The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 4th of November in unit 6 at 20 Drury St, West End.… Go to Article

Who is Free speech champion Biff Bootface?
Was Biff the press secretary for Fauntleroy Velveteen-Ballcup?
Did Biff get privileged access to Nauru?

We don't want to take terrorism home with us. 
We don't want anger in our backyard
                        -- Lionel Fogarty, poet & author

It became clear yesterday that the killing of Shaun Coolwell by police on Brisbane’s southside on 2 October 2015 was preventable.… Go to Article

Marchers pay a silent tribute to Daniel Yock

A peaceful 4000

Daniel Yock’s brother Lionel Fogarty, left, speaking at the protest forum yesterday.… Go to Article

Friday October 16 marked ten weeks since the start of 24 hour community assemblies outside Hutchison Ports in Sydney and Brisbane.… Go to Article

Heinrich’s Article on Good German Politics

I knew vaguely about Heinrich from his work on The Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall and his argument that Marx had no such theory or changed his mind, but I never actually read anything by him.… Go to Article

R.I.P. Chris Maver – community/ gay/ human rights activist, West End/ Brisbane legend and always full of mischief.

It was with great sadness that I learnt of the death of Chris Maver this morning.… Go to Article

A Group to read Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, translated by John T Woods, in the Everyman Library edition.
In case some people on this list may be interested, I thought I would notify you of the fact that the Michie Reading Group that has been reading some of the classic novels of Western literature over the last decade or more, and has just finished reading Tolstoi’sAnna Karenina, is about to start reading Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain.

While the Trade Union Royal Commission has raised legitimate concerns about union governance, it’s extraordinary how weak some of the evidence is and how willing the media is to ignore counter-narratives, writes Stephen Long.… Go to Article

Dear Friends,

I hope this finds you well. Today I am writing with a request for help from my friends in Palestine.… Go to Article

TRIFECTA FILM EVENT! Come to one, or immerse yourself in all three..

TONITE!!! BLACKSTAR coffee shop GIG: 7pm, WEDNESDAY 21 OCTOBER ..… Go to Article

[Publisher’s Note: For those interested in revolutionary politics, read this excerpt from a memoir http://louisproyect.org/2015/10/19/bringing-out-the-dead-in-kansas-city/ that wbt reproduces here under Fair Use.… Go to Article

FIFTH GLOBAL CALL TO ACTION TO STOP THE FORCED CLOSURE OF ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/1656551727921649/

WHAT: A global protest against the threatened closure of Aboriginal communities.… Go to Article

ACTU Vice President and Build A Better Future Campaign Director, Sally McManus will give the inside strategy on how to win against the new Turnbull Liberal National Party Government.… Go to Article

AUSTRALIA CUBA FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY MEETING REMINDER

TUESDAY 20 OCTOBER, 2015
level 2, QCU Building, 16 Peel St, South Brisbane
6.30 pm

AGENDA
1.

Call-out for Placards s posters Banners and Peace Paraphernalia.
Add your vision to a major exhibition about Peace

State Library of Queensland (SLQ) is presenting an exhibition titled Peace and Quiet from 28 November 2015 until 14 February 2016, which will explore personal, social and political ideas of peace.… Go to Article

Straddie (Minjerribah) in October is a good time on the island.

The whales are still going south, the birds are nesting, the flowers are out, and the water is warm enough.… Go to Article

For Jagera people, Kangaroo Point is most sacred 
because that is where we could first see 
the morning light (before colonisation)
           
                              - Kevin Vieritz (1958 - 2015)

Today is the last day you can contest the plan for the development of Howard Smith Wharves – a major inner city Brisbane riverside development about to impact us.… Go to Article

Six journalists were killed and it shouldn’t have been swept under the carpet.

Forty years ago on Friday, five young men met their deaths in a small corner of a foreign field.… Go to Article

Live on hay.
Work and pray.
There’ll be pie
in the sky
when you die.
It’s a lie

Despite proclamations upholding the U.S.… Go to Article

Doctors, nurses, medical professionals and support and administration workers at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne have sent a sharp message to the federal government that the inhuman imprisonment of refugee children in off-shore detention centres must come to an end.… Go to Article

To: The Queensland Attorney General Yvette D’Ath and Minister for Disability Services Coralee O’Rourke

The Committee to Expose the Public Trustee is seeking –

1/ That the Disability Services Act and Guardianship and Administration Act be amended to include enforceable human rights for people with impaired capacity for personal decisions.… Go to Article