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1. Mulrunji campaign: Racist police fear justice

   Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane "It must never again be the case that a death in custody, of ... and the death of Mulrunji (Doomadgee) on Palm Island in November 2004 could have been just another ... manslaughter for the unlawful killing of Mulrunji. While this result is a major win for Indigenous Australians, ...

2. Celebration of selfless solidarity

   were drafted into the US army to swell its anaemic ranks. One of these immigrants was John Riley ... legends of the Nueva Cancion movement like Chavela Vargas and Lila Downs. Even Linda Ronstadt makes an ... Riley. Seventy-two of the captured soldiers faced court-martial. None were provided lawyers. The US army ...

3. Girt by sea and surrounded by puppets.

   of refugees' rights. Girt by Sea has already had a mixed history, its writer Dave Riley told ... looking for people to perform it." Girt By Sea is a synthesis of Riley's long experience as ... Carnival of the Oppressed, a street theatre collective, is working on a new play which will be touring the ...

4. Police racism: Stop deaths in custody!

   Dave Riley Magan-djin/Brisbane In a damning report released on September 27, Queensland's ... Island death in custody of Mulrunji, saying that it failed to meet appropriate guidelines. Clements also ... found that Senior Sergeant Christopher Hurley caused Mulrunji's death and accused the police of ...

5. Vince Emanuele: Sanders' campaign an opportunity to organise workers, poor

   wouldn’t know Sanders. The social movements of the past 30 years opened the space for someone like Sanders ... cities, we felt like this was the best use of our time, experience and resources, especially in the short ... we haven’t seen the kind of influx of new people that we would have liked to have seen by now. But we ...

6. Marx and popcorn on Halloween

   were alive today, I’d like to think he’d spend this Halloween watching horror films. He certainly drew ... terror of capital through supernatural allusions. Memorably, he opens the Communist Manifesto with: “A ... spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.” So well-crafted is the Manifesto that philosopher ...

7. United States: Sanders' campaign is 'invigorating and unifying' the left

   communities and people of colour. It has been like a rainbow coalition campaign, which is quite promising. Can ... movement of millions of working people.” When he defines what that mass movement would look like, it tends ... Socialists of America (DSA) Chicago 91������̳’s Alex Bainbridge spoke to Isaac Silver, a Democratic ...

8. Street theatre according to Punch & Judy

   By Denis Olsen Readers of 91������̳ Weekly will know Dave Riley from his regular satirical ... column, "The Life of Riley". But written satire is not his only cultural pursuit. He also does ... a lot of theatre work. The theatre Riley practises, however, is very different from the norm. "I ...

9. Have play/will travel

   Riley, the group's coordinator. "Since we're a bunch of rank amateurs we can't afford ... repertoire of like-minded groups and individuals. He says the aim is to circulate and exchange scripts so ... adaptation, even improvisation. I like to compare it to the work of the Three Stooges or the Marx Brothers: ...

10. ‘American Spring’: June 19 protests defiant, demand radical change

    policeman in 2009.” Rapper and film director Boots Riley told the crowd in front of Oakland City Hall that ... on Juneteenth, June 19, celebrating the end of slavery in Texas in 1865. The abolition of slavery was ... legalised in December 1865 with the adoption of the 13 th Amendment to the United States Constitution. ...

11. 91������̳ Weekly's $250,000 Fighting Fund: The smell of sulfur

    href="mailto:20-2006_21.html"><20-2006_21.html>. That blogsite is one of several set up by 91������̳ Weekly supporter Dave Riley. Health problems ... Venezuela. Jim and Coral return to Australia at the end of this year and we would like to continue this very ... Peter Boyle When George Bush addressed the UN General Assembly on September 19, he spoke like an ...

12. Brisbane Cabaret to 'wallow in politics'

    Resist! premiered on February 26. Dave Riley, one of the organisers for the event, believes Cabaret ... By Denis Olsen BRISBANE — For many years, the local branches of the Democratic Socialists and ... Resistance have been involved in various forms of cultural dissent. At first, after opening the Resistance ...

13. Spectacle for the rest of us

    ways". With topics like: a survey of styles and modes of creative action; a soup to nuts guide for ... United for a Fair Economy, 37 Temple Place Boston, MAQ 02111 Review by Dave Riley In my time trying to ... are tired of marching and demonstrating, let's do something different." Mostly, they'd ...

14. The world of Vietnam's children

    depiction of her visit to the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum. "These kids are like kids everywhere", says ... Affairs, Queensland University of Technology, the Kindergarten and Creche Association and corporations like ... Vietnamese Children's Drawings Brisbane Town Hall Until November 20 Reviewed by Dave Riley ...

15. Thoughts of Tom Wybrow

    I know the Labor Party like I know the back of my hand. And you know, I think the devil got into it. ... By Dave Riley It's a new world, I tell you, a brave new world. I know this world because ... time — especially Saturdays. That man was hip. I've been so angry that for the sake of it ...

16. Of hermaphrodite squids and Chartists

    Darwin By Adrian Desmond and James Moore Penguin. 808 pp, $19.95 Reviewed by Dave Riley How could ... a wealthy, respectable gentleman of impeccable lineage and reclusive tastes claim in the 1830s that humans ... being shipped off to the colonies in chains, the ideas of Charles Darwin were denounced as traitorous to ...

17. The meaning of Mabo

    a sickeningly familiar ring. Rob Riley, now executive officer of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western ... investment in mining ventures. But Riley argues that the recognition of native title in Canada in the 1970s ... vs the State of Queensland nearly a year ago, opinions on the meaning of this decision have ...

18. The case for socialism: The discreet charm of bosses

    of others. Don't get me wrong. Most of us get along without recourse to such means, but there ... of the local daily, nor has 60 Minutes covered the story. But these types do exist. They're ... among us now. Of course, if you live by such means, you are going to keep it a secret. No-one wants to ...

19. Theatre for the New World Order

    internationalisation of its work has surprised the workshop's coordinator, Dave Riley. "When we began", ... Queensland to join. No experience is necessary. And the reward, says Riley, is a new world of our own ... will reach 500 by the end of the year. As the network grows and contacts broaden it is hoped that the ...

20. Defiant history of workers' theatre movement

    1930-1962 By Connie Healy Boombana Publications $21.90, 256 pp REVIEW BY DAVE RILEY This may seem like an ... country. And the stature and influence of socialist ideas was such that they even impacted on areas — like ... theatre in Brisbane between the years of 1930 and 1962 was the work of people like you and I who created ...

21. Forty years of the box

    from the planet. In a figure like David Attenborough, you get a feeling for the scale of the ... By Dave Riley The O'Tooles were the first in our street to get television. It was 1956, the ... adapt them to daily life. He called his dog Lassie, would insist on fighting with his fists like the ...

22. The ecology of indigenous peoples

    $19.95. Reviewed by Dave Riley Human history is part of natural history. Human beings arose via their ... continue to act like natural ones. Their blindness and destructiveness merely reproduce the logic of ... is found wanting. Barely does it comprehend the interconnectedness of life. Writers like David Suzuki ...

23. The postwar rebirth of cabaret

    By Dave Riley The rise of fascism in Germany and then the war produced the first major break in ... for his stage work. The intensity of practitioners like Lenny Bruce — "America's famous ... honing a social critique, has gained momentum with the likes of Ben Elton and Lenny Henry. The hungry ...

24. The one day of the year for us types

    Yes! Pauline Hanson will offer nourishment so that the likes of us can keep resolution in our own minds ... The one day of the year for us types It is right and fitting that some testimony of the passions ... and adventures of our times be provided for those who may succeed us. I am therefore taking this ...

25. UNITED STATES: Black union picketers threatened with five years' imprisonment

    defendants". Black labour activists like Fletcher and Riley believe the coming trial is a racially motivated ... employers here that this kind of repression is acceptable." Riley helped lead the demonstrations to ... charges, arising from a confrontation on the Charleston docks on January 20 of last year. They could go to ...

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