Some call for police to stop investigating police, others call for just common decency, when will police be brought into line with the rest of us, and for their sakes too, in being held accountable for behaviour that just makes it too difficult for us to trust in each other?
Gerry Georgatos
The compassionate left wing screams for social justice and argues for our governments and society's institutions to have a heart and help people from the bottom end up, and to desist with the proposition that they can achieve for the downtrodden by working from the top end of town and down.
The bona fide left wing is fractious and forever splintering and yet it calls out for groundswells of people power to coalesce in mass social movements which will give rise to cultural waves.
http://www.indymedia.org.au/2011/12/04/iraq-%E2%80%93-landmines-bombs-de...
We have got more than 1,000 children's wheelchairs to Iraq - we have another load of 330 due in July - we need your help - there are still 6,000 Iraqi children in Iraq without wheelchairs - it is the least we can do
No-one in government cares enough about Aboriginal peoples
Gerry Georgatos
Well placed sources, including parliamentarians, in the Australian Labor Party, the Coalition, and the Greens have made surprising comments that issues afflicting Aboriginal peoples and 'Aboriginal affairs' are in the 'too hard basket' or 'best swept under the carpet'.
Gerry Georgatos
The Stolen Wages campaigns are struggling in the finding of justice for families of those long gone and for those with little time left on this earth.
From WA, Yamatji Phil Moncrief said, "(These are) simple cut and dried cases. A social justice run up the mountain of corruption is what it is - it does not get much easier than to get the justice done here." However, the Stolen wages remain stolen for far too many people, their families and/or their descendants.
It is disingenous for Julia Gillard, Wayne Swan, Stephen Conroy, Bill Shorten and others to be smashing the reputation of Kevin Rudd and to dishevel the legacy of his time in the Office of the Prime Minister.
Gas wells 80 kilometres from Surfers Paradise? Gecko – Gold Coast & Hinterland Environment Council is hosting the screening of Gasland – an important film which explores the issues around coal seam gas extraction. Normally considered an issue for rural groups but no longer – already 50% of the Tweed is under gas exploration permits. Please come along for this award winning film and guest speaker Libby Connors. Get informed. Join the debate. Lend your voice. Saturday 3 April from 1.00 pm at Robina Community Centre.
We are asking for you to join with us at a Peoples Assembly in Canberra at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday 28 September (2010).
We will assemble on the lawns outside Parliament House to call on the new Parliament to introduce humane refugee policies and stop using refugees as political footballs. Refugee groups are asked to bring banners with the key messages of the gathering as well as their own messages.
