET IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SHEARERS’ STRIKE OF 1891.… Go to Article
Aborigines are here! fight for the block!
aborigines are here! quite a simple but logical statement but according to the building firm, deicorp, all aborigines have been moved out of redfern.… Go to Article
Indigenous hip hop artists support grandmothers to go to World Social Forum (Tunis) to expose ongoing Stolen Generations
Indigenous hip hop artists support grandmothers to expose ongoing Stolen Generations at World Social Forum in Tunisia
Fundraiser Concert
Tonight, 6pm til late
Addison Road Community Centre
142 Addison Rd, Marrickville NSW
Featuring:
THE LAST KINECTION
(Available for media comment)
KWEEN G
FREEDOM RIDERS- Provocalz n Felon
DEEPSEA LIGHTS
OLIVER DOWNES
Aunty Jenny Munro (Co-founder, Aboriginal Tent Embassy) and Aunty Hazel Collins (Founder, Grandmothers Against Removals) will address the World Social Forum in Tunisia on 28 March to expose the ongoing injustices against First Nations Peoples in Australia and build international support for grass roots movements across the country.… Go to Article
Aboriginals becoming refugees
Aboriginals becoming refugees, following WA community closures
Aboriginal rights campaigners have set up a refugee camp for displaced people in Western Australia say they feel like refugees in their own country following the removal of essential services in many remote communities across the state.… Go to Article
‘Throw away your books, let’s go out into the streets!’
Australian media continues to frequently ignore important stories emerging from Palestine-Israel, stories that are vital to context setting and framing during those times when the issue actually does hit international headlines.… Go to Article
Low cost housing v. Mundine mansions
today the redfern aboriginal tent embassy (rate) moved from the mediation phase up to the next level of our protesting against the aboriginal housing company ceo, mick mundine, wanting to ignore the needs of the aboriginal community elders and aboriginal families.… Go to Article
Forum: Occupation and Oppression in Palestine and West Papua
ACFS Bris March Meeting
… Go to ArticleHere is a reminder for our March meeting:
Tuesday 10 March 2015
level 2, QCU Building, 16 Peel St, South Brisbane
6.30 pm
AGENDA
1.
Protected: Not All, Fall Down
Public Housing at Millers Point
on this coming tuesday and wednesday of the following week there will be two events that highlight the burning need for public housing and the urgent need to save the housing estate at millers point.… Go to Article
Global Pearls
Global Pearls is an idea that was birthed during a very long and reflective drive out to Kenilworth on the Sunshine Coast one day after being so deeply inspired by my experience in India late last year
It’s aim over time is to discover a collective of community development initiatives around the world and provide a space for small scale projects to showcase the diverse creative talents and products made by its participants while raising awareness about the social and economic contribution it endeavours to have within its community.… Go to Article
Scourge of Coal and Coal Seam Gas Test Bore Holes
Dr Nicki Laws from the Oakey Coal Action Alliance reported to me recently that there have been potentially thousands of coal mining and coal seam gas (CSG) test bore holes drilled across Queensland that are not required to be sealed, unlike farm water bores.… Go to Article
Reviving the race on a cleaner Yarra River
This summer I did the backstroke And you know that's not all I did the breast stroke and the butterfly And the old Australian crawl, the old Australian crawl.… Go to Article
Philistines at the Gates: Coaldrake’s millions
Coaldrake wrestles with his conscience every day and wins!
- former QUT employee
Community shutdowns, WA.
this open letter to ban ki moon, united nations secretary-general, from ghillar michael anderson clearly shows that the collective australian governments lust for the profits of the stolen lands of the aboriginal nations of wa has now reached crisis point.… Go to Article
Womens Rights are Democratic Rights!
Paradigm Shift 6 Mar 2015 … weekly show about politics on community radio 4ZZZ… Go to Article
Celebrate Foco Nuevo’s 7th birthday!
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Come and celebrate our 7th Birthday! FOCO NUEVO IN FEBRUARY
Friday, 6 March 2015, 8.00 p.m.
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary Street West EndSadie and Jay / The Toni Pollard Band / Jumping Fences
Cakes, tea and coffee available.
Pimento Report: Syriza
Pls note the intro is a song by Victor Jara “El Pimiento” (note spelling and translation below) which goes:
El pimiento
En el centro de la pampa
vive un pimiento.… Go to Article
QANTAS bans passenger for supporting asylum seekers
Listen to 2GB interview with passenger who walked off plane carrying asylum seeker.
Note the weak position taken by 2GB interviewer: “It does not matter was your position on asylum seekers is …”
It clearly does matter because QANTAS is supporting government deportation of asylum seekers by flying them out of the country.… Go to Article
Greece: Syriza and the ‘troika’
[PN: This month from the Vanguard. Please note, KKE = Communist Party of Greece]
Greece is a developed country long dominated by imperialism, and in recent times, particularly by the economic domination of European imperialism expressed through Germany and the ‘troika’ with their austerity measures which impose great suffering on the people.… Go to Article
New report counts high economic costs of health impacts from coal
[PN: This report on the health costs of coal mining in the Hunter Valley came out a week ago, is worth looking into.… Go to Article
We will boycott Israel!
Abbott’s Failing Search For Scapegoats
[Publisher’s Note: Fair enough, but why the focus on Tannous Abbout, a man in his final days as Australian Prime Minister?]… Go to Article
Activists cc all their emails to ‘Curious George’ Brandis
VLADIMIR: We're waiting for Godot.
ESTRAGON:(despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here?
Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
[Publishers Note: A savvy media campaign from Beyond Green? … Go to Article