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A port­manteau. A treas­ure trove. A time cap­sule. A poetry book. A diary. A photo album. Memor­ies. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes. An open letter to an unsus­pect­ing public. An intim­ate con­fes­sion to close friends. A declar­a­tion of intent. A whis­per of love. A per­sonal record. An exper­i­ment in intro­spec­tion. A per­form­ance space. A polit­ical rant. A wild yawp. Why do any of us pub­lish our words and images online? Come, dream with me.

A story from Woodford

by | Jan 13, 2006 |

Once there were two friends, Najib and Mussa. They went every­where together and did many things together. One day, they were fish­ing and Najib fell into the river. He hit his head and almost drowned, but Mussa dove into the water and saved his friend. Najib proclaimed…

Peace picnic II

by | Jan 9, 2006 |

Having had time to settle back in to sunny Mel­bourne, I thought it was time to put my idle hours to good use again. Hence, I thought I’d organ­ise another peace picnic, this time without the rally com­pon­ent… I made an organ­isa­tional post about it on love_diversity.…

Time to get active

by | Jan 9, 2006 |

G20 Protest (and Altern­at­ives!) Organ­ising Meet­ing Sat­urday Jan. 14, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Upstairs meet­ing room at Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith St (cnr Perry St) Colling­wood The next global meet­ing of fin­ance min­is­ters, reserve bank gov­ern­ers and the heads of the World…

Phoenix Emberstone

Phoenix Emberstone

pas­sion­ate polit­ical poet

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I am also known as Ro Ber­sten, a com­mu­nic­a­tions spe­cial­ist with more than 20 years’ exper­i­ence. See my CV and pro­fes­sional projects.