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  1. Brisbane rallies to save Mary River

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane A busload of "Save the Mary River" activists from Brisbane ... formed Save the Mary River Brisbane Group. The proposed dam will wipe out prime agricultural land and ...

  2. Sam Watson — socialist for South Brisbane

    Paul Benedek 785 Australia Brisbane February 28, 2009 One of the most prominent Murri campaigners ... in Brisbane, longtime social justice activist, Sam Watson, will contest Queensland Premier Anna ... Bligh's seat of South Brisbane at the March 21 state election. Watson is running as the candidate for the ...

  3. From berets to Balibo: Brisbane's feast of film

    Paul Benedek 804 Australia July 26, 2009 Brisbane International Film Festival 30 July — 09 August ... like US-missiles in Afghanistan, some much needed relief is thankfully at hand at the Brisbane ... A highlight of the festival is the official Brisbane premiere of Steven Soderbergh and Benicio Del Toro's ...

  4. West End rallies against over-development

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Five hundred people gathered in West End's iconic Boundary ... Street on October 17 to protest against a Brisbane City Council development plan. The council wants to ... approve new buildings of up to 30 storeys along the south of Brisbane River. This would bring an extra ...

  5. Latin American Film Festival aims to inspire

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane From indigenous rights to liberation theology, Brisbane's third ... from East Timor, will introduce the Brisbane premier of his new film, The Doctors of Tomorrow. The ...

  6. Protests will mark Mulrunji anniversary

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane November 18 will be the second anniversary of the police killing of ... and their supporters will rally in Brisbane to demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody. ... against Aboriginal people, yet virtually no police have been brought to justice", Brisbane rally ...

  7. Â鶹´«Ã½ TV: Sam Watson — police attack on Tent Embassy

    police of the peaceful embassy in Brisbane; the importance of the Tent Embassy movement; the need for ... Embassy, Brisbane. GreenLeftOnline/YouTube. Uncle Sam Watson Analysis ...

  8. Hands off St Mary's Church!

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane "Archbishop [John] Bathersby must have solved all Brisbane ... Mary's parishioner told a 500-strong packed gathering at the South Brisbane church on August 25 in ...

  9. Queensland teachers strike for fair pay

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Chants of "Hardest working, lowest paid: Bligh and Wilson, be ... ashamed!" rang out from 4000 teachers at the gates of state parliament on May 19. The Brisbane teachers were ... teachers at the Brisbane Convention Centre that, since the union campaign had begun, the QTU had a spike in ...

  10. Activists confront Pearson on support for NT intervention

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Aboriginal rights supporters and environmental activists protested ... at the opening of the Brisbane Writers' Festival on September 9, where the keynote speaker was ... victims of racism, rather than the perpetrators. Watson was angry that the Brisbane Writers' Festival ...

  11. Mori calls for Hicks release

    Paul Benedek Michael McDonald Meanjin/Brisbane On November 3, 450 people packed the Brisbane ...

  12. Death in custody commemorated

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane More than 200 Aboriginal activists and other supporters of justice ... for Indigenous people marched through Brisbane to commemorate the second anniversary of the death in ...

  13. Socialist Alliance challenge to Rudd in Griffith

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane The Socialist Alliance has decided to run long-time socialist ... activist Jim McIlroy in Labor leader Kevin Rudd's seat of Griffith in Brisbane's central-south in ...

  14. Qld Abortion rights campaign intensifies

    Paul Benedek Marcela Escauriaza Meanjin/Brisbane Pro-choice activists are intensifying the ... on the criminal code in Queensland, and all states except Victoria and the ACT. Brisbane's Pro ...

  15. Farmers occupy Qld premier's office

    Paul Benedek 774 Brisbane November 8, 2008 Twenty people from farming families on the Darling ...

  16. Cuba's inspiring 'medical globalisation'

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Two hundred dollars for the Cuban Hurricane Relief Fund was raised ...

  17. Protesters target coal criminals

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Fifteen activists calling for a rapid conversion to renewable energy ...

  18. 'Restore Haneef's work visa now!'

    Paul Benedek 727 Brisbane October 5, 2007 The federal government should restore Indian doctor ... McIlroy, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the south Brisbane seat of Griffith, told Green left Weekly. ...

  19. 'War games a threat to the region'

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Jim McIlroy, the Socialist Alliance candidate for the Brisbane seat ...

  20. Solutions to the global food crisis

    Paul Benedek Meanjin/Brisbane Resistance activist Naomi Rodgers-Falk and Socialist Alliance's ... system. [For more information on Brisbane's monthly Socialist Alliance-sponsored discussions — of ...

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