First Nations forest protectors are calling for more allies to join them camping out at Deebing Creek https://soundcloud.com/ian-curr/first-nations-people-call-for-support-to-save-deebing-creek Here's an update from Deebing Creek from Jono Sri and Amy McMahon filmed a couple of days ago. For now, joining the Justice For Deebing Creek ( Goori Sovereign Land Council ) group is a good way … Continue reading First Nations people call for support to save Deebing Creek

High voltage lines bringing electricity from far away coal fired power stations and small boy wonders what sort of world he will live in as an adult. What kind of world … ?Small boy passes the common on the way to childcare and home every week. He loves to stop for a run on the … Continue reading Mama, where is Time?

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Hannibal ad portas!"Hannibal is at the gates!" Hannibal managed to lead his Carthaginian army over the Alps and into Italy to take the war directly to the Roman Republic, bypassing Roman and allied land garrisons and Roman naval dominance. Yet he could save only half of his famous elephants. Stage 18: Tao Geoghegan Hart and … Continue reading There goes the floor

"The first brigade from Australia to Cuba was named the Eureka Brigade and left Australia in December 1983, returning in January of 1984. After this, New Zealanders were also invited and the brigade became known as the Southern Cross Brigade, or Brigada Cruz del Sur in Spanish. The stated aim is to give Australians and … Continue reading Cutting cane in Cuba for the Revolution

"Vaccines don't save lives, vaccinations save lives" Mullumbimby in Northern NSW boasts the highest number of parents who do not vaccinate their children. Mullumbimby has a large alternative community in an advanced capitalist country and is environmentally conscious but distrusts modern medicine. Why? We post this recent article frm the New York Times that sheds … Continue reading Covid Vaccination

Listen online to Paradigm Shift [4ZZZ fm 102.1 fridays at Noon] about 'The Brisbane Left'12pm Fri 16 Oct 2020: http://ondemand.4zzzfm.org.au/paradigm-shift Interviews with Anarchists and Socialists from the 1960s & 70s about how they became radicals. Features interviews with Barbara Hart (Brisbane Anarchist), Di Zetlin (former member of the Communist League), story by Ted Reithmuller about … Continue reading The Brisbane New Left

Join us at 4pm Thursday 22 October for an online webinar to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories and in refugee camps in neighbouring Lebanon. Palestinians During a Pandemic: Impacts in the Middle East and the Community Response  Thursday 22 October, 16:00 (AEST) Registration is essential!Register now! The consequences of coronavirus … Continue reading Palestinians during a pandemic: Impacts in the Middle East, and the community response

"When Petersen first became Premier, he was virtually a non-entity. (The previous Premier, Pizzey had died after a few months in office, after the retirement of Frank Nicklin. Jack Pizzey was in his fifties when he died.) ... Petersen had one vital thing that was missing from his predecessers. · He possessed a native understanding … Continue reading Vietnam and the Right to Organise

I am an old woman.When Germany had awokenPension rates were cut. My childrenGave me the pennies they could spare. ButI could hardly buy anything now. So at firstI went less often to the shops where I’d gone daily.But one day I thought it over, and thenDaily once more I went to the baker’s, the greengrocer‘sAs … Continue reading The Shopper

Ipswich Residents who are concerned about the proposed Remondis Incinerator in Ipswich are taking matters into their own hands concerned politicians aren’t doing enough to protect their health and the environment.   They will blockade the Head Office Waste Office Transfer Station in Rocklea to send a message to the proposer and the State Government … Continue reading Ipswich Residents Fed up with being told Rubbish about Incinerators

Book launch for Anne Richards' memoir - 'A Book of Doors' About this Event AndAlso Books invites you to the launch of A Book of Doors -- Anne Richards' new look at growing up radical in Brisbane during the culturally and politically conservative late 60s-early 70s. Join Sally Breen and Dan O'Neill, in conversation with … Continue reading A Book of Doors

ABC Four Corners covers the Beirut blast in August 2020. https://www.facebook.com/abc4corners/posts/10157692526810954

This month ordinary cyclists, unionists and activists across Australia combined to do a Big Ride for Palestine to raise money for a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. This week Lance Armstrong rode a cycle tour of Beirut to raise cash for blast victims. George Hincapie, a pro cyclist who travels with Armstrong, was there on … Continue reading Bike for Beirut

This is the latest report about the Assange extradition hearing (now in its 5th week) at the Old Bailey in London. Note that it is assumed in the report that Assange will not get a fair trial should he be extradited to the U.S. What I do not understand is that the defence in Assange’s extradition trial does not appear to be arguing that you can’t extradite a person from one country (the UK) to another (the US) if the person is unlikely to get a fair trial?

This month we bring you performances from Cuban trovadores; Erick Sánchez and Enid Rosales, and Julio Hernández. We met Erick in 1996, first seeing him play at the Sala Atril in the Karl Marx Theatre. Later, on a subsequent visit he was playing with Enid who plays the Cuban tres. Julio we met in 2001, … Continue reading Foco Nuevo in hibernation

Given a choice between building attack class submarines for the Navy (cost = $50 and the cost of running power underground throughout Australia (cost is the same), I know which one I would opt for.