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RIP Rik Mayall

Posted on June 10, 2014 by @ndy

And the grown-ups will say "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say "Haven't you heard? Rik is dead! The People's Poet is dead!" — Kamahl Santamaria (@KamahlAJE) June 9, 2014 And then a particularly sensitive and … Continue reading →

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More corporate spying on environmentalists : Whitehaven Coal & Co.

Posted on June 3, 2014 by @ndy

While in the UK Women deceived by undercover officers back in court to challenge police’s “delaying tactics”,* in Australia Fairfax’s Tom Allard reports that corporations have been doing what corporations do: spying on activists, in this case anti-coal mining malcontents. … Continue reading →

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Australian Treasurer Joe Hockey supports free higher education (1987) #bustthebudget

Posted on May 28, 2014 by @ndy

*This Friday in Melbourne (May 30) there’s a ‘March for Medicare’ @ 5.30pm @ State Library. See also : “If the rich are happy, who could ask for anything more?” #Budget2014 (May 14, 2014).

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Posted on May 13, 2014 by @ndy

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/sionline/si/decline.html http://workwithoutdread.blogspot.com.au/2011/08/nonconversations-with-rioters.html

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What was I thinking?

Posted on April 27, 2014 by @ndy

A dear friend of mine recently asked me to provide them with a list of my contributions to other sites and to articles in which I receive a mention.* I compiled a list and thought I may as well publish … Continue reading →

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Boycott, Divest, Disrupt: Strategies to End Mandatory Detention : Sydney, May 10

Posted on April 21, 2014 by @ndy

[In Sydney on Saturday, May 10 at UTS: University of Technology, Sydney, CB06.06.103, a panel discussion on strategies to end mandatory detention (Facebook).] On March 7, the Sydney Biennale and Transfield announced that they would go their separate ways. This … Continue reading →

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Golden Dawn Down Under [overland]

Posted on April 11, 2014 by @ndy

I wrote an article for overland on Golden Dawn in Australia. You can read it here. Note that Golden Dawn have recently taken to meeting at Degani cafe in Northcote:

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Comments on ‘Hunting Australia’s neo-Nazis’ [The Saturday Paper, April 5, 2014]

Posted on April 6, 2014 by @ndy

As I grow older I see clearly and distinctly what is right and wrong in our way of life and how ridiculous is everything not achieved with one’s own blood and one’s own soul and everything not infused with love. … Continue reading →

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Hunting Australia’s neo-Nazis [The Saturday Paper, April 5, 2014]

Posted on April 5, 2014 by @ndy

This Saturday’s edition of The Saturday Paper has a feature article by Martin McKenzie-Murray titled ‘Hunting Australia’s neo-Nazis’ (April 5, 2014) in which I get a black ‘n’ white guernsey. I’ll comment on the article a little later but in … Continue reading →

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2014 Sydney Anarchist Bookfair +++

Posted on March 27, 2014 by @ndy

I enjoyed attending the Sydney Anarchist Bookfair last weekend. It wasn’t quite Crassmas, but I did pick up a few things: a book — Cartography of Revolutionary Anarchism by Michael Schmidt (AK Press, 2013: reviewed by Gabriel Kuhn here) — … Continue reading →

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