Archive for June 19th, 2013
For Indigenous Australians it’s a new stolen generation
Posted by John, June 19th, 2013 - under Indigenous Australians, Stolen generation.
Tags: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
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The Northern Territory Intervention and its offshoots and the removal of children are fundamentally about breaking community connections, breaking ownership over traditional lands and breaking the resistance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people writes John Lamb in Socialist Alternative. They are little more than dressed-up old style colonial racism.
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Universities: if you don’t fight you lose
Posted by John, June 19th, 2013 - under Resistance, Universities.
Tags: Fighting back, Higher education
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As the BLF used to say: ‘If you don’t fight, you lose.’ The stark choice facing students and staff at Universities today is to fight to defend higher education or to surrender.