Later this week I will be part of my first anti-fascist #resist planning meeting*. I’m on a steep learning curve here, but I refuse to be just an observer any more. I will not be passive.
Anyone else organising with anti-fascist #resistance movements, I’d like to know anything you’re authorised to share with others. We need to be visible.
Thousands of people around Australia marched this past weekend to express their dissatisfaction and disgust with the Abbott government.
What news story/commentary/analysis has grabbed your attention lately?
Some of the first songs I learnt to sing beyond nursery songs & school singalongs were Pete Seeger songs. I have no doubt that my politics today have largely grown from learning and loving these protest songs from an early age.
It must be very unnerving to be living in Egypt right now.
Who decides what 1000 words are told by a picture?
So, I did have somebody else lined up for the Sunday artsy fartsy post this weekend but jumping right to the front of the queue is my newly discovered find, Pussy Riot. Russian, feminist, punk riot band with anti-Putin lyrics…. Read More ›
Reportedly plenty of riot police, very few journalists so far.
According to the news reports, it was a reckless Bart playing a prank to get attention. But this protestor is more of an earnest Lisa – just read his blog.
instead of getting angry that public sector employees are actually being treated decently, let’s ask private sector employers why they refuse to show their employees the same respect
there is a correlation between overexposure to sexualized media images of women with depression, eating disorders and risky sexual behavior for girls and demeaning, sexist attitudes in boys
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