[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
Don’t Buy Israeli Apartheid for Christmas
PROTEST THE PRESENCE OF ISRAELI COSMETIC PRODUCTS MADE FROM STOLEN PALESTINIAN RESOURCES IN AUSTRALIAN SHOPPING CENTRES
Join this protest as part of a National Week of Action around Australia to highlight the plight of the Palestinians under illegal Israeli occupation and help distribute information about the campaign to boycott Israeli cosmetic products.… 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
PShift Intro
Song for Gaza – Phil Monsour
This is part two of a series dealing with this topic – this time we are speaking of Palestine.… 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
Palestinian Arts Culture & Sports Inc (PACSI) is proud to be partnering with Sydney based Cultural Media to bring the national Palestinian Film Festival Australia (2012) to Brisbane.… 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
“Israel is doing all it can with precision bombing to minimise civilian casualties” — Israeli Propaganda [quote by ‘Shirl in Oz‘]
GAZA (IRIN) – The nurses at al-Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip have seen bombing casualties before, but never on this scale.… 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
… Go to ArticleIn Washington, D.C. In 2010 an expert at a seminar said of the 2009 Israeli attack on Gaza " It's unfortunate, but every once in a while you have to mow the lawn.
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
I am against my country's fighters hurting a single ear of corn
I am against a child- any child having to carry a gun
I am against my sister learning weapons drill
I am against what you will ...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
The Bahrain Australian Youth Movement (BAYM) condemns the verdict delivered to Mahdi Abu Deeb, president of the Bahraini Teachers’ Association, yesterday who was sentenced to 5 years in prison alongside BTA vice-president Jalila al-Salman facing a jail term of six months.… Go to Article
A rebel holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher near the Syrian city of Haleb.
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
| In the U.S. http://www.bradleymanning.org/In London http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/2012/free-manning-free-assange/ FREE MANNING – FREE ASSANGE 09/10/2012 WED 17 OCTOBER – ALL WELCOME 1400HRS – US EMBASSY – SILENT VIGIL FOR BRADLEY MANNING PFC Bradley Manning is back in court on Wednesday 17 OCT for another motion hearing. |
The story below is in UK tabloid media.
The concerns raised below the story come from Refugee advocates in the UK who are fighting against the appalling decisions made by their refugee determiners on Afghan Claims.… Go to Article
To mark October 1 Labor Day, the Bahrain Australian Youth Movement (BAYM) is offering solidarity to the struggles of Australian workers and attempting to build a bridge of solidarity between Australia and Bahrain.… Go to Article
last saturday, 15 september 2012, the very peaceful welcome to aboriginal land passport ceremony was held at the settlement, darlington, whereby a great time was had by all 300+ who attended.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: See below an article in the New York Times about the US and Israeli roles in the massacres.… Go to Article
World Cafe
Friday, 21 September 2012
19:30 until 21:30
Ala-din’s Restaurant, 1307 Beenleigh Rd Kuraby Brisbane
Al Tariq is yet again hosting a World Cafe for the UN International Day of Peace.… Go to Article
The AUSTRALIAN newspaper made libelous statements against Boycott Divestments and Sanctions campaign today.
The paper labels the BDS walking tour in Brisbane on the weekend (28 Aug 2012) as ‘extremist’?… Go to Article
Israeli soldiers came for Ridha at 2 am on 21 May 2012.
They were 25 men and women, all armed to the hilt.… Go to Article
by Humphrey McQueen
[Speech outside the
British High Commission,
Canberra, 17 August 2012.]
The news that British police had entered the building containing the Embassy of Ecuador gave Melbourne’s Herald-Scum a further chance to distort the Wikileaks-Assange story.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: Thousands of refugees have fled from Syria to the towns over the border in Lebanon – villages like Qaa and Ras Baalbek.… Go to Article
“Give me back the Berlin wall
Give me Stalin and St Paul
Give me Christ
or give me Hiroshima
Destroy another fetus now
We don’t like children anyhow
I’ve seen the future, baby:
it is murder
Things are going to slide … When they said REPENT REPENT …”
— Leonard Cohen, “The Future”
BRISBANE – Catholic Workers Confront Gen.… Go to Article
In Al Daih on 14 Feb 2011 Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21 years, was shot in the face at close range by police using birdshot.… Go to Article
Justice for Palestine presents
The first Brisbane BDS walking tour
Boycott Divestment Sanctions against Apartheid Israel
Horrors of Apartheid exposed in Brisbane city
Saturday, August 25
Assemble 10:50am.… Go to Article
