"Masks aren’t a license to fuck shit up, they’re a license to go home at night and crawl into bed without checking under it first. You don’t have to wear one, but if you see somebody who has decided to, respect their decision."
Snark and spam from Kieran.
Topics: Anarchy, workers power, ecology, anti-oppression, liberation, related stuff.
No cat photos, maybe dogs.
Topics: Anarchy, workers power, ecology, anti-oppression, liberation, related stuff.
No cat photos, maybe dogs.
Having a good chuckle at this one!
http://www.abc.net.au/…/warrant-issued-for-canning-…/6758698
Some context about Abdullah Kurdi, father of drowned Syrian Kurdish boy who went viral
Posted to FB by Kenan Rahmani:
1) Abdullah Kurdi, the father, was detaine...d for 5 months in Air Force Intelligence in Damascus. While in detention, he was tortured and his teeth were pulled out. He had to sell his shop in Damascus in order to bribe the officers to let him out. This cost him 5,000,000 Syrian Liras (around $25,000)
2) After he bribed his way out of jail, Abdullah fled to Aleppo with his wife and sons, Alyan and Ghalib. The situation in Aleppo became dangerous due to the constant bombardment, so he fled again to Kobani, his hometown.
3) When ISIS attacked Kobani last year, the family could no longer live in their hometown, so they fled to Turkey. Once in Turkey, the Turkish government did not provide them with assistance, so they paid almost $6,000 to secure 4 spots on a rubber dingy to the Greek island of Kos.
4) While on the boat, rough waters caused the boat to flip. The lifejackets they were given were fake. His sons and wife all drowned in front of his eyes, in his arms.
5) Kurdi alleges that he had applied in June for refuge to Canada, but was rejected. After Aylan's photo became a media story, he was reportedly offered citizenship to Canada. But he doesn't want to go to Canada or Europe anymore. He says he will go bury his family in Kobani and stay there to fight against ISIS, because everything has been taken away from him and he has "nothing to live for."
Interviewer: What is your greatest strength as an employee?
Applicant: I am willing to perform services in exchange for currency.
Interviewer: What is your greatest weakness?
Applicant: I require shelter and calories to maintain existence, and thus, I must perform services in exchange for currency.
Interviewer: Why are you interested in working at this company in particular?
Applicant: This company pays currency in exchange for the performance of services.
Interviewer: Where do you see your self in five years?
Applicant: Performing comparable services in exchange for more currency.
"Mr Lelikans lawyer, Jessie Smith, urged the Government to assist her client to leave Iraq and said that any investigation into his political allegiances could happen in Australia.
"[The Government] should urgently grant a temporary travel document to facilitate his journey home," she said.
"This is in line with Australia's human rights obligations under international law." "
At the Australian's for Kurdistan rally at Fed Square now. I'll be speaking before the rally shortly.
Victory!
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Operation Fortitude has been cancelled!
A quick timeline:
10:14am #OperationFortitude announced
11.30am to 11.45am Snap protest called to oppose Operation...
12:54pm ABF Clarification
2.00pm Snap protest begins
Intersection taken! Traffic stopped! Station stormed! Border Force officials penned in police station at Flinders!
2:26pm Presser cancelled
2:40pm Operation cancelled
Police Operation Cancelled!
Victory in four hours flat!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/…/operation-fortitude-canc…/6733008
SNAP ACTION - 2pm Flinders St Station TODAY.
Border Force have announced they will be checking visas on the streets of Melbourne this weekend. They are doing a media event at 2pm today at Flinders St station.
People and banners/signs needed.
... "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL"
"BORDER FORCE OFF OUR STREETS".
Home > Releases ABF joining inter-agency outfit to target crime in Melbourne CBD 28-08-2015 - This weekend Australian Border Force (ABF) officers will for the first time join forces with a diverse team of transport and enforcement agencies to target crime in the Melbourne Central Business District (…
newsroom.border.gov.au/releases/abf-j…
Robot socialism? Not likely.
"In trying to raise the productivity of labour with the introduction of technology, there is process of labour shedding. New technology replaces labour. Yes, increased productivity might lead to increased production and open up new sectors for employment to compensate. But over time, a capital-bias or labour shedding means less new value is created (as labour is the only form of value) relative to the cost of invested capital. ...
an economy increasingly dominated by the internet of things and robots under capitalism will mean more intense crises and greater inequality rather than super-abundance and prosperity".
This is on tomorrow night.
10
SEP
Tomorrow 6 PMMeeting Room 3, Kathleen Syme Library & Community Centre, 251 Faraday Street, Carlton
193 guests
Apparently it's not uncommon to get your FB page blocked for posting photos of jailed PKK leader Abdullah "Apo" Ocalan.
Today Kurdish supporters on FB are doing a mass post of pictures of Apo.
If you're after something to read (shameless plug) here's something I wrote a few weeks ago on the need to end the "terror listing" of the PKK in Australia: http://www.kieransreview.com/…/…/21/lift-the-ban-on-the-pkk/
Just gotta hold that line for one more day than they can.
Just before midnight on Thursday 6 August 2015, 97 workers at logistics operator Hutchison Ports Australia in Brisbane and Sydney were sacked suddenly withou...
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John Cummins arrested on the 417 St. Kilda Road project for serving his members in 1990.
"The nearest thing to a crime in the whole Leighton affair, seems to be... Leighton's sacking of workers – some of whom have 30 and 20 years service with the company"
While in jail he stated "It is an occupational hazard for union officials to be arrested and perhaps go to gaol. Jailing could have left me suitably chastened to grovel, but I'm convinced I've done nothing wrong. How can it be a crime for a union official to serve his members?"
Cummins added "If workers stand united, sooner or later, their success is guaranteed"
Tune into Rank and File Radio tomorrow morning at 8am on 3CR Community Radio 855 on the am dial
Kieran's Review shared a post.
On this day in 2006 Sri Lankan Air Force bombed and killed 53 school children #sencholaimassacre #weremember
Earlier in 2015