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Monthly Archives: February, 2008

Arundhati Roy on Palestine

Ten minute segment from Roy’s documentary ‘We’, in which Roy’s reading of her text is set to video footage.

18 February, 2008 · 3 Comments

Geoffrey Robertson on Why Britain Should Say Sorry To Australia’s Aborigines

What really leapt out in this Guardian piece from Geoffrey Robertson is that the English Fabian Socialists, almost always looked up to by many of us in the labour movement … Continue reading

18 February, 2008 · 4 Comments

Kashmir, vintage Led Zeppelin

As well as excellent content, Agent 99 has hands down some of the best images I’ve seen assembled in a blog. Recently, she has managed to find a rare clip … Continue reading

16 February, 2008 · 2 Comments

Australian National Reconciliation Starts With Sorry

On the 13th of March, at 9am Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST), Prime Minister Kevin Rudd delivers the long awaited public apology to our indigenous Australians, and in particular the … Continue reading

12 February, 2008 · 10 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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