I'm a Naarm (Melbourne) based activist trainer, organiser and documentary filmmaker over almost 40 years. My documentary work is at www.blackswanfilms.au
Two large Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) cinemas were packed out for the Melbourne premiere of Everyone to Kenmure Street, a Glaswegian story of how a community spontaneously mobilised to block an early morning deportation of two Muslim neighbours. From the quick-thinking person who slid underneath the immigration van,
A Community Organiser Principle A little community organiser principle of mine has been "never cancel a meeting". I don't know if it came from Saul Alinsky or whether I picked it up somewhere amorphously, but I recall this principle every single time someone cancels or moves
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It’s everywhere. It’s now a ‘Weed of National Significance’ It's stronger up north where it's warmer. It forms impenetrable thickets that compete with and exclude others. It threatens biodiversity. Touching Lantana can irritate skin and eyes. Listening to One Nation is just irritating. All
If One Nation is coming to Victoria as an institutionalised political force, there might be some lessons to draw from the Kennett era. Here are some of them.
Each time I have heard this massacre list something different strikes me. This year I heard of a massacre at Oxley in central Victoria. More than two hundred people were killed. It shocked me how large this number was and that I hadn’t known of it before.