Category: latin america

RoadMap to Apartheid

[PShift (4zzz fm 102.1 Fridays at noon) broadcast on 20 Sept 2013 – ‘Roadmap to Apartheid’]

Six years ago, almost to the day, a Palestinian citizen was killed by Israeli forces on Wednesday morning in Al-’Ayn refugee camp, west of Nablus, during an Israeli incursion into the refugee camp which began on Tuesday 18 September 2007.… Go to Article

The Australian Green Development Forum hosting Cuban Professor

The Australian Green Development Forum is hosting eminent Cuban Professor for their roadshow on April 1st.

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Professor Fernando Martirena from Santa Clara University in Cuba will be our special guest for the 2013 AGDF Building Resilience Roadshow.… Go to Article

May the 1st Club

WERC - May 1st Club


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

Latin America: the pink tide

Introduction
I have much to say on Ecuador and Rafael Correa. In short though, I think two things stand out about Correa:

a) Correa has a PhD in economics, speaks 7 languages and has written an excellent book attacking neoliberalism called: Ecuador – From Banana Republic to No Republic.… Go to Article

The Long War — Turnstyle hosts WikiLeakes

‘Those masters plan wars in tall towers
But do they think of the children and the flowers?
They conscript women to kill
But care not a damn
Young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
Now buried in the sand
Back in Afghanistan’
— Last Train to Mirabad
by Ian Curr

Slideshow/Report/Update – Ecuadorian Embassy London *Short Report Briz Gig for Julian Assange

New blog post here with an update on Julian Assange’s situation and ongoing solidarity outside the Ecuadorian Embassy: http://wp.me/p1rtyw-GT.… Go to Article

The Battle of Chile – CONFECH-Chile representative in Australia

Welcoming to Australia, Tuesday April 3rd, 2012, 7pm Trades Hall Basement (corner of Lygon and Victoria Streets in Carlton South)

Saturday April 7, 2pm, Marxist conference, Melbourne University – Melbourne

Wednesday April 11, 6:30 pm to start at 7pm, OPEN FORUM – The Battle of Chile for public and quality education and its relevance to Australia, Including last updates on Aysen Struggles, at LHMU(Miscellaneous workers Union) ground floor meeting room, 117-131 Capel St.… Go to Article

17 Group discussion in May 2011

Race politics and reading practices: two as pects of the New Australia experiment.

Wide eyed romantics and a heartbreak dream
Your motives aren’t what they seem
You’ve got your feet caked in Australian mud
And you can’t deny what’s in your blood
Under Paraguay skies and the nights so cold
You can forsake your country and lose your soul — ‘Virgin Ground’ by Red Gum

The May meeting of the 17 Group will be on Wednesday the 4th of May at 7pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article