No Permanent Protection Visas

No Permanent Protection Visas to be granted to people who arrive in Australia without visas.

THIS is the excuse given for no releases from detention since Morrison took over.… Go to Article

Urgent Appeal to Pope Francis to help Gaza

Gazan families are suffering. Israel and Egypt have cut off fuel supplies so that Gazans have had no electricity and vital services for 2 months.… Go to Article

Justice for Kevin Hall

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What happened on Invasion Day 2014?

On January 26th 2014, we rallied outside QLD Parliament in Brisbane City at 10am.… Go to Article

Brisbane Embassy Food Program/Court Costs Fundraiser

Come join us for a night of spoken word, hip hop and perhaps even a song or two on acoustic guitar.… Go to Article

Indonesian police launch massive crackdown on peaceful KNPB activists

From http://freewestpapua.org/
November 26, 2013

1184773_667090423303102_2143536304_n Indonesian police have today arrested a total of 41 KNPB activists in Timika, Jayapura and Sorong ahead of planned mass actions across West Papua this weekend for West Papua independence day.… Go to Article

Shootings, killings, beatings, arrests as hundreds flee to jungle after Indon Police open fire on peaceful KNPB demo

From http://westpapuamedia.info/

Before the shooting, a mass of people had gathered in the field outside the Expo Waena bus terminal and market in front of the Museum, mainly sitting and chatting while listening to speeches.… Go to Article

CFMEU: Discrimination not acceptable

THE first sitting of the new federal parliament will see the Abbott government move to reinstate the Australian Building and Construction Commission.

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“Taking to the Streets” Exhibition

“Taking to the Streets – two decades that changed Brisbane 1965 – 1985” – Museum of Brisbane Exhibition 2006.

The exhibition was opened on 6 April 2006.… Go to Article

Film: Manufacturing Dissent

Source: Thanks to The Radical Times Archive for Debra Beattie’s doco Manufacturing Dissent.

“History is an angel being blown backwards into the future
History is a pile of debris
And the angel wants to go back and fix things
To repair the things that have been broken
But there is a storm blowing from Paradise
And the storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future
And this storm, this storm is called Progress.”… Go to Article

Qld University academics and staff instigate work bans over pay dispute

Academics at the University of Queensland have begun industrial action in a

campaign for better pay and conditions.

Lecturers and professional staff have voted in support of work bans and stoppages.… Go to Article

Historic film: If U Don’t Fight U Lose

The video you see was put together after the Queensland state election in 1977.

The video you see was shot and edited under difficult circumstances over 35 years ago, after the Queensland state election in 1977.… Go to Article

wal king leightons

by Humphrey McQueen

Dickens got it half wrong in Bleak House
 when he has detective Bucket observe that, 
while murder could be done by amateurs, 
thieving needed professionals.

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Brisbane remembers Sabra and Chatilla

In 1982 there was a demonstration in Brisbane King George Square to protest the Sabra and Chatilla Massarce [Arabic: مذبحة صبرا وشاتيلا.]… Go to Article

Rain of fire: US attempt to destablise Middle East

"I dream of snakes ... 
I kill one and a yet bigger one appears ..."
         - Cuban troubadour, Silvio Rodriguez

I refer to the NYT article With the World Watching, Syria Amassed Nerve Gas which does not give any detail of the material released by wikileaks however it does make the following statement:

Sarin gas has been identified by the United States as the agent loaded atop small rockets on Aug.

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Yo Vengo a Ofrecer Mi Corazón

Jumping Fences does this beautiful song Yo Vengo a Ofrecer Mi Corazon by Argentinian Fito Paez from his album ‘Giros’ where he sings “Who says all is lost; I come to offer you my heart.”… Go to Article

Obama’s Highway to Hell in Syria?

Editor’s note: firstly, the link to pfc manning’s contribution requires a login to the Murdoch press (i.e The New York Times).… Go to Article

Unhappy Forthieth: Australia & the political economy of terror in Chile

Vladimir Pacheco, Dr Graham Holton and Dr Robert Austin

Friday September 6, 1-2 pm, Room E302, Forgan Smith Building
University of Qld.,… Go to Article

News from Freedom Flotilla to West Papua

STOP PRESS

Protest in Support of Freedom Flotilla
11am – 1 pm
Monday 2 September 2013
150 Charlotte Street, Brisbane City

As you would (may) be aware, the Freedom Flotilla to West Papua has left Cairns and is moving towards West Papua.… Go to Article

Book Launch: Chileans exiled in Australia

Following a successful launch of the book VUELO LAN CHILE NO 1131 in 2007, Marcial Parada has edited a book with personal stories of political exiles in Australia after the military coup in Chile on 11 September 1973.… Go to Article

The Last Song of Victor Jara – Estadio Chile September 1973

Victor’s wife joan jara reports that people in the stadium learnt by heart the words of the last song of Victor and when they were released they wrote it down and smuggled the words out of the country and someone brought it to her.… Go to Article

Protected: West Papuan freedom flotilla arrives at the sacred fire!

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Wed 3rd July Meeting of the 17 Group

The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 3rd of July at 7 pm in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article

‘Not Guilty’

This is the Paradigm Shift broadcasting on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 This show is called ‘Not Guilty’ and is about political defence – the story begins…

Vale Clarke and Dawe

On Wednesday, 26 June 2013, the Australian Labor Party killed political satire in Australia.… Go to Article

The last of the Semites

Al Jazeera has removed this article from its website. Al Abunimah reports: “Massad told The Electronic Intifada that he had ‘received confirmation’ from his editor at Al Jazeera English that ‘management pulled the article.’… Go to Article

Mulivaikal Remembrance Day

This event marks the fourth anniversary of the extremely violent end of the Sri Lankan civil war, which featured many war crimes, resulting in massive suffering for civilians of all sides, but most particularly for the Tamils, who were targeted in their thousands by the victorious Sri Lankan Army.… Go to Article

Foco: Student Worker Alliance in Brisbane in the late 1960s

This is a talk given by Peter Cross at a meeting of the 17 Group on 7 May 2013 about the Secretary of the Trades and labour Council, Alexander Macdonald’s role was in building links between the Trades Hall and the student movement.… Go to Article

Vale Tom

Gonna go out walking
Get some fresh air and sunshine
One foot in front of the other
Taking one step at a time
Looking over my shoulder
At that black dog following me
Gotta keep on walking
Lest he catches up with me
             — from 'Black Dog' by Michael Tully [1]

Tom, who grew up in Texas Queensland, was a building worker and strong rank-and-file unionist.… Go to Article

ABC: action for Palestinian Prisoners

If I could feed one ounce of Earth
into empty stomachs of stubborn roots
would this bide enough time
to see wings of hope
fly home again?

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Remember Palestine: Al Nakba 2013

Rally
Friday May 17, 5:30pm
King George Square, Brisbane

May 15 marks the Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe) day. In 1948, more the 780,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed from their homeland and more than 500 Palestinian villages depopulated and destroyed by Zionist terrorist death squads that were set up in Palestine under the protection of the British mandate.… Go to Article