Editor’s Note: It is interesting that these marches are being led
by secular groups such as The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Democratic Front.
Palestinians often live in tents next to their demolished homes.
| Phil Monsour Newsletter 1
Hi All Thanks to all those who supported the recent CD launch and fundraiser. The event raised over 2100 dollars and the money was directed to the Gaza Strip through Union Aid Abroad Apheda. |
Women under Siege
Challenges and Hopes of Afghan Women
Shazia
Revolutionary Afghan Women’s Association (RAWA)
You are 
cordially invited to attend this human rights and community event.… Go to Article
… Go to Article“Today I went home for the first time in 61 years…I remember playing in the courtyard.
Letter from Palestinian Friends
Dear All,
Be aware that all the following Kafiyeh designs are not original prints. These are not true Palestinian Kafiyehs, and are mostly made in Israel with an objective to reduce the popularity of the original one.… Go to Article
The house-arrest for an indefinite period of time of Jaffa-based theatre artist Samieh Jabbarin signals a sharp escalation in the harassment of citizens engaged democratically and legally in expressing their political views.… Go to Article
Today I went home for the first time in 61 years I remember playing in the courtyard We left because we had to The Israelis were coming Today was not the day for me to go home But one day my family will return We will go home, we will go home
اليوم أنا ذهبت البداية للمرة الاولى في 61 عاما / أتذكر اللعب في فناء / تركنا لأننا كان ل/ الإسرائيليون القادمة و/ اليوم لم يكن يوم بالنسبة لي العودة الى ديارهم / ولكن يوم واحد من عائلتي سيعود / سنذهب البداية، أن نذهب إلى البيت
To listen to the Arabic version click here — http://bushtelegraph.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/arabic-version-of-going-home.wav… Go to Article
The coalition cronies will be off and running today following the
interview in Radio National this am.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/24/2551337.htm
Please comment.
They (the cronies & pals) are already using the interview to accuse the Rudd Government.… Go to Article
The situation in the Gaza remains grim after the recent brutal invasion that has left the people of Gaza under siege and struggling to meet their basic needs.… Go to Article
Dear Colleagues
I know the information below is, in all probability, known to all.
It is also extremely painful to remember.… Go to Article
By Emad Sinan
Write it down!
I am an Arab.
Card number, fifty thousand.
I have eight children
and the ninth is due after summer.… Go to Article
The article below gives quite an insight into the Zionist fund-raising organisations – especially the United Israel Appeal (Keren Hayesod) and the JNF (Keren Kayemeth LeYisrael) and the Jewish National Fund [JNF] subsidiary (Himnutah) that specializes in land theft by subterfuge in the occupied territories.… Go to Article
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan is narrative non-fiction, meaning it tells a personal narrative of the people affected by the occupation of Palestine and does it in the context of the history of this unresolved conflict.… Go to Article
“Let no one say the past is dead.
The past is all about us and within.” —Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) 1970
Even though 2009 is a long way from 1985 when government sanctions were launched against the apartheid regime in South Africa, what effect economic sanctions had on the apartheid regime should be considered by groups launching boycott campaigns against Israel.… Go to Article
‘I Have a Million Nightingales’
Text adapted from the poetry of Palestinian writer Mahmoud Darwish, tune by Linda Hirschhorn
I Have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart,
I Have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart,
Singing freedom, freedom, freedom,
Singing freedom, freedom, freedom!… Go to Article
by Ray Bergmann
A rally was held at Queens Park in Brisbane on Saturday 17th January 2009 to protest the Israeli attacks on Gaza following a six month siege, which is part of a century-long continuing Zionist colonial project of ethnic cleansing and politicide of the Palestinian people in collaboration with Great Britain and the United States.… Go to Article
UmmahMedia put together these videos of the protest at Rudd’s office on Thursday Jan 15, 12 noon, Morningside in Brisbane.… Go to Article
Here are the speeches at the Rally on 10 Jan 2009:
Here are the chants and speeches during the march:
ummahmedia has put together this excellent coverage of the Brisbane Gaza Rally and March on 10 Jan 2009
Part 1… Go to Article
Brisbane to continue to protest attacks on Gaza
Press Release, Friday 9th January 2009
People from all walks of life including members of Brisbane’s Palestinian community along with supporters of Palestinian freedom and social justice will gather in Queens Park in the city on Saturday
10th January 2009 at 12.30 pm to protest Israel’s invasion of Gaza and to highlight the shocking humanitarian crisis that is a result of Israel’s continued murderous attacks on the people of Gaza.… Go to Article
Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.
The Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated pieces of property in the world.… Go to Article
A rally of about 400 people (one person for every life lost in Gaza) gathered in Queens Park to protest the human rights abuses by the Israeli government in Palestine.… Go to Article
email enquiries:
Kathy kathynew1@hotmail.com… Go to Article
… Go to ArticleStatement Concerning Homeless World Cup Players
10Th December 2008
The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre asks the media to respect the privacy of the players who may be seeking legal advice about their future.
Israeli historian Ze’ev Sternhell, described in The Founding Myths of Israel (published in Hebrew in 1995 and in English in 1998), the motive of Israel’s leaders for retaining the conquests of 1967 as “imperial expansion”, and he decried the Israeli occupation and Israel’s nationalistic settlement of the West Bank as a major impediment to “Israel’s ability to develop as a free and open society.”… Go to Article
You are invited to the live video recording of Phil Monsour and his band performing songs from his new album the empire’s new clothes on the 23rd of August starting at 7pm at Ahimsa House in West End.… Go to Article
Iraqi Resistance now a popular revolution?
Compiled by Ray Bergmann
| “Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind An’ the unpawned painter behind beyond his rightful time An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing” — Bob Dylan, Chimes of Freedom. |
