Category Archives: That’s Capitalism!

#CFMEU : I love it when…

Posted on August 29, 2012 by @ndy

…a newsreader makes a silly in public. In other news…

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More Pussy Riot from Melbourne to Moscow

Posted on August 25, 2012 by @ndy

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 →

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Dear La Trobe student, Protest is baaad. Get it?

Posted on August 22, 2012 by @ndy

Update : ‘Students from the “Stop the HUSS Cuts Collective” have voted to occupy the La Trobe University campus in Bundoora indefinitely, starting tonight.’ In which case, students have gotten really really REALLY big in recent years, or you can … Continue reading →

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Pussy Riot : сингл для приговора Путин зажигает костры // Putin Lights Up the Fires

Posted on August 18, 2012 by @ndy

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 →

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Son of Monash ALP ~versus~ Wholefoods

Posted on August 10, 2012 by @ndy

As noted previously, the Labor-controlled Monash Student Association is attempting to destroy the Wholefoods cafe and restaurant — and doing a bloody good job of it too I might add. The Executive’s latest stunt has been to a) deny petitioners … Continue reading →

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Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair 2012 (Review)

Posted on August 6, 2012 by @ndy

I went to the second annual Melbourne Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday. It was noice, but not much different from last year (other than in size — bigger) and not really unusual in other respects. Of the stalls, there were something … Continue reading →

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Monash ALP ~versus~ Wholefoods

Posted on August 1, 2012 by @ndy

LOL. Labor students at Monash University have declared WAR! on the Wholefoods restaurant — and by most accounts they appear to be winning. For those of you coming in late, “Wholefoods is a non-profit, collective-run, vegetarian restaurant, café and grocery, … Continue reading →

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#StrikeColes v.2.0 : NUW 1 Coles/Toll 1 (w/- BONUS! HSU & SDA & WTF &…)

Posted on July 28, 2012 by @ndy

NUW! The two-week long strike at the Coles/Toll warehouse and distribution centre ended on Monday with both Coles/Toll and the NUW declaring victory. Thus: In the end, the striking workers got most of what they had asked for. Their union … Continue reading →

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ANARCHO-PUNK.NET ~vs~ CRASS

Posted on July 24, 2012 by @ndy

Huh. In the same week Chumbwamba deaded, What-Was-Once-Crass-But-Now-Knows-Better-Than-Not-To-Enforce-Its-Copyright successfully complained to file-sharing site Mediafire to have several of its recordings removed. Further, in response to the complaint, Mediafire apparently removed not only the Crass material (por ejemplo) but over 3000 … Continue reading →

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Simon Harwood 1 Ian Tomlinson 0

Posted on July 20, 2012 by @ndy

I am shocked. Shocked and stunned: Ian Tomlinson death: PC not guilty (BBC, July 19, 2012). For the record: • Ian Tomlinson was not killed by PC Simon Harwood. • The murder did not take place during protests against the … Continue reading →

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