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Why The Bolsheviks Won the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/11/2012 - 8:24pm

By Justin Arnold

MA Student UNSW

The Russian Civil War of 1917 to 1921 can be seen as the conflict that has defined all other conflicts of twentieth century. It was a war launched by the former officers of the Tsarist regime against the modernisation of Russia’s Political Economy byt he Bolsheviks. The keys to the Red Army victory and White defeat in the Civil War were ,
• The political leadership of Lenin of the Bolsheviks and the Bolsheviks of the working class with a unity of purpose and command or what Lenin calls ‘unity, identity, struggle and the transformation of opposites’ ,

Keywords: 
Russia Civil War Bolshevik Marxism Lenin Soviet Union

WGAR News: Council Stops Darug Nation Acknowledgement: SBS Living Black

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 12/11/2012 - 6:21pm

Newsletter date: 13 November 2012

Contents:
* SBS Living Black: Council Stops Darug Nation Acknowledgement
* SNAICC: Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service calls on Government to put a stop to detaining juvenile offenders in adult custody
* Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation: Yindjibarndi Answer FMG/Wirlu-Murra Weasel Words
* Daily Liberal [Dubbo News]: Activist to speak at school debate
* 9 News: [Isabel] Coe lauded for role in Aboriginal politics
* Map of First Nations Sovereign Embassies in Australia
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies

Geography: 
Canberra
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Victoria
Keywords: 
SNAICC - Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service calls on Government to put a stop to detaining juvenile offenders in adult custody
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation - Yindjibarndi Answer FMG Wirlu-Murra Weasel Words
Daily Liberal - Dubbo News - Activist to speak at school debate
9 News - Isabel Coe lauded for role in Aboriginal politics
Map of First Nations Sovereign Embassies in Australia
Greens Rachel Siewert - Obligation now lies with Burke to protect James Price Point
Background to the Walmadan Tent Embassy - James Price Point - north of Broome - Kimberley Region - WA
Congress - Education Working Group Communique
Amnesty International Australia - 5 things Australia should do with its seat on the UN Security Council
Senator Nigel Scullion - Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs - Labor bureaucracy fails Indigenous Australians

Adelaide & South Australia Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 5 events from 12 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 2:00pm

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

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Event: Mon 12 November 2012: Hindmarsh, SA
Public Forum on the
Extinguishment of Native Title in the Cooper Basin
Public Forum hosted by Left Unity
Defend Native Title!
Defend Aboriginal Heritage!
No Shale Gas Mining in SA!
"The State government recently passed legislation
which extinguishes the rights of native title holders
to negotiate with mining companies on leases
granted before the introduction of the Native

Geography: 
Adelaide
South Australia

Brisbane & Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 5 events from 14 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 1:47pm

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Event: Wed 14 November 2012: State Library, Brisbane, Qld
Yarnin' Time with Bob Weatherall
Bob Weatherall, a Gumulray Elder, has worked for
many years at the Foundation for Aboriginal and
Islander Research Action. He is currently the chair of the
Centre for Indigenous Cultural Policy in Brisbane
and is a high profile Aboriginal activist who had a
lead role in establishing the Tent City in
Musgrave Park in 1982 when Brisbane hosted
the Commonwealth Games.
Come along to listen to some local history."

Geography: 
Brisbane
Gold Coast
Queensland

Wollongong & Sydney Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 4 events from 11 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 1:32pm

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Event: Wed 7 to Sun 11 November 2012: Wollongong, NSW
Exhibition: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Project Contemporary Artspace
"The word ‘intervention’ is popular in the art and
architecture worlds, but in this context it condemns
the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER),
Australia’s "national emergency" policy introduced in 2007.
This punitive policy is at odds with international human
rights conventions and the Racial Discrimination Act.
The exhibition Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention

Geography: 
New South Wales
Sydney
Wollongong

Canberra Book Launch 'A Decision to Discriminate' + 2012 David Hunter Memorial Lecture

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 1:26pm

4 Canberra events for your diary:

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Event: Tues 13 November 2012: ANU, Canberra, ACT
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Launched by:
* John Falzon, CEO St Vincent de Paul
* Janet Hunt, Fellow at Centre for Aboriginal Economic
Policy Research and former President of ANTaR
"This new book is an important historical record
that focuses on the Senate Committee Inquiry
into the Stronger Futures legislation. It shows
how the Government decision-making process

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Keywords: 
Canberra Book Launch - A Decision to Discriminate - Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Canberra - 2012 David Hunter Memorial Lecture - What next for constitutional recognition?
I Do Have a Belief - Kevin Gilbert (1933-1993) Art Retrospective - Canberra

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 18 events from 11 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 12:46pm

Newsletter date: 11 November 2012

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Wed 7 to Sun 11 November 2012: Wollongong, NSW
Exhibition: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Project Contemporary Artspace
"The word ‘intervention’ is popular in the art and
architecture worlds, but in this context it condemns
the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER),
Australia’s "national emergency" policy introduced in 2007.

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Adelaide
Perth
Brisbane
Darwin
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Gold Coast
Queensland
Wollongong
South Australia
Western Australia

WGAR News: Anti-Intervention campaigners speak out over sacking of Olga Havnen: STICS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/11/2012 - 10:09am

Newsletter date: 11 November 2012

Contents:
* Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education: Olga Havnen Presentation
* STICS: Anti-Intervention campaigners speak out over sacking of Olga Havnen
* Dr Janet Hunt: Inconvenient truths of the intervention
* Bob Gosford: Anderson sacks Havnen - a case of two strong hens in the NT henhouse is one too many?
* Background to Olga Havnen's Report
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Natasha Robinson: Lesson in how to play fair [Wadeye, NT]

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education - Olga Havnen Presentation
Dr Janet Hunt - Inconvenient truths of the intervention
Bob Gosford - Anderson sacks Havnen - a case of two strong hens in the NT henhouse is one too many?
Background to Olga Havnen's Report
Natasha Robinson - Lesson in how to play fair - Wadeye NT
Tobias Nganbe & Dominic McCormack - Education in Wadeye and the Thamarrurr Region

WGAR News: PM Gillard on the call for Treaty: "There will be no bits of paper!" (Gerry Georgatos)

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 10/11/2012 - 8:37am

Newsletter date: 10 November 2012

Contents:
* By Gerry Georgatos: Prime Minister Gillard on the call for Treaty: "There will be no bits of paper!"
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* ABC: NZ group says NT Indigenous education decades behind
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools
* ABC: NLC in talks on additional nuclear waste dump site
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Petition: Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe - lay charges against police

Geography: 
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Keywords: 
ABC - NZ group says NT Indigenous education decades behind
ABC - NLC in talks on additional nuclear waste dump site
Petition - Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe - lay charges against police
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation - Whistleblower reveals FMG Mining deal bombshell
SBS Living Black - Aboriginal Stakeholders Left Out on Murray Darling Plan
Background to the Northern Murray-Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations - NBAN

Will Australia open uranium floodgates?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/11/2012 - 8:14pm

By Nuclear Worrier

The Australian government is about to decide whether Western Australia’s first uranium mine will go ahead, potentially setting a huge precedent for the rest of the country, where two other states have dropped decades-old uranium mining bans.

Australia is the world's third-ranking producer, behind Kazakhstan and Canada and possesses 31% of the world’s reserves. Uranium and nuclear power is never much of a public issue in Australia in terms of the dangers.

Geography: 
Australia

The Shortwave Report 11/9/12 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 09/11/2012 - 12:53pm

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (November 9) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
(If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {35MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
International news and opinion
shortwave
China Radio International
Radio Havana Cuba
Voice of Russia
Radio Deutsche-Welle
NHK Japan National Radio

WGAR News: Launch of A Decision to Discriminate: Aboriginal Disempowerment in the NT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 09/11/2012 - 11:31am

Newsletter date: 9 November 2012

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

Contents:
* Launch of 'A Decision to Discriminate: Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory'
* Yolngu Nations Assembly: Statement from 2nd assembly, 11-13 Oct 2012
* APO NT: Grog in the Territory: listening to the people, listening to the evidence
* Interview with Anthony Kerin of the Australian Lawyers Alliance re Stronger Futures Laws
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Keywords: 
Yolngu Nations Assembly - Statement from 2nd assembly - 11-13 Oct 2012
APO NT - Grog in the Territory - listening to the people - listening to the evidence
Interview with Anthony Kerin of the Australian Lawyers Alliance re Stronger Futures Laws

Martin Ferguson rebuffs Coal CEO Twiggy Palmcock in launching Energy paper

Submitted by takver on Fri, 09/11/2012 - 3:59am

While Federal Resources and Energy minister Martin Ferguson was launching a white paper on energy, the press conference was interrupted by that scallywag Victorian Coal CEO Twiggy Palmcock who thanked the Minister for his support of the fossil fuel industry.

Related: 2012 Energy white paper | RenewEconomy: Ferguson spies a green energy future … and steps on the gas | The Conversation: Energy White Paper plans to burn, burn, burn it all | Tony Abbott rebuffs Victorian coal mining magnate

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Promotion: 
Feature
Keywords: 
coal
energy
Martin Ferguson
fossil fuels

UN Investigates American Drone Program

Submitted by 2SER on Thu, 08/11/2012 - 11:49pm

The UNITED NATIONS has decided to set up an official investigation into the American use of unmanned, predator drones, to target and bomb alleged insurgents.

In the last 4 years the Obama administration has dramatically increased the use of remote controlled drones in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, and in the process, hundreds of civilians have been killed.

Two senior UN officials will now investigate the legality of the program which some claim is a clear breach of international law.

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
drones
international law
more