Went to see the Edward Murrow film with Matt tonight. Bril­liant film: very well edited, stun­ning dia­logue (even the bits that wer­en’t ver­batim tran­scripts of Murrow). Very timely… espe­cially the subtle com­ment at the end about habeus corpus, because of course we…

The US peace act­iv­ist depor­ted from Aus­tralia fol­low­ing a secret determ­in­a­tion that he was a threat plans to chal­lenge this assess­ment and needs funds. For those who don’t know, Scott was on his way to teach a non-viol­ence work­shop when he was detained by ASIO,…

I can’t believe the ABC mis­spelled my name des­pite asking me to spell it for them this after­noon. I have the ABC and Ch 10 late night news on tape… Ch 10 was just a brief shot of me speak­ing but no sound and a brief grab of Penelope Swales… ABC was a shot of the…

My ori­ginal plan for Sunday the 18th of Decem­ber involved the Walker St Com­munity End-of-Year picnic, com­plete with jump­ing castle for the kid­dies, and that’s how it ended up… But let me step back a moment in time… This morn­ing I awoke reju­ven­ated and amazed that…

Shape­shifter were superb, mad dub drum ‘n’ bass heaven with hints of hip hop and funk. These are the joys of life: the beat, the bass, love and hope. They did a cover of Nina Simone’s Feelin’ Good, one of my favour­ite tracks right now. The last song before the encore…

“The thing that bothered most of our revolu­tion­ary broth­ers was the fact that we wer­en’t against any­thing, just for things, you know, like peace and love and all that naîve crap.” John Lennon, The Ballad of John and Yoko

razorgirl_au re-posted my ori­ginal post about the rally in her journal… and reminded me that my ori­ginal idea had some­thing to do with roses! Can anyone who remem­bers please buy/pick roses/flowers on the way to the fest­ival tomor­row? At least those of us up the…

I can make Sunday as apolit­ical as I like, it does­n’t stop my per­sonal opin­ions about the polit­ical dimen­sions of what’s going on here. I’m actu­ally really, really glad that tonight’s rally explored some of those polit­ical dimen­sions, espe­cially in light of this idiot…

So, it may be the alco­hol talk­ing, but I am sit­ting here with tears in my eyes, having seen the beau­ti­ful thing that Cered­wyn made for us and seeing all of the amaz­ing things every­one is doing and read­ing some of the heart­en­ing responses from people I don’t know on…

Okay, my little anonym­ous inter­locutor whose iden­tity I’m pretty cer­tain of… you want to talk about rape? This can be the appro­pri­ate forum… Accord­ing to today’s art­icle in The Age, one in ten rap­ists gets a par­tially or wholly sus­pen­ded jail term and is out there…

Okay, for the vari­ous people watch­ing my journal but not the com­munity… Sunday, 18th Decem­ber MELBOURNE: Unity in Diversity rally, 12pm, State Lib­rary, Swan­ston St fol­lowed by fest­ive walk to Treas­ury Gar­dens for a Picnic for Peace com­men­cing at 2pm. [more info (not…