Monthly Archives: August 2008

October 15, 2007 Solidarity Weekend… Tuhoe: A History of Resistance (Melbourne film screening)

Saturday, August 30 Solidarity in the Kulin Nations Federation Square Melbourne 2pm We demand the unconditional freedom of the people who are facing charges as a result of the state terror raids on 15 October 2007. Attempts by the Police … Continue reading

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G20 : serial protesters, barricades, mobs, sentences and benefit gigs…

Five people — Julia Dehm, Rosalie Delaney, Beth Nathan, David Nguyen and Sofia Todorova — what previously plead guilty to various charges inre protests at G20 in November 2006 are currently appealing their sentences. Tomorrow night @ The Arthouse there’s … Continue reading

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International Anarchist Conspiracy breaks its silence

And it’s about bloody time too… Er, that I noticed… that GHQ issued these communiques, like… last year. Crazy, ultra-violent, hostile, abusive, threatening, ultra-sectarian, provocative, fascist-sympathising, foreign fucking football hooligans take note! International Anarchist Conspiracy Communique # 0 (Being A … Continue reading

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Drink and drive for Collingwood?

Ooops. Forgot to publish this one. Anyway… ‘Kill for Collingwood’? Well, almost. But that’s a metaphor, one not intended to encourage players to drink, drive, and be a bloody idiot. Oh, and to then lie about it. Recently, on signing … Continue reading

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Socialist Alliance vs. Australia First in Newcastle

Well, sorta. In the Third Ward, Zane Alcorn,* Thomas Cameron and Laura Ealing are appealing to workers to Vote 1 Socialist Alliance; the Australia First candidates are Nathan Clarke (‘nafe’ on the the world’s #1 white supremacist website Stormfront), Ian … Continue reading

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Seig Heil! Boneheads, NPD, APP, Darrin Hodges…

What a dummkopf. Bonehead admits threats The Dominion Post August 23, 2008 A neo-Nazi skinhead who was shot three times has admitted breaching a protection order against the alleged gunman’s wife. William Mosen was shot in Wanganui on June 10 … Continue reading

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Greer! Rage! Langton! Racism!

Germaine Greer (1939–) : You may remember Germaine from such seminal texts as The Female Eunuch (1971), The Obstacle Race (1979), Sex and Destiny (1984), Shakespeare and The Madwoman’s Underclothes (1986), Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989), The Change (1991), … Continue reading

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Students squat University of Melbourne property

[Press release] ====== Students occupied a property belonging to the University of Melbourne on Wednesday, August 20, demanding the University address the housing crisis affecting many students. The property, located at 278 Faraday St, was previously used to house Melbourne … Continue reading

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Tears of a clown

Oh yeah yeah yeah Now if there’s a smile on my face It’s only there trying to fool the public But when it comes down to fooling you Now honey that’s quite a different subject But don’t let my glad … Continue reading

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BNP’s RWB vs SWP’s UAF

Evening Telegraph reporters shut out of BNP festival, holdthefrontpage, August 21, 2008 Anindya Bhattacharyya’s Angry protest against the BNP’s Nazi ‘Red, White and Blue’ hate-fest (Socialist Worker, August 19, 2008) provides an excellent example of the witlessness of the Socialist … Continue reading

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