Monthly Archives: November 2011

WorkPartners

Make $2 million more over 5 years for every 1000 new members Every 1000 new members you sign up can make you an extra $2 million over 5 years, after the costs of recruitment. That’s a lot of extra money … Continue reading

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Baiada and corporate predation

Update : Join a mass community action in solidarity with striking Baiada poultry workers. Meet at 9.30am at 17 Pipe Rd, Laverton for 9.45 departure to protest site. Stop Baiada shifting production to other sites! Demand that Baiada listen to … Continue reading

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Occupy Melbourne & #Baiadastrike

Occupy Melbourne and the OM Union Working Group has organised a very special action in support of striking Baiada workers. Participants will be travelling to Trades Hall after the action and then out to the picket line in Laverton. When … Continue reading

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antifa notes (november 14, 2011)

Czech Republic Five charged with promoting Nazism on Facebook, ROMEA, November 11, 2011: Five men from Kroměříž have been charged with promoting Nazism on the Facebook social networking site. The men used their profiles to publish video footage of Nazi … Continue reading

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Community Picket/BBQ in Solidarity with Baiada Workers, 7pm, Sunday, November 13

View Larger Map WHEN : 7pm, Sunday, November 13 WHERE : 17–19 Pipe Road, Laverton North (Melways map 40, D10) Striking workers at Baiada Poultry factory have been standing strong in the face of a brutal police assault on their … Continue reading

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Draft declaration for Occupy Melbourne #occupymelb

An interesting text. The sentence in bold needs correction but… and the statement possibly requires something about the right to a tent arf arf. In others news, Jon Faine expresses pain @ Lord Mayor Robert “Magnets How Do They Work?” … Continue reading

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Police attack Baiada picket line in Laverton. Fail thug is fail.

One picketer was taken to hospital by ambulance with suspected spinal injuries following the police assault on Friday evening. Despite intimidation by police and private security, a community picket continues throughout the weekend at the Baiada factory, 17–19 Pipe Road, … Continue reading

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November 11, 1887… November 11, 2011

In Chicago, USA, 124 years ago today (November 11, 1887), four men–George Engel, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and August Spies–were hanged for a crime they didn’t commit. On the previous day, International Carpenters’ Union leader Louis Lingg committed suicide rather … Continue reading

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Baiada Poultry ~versus~ NUW

Update : November 11, 2011 : Court orders union to stop blockade, AAP, November 11, 2011. On Friday night police attempted to break the picket. One picketer was seriously injured and taken away by ambulance with suspected leg and/or spinal … Continue reading

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Anarchy rules OK Chomsky tells Australia

So much for apathy… Anarchy rules OK Chomsky tells Australia, AAP, November 3, 2011. (And for those with a slightly longer historical perspective, see : Harold Barclay, People Without Government: An Anthropology Of Anarchy, Kahn & Averill, 1990.) Uncle Noam … Continue reading

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