Max Brenner and Australia’s fascists

By Jeff Sparrow: 9 September 2011   This article was first published on the ABC’s Drum website As Michael Brull noted here a few weeks ago, the anti-Max Brenner protesters have been widely denounced as Nazis. Paul Howes, Michael Danby, Andrew Bolt, Gerard Henderson: have all joined in a very public campaign that draws a line [...]

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Victorian Trades Hall supports BDS and condemn arrests of Boycott Israel 19

The Victorian Trades Hall Council (the peak union body in Victoria) Executive passed the following positive motion in support of the BDS campaign as well as condemning the police attacks on protesters. This is a really welcome step forward and we hope that the campaign can continue to garner more support from unions across the country. The motion is written below: Palestine, [...]

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ACCC: recent BDS protests are not a secondary boycott

On Friday, 2 September, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued a statement in relation to the Victorian State governments call for an investigation into pro-Palestine solidarity groups involved in or supportive of the Palestinian initiated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign, on the suspicion that protestors were engaged in “secondary boycotts” against Israeli-owned companies in Australia, such [...]

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Adelaide BDS protests against Seacret now in 48th week

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Perth Speakout for Free Speech and Palestine

  Friends of Palestine WA organised a speakout in support of the “free speech and a free Palestine” on Friday 12 August. The next major action for Palestinian human rights in Perth is the rally and “rogues tour” on September 17 beginning in the Murray Street Mall at 1pm.

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Murdoch Press and the Fictional Jewish Chocolatier

    This article was first published on Palestine Chronicle  on 26 August 2011   By Samah Sabawi The Murdoch press in its zeal to attack the Palestinian Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) campaign has misrepresented facts and even ran an entire article quoting a fictional character that simply does not exist.  The invention of Max [...]

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Omar Barghouti speaks on BDS

video by: sternchenproductions on Jul 13, 2011 Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian political and cultural analyst whose opinion columns have appeared in several publications. He is also a human rights activist involved in civil struggle to end oppression and conflict in Palestine. Barghouti is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic [...]

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BNC Condemns Repression of BDS Activism in Australia

BNC Secretariat: August 16, 2011 Occupied Palestine – The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC), the broadest Palestinian civil society coalition and the Palestinian leadership of the global boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, commends human rights and Palestine solidarity organizations across Australia who signed a unity statement reiterating their support for BDS [...]

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Australia’s repression of BDS movement coordinated with Israel

Originally posted on Electronic Intifada By Kim Bullimore: 9 August 2011 Australian solidarity activists are facing intense police repression. (Erik Anderson/Flickr)   In the largest show of support for the Palestinian-initiated boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign so far in Australia, more than 350 persons marched on 29 July in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle — and [...]

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Perth: Speakout for free speech and a free Palestine

Friends of Palestine WA has called a speakout this Friday to support the BDS (boycott, divestment & sanctions against Apartheid Israel) campaigners who were arrested in dawn raids on August 9 in Melbourne. The speakout will also be taking up threats by the Victorian government to use trade practices law against the BDS movement. This [...]

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