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| Memories Of The Week That Was |
| 09.02.05 (2:56 pm) [edit] |
Hello again, this post is just about how the week went politically for me. I was able to sell Green Left Weeklies in Perth city at the Train Station overpass to Myer shopping centre. It went well. Three sales in forty-five minutes. I met a couple of new activist friends, popped into the Swan Valley Nyungar Community offices, did a stall at the University Of Western Australia with our petiton for withdrawing Australian troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, and of course I attended the meeting on the Gaza Withdrawal.
The meeting on Gaza invited a mixed audience demographically, and there was an excellent review of the depiction of Palestinians in the "West Australian" newspaper and the capitalist mass media market in general. In comparison with Marines who are "ambushed by insurgents" we can see the Iraqis said to have died "in a crossfire" every night on the news. There were many more examples of the racism of the mass media. They don't report on the impact of the pass laws on working class people in Palestine, having to give up on plans for a higher education or not being about to seek sick grandmothers and friends outside the checkpoints gives terrorist sects a justification for their individual acts of terrorism.
The Socialist Alternative meeting went down very well. The discussion centred around how captialism prefers the nuclear family to provide childcare and education free of charge, and how nationalists often seek to "divert" the media from reporting on issues of racism, sexism and homophobia. I used the example of Charles Perkins, the well-known aboriginal rights activist, who in his dying days finally repudiated his statements in 1988 about Asian immigration, as an example of how people can be pulled into racist debates. I pointed out Charles Perkins expressed his greatest sorrow on an SBS television documentary for his mistake in believing in a cut in Asian immigration for aboriginal nationalist reasons. He was very remorseful about it. And that shows the alientation from our species being that Marx talks about in his earlier philosophical works.
And I spoke about the Swan Valley Nyungah Community holding a rally on the 21st of August that drew 200 people to launch the legal campaign against the privatisation of the sacred coastline, so that future generations will enjoy it for themselves as public lands. The state labor government and private transnational developers plan to build at various points in the Cockburn Sound/Coogee Beach area, a marina for millionaries to dock their boats, land infill from the sandhills to the Indian ocean stretching over 140 meters, an expensive desalination plant fuelled by an oil-powered power station. Not surprisingly over 20 different environmental organisations all over WA have sent in their solidarity to Iva Hayward-Jackson the Nyungah community activist and spokesperson for the protestors.
Everything went well also at the stall I attended on Wednesday. People were generally very supportive of our stall. Many signatures were collected and 9 copies of the "Socialist Alternative" magazine were sold inside 2 hours so I would that a great success. 4 new names were added to our contact list.
And tonight of course I party to the sounds of Latin American bands and savour some Indian cruisine as part of the fundraising bash the Green Left Weekly supporters are having here in Perth. I will be going along to dance - (it's ages since I danced, and nothing like the rumba or tango in my life) - so I hope to have a great night out. More comment on that later on. Of course the Brigadistas (a group of Socialists who travelled across South America) will be giving their report on Venezeula and Cuba. That too should be very interesting.
Well friends I guess that it's for now. I have found some good original poetry sites, and I will eventually have some poetry up for you. Thanks for your patience,
With Affection,
Matthew Davis
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