— A response to Marrickville Council vote against Boycott, Divestments & Sanctions BDS of Israel (BDS) on 19 April 2011 … click title to read more
See also After the Marrickville Council Vote Tonight from KADAITCHA — POLITICS, POETRY & SATIRE… Go to Article
Thank you all for your previous support for Marrickville Council’s decision to endorse the international BDS movement. Unfortunately that decision is still under threat.… Go to Article
… Go to ArticleTo the citizens of the United States of America, in the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.—
April 8, 2011 from http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=2957
Israel is again inflicting death and destruction using U.S.-supplied weapons against Palestinians in the besieged and occupied Gaza Strip, demonstrating the dramatic imbalance of power in this conflict.… Go to Article
Multi-guess questions on political issues.
The main issues covered in this questionnaire are the Environment, the Economy, and Social Justice.… Go to Article
Posted below is a statement from the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Authority Union (RETA) published by British Socialist Worker.
As a one-time low-level Australian Tax Office worker and former member of the Community & Public Sector Union (CPSU), I am curious about RETA – the Egyptian Real Estate Tax Authority Union.… Go to Article
Let us not speculate from a cosy distance
From whence came the assassin
of brave Juliano Mer-Khamis
More futile still
Who killed Rabin?… Go to Article
Loewenstein Responds To News Ltd | newmatilda.com.
In response to this article by Antony Lowenstein
Antony,
I think you should focus on what Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions of Israel (BDS) is rather than obsessing about the lies of Mass Murdoch.… Go to Article
During Israeli Apartheid Week 2011 in Brisbane, there was a teach-in at Kelvin Grove campus of Qld University of Technology. During her presentation, Samah (Australians for Palestine) asked the audience “Who here is a student?”… Go to Article
Going home
I stand between my shame and relief
I breathe…
The missiles missed this time
Truth is, they didn’t’ miss entirely
Someone’s house is destroyed but not the house
I know so well
Someone’s family is grieving but not the one whose name I carry
I linger… between my shame and relief
I breathe…
I… breathe…
I tell myself
‘this flesh, torn and scattered, is not flesh I have ever embraced’.… Go to Article
Palestinian-Israeli conflict
There have been a series of articles and pronouncements made opposing the Boycott, Divestments & Sanctions of Israel (BDS) campaign.… Go to Article
“We are the black people of the middle east” — Arab youth in film “Sling Shot Hip Hop”
“if you don’t leash that mad dog, it will bite everyone” – Omar Baghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.… Go to Article
Solidarity with Bahrain
Democracy protests have been taking place in Bahrain for four weeks.
The protesters are determined to continue until they win freedom and democracy, as the movements in Egypt and Tunisia have done.… Go to Article
"We came. We saw. He died"
- Hilary Clinton, Secretary of State,
when Muamma Qaddafi was murdered.**
The indigenous people of North Africa are the Berbers.… Go to Article
Phil Monsour News and Information
Hi
Just letting you know about some dates around Australia in March and April.
In Adelaide on the 26th of March I will do the Journey to Palestine show (with videos) at the Box Factory 7pm 26 Regent St South Adelaide.
This is the first of a series of articles based solely on sources inside Iraq that tries to present the facts of the resistance.… Go to Article
Thanks to David A’Gardner for these photos.… Go to Article
Add your name to this letter to support Marrickville council in their BDS of Israel by sending email to marrickvillebds
We invite you to add your name to the Open Letter which is attached to this email.… Go to Article
… Go to Article“When opinions crowd and confusion prevails, set your sight on the course taken by the masses, for that is where the future lies.”
A statement has been issued by the Shabaan Thuwaar Al-Iraq (= ‘Young Rebels’ but it includes people of all ages and different occupations).… Go to Article
By Ray Bergmann
A lot of information to get out about the revolutions in Iraq and Yemen that started three weeks ago.… Go to Article
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine demanded an immediate end to the bombardment and massacres against the heroic Libyan people, condemning the killing of demonstrators committed by the Gaddafi regime.… Go to Article
Brisbane Premiere screening of Return to Gaza
Thursday March 31, 2011
7pm at The Schonell Cinema, University of Queensland
Featuring discussion with director Michael Weatherhead and Samah Sabawi – Australian-Palestinian writer, co-author of Journey to Peace in Palestine and a former executive director of the National Council on Canada Arab Relations.… Go to Article
Time
23 February · 18:30 – 20:00
Location
Avid Reader Cafe
193 Boundary St
Created by:
Justice for Palestine Brisbane, Kathy Newnam
More info To all supporters of Palestine!… Go to Article
The Bush administration brought about the fall of Saddam Hussein by invading Iraq with millions of lives lost.
Eight years later millions of Egyptians brought about regime change by protesting on the streets.… Go to Article
Jaffa oranges are the world-wide variety of citrus grown in many countries. Its origin however wsa in the Jaffa precinct of historic Palestine.… Go to Article
Saturday April 2, lpm – 5pm
QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus
Building Z2, Musk Avenue (near the corner of Kelvin Grove Rd)
Featuring:
Samah Sabawi: Palestinian writer and former executive
director of National Council of Canada Arab Relations
Phil Monsour: founder of Australian Artists Against Apartheid and organiser of Brisbane Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign against Israel building the campaign against apartheid Israel
Organised by Justice for Palestine, Brisbane,
Supported by QUT Student Guild anti-war collective
Phone: 0400720757, Email: contact@justiceforpalestinebrisbane,org
http://www.brisbane.apartheidweek.org… Go to Article
Around 200 people gathered in Brisbane Square today to show their solidarity with the people of Egypt. Protesters heard many speakers from the Egyptian community about the struggle for democracy and supporters also spoke of the significance of the Egyptian people’s uprising to the peoples of the region.… Go to Article
Solidarity with the Egyptian people’s struggle
Yesterday Tunisia removed a barbaric dictator. Today is for Egypt, and tomorrow is for all unjust dictators.… Go to Article
Thus, the one core component of the Palestinian state-building project since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, insisted upon by Israelis and Americans alike, has been for the Palestinians to establish full control over radical elements who might not abjure violence in pursuit of Palestinian aims, and to demonstrate the willingness and ability to identify, track down, and arrest or kill anyone involved in terrorism even as very broadly defined to include those who, in other times and places, would be seen as engaged in legitimate armed resistance to oppression.… Go to Article
