Category Archives: Poetry

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #150 w Kirsten Dyck on Reichsrock & White-Power Music : February 16, 2023

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Kirsten Dyck about her book Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music (Rutgers University Press, 2016): Reichsrock shines a light on the international white-power music industry, the fandoms … Continue reading

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Who is Australibus Tenebris?

There is a rising worldwide clash between a renewed, internationally backed fascism and those fighting for a better future. Subcultural scenes are no exception, with many now locked in wars of ideas of varying intensity. In these cauldrons of turmoil, … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #144 w Alex Newhouse on accelerationism : December 8, 2022

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Alex Newhouse [Mastodon]. Alex is Deputy Director at the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism at Middlebury Institute of International Studies and Director of Technical of Research … Continue reading

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Catalyst Social Centre Weekend of Connection & Resistance (NOV 11–13, 2022)

The recently-opened Catalyst Social Centre (144–146 Sydney Road, Coburg) is hosting a festival this weekend. Organised by the The Cafe Collective it’s a free 3 day festival of connection and resistance over the weekend of 11-13 of November. The program … Continue reading

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Don’t Go To Sydney (Festival)

[Update (January 16, 2022) : A Jewish Response To The Sydney Festival Boycott, Do Better On Palestine, January 16, 2022 /// (January 14, 2022) : Benjamin Law quits Sydney Festival board following Israeli funding controversy, Robert Moran and Linda Morris, … Continue reading

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Blogging 2021 : A Summary

See also : Blogging 2020 : A Summary. January (5) A flying start: three posts dedicated to Yeah Nah Pasaran! (interviews with Becca Lewis, Marc-André Argentino and Megan Kelly) plus one taking note of a failed coup and another about … Continue reading

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Better Read Than Dead ~versus~ Retail & Fast Food Workers Union

TLDR : heaps progressive bookshop ‘Better Read Than Dead’ in Newtown, Sydney is currently trying to stop workers from joining a union and obtaining minimal wages and conditions, viz: … their first ever enterprise agreement to secure the most basic … Continue reading

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RAFFWU Goes To Readings

aw yiss Today the Retail And Fast Food Workers Union announced: Readings staff are excited to announce that they are inviting management to negotiate an Enterprise Bargaining Agreement with them to secure wages, penalty rates and great working conditions long … Continue reading

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Where have all the second-hand bookshops in regional Victoria gone?

A few years ago I asked What happened to Melbourne’s second-hand bookshops?. I gotta update that list, but in the meantime here’s another (I presume incomplete) list of second-hand bookshops in ‘regional’ Victoria. Albury* Books on Dean ‘Our bookshop is … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #035 w Tom Tanuki on QAnon Down Under : September 10, 2020

[NB. The blog is a bit buggy at the moment, so apologies for lack of much in the way of supplementary infos.] On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Tom Tanuki [Twitter] agen. See also : AUSSIE … Continue reading

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