Thanks to Lachlan Hurse (NTEU) for capturing International Women’s Day 2019 in Brisbane/Meanjin in pictures.
Month: March 2019
The fight for the future of union seafaring in Australia
| LISTEN NOW The fight for the future of union seafaring in Australia: Part 1 The shipping industry and conservative governments have been systematically manipulating laws so that bosses can fire their MUA seafarers, and directly employ non-union seafarers from south-east Asia. |
Women fight to end exploitation, inequality, violence and imperialist war
The 2019 International Working Women’s Day throws a powerful spotlight on working women’s lives and struggles in a period of global resistance to the increasing burdens and exploitation of capitalism and US imperialist interventions, invasions and coups.… Go to Article
IWD Fundraiser: ‘So, which band is your boyfriend in?’
Palm Sunday Rally for Peace and Refugees
JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES
PEACE NOT WAR
BRING THEM HERE
Speakers include:
Aran Mylvaganam, co-founded Tamil Council of Australia
Professor Susan Harris-Rimmer, Griffith University
Senator Larissa Waters, Australian Greens
Join us on Palm Sunday to stand up for refugees.… Go to Article
Swim for the Reef – revisited
Join the Wello Pointers Team
Sunday, 10 March – 9:30am
We are inviting you to be either a swimmer or supporter for the Environmental Defenders Office Qld’s (EDO Qld) fundraising effort called SWIM for the REEF.… Go to Article
On the basis of sex
In the lead up International Women’s Day 2019 Dendy has put on this excellent film about one of the victories of the women’s movement, in this case, that women should not be discriminated against in their employment on the basis of their sex.… Go to Article
‘Will no one rid me of this meddling priest’? – Paul Keating
There is a thought that has haunted me for a long time … it is to portray a wholly good man.… Go to Article
The future of labour is female
Cleaners and carers fight together in French protests
Romain Lafabregue · AFP · Getty
Women have put on yellow vests and joined the demonstrations, women who double-shift domestically and at work to keep the creaking social state going for modest wages, as nurses, home care assistants, nursery workers and cleaners, usually out of sight, in the background.… Go to Article
School Strike 4 Climate
Yellow vests don’t do politics
‘We debated for hours and decided nothing’
The weekly meeting in Branceilles (1) was starting as I arrived.… Go to Article
Armistice Day, making the world safe for Big Oil
11 November: Armistice Day
Or, Making the World Safe for Big Oil
The guns fell silent on the Western Front at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month while they continued to blaze on the Eastern Front, in the Far East and – above all – throughout the Middle East as they still do.… Go to Article