Phil Monsour is a singer/songwriter based in Brisbane. His songs reflect a passionate commitment to the struggles of ordinary people. But Monsour does more than just sing about the world. As part of a broader political engagement, he deploys his music as an organising tool.
804
On July 15, elders left the remote Aboriginal community of Ampilatwatja for more remote ancestral lands. They were protesting a dire lack of basic services in their community, despite repeated government promises to 鈥渃lose the gap鈥 and end Aboriginal disadvantage.
The Queensland Teachers Union (QTU) is assessing a new pay offer put forward on July 24 in the Industrial Relations Commission by the Anna Bligh state Labor government.
The following open letter was sent to the Australian Youth Climate Coalition from Resistance. It is in response to the Power Shift 2009 conference in Sydney on July 11-13.
The government tells those aged between 17 and 25
they've got to be either learning or earning
or their social security will be withheld.
Young unemployed don't need to be compelled;
they need to be provided with opportunities to
As the Australian Labor Party holds its 2009 national conference, there鈥檚 an old union saying that鈥檚 never been more apt: if you don鈥檛 fight, you lose.
Three weeks after the June 28 military coup that expelled Honduran President Manuel 鈥淢el鈥 Zelaya, the Central American country remains shaken by a profound and dynamic popular upsurge demanding Zelaya鈥檚 return and the restoration of democracy.
Around 60 people protested outside parliament house on July 25 in solidarity with recent democracy protests in Iran. They demanded the release of political prisoners, an end to censorship and the rejection of the recent presidential elections as a fraud.
An East Jerusalem community has called on US President Barack Obama to pressure Israel to stop its illegal 鈥淛ewish-only鈥 settlement program that will evict them from their homes.
On July 19 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua, Giorgio Trucchi interviewed Honduran President Manual Zelaya for the Regional Latin American Secretariat if the International Union of Food, Agriculture and Hotel Workers World Wide (Sirel). Zelaya is Honduras鈥檚 elected, legitimate leader overthrown in a June 28 military coup. It has been translated by Felipe Stuart Cournoyer.
The picket against construction company Thiess in Rhodes, Western Sydney, has continued for more than a month. On July 23, protesters gathered at the picket in support of the four recently sacked workers.
The article below is abridged from a July 23 statement by the West Papua Advocacy Team.
- Previous page
- Page 3
- Next page