The biggest mining, energy and transport companies ( in Australia don’t pay any tax yet they cause the most environmental damage.… Go to Article
Month: December 2015
How appropriate are arguments for and against Zionism based on blood, genes, ethnicity, or race?
Judaism had been “a dynamic and proselytizing religion at least between the second century BCE and the eighth century CE.” Jews later grew cautious about conversion, not wanting to offend the dominant Christian and Moslem authorities.… Go to Article
Review of Political Assembly in Qld
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits ...
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked
- Bob Dylan
'Its alright Ma (I'm only bleeding)
In 2013 the Queensland Parliament passed the G20 Act which was based on the false premise that there would be civil unrest and violence during the G20 leaders summit held in Brisbane on 16-17 November 2014.… Go to Article
The Dirty War in Syria
Publisher’s Note: Thanks to John Jiggens we have an interview in three parts with Tim Anderson who has written a book called The Dirty War in Syria.… Go to Article
Carbon Credit Cargo Cult?
Publisher’s note: Some years ago a former CSIRO scientist asked a panel of people at Brisbane Trades Hall concerned about climate change if the problem can be solved under capitalism? … Go to Article
War Chronicles in December 2015
[Publisher’s Note: AllBornEqualRights puts together yet another compilation of Western Media fantasies about the Dirty War in Syria. The failure of the western peace movement to mobilise and to oppose this and the wars leading up to it in Lybia stands out as both a weakness and a confusion about the region by the Left everywhere.… Go to Article
Police use bail as a political weapon
[PN: In the past in Qld, bail was used to make the struggle for democratic rights costly. After mass arrests police would set cash bail higher so that more money went into state coffers.… Go to Article
Ningla A’Na – Hungry for Our Land
I’ve seen most this documentary before but not in one sitting. It is an extraordinary document (one of the landmark events in the ongoing struggle).… Go to Article
Are we hostage to mining?
Jac Nasser, chairman BHP Billiton, on the Samarco mining disaster in Brazil
Today Paradigm Shift [4ZZZ fm 102.1, Fridays at Noon] is talking with chairman of the board of BHP Billiton, Jac Nasser.… Go to Article
A vulnerable time…
Chris Hurley stood down pending hearing
CONTROVERSIAL former Palm Island cop Chris Hurley has been stood down from official duties.
The Queensland Police Service yesterday issued a brief statement saying a 47-year-old senior sergeant from the south eastern region had been suspended.… Go to Article
War Chronicle – Secrets & Lies
War Chronicle 16 Dec 2015
(1) Secrets and Lies: The international affairs issue of moderndiplomacy.eu 13 December 2015; (2) Russia-Turkey relations are slipping into chaos, by Shah Rukh Hashmi; (3) Why is Russia bombing Syria? … Go to Article
Birthday Solidarity Vigil with Chelsea Manning
Chelsea Manning Six years behind bars so far.
Chelsea Manning will turn 28 years of age on Thursday 17th December 2015, and birthday vigils, meals and other commemorations like letter writing to prisoners sessions, will be held by supporters to celebrate her in various locations in the United States and Europe, including London and Dublin.… Go to Article
Latest refugee detention and community statistics
> The latest detention statistics have come out.
> The ASRC Wonderful Vollie team update these on our website so they will be updated today.… Go to Article
Construction workers and firefighters clench their fists
On 8 December, for more than 2 hours, the streets of CBD Melbourne echoed loudly with angry protests by thousands of unionists from the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union and the United Firefighters Union.… Go to Article
Transfield Carols this Thursday 17th!

Love Makes a Way would like to invite you to a Carols Service at Broadspectrum (Transfield).
WHEN: 5pm (sharp) to 6pm on 17 Dec.… Go to Article
The future of human rights in Australia
[PN: Here is a good summary of Human Rights from a liberal perspective … the author, Gillian Triggs askes ‘should we invest in companies that service offshore detention centers?’… Go to Article
SpotLight – a film about abuse in the Catholic Church
Exclusive Preview Screening Tuesday 15 at 2.30pm Indro Shoppingtown Cinema
… Go to Article
YOU’RE INVITED TO AN EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW SCREENING OF SPOTLIGHT
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning investigation, SPOTLIGHT is the riveting true story of a team of Boston Globe journalists who uncovered one of the biggest cover-ups in modern times.
Paris: new capitalists enter renewable energy era
[PN: This brief media release from Beyond Zero Emissions announces that the ‘Renewable Energy Era has Arrived’.
If people think that a new generation of green capitalists backing renewables is somehow is a solution to the world’s problems, think back to the late 1960s and early 1970s when the new rich in Australia were the mining companies replacing old wealth from agriculture and manufacturing.… Go to Article
War Chronicles 2015

[PN: Here is an extensive digest and a number of short videos from All Born Equal Rights on the war without end]
13-Dec-2015 Tariq Ali on Jeremy Corbyn and Stop the War Coalition (in the UK)
13-Dec-2015 George Galloway on Jeremy Corbyn and Stop the War Coalition (in the UK)
…………………………………………………………………………………..… Go to Article
A Common Wealth of Words
I don't think that our society cares
enough about poetry to get worked up
about it.
- Kath Walker (Oodgeroo Nunuccal)
In the lead up to the 1982 Commonwealth Games, the Commonwealth Writers Festival was held in Brisbane.… Go to Article
From the Black Panthers to Black Lives Matter
Fifty Years of Activist Art by Emory Douglas
BDS Carols Dec 19th

Dear supporters of the Palestinian People
On the morning of Saturday 19th December Justice for Palestine Brisbane
will be serenading Mr Toys Toyworld customers, staff and passersby to
help them understand that buying Israel made goods for Christmas (or
ever) is not on.… Go to Article
50 years of Pine Gap
Please share this Date Claimer with your friends colleagues and members of organisations.
… Go to ArticleContact IPAN with expressions of interest or questions: aspatt2016
‘Reclaim Australia’ poem
Reclaim ‘RECLAIM AUSTRALIA’ from the sad-sacks of shit
No straighter road to reclaiming Australia exists
than the one the Gurindji took reclaiming Wattie Creek
from the Lords Vestey by walking off in ‘66.… Go to Article
British military veterans discard medals at Downing St. in protest at bombing of Syria
> VIDEO – British military veterans discard medals at Downing St. in protest at bombing of Syria >
> http://tinyurl.com/njjeov3
>
> Ciaron O’Reilly
> Blog http://ciaron.wordpress.com/… Go to Article
Digest for Brisbane Anti-War Co-ordinating Committee
Several people have told me over the past few weeks that they miss the articles on the Middle East wars that I used to share on this forum.… Go to Article
Breaking the law (and the lessons learned)
The law and its enforcement is an impediment to justice. So where are these just masters that we appeal to? Ian Curr.… Go to Article
Australia’s offshore processing policy being examined by High Court in Canberra
[PN: There are a number of refugees being currently being held in detention in Australia awaiting the outcome of a high court case which will determine whether they will be deported to Nauru or not.… Go to Article



