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Archive for September 20th, 2012
Equal love can win if we increase the pressure even more
Posted by John, September 20th, 2012 - under ACT Greens, ACT Labor, ACT politics, Equal love, Marriage equality, Same-sex marriage, The Greens.
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The vote in Federal Parliament against marriage equality shows not that the movement has failed but that it has not yet won the final battle. The fact that equal love is only on the agenda because of grass roots activism shows the way forward. Build the campaign. Make it stronger and bigger and louder.
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Protest cancelled
Posted by John, September 20th, 2012 - under Islamophobia, Muslims, Protests.
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From Corey Oakley, a member of Socialist Alternative’s National Executive: There have been reports in the media and comments online implying that Socialist Alternative was backing the now-cancelled protest that was planned for this Sunday. This is not the case. Socialist Alternative was very much opposed to calling a protest in the current climate of […]
Ignorance on parade: Islamophobia, Left and Right
Posted by John, September 20th, 2012 - under Counterpunch, Islamophobia, Jeff Sparrow, Muslims, Racism.
Comments: 2
Those who call themselves progressive might note that a certain Karl Marx followed the Great Indian Rebellion closely. While he acknowledged and decried the excesses of the rebels, he declared these were ‘only the reflex, in a concentrated form, of England’s own conduct in India.’
In other words, Marx, one of history’s more famous atheists, stood firmly with the ‘ignorant’ sepoys against their ‘enlightened’ opponents.
Animal husbandry
Posted by John, September 20th, 2012 - under Right wing nut job.
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Maybe Cory Bernardi should be the Minister for Animal Husbandry in an Abbott Government.