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Troops out of Afghanistan

Send letter to delegates at ALP conference http://stopwarcoalition.org/sign-on-letter-to-pm-julia-gillard-troops-out-of-afghanistan/

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Occupy: union lessons

What Can Labor Learn? It won’t be easy for union leaders to accept the Occupy movement’s most important lesson. BY Mike Elk Unions’ ability to take full advantage of the Occupy movement will hinge on their ability to embrace social movements, and their willingness to take bold actions in smart strategic campaigns and to stick [...]

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Elliott Johnston speaks

Elliott Johnston’s title was ‘the rule of law’ but he soon turned to capitalism and politics and cites Don Dunstan and supports self-determination for aboriginal people, the environment and workers rights and more… Public Forum on the 5 October, 2004, to a packed Elder Hall University of Adelaide. Organised by Australian Options with the support [...]

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On Obama

Put Obama into Detention Speech outside Parliament House, Canberra, Thursday, 17 November 2011 by Humphrey McQueen. Ten years ago, we were told that we were going to chose who came here. Today, we are exercising that choice by protesting at the arrival of the war and economic criminal Obama. In saying that he and his [...]

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Obama in Darwin

From the Wall Street Journal Move Aimed at Countering China in Asia, Clarifying Free Access to South China Sea and President Obama comes to Darwin for the military build up…read here

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BlackRock Inc and powerful corporations

The financialisation of global ownership by David Peetz and Georgina Murray Griffith University “We sociologically investigate how deeply embedded finance capital is within very large global corporations, by asking the following questions: Is ownership of very large global corporations dispersed amongst a wide variety of individuals, families and shareholder types? Or are there common patterns [...]

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US 400 richest

400 richest in US http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/11/01/how-rich-are-the-richest-heres-how/

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Capitalist networks

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world from New Scientist ‘AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy. The [...]

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Joe did not die

Labor Icon Joe Hill – The Man Who Never Died by Rebecca Graham, UC Berkeley Labor Center ‘One hundred years ago, workers were fighting for the middle class, organizing for One Big Union; today they’d likely call themselves “The 99 Percent.” Songs united their movement and unified their actions, and many of those songs were [...]

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