Monthly Archives: September 2020

Paradigm Shift 18 Sept 2020 http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift Part – IAssange Extradition – Kristinn Hrafnsson Assange is a member of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) who spoke with Wikileakes editor, Kristinin H, about the new charges that the US has … Continue reading →

Like several members of the newsroom, Julian Assange is a member of the MEAA, the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance. The MEAA supports Julian Assange, not only because he is a card-carrying member, but because of the important issues for … Continue reading →

This is a photograph of former UQ politics lecturer Phil Richardson speaking at the Forum. Phil was a regular at the Forum in the late 60s and early 70s. Greg Mallory recalls that Phil was very active in the radical … Continue reading →

Rode up Mt Nebo & Mt Glorious. 50 kms and 1,400 metres of climbing!I remember in the early 1960s our family car breaking down on the Mt Nebo Climb. There was no breaking today with my friends Lachlan and Graeme … Continue reading →

I set myself my biggest Big Ride challenge yet, cycling from home in Yeronga out to Wellington Point to the home of our friends Sue Phillips and Trevor Berrill. There I joined friends in the El Quds team (Ian, Graeme) … Continue reading →

In today’s piece, blogger Say Burgin interviews historian Simon Hall, a former Fox International Fellow at Yale, is currently Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. His research interests focus on the civil rights and Black Power movements, the social movements … Continue reading →

Councillor calls out unsafe roads in West End Developments along Montague Road have led to unsafe intersections near the new Woolworths at Montague Gardens development. Councillor Sri has criticised lack of an holistic approach to council’s traffic planning. Big Propoerty … Continue reading →

Today I joined Barb Williams, Sue Monk, Ian Curr and Khalil Hamdan in the Brisbane launch of the Big Ride, walking through Southbank Parklands, sporting our Big Ride logos, and talking about the Palestinian community in Brisbane. We spoke to … Continue reading →

We post this recent report from the ABC about the closure of Australia’s largest abattoir just west of Brisbane. __oOo__ Ipswich meatworkers stood down by company not eligible for JobKeeper payments Workers from Australia’s largest abattoir have been stood down … Continue reading →

In the mid-1980s, Lachlan Hurse travelled across Latin America, where he saw first-hand both “the consequences of military dictatorships” in places like Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, and “a very different sort of world” in countries like Nicaragua and Cuba. “That experience … Continue reading →

Dear Activists for Palestine, The attached photo shows the breakwater armour rocks which could be transformed into memorials to Palestinians killed by the Israeli Occupation. The names of the deceased could be painted onto these man-made rocks and the breakwater … Continue reading →

This book opens with a possible link between signals from Pine Gap and targetting people in Afghanistan for assassination by drones. I say ‘possible’ because the court case that followed the peace crimes suppressed testimony by experts who could have … Continue reading →