Photos have now surfaced of Manus Island immigration detainees. Here, IA provides moving first-hand accounts from them speaking about their appalling conditions – along with more images detailing Australia’s shame.… Go to Article
Category: democratic rights
Death-in-custody on Manus
i know this is a long post but i believe it is more than necessary
whatever the true facts are on mannus island’s detention camp riots/attacks over recent days there is one salient truth that stands above all the abbott/morrison secrecy and that is that both have more blood on their hands by their fascist, racist and xenophobic ‘solutions’ to the continuing flow of asylum seekers attempting to find relief and succour in this country.… Go to Article
MANUS has many victims
LOST DOCUMENTS ( by Australia) PLACE PEOPLE IN INDEFINITE DETENTION
The information debacle in immigration which has seen 10,000 names and details of refugees exposed online has many faces.… Go to Article
Support Sheila Oakley!
… Film Screening: Utopia
Report received from BASE:
… Go to ArticleThe fundraiser last night went well, good responses to the film.
Raised $300 and there were 7 people who pledged to put in to the account each fortnight.
Police allow VLAD Laws against G20 Protesters
Queensland Police have today refused to rule out using VLAD laws against G20 protesters in the event of any incidents. When contacted by Fairfax Media they only started the obvious, that the laws will not be used against “people simply taking part in lawful protests.”Anti-G20… Go to Article
Stone Cold Justice
A SPECIAL FOUR CORNERS / THE AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPER INVESTIGATION
Monday 10 February 2014
The Israeli army is both respected and feared as a fighting force.… Go to Article
Police and locals run amok on Manus Island: scores injured
Scores of asylum seekers have been injured, some seriously as gangs of armed PNG police and locals go from compound to compound attacking any asylum seekers they can find.… Go to Article
Consumers will foot protest bill of $100k a day, says Santos
SARAH-JANE TASKER
The Australian
February 15, 2014
SANTOS has warned that protests at its Narrabri Gas Project in NSW — where seven activists were arrested this week — are forcing delays and adding costs to its development that will eventually flow to the end user.… Go to Article
New Short Film – The Galilee Basin and The Reef
Nathan has put together a cool film about the Aurizon AGM protests and associated issues. Many of you will recognise yourself, friends or reports you’ve been involved in.… Go to Article
Cloudland Collective:- help needed
Hello all
Tuesday’s rally and march in defence of civil liberties was a tremendous success. However the LNP’s authoritarian march continues with legislation enacted this week providing for punishment of organisers of “facebook parties” and protecting police from civil liability.… Go to Article
Survival instinct – misuse of a taser
incredible! and appalling!
the survival instinct.
again an example of misuse of a taser because common sense clearly shows that it was not necessary by any normal standard to employ the taser for compliance purposes.… Go to Article
Griffith by-election 2014
This by-election was made necessary by the resignation of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from the federal parliament and his seat of Griffith.… Go to Article
Vulture Capitalism
I’ve just returned from Haiti and America where I’ve been filming my vulture capitalism documentary with New York film-maker Thor Neureiter (Papua New Guinea was visited late last year and Afghanistan is next on the list).… Go to Article
DOCS Rally & March in Brisbane
DOCS Rally in Brisbane
10.30 am Roma Street Forum (under the big tree opposite Court Buildings)
Thursday 13 Feb 2014
March to DOCS*
11:30 am
111 George Street, CBD
In recent weeks people have come to tent embassy meetings in Musgrave Park speaking of DOCS taking their children away.… Go to Article
Grandmothers demand apology
Grandmothers demand DOCS return stolen children on anniversary of apology
Grandmothers and families from Gunnedah will rally outside NSW Parliament House today at 12.30pm to demand an end to what they say is a new Stolen Generation of Aboriginal children.… Go to Article
Demand Justice for Sheila Oakley!
A life flows like a river Darling,
Down goes another Murri
Wise men say only fools rush in
So how do we respond to this
Especially if, only one fella’s left
from ‘Two Train Singers‘ by ian curr
Rally 11 am Saturday
15 Feb 2014
26 Jacaranda Avenue, Woodridge
March on Logan Police Station!… Go to Article
Film Screening: the Gatekeepers
Believing Women for a Culture of Peace
and Just Peace for Palestine present
FILM SCREENING 
A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets.… Go to Article
More lies: Israel in U-turn on child justice?
The Australian has teamed up with Four Corners to investigate the Israeli military’s treatment of Palestinian children in the West Bank.… Go to Article
The town that was murdered
[Broadcast on PShift, 4zzz, fm 102.1, at noon on friday 7 feb 2014]
We drove up to a small park in Acland to meet the town’s sole surviving citizen Glen.… Go to Article
You’ve got to be Jo(h)king: History, the Left and Queensland
(This is a guest post from a friend of The Word From Struggle Street Jon)
It was the 40th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising recently.… Go to Article
Protected: Magistrate refuses to listen to submission on the Sacred Fire in Musgrave Park
Songs of resistance – tribute to pete seeger
Songs of Struggle & Resistance
Construction capital – a crock of crooks
The press hounds are baying again about union corruption. The Coalition can spare its budget the expense of another Royal Commission.… Go to Article
Response to “WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria”
Later on the same day that Thomas Friedman published the op-ed in the New York Times entitled “WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria” Jeffery Grossman wrote a response to it in his article ‘Thomas Friedman.… Go to Article
What do Israel and Australia have in common?
Opinion
26 Jan 2014
What do Israel and Australia have in common?Australia’s crimes during its colonial history resemble those of Israel.… Go to Article
Shouting into a dust storm: “WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria”
JAN. 21, 2014
by Thomas L. Friedman, Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times
In the 1970s, I got both my bachelors and masters degrees in modern Middle East studies, and I can assure you that at no time did environmental or climate issues appear anywhere in the syllabi of my courses.… Go to Article
Stop Maules Creek Mine
It’s time: construction of the Maules Creek coal mine in Leard State Forest has begun, and we need your help.If construction goes ahead, the coal from this mine would release carbon emissions almost equivalent to the yearly pollution of New Zealand’s entire energy sector.Labour calls on government to apologise over miners’ strike
[Editor’s Note: It was claimed by a speaker at a recent civil liberties meeting [https://soundcloud.com/ian-curr/q-a#t=31:30] that investigative journalism of the ABC’s Kerry O’Brien stopped Abbott from wining the 2009 federal election and that papers like The Guardian brought down Margaret Thatcher.… Go to Article