Archive for April, 2017
ANZAC Day: Lest we remember
Posted by John, April 28th, 2017 - under ANZAC day.
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Lest we forget. It is the defining phrase of ANZAC Day. And yet the Day itself is about forgetting. It really should be lest we remember because ANZAC Day is about denying history.
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The deceitful dogwhistling of Peter Dutton and Australian Values
Posted by John, April 26th, 2017 - under Lies, Manus Island, Peter Dutton.
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Apparently, it is Australian values to blatantly lie and incite hatred towards asylum seekers, I write in Independent Australia
The wars that truly defined Australia
Posted by John, April 25th, 2017 - under Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, ANZAC day.
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This is from the Sovereign Union Facebook page WE WON’T LET YOU FORGET Over 500 nations of peoples were slaughtered or displaced using savage weaponry, poisons, germ warfare and filthy trickery, in the bloodbaths that continued for over 150 years by the greedy invading savages. The frontier wars were carried out in such inhuman ways […]
To arms! Capitalists
Posted by John, April 24th, 2017 - under Industrial Workers of the World, War.
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Australian and New Zealand soldiers – you have been tricked
Posted by John, April 23rd, 2017 - under ANZACS.
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Australian values
Posted by John, April 20th, 2017 - under Australian values.
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Australian (ie ruling class) values? Genocide, war, racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, running refugee concentration camps, screwing poor people and workers….
Housing crises: From property bubbles to homelessness
Posted by John, April 17th, 2017 - under Homelessness, Housing.
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The Turnbull Government’s latest band-aid measures will do little to address housing affordability and nothing at all for Australia’s homeless, says John Passant in Independent Australia.
Old school memories
Posted by John, April 16th, 2017 - under Poems, Poems for a new world.
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I went past my old school today Saint John Vianney is its name On that first day 59 years ago, I ran away I should have kept going I remember the beatings, of others mainly The angry nuns, the shouting The fear of God, Beaten in, always beaten in With stories and the rod I […]
Behrouz Boochani on what happened on Manus Island
Posted by John, April 15th, 2017 - under Manus Island.
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This is a Facebook post from Behrouz Boochani on what happened on Manus Island. Three refugees and some Australian officers have been injured seriously. A refugee from Sudan has been injured in his head and another Sudanese man injured in his chest. A Pakistani refugee has been injured in his stomach and is urinating blood. […]
United in profit: Overbooking and violent removal all part of the service
Posted by John, April 12th, 2017 - under Airlines, Overbooking, Profit, United Airlines.
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United Airlines violently dragged a passenger off an overbooked flight in full view of shocked passengers, but it’s all in the fine print, I write in Independent Australia