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Frank Cassar : Australia’s Best Landlord?

Posted on January 14, 2011 by @ndy

Landlords are Good, and voluntary real estate industry standards, rigorous government scrutiny, and a large and well-organised public and social housing sector ensure that the accommodation they provide is reasonably priced and of excellent quality. This is why renters–a group … Continue reading →

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Mark Kennedy and ‘Officer A’ // “Karen Sullivan” and Officer XX

Posted on January 14, 2011 by @ndy

Update : Everybody Hates A Tourist Loves Spies. Lyn Watson is one; Mark Jacobs aka ‘Marco’ is another. The Guardian is moar coy, but still. Tricksy police spies have been coming unstuck lately. Well… a couple of ’em, anyway. Like, … Continue reading →

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Campaign Builds to Defend Persecuted Aboriginal Family

Posted on January 14, 2011 by @ndy

A campaign was launched on January 12 to draw attention to police harassment of an Aboriginal family in western Sydney. In addition to the distribution of a press release detailing several arrests police conducted during the course of a 21yo … Continue reading →

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Community assembly underway at Swift Australia

Posted on January 11, 2011 by @ndy

It’s all over, apparently: “After almost six weeks locked out without pay, 140 cold storage workers at Swift Australia in Brooklyn have reached agreement with their employer.” [SBS] In the intervening period, the company successfully attracted a fine of $50,000 … Continue reading →

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Political Views of Arizona Suspect Jared Lee Loughner Related to Third Position or National Anarchism?

Posted on January 11, 2011 by @ndy

From the Department of I only have my right arm! Ernesto Aguilar has had a crack at sorting out the bizarro views of alleged mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner. Ernesto (see below) reckons that Loughner’s political perspective may be in … Continue reading →

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notes on a saturday

Posted on January 8, 2011 by @ndy

The dates for the Anarchist Summer School in Sydney have been confirmed as being February 18–20. David Rovics–whom I had the pleasure of seeing play when he toured Australia last year–has written a new ‘Song for Bradley Manning’. In Toronto, … Continue reading →

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Gaza Youth Breaks Out

Posted on January 6, 2011 by @ndy

I dunno much about Art, but I know what I like: Fuck Israel. Fuck Hamas. Fuck Fatah. Fuck UN. Fuck UNWRA. Fuck USA! We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, Fatah, the occupation, the violations … Continue reading →

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Daggers, Rifles and Dynamite: Anarchist Terrorism In Nineteenth Century Europe

Posted on January 4, 2011 by @ndy

See also : Anarchism, Terrorism Studies and Islamism, Paul Stott, Global Discourse, Vol.1, No.2, 2010. Daggers, Rifles and Dynamite: Anarchist Terrorism In Nineteenth Century Europe Richard Jensen Terrorism and Political Violence Vol.16, No.1, 2004 Abstract Initially the anarchists did not … Continue reading →

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“Race suicide”

Posted on January 1, 2011 by @ndy

Nell Irvin Painter, The History of White People, W.W. Norton & Co., 2010, pp.250–255: “Race suicide” loomed as an issue “fundamentally infinitely more important than any other question in this country”. For Roosevelt, this was not a matter of workers … Continue reading →

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