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
Category: No War
Bahraini refugees join Sydney rally protesting Israel’s massacre in Gaza
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
‘The Great Default’ by Israel
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
AND THEN GILLARD WAS GONE
I had applied for a meeting with Bob Carr (Foreign Minister) prior to the community cabinet meeting last Wednesday (14 November) in my suburb of Kippa-Ring, to raise questions about West Papua, Afghanistan and Palestine.… Go to Article
Women, children main victims of attack, says Gaza hospital
“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
Open Letter to Federal Member about Gaza
On 14 November 2012, Israeli occupation forces began a campaign of bombing Gaza starting with the killing of the leader of the military wing of Hamas.… Go to Article
Mowing the Lawn in Gaza
… 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 Unaccompanied Minor
She reminded me of my daughter with her dark intelligent eyes And her brown hair bunching in lazy curls about her shoulders.… Go to Article
Emergency protest for Gaza: a note on the guy the Israelis targeted in that car
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
Laura Street Festival
On Sunday 25 November from 1 – 10 p.m. the friendly folk from Laura Street, Highgate Hill are opening their doors for a FREE festival; a celebration of
music, arts, culture, community and life.… Go to Article
November 11 – Remembrance Day
The poem ‘In Flanders Fields’ by Canadian soldier, John McCrae, was used to recruit people to war.
Government advertised war bonds using its lyrics to raise funds for war.… Go to Article
16 year old boy killed by security forces in Bahrain as crackdown intensifies
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
Anti-war vigil at Redcliffe
Australian Government Community Cabinet Meeting
5.00pm Wednesday, 14 Nov 2012
Hercules Rd. Primary School, Kippa-Ring
There will be an Australian Government Cabinet Meeting in Redcliffe on 14 November.… Go to Article
A story that may not be a story
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
Hezbollah emerges as new threat for Syria rebels
- BY:NICHOLAS BLANFORD
- From:The Times
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October 15, 2012 12:00AM
A rebel holds a rocket-propelled grenade launcher near the Syrian city of Haleb.
Booklaunch: Tony Kevin’s Reluctant Rescuers
Booklaunch this week, rally next week
Where: Avid Reader Bookshop, 193 Boundary St, West End. When: 6pm Wednesday 17th October. Entry: $5.… Go to Article
Christians ’emptied from Middle East’
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
Is Australia breaking the “rules” of war
THE deaths of five Australian soldiers in Afghanistan in August (2012), bringing total Australian military casualties there to thirty-eight, has helped to re-kindled the debate about Australia’s involvement in that gruesome war.… Go to Article
The need for a Middle East anti-war coalition is now desperate – Yes / No!?
M8’s, nearly 2 years ago, we had a couple of small meetings on the proposition that what we were seeing in the middle east, was not just a war against 1 or 2 countries, but a broad-ranging assault on all the people of that part of the world.… Go to Article
“New Questions about Recent Wars”: Wed 3 October meeting of the 17 Group
The October meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 3rd of October at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St West End.… Go to Article
Refugee Italian Detention in Australia
As we struggle to understand our nations obsession with detention, it is helpful to examine who else in our short history we have chosen to lock away “in the national interest”.… Go to Article
Stromboli – a review
… Go to Article“I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me.
Shabra and Shatilla: a Preventable Massacre
[Editor’s Note: See below an article in the New York Times about the US and Israeli roles in the massacres.… Go to Article
BRISBANE – Friday Sept 1st. 4pm-6pm *DFAT Vigil in Solidarity with Julian Assange and Bradley Mannig
| We will be holding a solidarity vigil in support of Bradley Mannning and Julian Assange Friday from 4.00pm-6.00pm outside DFAT in Ann St. |
Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial
Yekaterina Samutsevich, defendant in the criminal case against the feminist punk group Pussy Riot:
“In the closing statement, the defendant is expected to repent, express regret for their deeds or enumerate attenuating circumstances.… Go to Article
No More Hiroshima’s!
“The trouble with Australian politics is that you only see the tip of the ice cube”
— Gore Vidal
Background
In March 2003 the Coalition of the Willing (US, UK, Ger, Fr, Saudi Arabia, Australia et al) unleashed 7 Hiroshima’s on Iraq.… Go to Article
Inside Iraq – report from Donna Mulhearn
Dear friends
In the last few weeks I have been posting pictures and stories on my Facebook page and on Twitter about what I am witnessing and experiencing in Iraq.… Go to Article
War on the horizon: Syrian refugees in Lebanon
[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
Celebrate Community by Resisting War – Peter Cosgrove in Brisbane
Last Monday night a group of about 15 Catholic workers and friends continued the resistance to General Peter Cosgrove’s appointment as Chancellor of the Australian Catholic University.… Go to Article
Hey Gen. Cosgrove! When they say ‘Repent’, Repent!
“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