Archive for August 22nd, 2012
La Trobe students occupy Bundoora campus to stop the cuts
Posted by John, August 22nd, 2012 - under La Trobe, Occupations, Universities.
Tags: Cuts
Comments: 1
Students voted to occupy the campus with a number of students volunteering to stay overnight and indefinitely until Open Day. The collective also demanded the rejection of the proposed cuts, for the university to enter into negotiations with the NTEU in good faith, a shift in focus on saving money to saving jobs and for a redistribution of executive pay to save other jobs at the university.
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Equality in the defence forces?
Posted by John, August 22nd, 2012 - under Women's liberation, Women's oppression.
Tags: Australian army, Defence, Defence forces, Equality
Comments: 7
The Broderick Report is an attempt to beautify the soul of ugliness. Women in the Defence Forces strengthen Australian capitalism internationally and onshore. They reinforce the very system that condemns women to second class citizenry and postpone the days of real equality. More gender equality in the capitalist defence forces? No thanks.
Peter Norman, the Labor Party and refugees
Posted by John, August 22nd, 2012 - under Labor Party, Refugee Action Committee (Canberra), Refugees.
Tags: ALP, Asylum seekers
Comments: none
As Labor politician Andrew Leigh says, each of us can be a Peter Norman in our own lives. That is why the Canberra Refugee Action Committee has called a rally in defence of asylum seekers and against Julia Gillard’s Pacific ‘Solution’ for this Saturday 25 August at 12.30 in Garema Place.