Dear All,
Byron benefit for Palestinian children
The award-winning film Tears of Gaza will be screened at a fundraiser for Palestinian children affected by the Israeli occupation next Tuesday, January 22, from 6.30 to 10.30pm at the Byron Bay RSL in Jonson Street.… Go to Article
Assad should never have put down the struggle for democratic rights in Syria. He weakened the rights of the people by using force against them.… Go to Article
According to You Tube these videos are Bush Telegraph‘s all time top videos
1. 1982 Land Rights Struggle – Brisbane Cmwlth Games
2.… Go to Article
by David Rovics
One evening in the spring of 1993 I took a bus across San Francisco, leaving the troubled, largely impoverished neighborhood of the Western Addition, populated mostly by the descendents of African slaves, in which I lived (representing, I suppose, the artistic hippie beginnings of the gentrification process which has since pushed most of San Francisco’s Black population across the bay).… Go to Article
[Editor’s note: This speech by Coco Wharton given at the sovereign tent embassy in Musgrave park on 12 Dec 2012 was broadcast on PShift [Fridays at noon on 4ZZZ fm102.1 – Many thanks to KC for the transcription.]… Go to Article
This discussion with organisers of the Brisbane Anarchist Summer School (BASS) was broadcast on the Paradigm Shift [Fridays at noon on 4ZZZ fm 102.1] on 21 Dec 2012.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: It is timely to remember our struggle at occupy of one year’s past – especially since people are trying so hard to keep the sacred fire alight in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article
"This is a country very concerned about making things
seem to happen without actually doing anything.
They like to talk about progress,
but that comes at a cost,
and the cost is on us"
— Kevin Vieritz at first Sovereignty & Land Rights
Conference in Brisbane in November 2012
On 18 Dec 2012 police arrested Jagera (Yugara/Yugarapul) traditional owner on his own land for lighting the sacred fire in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article
“Whose land is this land is it for you and me who knows, who knows this land better than you and me.… Go to Article
[Editor’s note: This is a letter sent by one of our readers to the Byron bay newspaper ‘The Echo’]
Dear Editor (of the Echo),
During the 2011 Writers’ Festival I parked my Free Palestine trailer on a safe patch of grass on the corner of Bayshore Drive and Sunrise Boulevard so that Festival attendees could read its billboard messages.… Go to Article
Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a need for political culture. In West End appeared the the first coffee club in Brisbane – May the 1st Club which was a regular event organised by activists from the democratic rights struggles in the 1970s.… Go to Article
West Papua (called Irian Jaya by the expansionist, military-backed Indonesian regime) is rich in natural mineral and precious metals resources, making it a target for foreign trans-national corporations such as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.… Go to Article
Former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser Condemns Australia for Abandoning Assange and Abdicating Sovereignty [If only (sic)!]
In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with WL Central, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has accused the current Gillard government of acting as though Julian Assange “doesn’t exist, that he’s not an Australian citizen.”… Go to Article
TODAY 12PM: Bahraini refugees join Sydney rally protesting Israel’s massacre in Gaza
Today the Bahraini Australian Youth Movement (BAYM) will participate in a rally organized by Palestinian Action Group Sydney (PAGS) at Town Hall at 12 pm, condemning Israel’s most recent aggression and massacre in Gaza that has killed 163 Palestinians thus far including children and women.… Go to Article
On this sad morning there is no justice in the dawn
So many years of dying where does hope get born
Not over the broken and bloodied bodies of sleeping children
Or the fork tongued lies of the criminals and their defenders
— Phil Monsour
Song for Gaza 2012
No More Lies No More Silence
This was broadcast on the Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 on Friday 23 Nov 2012.… Go to Article
I AM sitting here writing this article 39 years to the minute from that moment when the sirens started screaming, announcing the beginning of the war.… Go to Article
I was born without a passport
I grew up
and saw my country
become prisons
without a passport
— Without a Passport by Rasheed Hussein
In Washington, D.C.… Go to Article
The Bahrain Australia Youth Movement (BAYM) will join NSW teachers today who are rallying statewide against cuts to education by the O’Farrell government in the latest budget.… Go to Article
Emergency protest for Gaza
A state of emergency has been declared in the Gaza strip after a round of drones and shelling from Israel.… Go to Article
10:30PM EST: The Bahrain Australia Youth Movement has received reports that a 16 year old boy, Ali Abbas Rabhi, has been killed by Bahraini security forces on the Al’Baridye highway in West Manama, Bahrain’s capital city.… Go to Article
Hi team,
Hope to see you there!
Save Wynnum Hospital and Moreton Bay Nursing Care Unit!
Rally this Saturday 10 November
Assemble: 10am, Moreton Bay Nursing Unit Carpark, New Lindum Rd, near Cnr Wynnum Rd, Wynnum West.… Go to Article
Hello All,
The Qld Branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are pleased to announce that our special guest at our Sunday November 11 Meeting will be Dr Alice Aruhe’eta Pollard from the Solomon Islands.… Go to Article
Talk by Humphrey McQueen at the Railway Club, Darwin, 17 July 2012.
In paying acknowledgement to country I want to do more than mention custodianship and sovereignty.… Go to Article
The next Queensland Uncut meeting is Thursday November 29th, 6.30pm, Trades and Labour Council Building, 16 Peel Street, Level 2 – hope to see you there!… Go to Article
The QUT Free Speech Campaign would like to thank all those who have participated in the activities we have held at QUT recently.… Go to Article
This may get a lot of airplay today depending on how convinced the Media unit at the Minister’s office are. It is worth remembering that this is not the first time that the Sri Lankan Government has made claims of piracy by Tamil Asylum Seekers.… Go to Article
BY:ROWAN CALLICK From:The Australian October 06, 2012 12:00AM
Syrian Christian abbess, Mother Agnes-Mariam de la Croix, pictured at St Patricks church in Melbourne during a visit to Australia.… Go to Article
We Have Survived by NO FIXED ADDRESS

Politics of Repression was broadcast on Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday at noon on 12 October 2012
“If you fly with the crows, you’ll get shot with the crows.”… Go to Article
