[Publisher’s Note: Today, most of the low paid jobs in the hospitality industry in the USA belong to Hispanics and blacks who get paid about $5 an hour.… Go to Article
Month: November 2015
Climate Change march ‘lifts morale’?
Reports from the march: “When the head of the march was at South Bank the tail was still at Queens Park.”… Go to Article
Portugal Socialist Leader Antonio Costa Named Prime Minister
The new government is expected to be sworn in this week as the leftist parties vowed to scale back on privatization and end austerity.… Go to Article
‘Bucket loads of extinguishment’ of Native Title to assist Adani Mine
"I wonder how he (Barry Broe) kept his job"
- sacked public servant.
Here are some key points (some missed, some not) in the article by the ABC (below) :
- When Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating introduced the Native Title Act many aboriginal leaders predicted ‘bucket loads of extinguishment’ of Land Rights for Aboriginal people.
Homecoming
Front door for kids at Melbourne MITA camp- renovation completed
… Go to ArticleTell Senate NO to More force Bill
Pamela Curr
ASRC Refugee Rights AdvocateLet’s close Nauru and Manus and bring people to safety in Australia #RightThingToDo
ASRC is on the land of the Wurundjeri & Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation
Rights of the Aboriginal Australians in the Commonwealth: Treaties needed in Australia
‘concerned Australians’ (‘cA’)
‘cA’ has received overnight the attached media release from the Berlin Office of the NGO the Society For Threatened Peoples (STP), calling on the Australian Government to form clear agreements and to enter “credible dialogue to treaty/ies with the Aboriginal Australians.”… Go to Article
Final chapter in my 2015 Talisman Sabre resistance
I just got back from Rockhampton, after court yesterday. Here is a brief report.
It was a good day all in all I think.
Stop Forced Closures of Aboriginal Communities
Foco Nuevo in December
Our final Foco Nuevo for 2015! It will be a wonderful way to end the year, with our two guest acts, Farmer Brett and Crooked Foot, and 3 Miles from Texas.… Go to Article
Scrap the Carmichael mine – Brisbane Climate March details
… Go to ArticleBrisbane Peoples Climate March
9:30am Saturday 28 November
Queen’s Park, Cnr Elizabeth & George Sts
West Papua Flag raising
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> Flag Raising for West Papua Independence day – Brisbane
> 4.30pm singing practise
> 5.00pm- 6pm Vigil
> King George Square Tuesday December 1st 2015
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> On December 1st, 1961, West Papua raised its flag and celebrated its independence as a united nation.… Go to Article
Red Alert for Byron Shire
Say no more to Open Sores
If developers get their way
Would make Byron Shire like Gaza
The most populated land on earth!… Go to Article Loss of life on ‘Rio Doce’ down to BHP Billiton
Los Justos – The Righteous – Lamed Wufniks
Un hombre que cultiva su jardín, como quería Voltaire
A man who cultivates his garden, as Voltaire wished
El que agradece que en la tierra haya música
He who is grateful for the existence of music
El que descubre con placer una etimología
He who takes pleasure an etymology
Dos empleados que en un café del Sur juegan un silencioso ajedrez
Two employees South in coffee play a silent game of chess
El ceramista que premedita un color y una forma
The potter, contemplating a color and form
El tipógrafo que compone bien esta página, que tal vez no le agrada
The typographer who sets this page well, maybe not like
Una mujer y un hombre que leen los tercetos finales de cierto canto
A woman and a man who read the final triplets of a song
El que acaricia a un animal dormido
The patting a sleeping animal
El que justifica o quiere justificar un mal que le han hecho
He who justifies, or wishes evil they have done
El que agradece que en la tierra haya Stevenson
He who is grateful for the existence of Stevenson
El que prefiere que los otros tengan razón
He who prefers others to be right
Esas personas, que se ignoran, están salvando el mundo
These people, unaware, are saving the world
– Jorge Luis Borges
“A dam holding back water from an iron ore mine near Mariana, Brazil, has burst.… Go to Article
Shoalwater Peace Pilgrim on trial in Rockhampton
Shoalwater Peace Pilgrim aims to put war on trial
Wednesday 25th November 2015
Rockhampton Court House, Rockhampton
“Peace Pilgrim”, Jim Dowling, goes to trial today for being part of a group of 16 people who occupied Shoalwater Bay Military base in July this year.… Go to Article
Violence results from lack of veto against mining in Native Title process
23 November 2015
Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, Head of State of the Euahlayi Republic and co-founder of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy said from Tamworth:
Today is a sad day in Aboriginal affairs.… Go to Article
Copyright in the Internet Age – Unlikely Weapon in International Trade Diplomacy
Last Meeting and Break-up of the 17 Group for 2015 will be held amid more than usual festive rejoicings on Wednesday the 2nd of December at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article
Word Bombs
Kurilpa Poets Ends Year with a Blast!
WORD BOMBS!!
2pm, Sunday 29th November, 2015
“the artist, and particularly the poet, is always an anarchist in the best sense of the word.… Go to Article
Fracking our National Parks?
Watarrka is a rugged and beautiful place, a sacred significant landscape for the Traditional Owners, and an international tourist icon for Australia.But… Go to Article
Protected: ‘Kubla Khan but Immanuel Kant’
NSW govt sells power station worth $556M for $1M
Publishers Note: The NSW Govt gave Delta Electricity $556M to keep Vales Point coal fired power station runnning. It has now sold it for $1M to coal billionaires.… Go to Article
‘New Deal’ socialism making a come-back?
“At the heart of Roosevelt’s (New Deal) program was the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, which greatly strengthened the hand of unions, essential parts of every welfare-capitalist order in the twentieth century, from Scandinavia to Canada.”… Go to Article
Protected: Funeral benefit scam on Aboriginal Families
Joe Hill – 100 years
My Will is easy to decide For there is nothing to divide. My kin don't need to fuss and moan "Moss does not cling to rolling stone."… Go to Article
“Labour and revolution” dayschool
LABOUR AND REVOLUTION: class struggle, socialist politics and the Corbyn movement
A dayschool organised by Workers’ Liberty, to discuss the ideas we need to take the new left in the labour movement forward.… Go to Article
Shock to Aboriginal Adnyamathanha Camp Law Mob – the selection of Barndioota as nuclear dump site
[Publisher’s Note: Federal government still not listening.]
__oOo__… Go to Article
Just Peace Qld supports the Brisbane Peoples Climate March
… Go to Article“The Paris Climate Summit is, in a sense, a peace summit — perhaps the most important peace summit that has ever been held.”
Worth a thousand words
Joe Hill Lives! 100 Years since his execution
Transfield/Wilson stop profiting from abuse
[Publisher’s Note: Lowenstein also discusses Transfield/Wilson Security in his book disaster capitalism and supports a divestment campaign against them.… Go to Article
4ZZZ on this day in December
December 8th Dec 1975
It’s our 40th birthday!!
14 Dec 1988
