Pinkwashing cancer – Pink Ribbons, Inc. looks at capitalising on hope
Doco examines how devastating disease became shiny pink marketing dream diverting donations away from organisations doing most of the work towards organisations with better PR. Is this the best use of donors’ money? And what about all the non-pinkified cancers?
Invasion Day/Australia Day: Unity/Disunity
I think everyone of a certain age can remember a certain mantra from John Howard. Symbols, he intoned, are not important. “Symbolic Reconciliation” is not important, he couldn’t say Sorry. The Republic was just a symbol, of interest to “elites”. [...]
#LocktheGate, Bob Brown and Bob Katter
Some of the seemingly surprising alliances crystallised by the Lock The Gate campaign against the impacts of Coal Seam Gas exploration on land use and communities were on display in today’s media, as Lock The Gate President (and long time [...]
Occupy London: radical or conservative?
For almost two months now, the Occupy London camp has remained firmly entrenched outside St. Paul’s Cathedral, having been banned from the private grounds of Paternoster Square, where the London Stock Exchange is located. After winning its philosophical “huddled masses” [...]
QLD same-sex Civil Unions – rally for the bill
Scenes from this evening’s rally before QLD Parliament House in support of Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser’s private members bill to create same-sex civil unions in Queensland. Hi res: Rally for QLD Civil Unions bill 2011 (M4V Video 25Mb 2min) Low [...]
Civil Unions vote in Queensland tomorrow night
Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser’s bill, the Civil Partnerships Bill 2011, will go before the Queensland Parliament tomorrow night at 7.30pm. A vote is expected some time early the next morning. As the Brisbane Times reports, numbers in the House are [...]
White Ribbon Day
Marcus Campbell provides some good reading, and a good basis for reflection on White Ribbon Day at The Drum. In the piece, to my mind, this quote from sociologist Dr Michael Flood epitomises the challenge that faces us, and the [...]
The carbon price legislation: Process, policy, politics
Today, at around lunchtime, the Cleaner Energy Future bills passed the Senate. This is a very notable step for Australia, and although the policy is in many ways imperfect, something to be wholeheartedly welcomed. It’s also a very significant political [...]
Norton’s Five (Descriptive) Laws of Social Movement Gatherings
Many LP contributors and readers will have come across the principles of Open Space Technology (OST) at social movement gatherings. These principles are: 1. Whoever turns up are the right people. 2. It starts when it’s meant to. 3. You [...]
Occupy Australia and the Antipodean “bubble”
After the Occupy Melbourne event was forcibly (and it appears, disproportionately violently) cleared by the Victorian Police at the instance of Melbourne Mayor Robert Doyle, Dr_Tad has been reflecting at Left Flank on some of the criticism of the actions [...]
#Occupy X and Australia’s 99%
#Occupy X has come to Australia. The various actions in a number of capital cities don’t seem to have the drawing power that #Occupy Wall Street and its various viral spinoffs in the United States have, but that’s no particular [...]
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