No uranium campaigners at ALP conference
There was some debate in the lead up to this action about whether we should be supporting the ALP's existing "No more uranium mines" policy or whether we should openly call for what we want: "No uranium mining". It was pretty clear that the people that turned up this morning wanted no uranium mining. Full Stop.
Uranium = weapons, waste, health disaster, theft of Aboriginal land and absolutely no answer to the problem of global warming.
Check out the couple of photos below and the Sydney Morning Herald online article here which features a photo of Socialist Alliance member Jakalene X (who added a lot of passion to the protest) and others. The paper reported that: "Members of the Socialist Alliance shouted slogans, saying that an expansion of mining would be all about money and greediness."
There will be another protest ("public lobby") against uranium mining Sat 28th April at 12 noon at the Darling Harbour convention centre.
ZeroMinesPolicy27-4-07ByAlexBainbridgeGLW: Zero mines policy 27-4-07
NoUraniumProtestALPConf27-4-07: No uranium protest at ALP conf 27-4-07
Vote Nobody Next Federal Election
Federal elections are coming up and it's the same old joke as usual - a "choice" that isn't one! Instead of not voting, how about voting for Nobody?
You should vote for Nobody, because:
- Nobody keeps election promises.
- Nobody has all the answers.
- Nobody will represent you.
- Nobody will improve your community.
- Nobody has your best interests at heart.
- Nobody will make a real difference!
- A vote for Nobody is a vote for Everybody!
OK, seriously now...
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50799#comment-68082
OK, seriously now...
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50799
OK, seriously now...
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=56777
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=56740
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144122.php
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50799
http://adelaide.indymedia.org/newswire/display/58260/index.php
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2007/04/884494.shtml
Don't vote! It only encourages them
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368818.html
Vote Nobody! Campaign hits Cardiff city centre
Vote Nobody! Campaign hits Cardiff city centre
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368401.html
A Vote For Nobody is a Vote for Everybody
Vote for Nobody
V for Vendetta was a lame ass film
While i support your efforts undermine our half assed excuse for democracy. Reproducing Warner bros merchandise isn't going to convince anybody.
It has nothing to do with V for Vendetta
It has more to do with a boycott of the election. What is a lame ass? The Socialist Alliance.
As follows:
ut Nobody will change that!
In the recent NSW Election a definite chain of command was in evidence: Socialist Alliance functioned as cheerleaders for the Greens, and the Greens supported Labor. Both organisations promoted illusions that Labor could be pressured at the ballot box, and that it represented a “lesser evil” to the Liberals. In line with this, the Greens concluded a preference deal with Labor’s state executive, while Socialist Alliance allocated first preferences to the Greens and second preferences to Labor.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50784
What do you call that? Socialist Alliance the Lib/Lab gang. So now you got screwed on mining and work choices who's are you going to preference?
It's time people like you woke up to your dumb ass stupidity. You don't live in a democracy but you play the stupid game. Why is that?
Reply
Do you think that we do not know that "capitalist democracy" isn't really democratic? We live in a capitalist dictatorship disguised by democratic forms. Those democratic forms are very useful by the way - they make it much easier for revolutionariers to organise to build an alternative and they put some constraints on how much the capitalists can screw us all over. Those democratic forms have been hard fought for and won by ordinary people.
We need to organise in very large numbers if we are to overthrow this capitalist dictatorship. Most people are not yet doing this and many think that a Labor government will make their lives better. A federal Labor government will help break people's illusions and make it easier to build the radical socialist alternative that we need. So we will recommend preferences go first to progressive parties and candidates and then to the ALP before the Liberals. It would be foolish and sectarian not to do this!
We run in election campaigns to help build a mass movement for socialist revolution.
Organising a "vote nobody" or boycott the election campaign is not the best way to organise more people into a radical mass movement for a socialist alternative. This judgement is based on experience. If you want to argue against this idea, tell me the examples from advanced capitalist countries where such campaigns have led to fundamental social change.
By the way, the quote you've selected is (1) slander from a notoriously sectarian group (2) slanted, essentially incorrect. The Socialist Alliance did not opperate as a cheer squad for the Greens nor did we act as slavish supporters of Labor. We put forward our own independent views in favour of a socialist alternative to capitalism and on the importance of building a democratic left-wing alternative to Labor and Liberal. We gave the Greens support only in so far as they support this project.
Alex Bainbridge
alexb@dsp.org.au
Rubbish
Lib/Lab is the same party and guess who is going to get in next Federal Election? LIberal or Lib/Lab one party one aim and they work for PNAC, IMF, WTO, And the AIMC. So where have you been my blue eyed son? Dreaming!
What has changed in the last 12 years? Nothing! What is going to change if you continue to count on and do the same thing all the time? Nothing!
It's dreamers like you that have let us down.
People want things to change yet all they want when you ask them what wil change it is more of the same?
Look at the history and tell me that you are going to change something by giving your preferences ultimately to Labor?
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Vote Nobody Next Federal Election
By The Ants..... Friday April 27, 2007 at 12:51 PM
People want things to change but when ask what they think will change it they ask for more of the same? If things are going to change then they're never going to change whilst people give validity and credibility to a totally flawed system.
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Federal elections are coming up and it's the same old joke as usual - a "choice" that isn't one! Instead of not voting, how about voting for Nobody?
You should vote for Nobody, because:
- Nobody keeps election promises.
- Nobody has all the answers.
- Nobody will represent you.
- Nobody will improve your community.
- Nobody has your best interests at heart.
- Nobody will make a real difference!
- A vote for Nobody is a vote for Everybody!
OK, seriously now...
People want things to change but when ask what they think will change it they ask for more of the same? If things are going to change then they're never going to change whilst people give validity and credibility to a totally flawed system.
It's not just about making a mockery of the farce that is "representative" democracy. It's also about producing more spoiled ballot papers with "Nobody" scrawled across them than the official winning candidate, thus undermining their "legitimacy" (as if they ever had any) to push the same old business-friendly, community-trashing policies that they always do, regardless of who gets in.
But whoever wins, ordinary people always lose! Nobody will change that, so vote for Nobody next Federal Election.
VOTE NOBODY!
[VOTING IS NOT AN EXPRESSION OF POWER, BUT AN ADMISSION OF POWERLESSNESS.
WHOEVER YOU VOTE FOR, THE GOVERNMENT ALWAYS WINS. ]
NEVER MIND THE BALLOTS!
Instead of the current system of pseudo-democracy we believe in Direct democracy which is based on equal participation. In order to be free & happy, we need to run our communities, our workplaces & our own lives.
Freedom is a way of organising society in which everyone has an equal say on how things are run.
Freedom is about standing up for ourselves and resisting unfairness; it is about sharing resource so everyone has what they need and it’s about creating a more peaceful world where we are free from poverty, violence and war.
Free people believe there are alternatives to the current political system where a minority force their decisions on a majority and where a few people hold all the power and wealth.
We want accountable delegates rather than careerist politicians, shared ownership rather than private profit, human need rather than economic growth, & mutual aid rather than Investers Rights Agreements.
Politicians say “vote for me!”
We say VOTE NOBODY!
And start organising for ourselves!
WE’RE VOTING NOBODY BECAUSE...
”Choosing between politicians in our fake democracy is like choosing between Coke and Pepsi – they’re all the same, just with slightly different packaging” “Putting an ‘X’ in a box every 4 or 5 years is not real democracy.
I’m fed up of seeing politicians forgetting about the promises they made to improve our lives once they’re in power.”
“I’m sick of accepting the least worst candidate. Every one of us deserves to have a say in the way our own lives are run. I’m voting nobody and starting to represent myself!”
“Nobody on the ballot represents me, and the very nature of the system means Nobody ever will. Nobody cares about the things we’re really passionate about, and nobody will fight for them except us”
“All politicians are liars - they’ll all keep privatizing everything and crapping on ordinary people”
Vote for Nobody for Victory and remember the Ants.....
Show them that we're not happy with the current system of unfairness this Federal Election. Help get the word out and pass this on to all your networks.
1 Ant can't act alone but in Australia 16 Million Ants can..........!
Don't Vote! It only encourages them.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50808
http://www.myspace.com/votenobody
http://www.ANARCHISMFAQ.ORG
http://www.SOUTHWALESANARCHISTS.ORG
Written and authorised by Adam Ant for the Ants...
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So far I've managed to note that these things are missing in our so-called "democracy." The democracy you may think you have doesn't exist in Australia today!!!
We are calling for an abundance of people who don't believe in the official truth, which is a MONSTER and a lie all the days of your life, to vote for Nobody.
So Just Vote for Nobody This Federal Election
You don't live in a democracy you live in a pseudo democracy. The democracy you have when you don't have a democracy. Which is a dictatorship!
You don't need a dictatorship! You're not a sheepy.
If John Howard and Kevin Rudd are a democracy then where is the Senate?
COAG is not a Senate! If every time you vote you get a Labor State or Territory and a Liberal Coalition National Govt then you live in a dictatorship.
By the way what would happen with COAG if one party ruled both the National and State and Territory affairs? DICTATORSHIP.
But if you consider that being a well-paid loser isn't a bad job and pays well then also consider the handshake between Lib/Lab that is a virtual one party.
For instance:
Where is the opposition to WAR?
Where is the opposition to WAR Crimes?
Where is the opposition to Draconian Laws?
Where is the opposition to Refugee Detainment?
Where is the opposition to David Hicks 5 year detention?
Where is the opposition to the AWB scandal?
Where is the opposition to Islamophobia?
Where is the opposition to Political Scapegoating?
Where is the opposition to Neo-Colonialism?
Where is the opposition to False Flag Operations by the CIA?
Where is the opposition to the FTA 'Investors Rights Agreement'?
Where is the opposition to HIV Discrimination?
Where is the opposition to the Privatisation of Health?
Where is the opposition to Desecrating and Ignoring Aboriginal Affairs?
Where is the opposition to subordinating Scientific and Medical Research?
Where is the opposition to No WorkChoices?
Where is the opposition to Social Services Reform?
Where is the opposition to Desperate and Disabled to Work?
Where is the opposition to 6 weeks Social Security Payments Cut Off's?
Where is the opposition to Work for the Dole instead of Getting Better Education and Skills for Better Employment Opportunities?
Where is the opposition to Rorting the Social Security System by Corporate Greed?
Related:
The Real Dole Bludgers
Unemployment figures scandal story (longish)
On the surface it was not too bad an experience. I got a nice redundancy package and almost immediately was able to gain employment in the new privatised sector at a higher salary. Financially it was good. I was deemed to have performed so well for my first “provider” that, when they failed to get a renewal on their contract, I was able to get a new job that was effectively a promotion, managing one of the suburban outlets of my second. Nor, on paper at least, had I thus been promoted to the level of my incompetence (an ambition I eagerly look forward to fulfilling). I got good results in this role, was made “employee of the month” and won generous, tax-free bonuses.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142867.php
Australian government cuts thousands of welfare recipients off benefits
This relentless assault on the most vulnerable sections of society has proceeded without a murmur of opposition from the official political establishment. In fact, the groundwork for it was laid by the Labor Party during its 13 years in office between 1983 and 1996. It is therefore not surprising that Labor has dropped its previous criticisms about sole parents and the disabled being incorporated into the new regime.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/136564.php
Nobody will change that!
In the recent NSW Election a definite chain of command was in evidence: Socialist Alliance functioned as cheerleaders for the Greens, and the Greens supported Labor. Both organisations promoted illusions that Labor could be pressured at the ballot box, and that it represented a “lesser evil” to the Liberals. In line with this, the Greens concluded a preference deal with Labor’s state executive, while Socialist Alliance allocated first preferences to the Greens and second preferences to Labor.
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50784
ALP and uranium
Oh, what a surprise. The Labor Party are a pack of untrustworthy BASTARDS who will force uranium mining onto us. OK. A question for Labor hacks. In which year did I first say the quote above?
Answer:
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144166_comment.php#144236
If anyone seriously believes that the ALP is anti-nuclear, I have a jar of specks of light I can sell you, for any offers over $100. For another $100 I'll throw in a progressive ALP policy that has actually been carried out since 1972.
Scrap Growing Esteem
Say NO to cuts in education
In reality the university has decided to go down this road not because of the educational merits but for reasons of status and profit. In 2005, when the model was first proposed, the Vice Chancellor highlighted that over the past 25 years guaranteed federal funding has gone from 90% to 23% of university revenue. Therefore the university perceived two choices, continue to grow at the current rate or opt for a radical rethink.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143707.php
Mr Speaker!
For arguments sake let's say Lab just happened not to throw the election by coming up with say, an anti strike policy? Just Hypothetical of course?
Then say Lab wins! Yay! No?
At the next COAG meeting there is no real opposition to new Anti-Terror laws for opening your mouth more than five times in one day?
Labor agrees with Labor that that's okay now. No one argued at all!
Then on that basis Lab does what it wants?
So how does that work? Come on smarty I'm just stupid! Never went to school either!
Now I put it to you clearly as my proposition that in fact, Labor cannot Win on that basis because the Neo-Liberal Coalition would not allow it, for a start!
Who controls everything? They do!
The second point is that it wouldn't look right to the general public if and when a controversial issue come up.
What line of defence has either Lib or Lab come up with as a proposition to an event whereby one part ruled States, Territories, and the Central Gov't?
I rest my case!
Mr Speaker!
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What did I say!
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Business Council calls for COAG overhaul
The Business Council of Australia says the current Council of Australian Governments (COAG) model needs to be overhauled because it is [incapable of addressing important national issues.]
The BCA says the relation between the federal and state governments is one of five key areas that politicians should focus on reforming as part of their federal election promises.
The BCA's president Michael Chaney says an overhaul of COAG will help make any reforms more effective.
[THE LIES]
"We simply can't afford a system of federal state relations which meets only occasionally, this year just once for half a day, decides erratically and follows through irregularly," he said.
"Businesses have really stopped believing in the effectiveness of COAG as it currently stands." [LIES]
Mr Chaney says reforming state-federal relations is the key to progress in education, workplace relations and business regulation.
"Frankly if the states aren't prepared to make regulatory reform a priority issue, it makes sense of the Commonwealth to take over responsibility for business rules and regulations that are inefficient and inconsistent," he said.
"They've made life very costly and cumbersome for businesses operating in this country."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1899792.htm
COAG is only for PNAC Neo-Liberal Dictators! This is just a nonsense by the Business Council to say that under a Labor Gov't considering they have control of the STATES and TERRITORIES THAT COAG CAN'T WORK.
OF COURSE IT CAN'T WORK!
That's the real reason because it can't work if one party ruled the nation can it? DICTATORSHIP!
'Outraged' business council may fund IR ads
The Business Council of Australia (BCA) is considering funding its own advertising campaign to counter union commercials on industrial relations.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903536.htm
Unemployed to be offered jobs in defence forces
Employment service providers will be encouraged to work with the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to help more people take on a military career.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143466_comment.php#143477
Time to go to war with your country?
Unemployed to be offered jobs in war forces. She says the scheme will provide opportunities to unemployed people who would not otherwise have considered a job in the ADF?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143481.php
HOUSING - A HUMAN RIGHT
The news that the French government has drafted a law to give everyone a legally enforceable right to housing should be of interest to the 100,000 homeless people in Australia.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143481_comment.php#143484
http://www.melbourneunitarian.org.au/
Youth homelessness inquiry head tells of 'crisis point'
A national inquiry into youth homelessness has been told an accommodation shortage is one of the main reasons the problem is getting worse. It is estimated there are about 35,000 young homeless people in Australia and the number is rising.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1898291.htm
'participatory democracy'
by Spandau Ballet
Firstly, I do not see a single candidate I want to speak on behalf of me. Why should I 'participate' in a system which does not represent me?
Secondly, our only option to 'participate' is limited to once every three years or so. Ticking a box in secret is hardly 'participatory'.
Thirdly, if we DO 'participate' our voices are nothing, when the elected few make decisions which we have NO say whatsoever. For example, despite 90% opposition to Iraq invasion - our leaders took us there.
Stop putting fuel in a car that has no wheels.
Abstain.
Democratic Lost Property?
These things are all missing in your so-called "democracy" the democracy you think you have!
We are calling for an abundance of people who don't believe in the official truth, which is a MONSTER and a lie all the days of your life, to vote for Nobody.
If things are going to change then they're never going to change whilst people give validity and credibility to a totally flawed system.
That means you'll be looking at Lib/Lab until the day you die!
Bush (Custer) Last Stand In Iraq - War Drums in Washington
The majority of American citizens have the delusion that they actually decide who governs them, when in practice the Democrats and Republicans are only two wings of the same ruling class that owns Congress, just as it owns the land, the banks and big corporations, the newspapers, and radio and television companies.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139901.php
Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies
Just as communicating with the Feds about abandoning the way we live now is a futile process that only buttresses the legitimacy of old ways of thinking and living, continuing to vote within centralised political processes only reinforces their continuing relevance. Citizens who continue to reside within totalitarian-democracies can, at least partly, abandon them by not voting at elections that will never lead to abundance and a better way of living.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/113003.php
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War criminals need time, not a timetable: Community
Not only has Labor left the Iraqi's in the lurch by being complicit in the illegal and degrading act of aggression killing over 655,000 people in a holocaust but now they say, after the fact, that they won't leave the Iraqi's in the lurch. So why have we been left in the lurch?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142514.php
THE MONSTER
The MONSTER destroys itself, so why do we fight the MONSTER? Why not just build our own world? Think of cost benefit of our time, money and our investment in building a new world - opposed to trying to stop the MONSTER who is always right. I know! We might save some lives! Nah! The monster said… that those people had to die and they'll have to lock people up if they disagree. So we say… well lock us up then. And they do! Then they go off and continue to do the killing while people are locked up. Because that was the right thing to do - because they were just terrorists and you were just a wild animal that doesn't understand capitalism and the way the system works. I know! We'll stop the war in Iraq? But Afghanistan is okay so well just keep on building democracy over there?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/142427.php
Lib/Lab Truth Scale TV
Yeah there was Johnny Howard lecturing about how the Liberals could lead NSW with a Peter Debnam's 'Let's fix NSW' campaign. But the way I see it they know how to 'fix it', all right! In more criminal ways than one. You just have to think like a war criminal and invite the spirits in for a chat about history...
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141967.php
THE POLITICS OF CRIME IN AUSTRALIA TODAY
How is it that Prime Minister John Howard can accuse other people of some crime or lies? No, you do not need to be clairvoyant or have any special supernatural talents to meet up with or to see one of the more see-through inhabitants of politics in Australia today. You just need a strong heart and an eager mind. While other people, who are being accused, belittled, tainted or desecrated by numerous criminal politicians and their media allies. Politicians who don't lead us by any form of example and who break their own morals, principals, values, and ethics. Politicians who break their own laws in order to deceive us and to suit their own political ends.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141552.php
Australia: The New 51st State
John Howard's servility to the US is even greater than Tony Blair's and has earned him the nickname Bush's deputy sheriff. The conspiracy between Washington, the media and politicians is eroding the country's freedoms
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/141471.php
If you're waiting for Lib/Lab then you're just waiting for a catastrophe!
What about all the scapegoats the Howard government has produced for their war on terror/resources? Most, still languishing in isolated segregation prisons and still waiting to be heard. Rendition and torture of our citizens? 20 years for thought crimes? Jury asked to push on when they couldn't make up their mind? Rules of evidence and standards lowered in our local courts? 5 years in Guantanamo without trial or charge? Military style Kangaroo Courts, Control Orders? Detention Orders? Indefinite Detention? Then we have Australian citizens being held in detention and even being deported?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139474.php
Possible Torres Strait survivor sightings ignored, inquest hears
The coronial inquest into the sinking of an Immigration Department boat in 2005 in the Torres Strait, in far north Queensland, has heard survivors may have been spotted alive in the water during the rescue search.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1898834.htm
Rescue expert blasts efforts to find Immigration boat
One of Australia's top search and rescue experts has compiled a damning report about efforts to find an Immigration Department boat that went missing in the Torres Strait more than a year ago.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143792_comment.php#143831
US/Australia: Refugee Deal Trades in Human Lives
(New York, April 18, 2007) – A deal between the United States and Australia to trade refugees housed at Guantanamo Bay for those held on the island nation of Nauru upends international refugee standards, Human Rights Watch said today.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143799.php
Australian governments covered up 1975 execution of “Balibo Five” newsmen
A coronial inquest, due to resume in Sydney next month, has produced telling new evidence of a cover-up, orchestrated by every Australian government since 1975, of the facts surrounding the execution of five Australian-based newsmen in the lead-up to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/apr2007/balib-a21.shtml
John Howard's Terror Tactics
Minister denies Adelaide using last 40 days of water
The South Australian Government says claims that Adelaide has only 40 days of water supply left are incorrect.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143857_comment.php#143878
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1903562.htm
Anyone interested in war criminal John Howard's vision for 2020?
War criminal John Howard outlines vision for 2020?
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143935_comment.php#143945
Australian government argues for mass detention power in “war on terror”
The solicitor-general specifically cited the September 2005 Council of Australian Governments communiqué, in which Prime Minister John Howard and the state and territory leaders declared: “A terrorist attack in Australia continue to be feasible and could occur.” The communiqué unveiled draconian new “counter-terrorism” laws, including control orders and “preventative detention”.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143981.php
'X marks the spot': ICANW launch in Melbourne
The Australian branch of the International Campaign against Nuclear Weapons announced its official launch today at Parliament House in Melbourne...
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/143939.php
British Lancet medical journal calls for defeat of Australian government
The editorial condemned “Prime Minister John Howard’s indifference to the academic medical community and his profound intolerance to those less secure than himself and his administration”. As the latest example, it cited Howard’s comment on a Melbourne radio station last week, declaring that people living with HIV should not be allowed to enter and live in Australia.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144115.php
Garret et al
Interesting quote by Garrett at conference, "I witnessed the struggle at Jabiluka!"
That's right Pete you didn't participate in it...just came up did the phot ops and disassociated yourself from the imprisoned nonviolent direct actionists. The anti-uranium gains were made by the grassroots movement of the late '70's/ early '80's. All we are offered now is careerist NGO's, aspiring politicians like Garrett embarassed about former positions taken. RIP - don't get fooled again by these clowns next time around.
I like the way you socialist alliance people get screwed
Rudd gets his way on uranium mines
The Australian Labor Party [Lib/Lab] national conference has narrowly supported Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's motion to scrap the "no new uranium mines" policy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1908940.htm
Narrowly my ass you dumb ass Socialist Alliance are way to stupid to understand you're being screwed! Looking for a good job? Looking for prestige? Go find it somewhere else. As my Captcha says, TITS!
At least we're organising...
Under capitalism, we're all getting screwed.
Socialist Alliance is organising to win something better than capitalism. That is worth celebrating, not denigrating in my view.
Alex Bainbridge
alexb@dsp.org.au
We are one but you're going the wrong way
Don't vote! It only encourages them
Exit stage left even...Work it out man you're a member of the loser party because ultimately you're are giving your preferences in a two party prefered election 'always' to your mortal enemy! Read the above dialogue
You can't win anything like that!
Lockdown over radioactive future
Activists this morning locked down Victorian headquarters of the ALP headquarters to voice their disgust that each party is locking Australia into a dangerous nuclear future.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144242.php
Just don't pretend friend!
All the parties go on about the environment but 'Nobody' is actually protecting it. Global Warming is a proven fact just look around you. We must reduce our consumption of coal, oil and gas and so what does the government do? It wants to build Nuclear power stations across Australia. to PRETEND that nuclear energy and the uranium fuel cycle is:
- safe
- financially affordable
- insurable
and not contributing to:
- greenhouse emssions
- massive water use
- nuclear wastes
- nuclear weapons,
it would merely attempt to address just 36% of global greenhouse gas emissions, ignoring the 64%* of GHG from industry, agriculture, transport and deforestation.
Please, don't be fooled into fighting this issue on the basis of energy use and climate, for we know all the reasons why Nuclear power is, in reality, a moot point.
We CAN, however, re-frame the issue (as our Labor & Liberal parties are want to do) by focussing on the mining and military sectors which actually drive the nuclear industry.
"Safeguards" for uranium exports do NOT guarantee inspections, do NOT apply to military facilities and provide for diversion of uranium reserves from civil to military use. ('The Australian', 2/12/05, "China warning on uranium", paragraph 10).
This fact alone, if Rudd and Howard would comprehend it, is reason enough to end the nuclear cycle initiated here in Australia.
Demand nothing less.
“Radical change cannot be negotiated by governments; it can only be enforced by people.”
- Arundhati Roy in The Nation, 9 February 2004.
"If the people will lead, the leaders will follow."
- David Suzuki.
* International Energy Agency.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144166_comment.php#144211
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When will the first explosion be?
We all know it may happen yet we feel powerless to do anything about it.
But there is something you can do.
By voting Nobody next Federal Election by effectively Boycotting the election you're sending a clear message to those who hold power. You're saying that you've had enough of politicians who are part of a self serving elite whose aim it is to make the rich richer and to deprive the majority of people with a decent way of life.
By voting Nobody you're say that you don't need careerist and corrupt politicians riding the gravy train at your expense. That you and I and thousands of others can stand up for ourselves.
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That we can create a better life for all, where we enjoy genuine freedom from nuclear power, poverty, violence and war.
Don't waste your vote next Federal Election vote Nobody Join one third of the Australian population who reject the Australian parliament. And start to organise for a better tomorrow!
Yes you're organising all right
Citizen
by AlexBainbridge Monday April 30, 2007 at 01:51 PM
alexb@dsp.org.au
How disappointingly sectarian and apolitical.
Please check out the original that I wrote at:
http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/node/50803
www.socialist-alliance.org
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144166_comment.php#144248
Your answers:
How stupid is the Socialist Alliance?
by Adam Ant Monday April 30, 2007 at 03:08 PM
This post has nothing to do with the post you crapped out on SIMC!
Wake up to yourself mate and go and read the responce to the bullshit you wrote!
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Citizan?
by Koala Bear Monday April 30, 2007 at 03:15 PM
I like the way the loser writes Citizan what does that make us? Seems the further up the political ladder they get the more important that they think they are?
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The best story in town?
ALP to vote on uranium mines policy
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144166.php
Also please note mr special citizen man that it does not contain your heading nor does it contain your script but it does contain a picture and you know what they say every picture tells a story.
Now go back to the Socialists Alliance and give them our message!
Thanks
Adam Ant 'Citizen' thank you very much you ignorant piece of shit!
ALP and uranium
Oh, what a surprise. The Labor Party are a pack of untrustworthy BASTARDS who will force uranium mining onto us.
OK. A question for Labor hacks. In which year did I first say the quote above?
Answer: 1978.
To hell with Labor and all their idiot supporters in the anti-nuke movement who keep telling me "Don't criticise Labor. We're working really hard on a few key members and we're on the verge of a critical breakthrough decision."
I've heard exactly that since 1978 as well.
If anyone seriously believes that the ALP is anti-nuclear, I have a jar of specks of light I can sell you, for any offers over $100. For another $100 I'll throw in a progressive ALP policy that has actually been carried out since 1972.
The Dark Arts
Too right Mar and now hear come the Lib/Lab head kickers so Howard can win! Their object is not to attack Lab really but to have you and I swallow the grand illusion of the election and that is that there are two parties vying for the top job when in reality it is just a grand set up so that things just stay the same. Labor know it they have to be the fallguys. The mass media play their part.
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Four Corners [Walls] Howard Gov't super duper propaganda machine!
How did politicians and bureaucrats fall under the spell of Brian Burke? Liz Jackson tells how ruthless lobbying eroded the public's faith.
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Ps) No link provided because I couldn't do it me self!
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Similarly this comment:
Rudd gets his way on uranium mines
The Australian Labor Party [Lib/Lab] national conference has narrowly supported Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's motion to scrap the "no new uranium mines" policy.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200704/s1908940.htm
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'narrowly supported' are the key words that makes it look like a real deal when in fact it was all bullshit!
The very reason you should vote for Nobody.
Bradbury-Garrett-Rudd- Hidden Agendas & Alegiences!
The choreography was near Stalinist in its execution. Peter Garrett "the legitimate voice of anti-uranium dissent" does his token tantrum Saturday morning. It's all handshakes by the evening and Rudd and Garrett appear on the Sunday evening news holding hands and doing the water tank and solar energy tango.
Yes the same Garrett who would have waltzed into a senate seat as a Nuclear Disarmament Party candidate in 1984 if the same ALP had not directed their preferences against him. How do you explain Garrett? How did he end up in the Labor Party, weren't the Greens the more obvious choice? Forget ideology, think ambition! Whatever the dance moves and the lyrics this is an elite private school boy who believes he can be Prime Minister one day. A soft left version of Alan Jones. Instead of Rugby and Talk Back he has used Rock ' Roll to lift his profile and brand recognition.
What is a concern for those serious about resisting the war and the nuclear industry is the role of Garrett's long time buddy David Bradbury.
Bradbury's ambitions are less garndiose - presently moving DVD sales while bedding peace activists half his age; but most significantly not alienating Garrett or those who will be handing out the funding in a new Rudd Labor Government. Bradbury is sychophantic to Garrett and will do nothing to alienate his old private school buddy, Garrett is subservient to Rudd and will do nothing to alienate him, Rudd has just been to the future PM check up with Rupert Murdoch and got the all clear, Rudd will do nothing to alienate Murdoch or the U.S.
If Labor wins the election, Rudd may follow Blair in withdrawing Australian forces from Iraq. No big deal, the significance of the small Australian deployment was always symbolic and essential in the early stages of the invasion when cheerleading and internationalising the coalition were most important. Rudd and an ALP government will ask no questions of Pine Gap and its more essential role of targetting U.S. air strikes.
A concern for the movement is the role of Bradbury and his groupies in the present organising around the forthcoming protests at Operation Talisman Sabre. If you are militant and serious abourt resisting the war & exercises and planning to travel to Talisman Sabre WATCH YOUR BACK! There are all sorts of hidden agendas and alliances at play. Don't be a patsy, Bradbury-Garrett-Rudd are not to be trusted. They will use all their influence to reduce the protests at Operation Talisman Sabre to the tokenism and moral grandstanding of Garretts behavior this past weekend.
bradbury-garrett-rudd hiddenagendas
It's just too easy to rant cant behind "anonymous".Be courageous,come out of the dark.Be.
You're right and you're wrong!
Because Peter Garrett want's to get up there and change things but it's a hard call. He's up against PNAC, WTO, AMIC, World Bank, IMF. He won't make it they'll stab him in the back, like Latham, before he could get in power.
However, John Howard will get in again if we don't watch out again. That's going to be a major problem.
When you say Kevin Rudd went over to the US and went down on Rupert Murdoch that was all part of the 'show'. The grand illusion for all to see. That makes it look like he's fairdinkum and that he may somehow take power.
The only way out now is to radically change the program and make a protest vote. Boycott the election because it doesn't represent you.
If we don't do that John Howard will be manurvered in by the media giants on the death.
They will discredit Rudd 'the fall guy and he will unwitingly help them because he's in on it too. Otherwise he wouldn't be there.
How would the gang mentioned above on the first line of this comment let Labor rule central government, and all states and territories?
They won't.
On guard!
A vote for Nobody is a Vote for Everybody. Boycott the election because Nobody represents you!
Adam Ant!
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Anarchist, communist and syndicalist news and views from Oceania
Who we are:
We are a loose network of anarchists who aim to publish regular commentary on society and events from a libertarian communist or syndicalist perspective.
We see wars, famine, poverty, hunger, the over-exploition of natural resources and the attack on our working and living conditions as stemming from one problem: The maximisation of profits. Since working people produce profits with our labour, only we can undermine this system once and for all. We can't leave it up to politicians who claim to speak for us, or other types of leadership outside of our class and who benefit from the profit system. Its not about taxing this or that environmental practice, or "Fair Trade" or what not, its about the destruction of work relationships as we know them and the creation of something better.
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http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/04/144263.php
Right after four corners [walls] ???
Govt closing in on Labor's lead???
The Government has again closed the gap on the ALP in the latest Newspoll out today but Labor still holds an election-winning lead.
The poll has Labor's primary vote slipping 2 per cent to 48 compared to the Coalition's 2 per cent rise to 37 per cent.
On a two party preferred basis, Labor's lead has dropped by 4 per cent to 14 per cent.
Kevin Rudd still leads John Howard as preferred prime minister but that gap has narrowed from 12 to 7 per cent.
Labor deputy leader Julia Gillard says the trend is predictable.
"I'll make a further prediction - I believe the polls will come in again after Mr Howard has a big spending Budget," she said.
Mr Howard is today expected to offer small business a pre-budget sweetener with $1.4 billion to promote innovation.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1910627.htm
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Now why would the gap just narrow? Because the Media Giants said and just told 90 percent of the population that it did!
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Bush (Custer) Last Stand In Iraq - War Drums in Washington
The majority of American citizens have the delusion that they actually decide who governs them, when in practice the Democrats and Republicans are only two wings of the same ruling class that owns Congress, just as it owns the land, the banks and big corporations, the newspapers, and radio and television companies.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2007/02/139901.php
Stop Voting - Stop Supporting Pseudo Democracies
Just as communicating with the Feds about abandoning the way we live now is a futile process that only buttresses the legitimacy of old ways of thinking and living, continuing to vote within centralised political processes only reinforces their continuing relevance. Citizens who continue to reside within totalitarian-democracies can, at least partly, abandon them by not voting at elections that will never lead to abundance and a better way of living.
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/113003.php
Bradbury-Garrett-Rudd Critique Continued
When you go to the website promoting the protests at Operation Talisman Sabre http://www.peaceconvergeance.com you're left asking the question who was sleeping with who when this one was set up? The site has worked for the past 12 months as a Bradbury fanzine trying to motivate people on the basis of David's tired old intimacy with the once late great "Midnight Oil". Dave is of the Clinton baby boomer generation. He not only shares a Clintonesque taste in movement women young enough to be his children but an unshakeable belief in the power of rock 'n roll.
The site layout is instructive on a number of levels. Only in a culture -and here what's worse an "oppositional culture" - obssessed with celebrity and devoid of authenticity, could Garrett and Bradbury be presented
as the Lone Ranger and Tonto in terms of opposition to nuclear power and warmaking in Australia.
"Midnight Oil" is a sad terms of reference to be tring to evoke dissent on your website. With Garrett's careerist trajectory and his renunciation of former anti-imperialist positions many of us can no longer bring ourselves to spin our old "Oils" discs. "Midnight Oil" no longer evokes a radical tradition in Australia. To "do a Midnight Oil" is likely to enter Australian coloquilism as a metaphor "to sell out", the "predictable transition of a radical youth to an establishment middle age". Or if Garrett manages to go all the way it maybe a metaphor for "an elitest kid making money, hay and power from a dissenting youth before settling down abandoning principle and reaping in an old age". I kid you not, Garrett is serious about being PM.
Last weekend's spectacle in Sydney evokes books like 1984 and Ben Elton's "The Second Eden" where the state is so persuasive it also occupies the positions of opposition. What will Bradbury-Garrett-Rudd's response be if/when Iran is bombed during the opening term of a Rudd Labor Government. A little hand wringing, a little tokenism and the use of Pine Gap in the U.S. air war over Iran.
Rudd was on national television last week encouraging the government to arrest the Mufti for stating in response to the likelihood that Muslims should "stand together" and one would think not support such an illegal attack. Not all that different from Cardinal Mannix oppostion to conscription in Australia in WW1 in relation to British aggression on Irish Catholics. Mannix was treated as national security threat by the British who arrested him at sea denying a stopover in Liverpool. And here you have Rudd comfortable with the assumption that Iran should be bombed and comfortable with all the authoritarian anti-terror legislation Howard has introduced to squash antiwar dissent.