morepraxis

Senator Fielding voting against the alcopop tax last time resulted in a loss of the $50 million of actions the Government had agreed to undertake, including:
· A $25 million Health Sponsorship Fund to provide voluntary sponsorship to local community organizations who provide sporting and cultural activities, as an alternative to other forms of sponsorship;
· Mandatory warning labels on alcohol advertising;
· Community level initiatives designed to tackle binge drinking;
· Enhancing telephone counselling services and alcohol referrals; and
· Expansion of existing social marketing campaigns.

I began today with a conversation with Lynd about how I think we mis-remember ANZAC day in a strange cloud of heroic glamour -forgetting that war is our failure to find more human ways through conflict, forgetting that those doing the killing have to shut down some of themselves in the process, misremembering the lives [...]

n March 2009 Emine Arslan and Nuran Gulenc from Deri Is came on a speaker tour to Europe, to coincide with an International Day of Action against Prada on the 7th March. On March 22nd, after they returned to Turkey, a story appeared on Turkish television in which DESA management linked the Deri Is union to Ergenekon, an armed group responsible for a number of political assassinations in Turkey. DESA claimed that the union campaign was part of a plot to destabilise the Turkish economy. A few days later the Deri Is website was hacked and on the 30th March the Deri Is office was broken into and its computer and camera were stolen.

The steps are finally finished, so now we just need to put a little more soil in and plants. We are really pleased with the finished product.

[ April 21, 2009; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] ENGAGE in Social Justice ENCOURAGE Action EFFECT Change
Lower Level is a place to come and meet monthly with people in a relaxing environment and chat about the issues that are concerning you and the world.
Join in with other young people for a chat and a meal at one of Carlton?s popular cafes on:
Tuesday 21 April [...]

This afternoon we continued the step building, implementing the measure twice cut once mentality.

Good Friday saw Jason (who I now like to call Luigi… (check out the pic below and you’ll see why) and Dad move 6m of soil into our backyard. Needless to say, there were many barrow loads and Bella got stuck into it as soon as we’d let her. That w…

Tonight we said our farewells to Scott and Nat as they head off on their long drive to Brisbane. We hope everything goes well for them as they are two very special people.