Category: solidarity

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

NTEU eNews 24 October 2012

eNEWS Bulletin of the University of Queensland Branch of the NTEU

24 October, 2012
IN THIS ISSUE

  • Fair Shares Staff and Student Forum: Budget Monster Strikes Again
  • National Office Media Release: $1 Billion Cuts to Higher Education
  • Colleagues at UQ: Celebrate the End of Semester
  • Solidarity Concert: Voices for Victory
  • Brisbane Labour History Symposium: Back to the Future…

FAIR SHARES Staff and Student Forum
Budget Monster Strikes Again:
Tales of Disappearing Funding

Wednesday 31 October 12 noon – 2 pm

Room 212 Goddard Building (8) St Lucia

The draft UQ budget is taking even more funding from Faculties and Schools into central administration.… Go to Article

Politics of Repression

We Have Survived by NO FIXED ADDRESS

Politics of Repression was broadcast on Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 Friday at noon on 12 October 2012
“If you fly with the crows, you’ll get shot with the crows.”… Go to Article

Our Island Home – the struggle for land rights

‘in the evenin the dry wind blows
from the hills
and across the plain
i close my eyes and i’m standing
in a boat
on the sea again
and i’m holding a long yello spear
and i feel unclothed now
to where it must be
my island home, is waitin for me

—words by Neil Murray sung by George Burarrwanga and the Warumpi Band.… Go to Article

Living in the Colonies — What’s Left?

PShift 4zzz  fm 102.1 fridays at noon
Living in the Colonies, What’s Left?
Paradigm Shift Part I 12 Sept 2012

"Whose land is this land
 is it for you and me
who knows, who knows this land
better than you and me.
… Go to Article

Latin America: the pink tide

Introduction
I have much to say on Ecuador and Rafael Correa. In short though, I think two things stand out about Correa:

a) Correa has a PhD in economics, speaks 7 languages and has written an excellent book attacking neoliberalism called: Ecuador – From Banana Republic to No Republic.… Go to Article