The inaugural meeting of the Brisbane Sovereign Grannies group was held at Jagera Hall on 27 Mar 2014. Jagera Hall is at Musgrave Park, 121 Cordelia Street South Brisbane.… Go to Article
Category: democratic rights
May Day
May Day – Workers Have the Power
On 1st May workers around the world gather to show solidarity with people’s struggles and hopes for a better life.… Go to Article
Oligarchs of Ukraine
Oligarchical topography of Ukraine.
Andrei Fursov – Sociologist, Historian – 14 April 2014
Many domestic and foreign interests coincided to create the Banderite coup d’état in Ukraine.… Go to Article
Bring our stolen children home
“On 27 March (2014) Pru Goward and the NSW Government passed the most dangerous legislation against vulnerable children and families since Federation.… Go to Article
The Coup Leadership in Ukraine is Fascist
No commentator has doubted that the 22 February 2014 coup would not have succeeded without the paramilitary violence of the far right that met police blockades with firearms and improvised explosives on 18 February 2014.… Go to Article
the black diggers and anzac history
last friday, anzac day, i again made the decision to forgo the main anzac march in the city as i have done for many years.… Go to Article
Aboriginal activists to go to Turtle Island
Brisbane based Aboriginal activists Boe Spearim and Callum Clayton-Dixon will travel to Canada in August this year using Aboriginal passports.
As representatives of the Aboriginal Provisional Government, we hope to develop ties with the Native peoples of Turtle Island (Canada).… Go to Article
May Day Forum — Workers Inquiry
To our friends and comrades
Our lives are dominated by work, but our experiences as workers is most often ignored by mainstream politics and the media.… Go to Article
Why we need warrior societies
Don’t take your children to Vegemite Town
Told us what to do and say Told us all the white man's ways Then they split us up again And gave us gifts to ease the pain Sent us off to foster homes As we grew up we felt alone Cause we were acting white Yet feeling black — Archie Roach, Took the children away
The music industry says it is the home of country music.… Go to Article
Aunty Hazel speaks out against DOCS taking aboriginal children
Grandmothers Against Removals say no to another stolen generation
WHEN: 11AM Friday April 11th.
WHERE: Tamworth DOCS office
14 – 16 Bourke St, Tamworth.… Go to Article
Protected: Unfinished business
Race act debate misses the point
the proposed removal of some of s18c of the racial discrimination act is most certainly being highly evaluated and analysed to death.… Go to Article
Stop the squeeze in Annerley
There has been a call from local residents at Annerley in Brisbane for the City Council to apply its own town planning rules.… Go to Article
Fitzgerald bags attorney general and his cronies
[Editor’s note: The war between the Queensland attorney general and his judges continues unabated. This time the bill to place the Crime and Misconduct Commission under political control is criticised by retired judge Tony Fitzgerald.… Go to Article
The Red and the Black
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The workers's flag is deepest red, It shrouded oft our martyr'd dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold.
Mater nurses and midwives need your support TODAY
Dear friends,
as I’m sure you are aware the public health system is under intense attack – both at a national level, but also currently by the Queensland government.… Go to Article
Cloudland Collective on the Queensland Doctors’ Dispute
The Newman government’s attempts to push public hospital doctors onto unfair individual contracts is an attack on our public hospitals and on the rights of all those who work in the Queensland public sector.… Go to Article
NASTY MEDICINE – Qld Health and the doctors dispute
The Cloudland Collective presents a community meeting….
NASTY MEDICINE –
Qld Health and the doctors’ dispute
Speakers include:
Dr Brian Senewiratne
Meeting details:
7pm Thursday 20 March
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary St, West End
The Newman government wants to impose contracts on doctors that would strip away vital working conditions like fatigue management and job security.… Go to Article
March in March — Brisbane
The March in March was a festive vote of no confidence in the Abbott government. (Refer https://www.facebook.com/events/501397403315324/)
The Brisbane event is part of the national March in March movement and began in Matthew Donovan’s bedroom.… Go to Article
Stephen Keim SC on how the bikie laws deny the right to work
Stephen Keim SC spoke at the meeting on ‘Punitive Populism and the neoliberal agenda of the Newman government’.
He spoke about how some of the provisions of the anti-association laws breach a fundamental human right – the right to work.… Go to Article
Toronto G20 – Main Conspiracy Group
[Editor’s Note: In the lead up to Brisbane’s G20 leaders summit in November 2014, activists would be well advised to read about the charges and how they came to be laid against activists before and during the Toronto G20.… Go to Article
But then it was too late
An encroaching nightmare
What no one seemed to notice was the ever widening gap, after 1933, between the government and the people.… Go to Article
TJ Hickey – 10 years
A NON-APOLOGY FOR AN ALLEGED NON-COMPLIANCE
a friend asked me yesterday why i had not made any statement appertaining to the hickey march on friday 14th february.… Go to Article
The Cloudland Collective: G20 is neoliberal and dangerous
The G20 may not make decisions that can be imposed on member states. It may not have a public service working for it that can monitor to what extent member states have implemented G20 recommendations.… Go to Article
First Nations response to G20 meeting
DECOLONISATION BEFORE PROFIT
PROGRAM
Brisbane
8-14 November 2014
Saturday 8th Rally and march from Roma St Forum to Musgrave Park. Welcome to Country ceremony.
What is the meaning of ‘an aboriginal purpose’?
R v Wharton & Chitts: defence of the sacred fire — Brisbane Central Magistrates Court, 26 February 2014.
On 30 April 2012 two men, Wayne Wharton and Hamish Chitts, were arrested by armed police for ‘obstruction‘ while attending an aboriginal ceremony in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article
cops, lies and tasers
Published by aneartotheground on Feb 25, 2014
Sam Watson speaks at protest against the tasering of Sheila Oakley by Logan police.… Go to Article
brisCAN-g20 working together discussion
(FB event)
https://www.facebook.com/events/322438161214440/
Sunday, March 2, 2014
10:00am
Justice Place, 5 Abingdon Street Wooloongabba
Allies, associates, adversaries take heed!
At the first meeting of BrisCAN-G20 we asked people what they DID WANT and DID NOT WANT at actions against the G20 in Brisbane in November 2014.… Go to Article
“The Whole World is Watching”: 1982
“The Whole World is Watching” (25 minutes)
The idea of the video was to mobilise support for the Aboriginal protests planned to coincide with the Commonwealth Games in Brisbane in 1982.… Go to Article