Almost four decades later, the image can still make
hairs rise on unsuspecting necks. It聮s 1968, and 200-metre gold medalist Tommie Smith stands next to bronze winner John Carlos, their raised black-gloved fists smashing the sky on the medal stand in Mexico City. They were Trojan Horses of Rage 聴 bringing the Black revolution into that citadel of propriety and hypocrisy: the Olympic games. When people see that image, their eyes are drawn like magnets toward Smith and Carlos, standing in black socks, their heads bowed in controlled concentration.
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Bernadette Peters is a part-time cleaner and a full-time activist. She is also the partner of Mal Peters, one of the 聯Leighton Kumagai 107", who were fined $22,000 by the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) for a strike in February in defence of a sacked health and safety delegate.
Youth Rock the Block, held in Redfern on October 14, featured young community performers expressing their culture and raising money for a local women and children dance studio. The day included singing in the Indigenous Darug language, original dance pieces, renditions of well-known Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal pop songs and hip-hop.
鈥淚 want to switch the lights on. I want people to see that there is a chance for a change.鈥 This is how Aboriginal rap artist and social justice campaigner Jakalene X-treme describes what she wants to get out of the Socialist Alliance campaign for the March 2007 NSW state election. Jakalene was selected as an upper house candidate at the Socialist Alliance state conference on October 7.
A workshop involving trade unionists from around Australia is being held in Geelong on October 28 from 1pm. Socialist Alliance initiated the workshop because union activists are telling us that there are many issues in the campaign against Work Choices that aren聮t getting discussed.
Peter Bray from Rising Tide has questioned the independence and make-up of the 聯independent expert panel聰 set up to assess the proposed coal export terminal in Newcastle, branding it a 聯coal-dependent export panel聰 designed to ignore climate change.
The 鈥淲hat we think鈥 column from the US Socialist Worker, newspaper of the US International Socialist Organization, argues that although the Republican Party stranglehold on the US Congress may end in the November 7 elections, the Democrats have an abysmal record of trying to 鈥渙ut-Bush鈥 the Republicans.
In the Shadow of the Palms
Produced and Directed by Wayne Coles-Janess
In selected cinemas now
Produced and Directed by Wayne Coles-Janess
In selected cinemas now
Marx鈥檚 Das Kapital: A Biography
By Frances Wheen
Allen & Unwin 2006
130 pages $22.95
By Frances Wheen
Allen & Unwin 2006
130 pages $22.95
In a further assault on the sovereignty of the Solomon Islands, its Australian-appointed police commissioner, Shane Castles, had Solomons immigration minister Peter Shanel arrested on October 17 over the alleged illegal entry of Fiji-born Australian lawyer Julian Moti.
The climate is changing. The time for squabbling and petty excuses is over. Now is the time for governments to take urgent and serious action to reduce greenhouse pollution and create a clean-energy future.
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