Category: solidarity

Brisbane Sovereign Tent Embassy – upcoming events

community safety

And don’t forget the anniversary of
the establishment  of the Brisbane Sovereign Tent Embassy in Musgrave Park

Corroboree
12 noon, 24 March 2013
Musgrave Park

program
 12 noon up the top on jagera deed-of-grant-in-trust (dogit)
welcome to country
minute silence
 tree planting  by the families on the ridge on the way down to the bora ring
honouring the old people
planting paper bark trees to commemorate old warriors, men & women
walk down
 1.30pm down the bottom near the bora ring
corroboree
smoking ceremony
speeches
dances
contemporary stuff – music – bands
yarning circles
people running activities for the kids
close

fund raising… Go to Article

Campbell Newman sets up his own union watchdog

 As soon as you're born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so crazy you can't follow their rules
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
Keep you doped on religion and sex and TV
And you think you're so clever and classless and free
But you're still peasants as far as I can see
There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
If you want to be a hero, well, just follow me
— John Lennon 'Working Class Hero'

The Attorney General said today that the LNP government “ will ..… Go to Article

‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland

‘OPERATION SATOUR’: The 1971 Springbok Tour of Queensland

Queensland Police Headquarters: Sunday 24 February 2013: 10.30 am to 12.30 pm

Inquiries to : Ms Lisa Jones (Police Museum Curator) on 3364 6425

Time

Speaker

(Participants’ biographical details overleaf)

Topic or comment

1030

Mr David Fagan

Chairperson

1035

Professor Mark Finnane

‘Australia, South Africa and apartheid’

1045

Mr Terry O’Gorman

‘The Right to protest in 1971 and looking ahead to the G20 conference to be held in Brisbane 2014’

1105

Professor Alan Knight

‘Queensland radicals and the Springbok protests‘

1125

Questions from the floor to Professor Finnane, Mr O’Gorman or Professor Knight.

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Bahrain: no hope for the Al Khalifa regime

Bahraini nurse calls on international support after police kill 16 yr old during crackdown on anniversary of democracy protests.

Hussain Al Jaziri, 16 years old, was killed by Bahraini security forces yesterday as the crackdown on pro-democracy protesters intensifies around the second anniversary of Bahrain’s ‘forgotten Arab Spring’.… Go to Article

Hands off Bob! Defend the right to organise!

'I Called Him A Worship, Your Bastard!' 
Denis Kevans (Poet Lorrikeet)

The poet lorrikeet would have enjoyed court yesterday with obscene language featuring in the original 54 charges of criminal contempt against union man, Bob Carnegie.… Go to Article

PShift: Anarchist Summer School – what, where and when?

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

PShift: Lies and Silence – media bias in Australia

 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