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Black Rose Syndicat (Addendum)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by @ndy

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a thing for New Matilda about a storm in a teacup surrounding the Brisbane G20 summit, in this case one stamped ‘Black Rose Syndicat’. Apart from being somewhat bizarre (and therefore amusing), the … Continue reading →

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ASIO is really interesting to this person too …

Posted on January 4, 2014 by @ndy

Persons of Interest is a three-part documentary on ASIO which commences screening on SBS on Tuesday, January 7 at 8.30pm. I haven’t seen it yet but Dr Cam and I interviewed filmmaker Haydn Keenan (and academic Victoria Stead about PNG … Continue reading →

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1994–2014 : ¡Viva Zapata!

Posted on January 1, 2014 by @ndy

[January 1, 2014 is the 20th anniversary (BBC) of the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico, so I thought I may as well re-post this interview with Subcomandante Marcos, an EZLN leader, conducted in April, 1994. There’s another interview with Marcos … Continue reading →

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Mick Armstrong on Melbourne G20 protests, November 2006 [A Blast From The Past]

Posted on December 24, 2013 by @ndy

Yo Gabba Gabba wrote me to say he couldn’t find Socialist Alternative leader Mick Armstrong’s statement in response to a disturbance at an anti-G20 rally in Melbourne in November 2006. Given also the recent stoopid regarding the G20 meeting in … Continue reading →

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Jorge Semprun on Marx’s legacy …

Posted on December 23, 2013 by @ndy

In 1937, when the first German prisoners were assembled on the Ettersberg to cut down the beech forest, the system of the corrective labor camps, the Gulag, in other words, the great hurricane of that terrible year, was about to … Continue reading →

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“The Black Rose Syndicat” : D’oh!

Posted on December 21, 2013 by @ndy

Update (January 11, 2014) : Black Rose Syndicat (Addendum), January 7, 2014. Update (December 23, 2013) : OK so I reckon I gotta bit of a handle on it, and the moral of this story is: drugs are bad, mmmkay? … Continue reading →

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antifa notes (december 19, 2013) : Australia First Party

Posted on December 19, 2013 by @ndy

Briefly: According to media reports, the Australia First Party (AF) helped organise a small rally at the Greek consulate in Sydney on the weekend in support of comrades in the Greek Golden Dawn (GD) party. AF has previously issued declarations … Continue reading →

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Who’s on first, gay black man or disabled Muslim woman?

Posted on December 19, 2013 by @ndy
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Tim Wilson, Australian Human Rights Commissioner, ♥s Water Cannons

Posted on December 18, 2013 by @ndy

For the $325,000-a-year record: Walked past Occupy Melbourne protest, all people who think freedom of speech = freedom 2 b heard, time wasters … send in the water cannons — Tim Wilson (@timwilsoncomau) October 21, 2011 Otherwise: 1. I picked … Continue reading →

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movement beyond borders forum redux

Posted on December 6, 2013 by @ndy

Update (December 12, 2013) : Don’t take my word for it: you can watch a video of the forum here. Last Saturday I attended a public forum on movement beyond borders, organised by the ‘beyond borders’ collective, a group of … Continue reading →

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