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Media Release
1 April 2014Community group condemns Qld Health legal proceedings
The Cloudland Collective has labelled the Queensland government’s commencement of proceedings for an injunction against the AMA, ASMOFQ and Together Qld as objectionable.
Palm Sunday ‘Walk for Justice for Refugees’
WE HOPE YOUR ORGANISATION WILL BE WELL REPRESENTED AT THE PALM SUNDAY WALK FOR JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES on Sunday 13 April Bring your banner and placards!… Go to Article
Fitzgerald bags attorney general and his cronies
[Editor’s note: The war between the Queensland attorney general and his judges continues unabated. This time the bill to place the Crime and Misconduct Commission under political control is criticised by retired judge Tony Fitzgerald.… Go to Article
The Red and the Black
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The workers's flag is deepest red, It shrouded oft our martyr'd dead And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold, Their hearts' blood dyed its ev'ry fold.
Mater nurses and midwives need your support TODAY
Dear friends,
as I’m sure you are aware the public health system is under intense attack – both at a national level, but also currently by the Queensland government.… Go to Article
Abbott – Making Australia the Country It Once Was
Foco Nuevo in April
Following on from our anniversary celebrations we continue to bring great live music; this month our guest performers are Nice Verdes and Sue Wighton.… Go to Article
Not even climate change will kill off capitalism
[Editor’s Note: Interesting analysis of the resilience of capitalism.]
Arguably the single most important mistake the revolutionary movements of the 60s and 70s made was to overlook the resilience of capitalism.… Go to Article
Cloudland Collective on the Queensland Doctors’ Dispute
The Newman government’s attempts to push public hospital doctors onto unfair individual contracts is an attack on our public hospitals and on the rights of all those who work in the Queensland public sector.… Go to Article
17 Group: “What does the radical instinct look like today?”
The next meeting of the 17 Group will take place on Wednesday the 2nd of April at 7 pm in unit 6 at number 20 Drury St West End.… Go to Article
Indigi-Briz hosts fundraiser for Indigenous Reading Project
4ZZZ’s Indigi-Briz radio show will hold an event on April 6 at Brisbane’s The New Globe Theatre to raise crucial funds for 4ZZZ community radio and the Indigenous Reading Project to improve the reading rate in Indigenous Australians.… Go to Article
Cloudland collective request for help at civil liberties meeting
Hello everyone
The Cloudland Collective is seeking help handing out leaflets and petitioning at the civil liberties meeting this Monday night (24 March) 7pm, Ithaca Auditorium, Brisbane City Hall.… Go to Article
Supporting the Palestinian BDS campaign – Stand with Professor Jake Lynch
Don’t miss this important Public Meeting
Supporting the Palestinian BDS campaign and the Academic Boycott of Israel.
Featuring Associate Professor Jake Lynch, Director of Sydney University’s Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS)
Associate Professor Halim Rane is one of Australia’s leading scholars in Islamic Studies.… Go to Article
Aunty Barbara re-united with her grand daughter Tiara!
[Editor’s note – this story has been on hold awaiting outcome of legal proceedings … now it can be published without risk to the parties concerned.]… Go to Article
Russia, Ukraine, journalism and drugs
The revelations from former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden continue to reveal the loss of privacy in the modern world (listen to him speak at a recent TED event and SXSW session in Texas).… Go to Article
Pilger joins Aboriginal activists in renewed fight for rights
Pilger joins Aboriginal activists in renewed fight for rights
PUBLIC FORUM
Friday 6.30PM
21 March 2014
REDFERN TOWN HALL
73 PITT STREET, REDFERN
Marking the UN International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Organised by Stop The Intervention Collective Sydney
Speakers include:
John Pilger, Utopia filmmaker
Dianne Stokes, Muckaty Traditional Owner
Uncle Albert Hartnett, Wangkumurra man with first hand experience of child removal
MEDIA CONTACT: Paddy Gibson 0415 800 586
John Pilger’s film Utopia has galvanised supporters of Aboriginal rights, with 4,000 people attending the premiere at the Block in Redfern and many more packing out cinemas and community halls across Australia.… Go to Article
Government racism razes Swan Valley Nyungah Community
In breaking news, the Western Australian State Government sent in demolition contractors to raze the vacant residences of the Swan Valley Nyungah Community.… Go to Article
BFU presents: Alternative Responses to Violence
BFU is pleased to present a panel discussion and interactive workshop on alternatives to violence. Violence against women is a complex and far-reaching issue.… Go to Article
The Forgotten Coup – how the Godfather rules from Canberra to Kiev
By John Pilger
Washington’s role in the fascist putsch against an elected government in Ukraine will surprise only those who watch the news and ignore the historical record.… Go to Article
No hope for New Acland: landholders
LANDOWNERS on the Darling Downs say they have been ignored and let down by the state government over a potential mine expansion.… Go to Article
Brisbane (a doing word)
Matty, like all good Queensland 20-something uni students, doesn’t know what the hell to do with his life.
He does stand up comedy, but no one laughs.… Go to Article
“New Unionism 2014”
The agenda for New Unionism 2014, a conference of labour-movement
activists sponsored by Workers’ Liberty, IWGB University of London,
Ruskin College UCU, PCS Independent Left, and Lambeth Activists, is now
online, at
http://newunionismconference.wordpress.com/2014/03/16/conference-agenda-published/.… Go to Article
we’re back for justice
find attached the new poster advertising the fact that ‘we’re back for justice’ whereby gail hickey and her family, her supporters, including this association, will rally once more outside the nsw parliament house at 12.30 on wednesday 19 march, 2014 to re-enforce the family demands that justice must be done on the circumstances of tj’s death arising from a redfern police pursuit and the ramming of tj on his bike by a redfern police officer causing tj to be somersaulted onto the spiked fence causing his death.… Go to Article
Our Urban Voice
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NASTY MEDICINE – Qld Health and the doctors dispute
The Cloudland Collective presents a community meeting….
NASTY MEDICINE –
Qld Health and the doctors’ dispute
Speakers include:
Dr Brian Senewiratne
Meeting details:
7pm Thursday 20 March
Kurilpa Hall
174 Boundary St, West End
The Newman government wants to impose contracts on doctors that would strip away vital working conditions like fatigue management and job security.… Go to Article
Santos Action: New Articles to Share, Update for Sunday
… Go to ArticleThe press keeps coming. This article just out in the Daily Telegraph is the best yet. The Crikey one is worth reading and sharing around too.
gaolswamhwmracismdisc
… Go to Articlethis sorry expose of the abject disgrace in our caring for those with mental health problems within the so-called justice system in this country is but another big tick on the australian governments’ shame board.
Rally April 11 – NO to continuing Stolen Generations
STOP Press *** STOP Press *** STOP Press *** The Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy (BASE) is sending a delegation to this rally in Tamworth.… Go to Article
March in March — Brisbane
The March in March was a festive vote of no confidence in the Abbott government. (Refer https://www.facebook.com/events/501397403315324/)
The Brisbane event is part of the national March in March movement and began in Matthew Donovan’s bedroom.… Go to Article
Stephen Keim SC on how the bikie laws deny the right to work
Stephen Keim SC spoke at the meeting on ‘Punitive Populism and the neoliberal agenda of the Newman government’.
He spoke about how some of the provisions of the anti-association laws breach a fundamental human right – the right to work.… Go to Article