The Big Budget winners are
May 15, 2013 § Leave a Comment
The Big Budget winners are once again the Kiddy Farming and Poverty Industries. While people starve due to artificially inflated food prices and freeze b
ecause only the rich can afford heating The 2013 Federal Budget includes a 9billion handout to the kiddy farming industry and further increases in handouts to perennial beneficiaries of government largesse, the Poverty Industry, again in the name of Homeless people.
- The Budget rationale proves again that the Carbon Tax which has morphed into REDD downunder is really just another tax and in as linked to emissions reduction as Politicians are to people—not at all.
- While Big Corporations and Banks continue to boast record profits and record tonnages of Australias mineral wealth vanish overseas the Federal Government attacks among the most marginalised in Society who must cop the losses-Austerity for the people fuels prosperity for Corporations.
- The Kiddy Farming Industry will be readied with $9billion of Government largesse to receive the more revenue as single parents are forced into wage slavery or onto NGO enriching Newstart.
Students Parents and Centrelink Claimants have all come under attack. A National Disability Scheme will enrich NGOs as they seek more control over the lives of and work performed by Australia’s disabled. The messsage of the 2013 Federal budget is Concern for the Rights of Corporations and indifference towards the plight of the people. - In short…politicians are so inseparably part of the problem that they should NOT be part of the solutions… Trust only Grassroots organised Community based groups to stand up for what you and they believe in.
When are the people going to realise that Governments obsessed with Keynesian Economics will ensure that laissez faire capitalism flourishes amidst heavily constrained personal incomes- or robbing the poor to benefit the rich.
Villawood Contamination: Police Threaten Boycott | The Global Mail
May 15, 2013 § Leave a Comment
Villawood Contamination: Police Threaten Boycott
By Paul Farrell, Luke Bacon, Lawrence Bull May 2, 2013
Following revelations that easily spread asbestos remained unaddressed at Villawood, the NSW Police Association is threatening to ban officers from the controversial detention centre.
via Villawood Contamination: Police Threaten Boycott | The Global Mail.
Protest the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement 11 May Martin Pl
May 2, 2013 § Leave a Comment
Occupy Sydney are fully supporting the Sydney Trans Pacific Partnership Protests …and all global efforts to stop this abomination
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Protest! 11 May 2013, 12 Noon, Martin Place, Sydney
Ten Reasons Why the TransPacific Partnership Matters…
- It is only getting bigger by the day: Thailand knocking at the TPP Door . Japan has just been included
- We have not learned from NAFTA: Mexico ordered to pay Cargill $95 million for attempting to keep out high-fructose corn syrup
- In Free Trade Agreements, corporate profits always trump the environment: Canada/Quebec sued under NAFTA for its ban on fracking by a US corporation
- It Doesn’t Matter if you are a sovereign nation with labor and environmental laws: Here is a list of the NAFTA chapter 11 cases
- Or just trying to survive with a life-threatening illness on a few dollars a day: Public health advocates in Malaysia protest reduced access to generic medicines in trade deals
- Congress is trying, but those who we elect are not part of negotiating this deal-our democracy is at stake! Take this recent Sign-On letter to President Obama from Senator Al Franken on the labor rights concerns in the TPP and urge Senators Cantwell and Murray to sign it!
- Sweatshops still exist: Here is a recent report by Right2Work
- Companies are willing to invest millions of dollars to keep consumers in the dark: Here are the corporations who defeated the GMO labeling initiative in California
- Only when we connect our issues, and combine our strength can we succeed: Dec. 1st is also world AIDS Day
- We are not alone, we are the majority, and our voices are needed for trade to ever benefit workers and support healthy communities and a sustainable planet: Sign the Avaaz petition to reach a million who say “Stop the Corporate Death Star”, stop the TPP!
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) is a free trade agreement being negotiated between Australia, the US, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Per
u, Chile, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam.
US global corporations are driving the agenda to expand their rights at the expense of peoples’ rights. Pharmaceutical companies want higher prices for medicines, tobacco companies want to sue governments for health regulation, and there is so far no agreement to implement workers’ rights or environmental standards.
On May 11, International Fair Trade Day, AFTINET will join others around the world to say no to corporate rights and yes to workers’ rights and the environment.
We invite you to come with your organisation’s flag or banner from 12-1 pm.
There are similar rallies or events happening in some other TPP countries: US, Canada, Peru , Malaysia, NZ
Hope to see you there
The United States and ten governments from around the Pacific are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the Internet since ACTA. Since the negotiations have been secretive from the beginning, we mainly know what’s in the current version of this trade agreement because of a leaked draft [PDF] from February 2011. Based upon that text, some other leaked notes, and the undemocratic nature of the entire process, we have every reason to be alarmed .
The Electronic Frontiers Foundation have expressed concerns relating to the arbitrary abrogation of Internet Freedoms and extensions of Copyright protections extended under this secretly negotiated compact which Australia has signed up to.
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Supreme Court dismisses OFarrell ordered Challenge of Occupy Sydney Occupiers lower Court win
April 24, 2013 § 1 Comment
In a caselaw setting precedent The Supreme Court of NSW today dismissed the Barry O’Farrell ordered DPP appeal of a D
istrict Court ruling in favour of an occupier on charges of staying overnight in Martin Place.
In May 2012 following the dismissal of a District Court prosecution Premier Barry O’Farrell and NSW Police Commissioner Scipione used Ray Hadleys 2UE show to assert that “The Courts should support the police” and call on the Director of Public Prosecutions to appeal that decision. This action by the then newly elected Premier of NSW caused ripples of concern among Occupy supporters and the public relating to the independence of the Judiciary from the Political arm of Government.
Todays ruling (DPP v Lance Priestley ) vindicates the occupier assertion that the regulations are so vague as to be potentially impossible to understand and therefore to comply with.
The Judge ordered the Appeal dismissed with costs against the Crown.
The ruling may have positive implications for 13 occupiers who have long awaited an outcome of the charges brought in relation to the Oct 23 2011 eviction of Occupy Sydney which Occupiers contend was illegal
Barrister Jason Donnelly for the defendant can be contacted at http://www.jdbarrister.com.au/
State Terrorism: UK Citizens on Camp Nama
April 2, 2013 § Leave a Comment
Camp Nama: British personnel reveal horrors of secret US base in Baghdad
Detainees captured by SAS and SBS squads subjected to human-rights abuses at detention centre, say British witnesses http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/01/camp-nama-iraq-human-rights-abuses?CMP=twt_gu
British soldiers and airmen who helped to operate a secretive US detention facility in Baghdad that was at the centre of some of the most serious human rights abuses to occur in Iraq after the invasion have, for the first time, spoken about abuses they witnessed there.
Personnel from two RAF squadrons and one Army Air Corps squadron were given guard and transport duties at the secret prison, the Guardian has established.
And many of the detainees were brought to the facility by snatch squads formed from Special Air Service and Special Boat Service squadrons.
Codenamed Task Force 121, the joint US-UK special forces unit was at first deployed to detain individuals thought to have information about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
Women Warriors Of The Global Revolution Part 1: Min Reyes
March 15, 2013 § Leave a Comment
Occupy Savvy Exclusive! One of the coolest things about activism is that it doesn't have celebrities - it has role models. Recently, we put 7 poignant questions to five of the world's most inspiring women. These women hail from Iceland, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and for their profound actions, deeds, words, generosity, heart, and perseverance, we deem them "wahine toa".
Women Warriors Of The Global Revolution Part 3: Marama Davidson
March 15, 2013 § Leave a Comment
Occupy Savvy Exclusive! One of the coolest things about activism is that it doesn't have celebrities - it has role models. Recently, we put 7 poignant questions to five of the world's most inspiring women. These women hail from Iceland, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, and for their profound actions, deeds, words, generosity, heart, and perseverance, we deem them "wahine toa".
