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- #LetWomenSpeak (2023) ~vs~ #WomenWillSpeak (2024) in Naarm/Melbourne
- Yeah Nah Pasaran! #200 w Andy Fleming & Cam Smith : March 21, 2024
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Category Archives: Poetry
Pay the Writers?
Well this post is really only a matter of recording some bookmarks … I didn’t realise this ’til now, but Crikey owner Private Media are launching a new arts site. Good for them. Problem is, current policy is not to … Continue reading
Greg SPIRAL OBJECTIVE Loses Record Collection To Fire …
Very sad … I remember encountering Greg/Spiral Objective mail order sometime in the early ’90s thru an ad in the Green Left Weekly(!). Thru his distro (and label: 1991–2000) he helped introduce me and countless others to a world of … Continue reading
Posted in !nataS, Art, Broken Windows, History, Media, Music, Poetry
Tagged Black Cockatoo Arthouse, Spiral Objective
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Why I’m NOT joining Socialist Alternative [Foreword]
An innocuous building for so monumental a task! behind iron gates & anonymous windows technicians in white smocks toil like busy little bees investigating in electromicroscopic detail the vinegrated cerebrums of late soviet luminaries to determine what made their heads … Continue reading
Posted in History, Poetry, State / Politics, Student movement, Trot Guide
Tagged Jon Hillson, Lenin, Lenin's bRanes, Room 19, Socialist Alternative, Trot Guide
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Love [Anna Akhmatova]
Now, like a little snake, it curls into a ball, Bewitching your heart, Then for days it will coo like a dove On the little white windowsill. Or it will flash as bright frost, Drowse like a gillyflower… But surely … Continue reading
Thank You Satan!
[Léo Ferré, 1955] Pour la flamme que tu allumes Au creux d’un lit pauvre ou rupin Pour le plaisir qui s’y consume Dans la toile ou dans le satin Pour les enfants que tu ranimes Au fond des dortoirs chérubins … Continue reading
More Pussy Riot from Melbourne to Moscow
Yeah so in case you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t heard, last week (August 17) three members of the Russian group Pussy Riot — Maria Alyokhina, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova — were sentenced to two years in … Continue reading
Posted in !nataS, Anarchism, Anti-fascism, Art, Collingwood, Media, Music, Poetry, Sex & Sexuality, State / Politics, Student movement, That's Capitalism!
Tagged Pussy Riot, Russia
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Pussy Riot : сингл для приговора Путин зажигает костры // Putin Lights Up the Fires
Also here and here. …translation : Alex Bulgakov… The state in a jail is stronger than time The more arrests – the happier And every arrest – with love to a sexist Whose cheeks are shaking as his stomach and … Continue reading
Posted in !nataS, Anarchism, Anti-fascism, Art, History, Media, Music, Poetry, Sex & Sexuality, State / Politics, Student movement, Television, That's Capitalism!
Tagged Pussy Riot
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Cosmic Psychos documentary is pozible?
Matt Weston is looking for funding for a documentary film about Melbourne band the Cosmic Psychos. He needs to raise $28,000 by the end of August. Do yourselves a favour and pledge your support on pozible.
WHaT?
Yeah well anyway. Nobody reads my blog any more. They’re too busy sailing. (And by ‘nobody’ I mean ‘Evan’ and by ‘sailing’ I mean ‘reading about farming’.) In any case, I’ve been busy trolling the Australian Protectionist Party. Thus far … Continue reading
Loophole closing?
Loophole Community Centre — “an umbrella organisation providing a home to a wide array of arts and humanities projects” — appears to be on the verge of closing. Well, perhaps only at its current location (670–672 High St, Northcote), having … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Broken Windows, Media, Music, Poetry, Sex & Sexuality, State / Politics, Student movement, That's Capitalism!
Tagged Loophole Community Centre
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