MEDIA RELEASE FOR RALLY MARCH AUSTRALIA Media Release 8 July 2015 National Rallies call for welfare change March Australia is hosting the National Welfare March at a number of locations around the nation this weekend. “The time is now”, said Loz Lawrey, a March Australia volunteer. “Attitudes to welfare and welfare recipients have to change. […]
G20 policing submissions lodged Brisbane Activist Support Team (BAST) and other groups have lodged submissions to the Crime and Corruption Commission review on the G20 Act. $450 million was spent on the security operation. Assistant Commissioner Katarina Carroll said the Brisbane G20 had set the benchmark for future summits. Speaking on the policing operation she […]
On Saturday January 24, while hundreds of people were protesting the Newman state government in the streets of Brisbane, the Liberal National Party of Queensland were engineering a bikie-related scandal using stolen video. The LNP mud-slinging attempt purports to expose criminal motorcycle gangs as supporters of the Electrical Trades Union, and that the ETU are […]
A rally in support of Civil Liberties and G20 arrestees will be held tomorrow morning, 4 December, at the Magistrates Court. Three of the Arrestees have been charged with offences under the G20 Act relating to prohibited items, in this instance masks. Another has been charged with violating a Prohibited Persons order. On 13 November Ross […]
Peoples’ Final Statement Against G20 Policies VISIONING ANOTHER WORLD FOR SYSTEM CHANGE! MEDIA ADVISORY After an intense week long of events in West End Brisbane and Musgrave Park to debate G20’s false solutions to the financial, climate, food, energy, jobs and social crises, and inspired by the great street mass protests, the G20 […]
The tragedy of death in custody always evokes strong sentiments of anger, despair, disbelief and hunger for justice, and it was no different today at the rally held in Brisbane, hosted by the Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy to honour loved ones, who in the course of their lives were failed by the justice system. The hundreds […]
SOVEREIGNTY SOCIETY SUSTAINABILITY A New Agenda For The 21st Century The BrisCAN-G20 Peoples’ Summit concludes on Friday evening at the beautiful Princess Theatre, with talks by the following experts: *Winnie Byanyima, executive director, Oxfam International *Les Malezer, co-chair, National Congress of Australia’s First People *Sharan Burrow, general secretary, International Trade Union Confederation *Michelle Maloney, […]
MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release Date: 14 Nov 2014 VISIONING ANOTHER WORLD: THE G20 PEOPLES’ SUMMIT Visioning Another World: The G20 Peoples Summit is a three-day festival of symposiums, idea sharing, art, creative activities, education and action. It will take place in various locations in Brisbane from November 12-14,and before the G20 Leaders Summit. […]
MEDIA RELEASE For immediate release Date: 14 Nov 2014 Everyone Gets Ice Cream The G20 Peoples’ Summit wraps up on Friday, November 14, with another full program comprising 15 events at five locations around Brisbane. There will be a series of films showing at the Uniting Church in Vulture Street, West End. The story […]
Elmer Labog , the chairperson of KMU, the May First Movement (Kilusang Mayo Uno), the largest and the militant trade union centre of the Philippines, couldn’t care less if Tony Abbott shirt fronts Vladimir Putin, but he cares about Australian mining interests in the Philippines financing the military to kill mining workers struggling for their […]