Leading anti-war campaigner Pip Hinman, who is currently helping organise protests that will meet the visit of US President Barack Obama, has been preselected as Socialist Alliance鈥檚 candidate for the federal seat of Grayndler in Sydney鈥檚 inner west.
Paul Benedek
Five years ago, Mulrunji Doomadgee was arrested by senior sergeant Chris Hurley for 鈥渄isorderly conduct鈥 and taken to a police cell on Palm Island, near Townsville. Within an hour, the Aboriginal man was dead.
More than 200 activists, including a large proportion of youth and women, packed Kuala Lumpur鈥檚 Chinese Assembly Hall for the first day of Socialism 2009, an annual conference organised by the Socialist Party of Malaysia (PSM).
Many Queenslanders assume abortion is legal, since 14,000 terminations occur every year in the state.
Five hundred people gathered in West End's iconic Boundary Street on October 17 to protest against a Brisbane City Council development plan.
鈥淲hen uncertainty in the law exists, it opens the way to police corruption鈥, Marg Kirkby from the NSW Women鈥檚 Abortion Action Campaign told a Pro-Choice Action Collective (PCAC) forum on October 12.
Emory Douglas, former 鈥淢inister for Culture鈥 in the US Black Panther Party, spoke at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art on October 1. Douglas is now a part of the Artist Rights Society, and remains a committed activist artist and campaigner for social justice and empowerment.
鈥淭his is one of the rare books which you can judge by its cover鈥, author Humphrey McQueen quipped to the 50 Builders Labourers Federation unionists attending the launch of Framework of Flesh on September 22.
Pro-choice activists are intensifying the campaign against Queensland鈥檚 anti-abortion laws and demanding charges laid against a young Cairns couple to be dropped.
Aboriginal rights supporters and environmental activists protested at the opening of the Brisbane Writers鈥 Festival on September 9, where the keynote speaker was conservative Aboriginal figure Noel Pearson.
Chanting 鈥渟top Bligh, stop thief 鈥 she'd even sell her grandma鈥檚 teeth!鈥 and 鈥渃ommunity action is what we need, no sell-off to corporate greed鈥, 100 people marched to Queensland Premier Anna Bligh's West End office on August 15.
BRISBANE 鈥 Seven hundred teachers staged an after-school rally outside state parliament on August 5. The rally was organised after the Industrial Relations Commission ruled against a planned statewide strike.
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