Category: Unions

Lies & Silence – bias in Australian media

On this sad morning there is no justice in the dawn
So many years of dying where does hope get born
Not over the broken and bloodied bodies of sleeping children
Or the fork tongued lies of the criminals and their defenders
                                          — Phil Monsour
                                       Song for Gaza 2012
                             No More Lies No More Silence

This was broadcast on the Paradigm Shift on 4ZZZ fm 102.1 on Friday 23 Nov 2012.… 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

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

Workplace Guilt by Association

[This Paradigm Shift  was broadcast on 19 October 2012 on 4ZZZ fm 102.1]

A derelict house slumps to one side
Poster peels on a bolted gate
Its faded but not forgotten
“An injury to one is an injury to all”

 — ‘View From A Wooden Chair’
Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk

Contents

Intro
Song – View from a wooden chair
The Long Night
Song – La Guittara
Voices for Victory
Song – Cantombe Mullatto
Wide Awake – the rise of union solidarity
[All songs are sung by Jumping Fences – more details can be found at their website]

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Intro
Jumping Fences – View From A Wooden Chair Lachlan Hurse and Sue Monk

It is not coincidental that Paradigm Shift address the question of the Politics of Repression (second part in the series).… 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

Support the Workers at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) Site

Queensland Children’s Hospital Dispute Leader Bob Carnegie will be Speaking at the Socialist Alternative Public Meeting on Tuesday (11 Sept 2012)

The community protest at the Queensland Children’s Hospital (QCH) site has lasted for 38 days.… 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