Category: Workers Political Organisations

Unions, Rank and File & Workers Political Groups

‘I don’t want to die without seeing justice’

What the caterpillar calls
the end of the world,
the rest of the world
calls a butterfly!
—Lao-Tsé

Social Movements — Gender, race, class, sexuality, age
[Summary of PShift (4ZZZ fm 102.1 fri at noon) 18 Jan 2013]
Playlist
Vencer (Winning) by Mestre Moraes e grupo capoeira angola pelourinho
Zumbi from A Tábua de Esmeralda by Jorge Ben Jor
“Mas Que Nada” sung by Miriam Makeba
Marisa Monte sings ‘Volte Para o Seu Lar’
other songs – not played on PShift
susana baca- el mayoral
susana baca – valentin
Mistério Do Planeta from (1972) Acabou Chorare by Novos Baianos

‘I don’t want to die without seeing justice’ — Luz Mendes from Guatemala

Guest on PShift, Laura introduces herself as being from Brazil studying gender politics and social movements.… 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

The 17 Group – Alienation

The June meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 6th of June at 7 pm in unit 6 at number 20 Drury St, West End and will be addressed by the writer Lesley Synge, who will read/perform 17 poems influenced by radicalism, the first being a meditation on Marx’s Theory of Alienation inspired by the discovery of a bundle of workers’ ‘Sick notes’ at an abandoned coal mine in Central Qld.… Go to Article

May the 1st Club

WERC - May 1st Club


Back in the late 1970s and early 1980s there was a need for political culture. In West End appeared the the first coffee club in Brisbane – May the 1st Club which was a regular event organised by activists from the democratic rights struggles in the 1970s.… Go to Article

Is West Papua being split up to marginalise the Papuan people?

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West Papua (called Irian Jaya by the expansionist, military-backed Indonesian regime) is rich in natural mineral and precious metals resources, making it a target for foreign trans-national corporations such as Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.… 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

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

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

SPECIAL INVITATION from WILPF – ‘”The Rising Tide of Climate Change”‘

Hello All,
The Qld Branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom are pleased to announce that our special guest at our Sunday November 11 Meeting will be Dr Alice Aruhe’eta Pollard from the Solomon Islands.… Go to Article