After all these years, what will Julian do now? Get well, if that is possible? You see how quickly they put him on a plane  out of Britain, a release to minimum security to Micronesia,  another US base in the Pacific.… Go to Article

There are decades​ where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.’ – Lenin

“This is Sinn Fein’s position on Palestine.… Go to Article

The Australian government introduced mandatory detention of refugees in the early 1990s, and one has to ask has it learned anything but in the intervening years?… Go to Article

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From Australia to Cuba with Love

SPECIAL EVENT

Wynnum Walk
From the Mangroves to the Jetty 

10 am Sunday, 23rd June 

Meeting at the Wynnum Mangrove Boardwalk Carpark
(Click here to see on Google Maps)

Join us for a walk this Sunday morning with the Cuban Ambassador, Tani Dieguez to put Cuba in the public eye.… Go to Article

Here is an article Why has the Australian Parliament failed to debate the tragedy of Gaza? – Pearls and Irritations (johnmenadue.com)… Go to Article

Review by Caroline Moorehead
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
by Nathan Thrall (Metropolitan)
Nonfiction

In 2012, a catastrophic traffic collision in Jerusalem left a school bus filled with Palestinian children on fire for more than thirty minutes before emergency workers arrived.… Go to Article

Rosemary has asked me to say some words about her exhibition and of course I said “yes”, but I made a mental note that I would say upfront that I am not an artist and the little I know about art I have gotten from Rosemary herself.… Go to Article

Nine months, twenty rallies, fifty thousand lives … this must end

A rally of 500 people came out in Brisbane Magan-djin on 15 June 2024 as part of the global solidarity movement for Palestine.… Go to Article

Australia-Cuba Friendship Society (Brisbane)

info@acfs-brisbane.org

From Australia to Cuba with Love 2024

June 1^st to July 26^th 

Register here

Week 2 wrap

Dear Ian

We are two weeks into the campaign and registrations numbers are building.… Go to Article

As part of the from Australia to Cuba with Love campaign currently under way in Australia and in Cuba, Sue, Lachlan and I had some interesting conversations on a 60 kms ride to Nudgee Beach and back.… Go to Article

The known unknowns

Firstly, let me tell you what we don’t know. How does an obscure engineering firm in Tingala in Brisbane get to be part of the global arms trade with Israel.… Go to Article

For a number of months a group of us has held a weekly vigil outside Boeing in Brisbane city to highlight their complicity in the genocide in Palestine.… Go to Article

First week wrap

From Australia to Cuba with Love 2024

June 1^st to July 26^th 

Register here

We have had a great start to our campaign.… Go to Article

Sadly , Israel’s unlawful detention and torture of Palestinians has been going on for as long as I can remember.

Over the years, WBT has recorded the complicity of Australian governments that have ignored written complaints and petitions taken up by Australian friends and families of these prisoners.… Go to Article

From the red line banner that thousands held around the White House in Washington to the millions that marched in Sana, the capital of Yemen, Palestine solidarity is now a global phenomenon.… Go to Article

This is our third Brissie to the Bay ride that takes in amazing vistas of Moreton Bay from Wynnum to Redland Bay.… Go to Article

The University of Queensland has been underpaying its workers. This is what the National Tertiary Education Union has to say on the matter in its Media Release on 28 May 2024 :

University of Queensland staff suffer ‘staggering’ $8m wage theft
“The scale of the wage theft at UQ is staggering.… Go to Article

In the north, not a house still stands, nor a tree under which to seek shade – quote from a Palestinian in Raffah.… Go to Article

Alternative News Radio program – Government lies, spying and war provocations.

(Music fades in and out)

Andrew 1. Good morning listeners.… Go to Article

We thank Lee Duffield, the graduate representative in the University of Queensland senate, for his report about the Gaza student encampment at that university, the only one in Queensland to have a tents set up during the genocide in Gaza. … Go to Article

In the immigration debate, toxic politics on both sides – stirring hate and fear of “others” is a last resort for politicians devoid of ideas, imagination and humanity.… Go to Article

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“The United States will never start a war” – US President John F Kennedy’s ‘peace speech’ in 1963.

“A fish rots from the head down” – Ancient proverb.… Go to Article

“Ce souffle venu des ancêtres”
[This breath came from ancestors]
— Jean-Marie Tjibaou

In August 1975, I visited an island in the Pacific called Ouvea which is part of the Loyalty Islands group to the east of New Caledonia.… Go to Article

What’s on this Week

1 Vintage Reds Monthly Meeting – 

·       Climate Denial, Union Busting and the Atlas Network

·       Hear the latest from the Unionists for Palestine Activists Group

2 Foco Nuevo – Friday night music, politics and friendship

3 Suggested Reading – Kanaky and Independence

1 Vintage Reds Meeting

Thursday 6^th June at 10am @ the QCU,

16 Peel Street, South Brisbane

‘Climate Denial, Union Busting and the Atlas Network’?… Go to Article

US President Joe Biden urged Hamas to accept the latest Israeli ceasefire and hostage-release proposal. The proposal includes three phases to end the war, release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, and begin reconstruction in the Gaza Strip.  … Go to Article

Building Solidarity with Cuba

Solidarity on the Move  31 May 2024

Australia to Cuba with Love 2024 Our annual campaign starts tomorrow (1st June) with a launch at the Brisbane Botanic Gardens at 10 am.

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Lots of people have been asking so here is a step-by-step guide on how to find information on the direct export and import of weapons between Israel and Australia

https://x.com/davidshoebridge/status/1795686180111187983?s=46&t=psps5jXeHvNaD5ruc_AYBw… Go to Article