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North coast artivists Cloudcatcher Media have teamed up with musician Luke Vassella to record a song to help protect the Liverpool Plains from the onslaught of mining. In the video of Luke’s song, Shine a Light, he is joined by the Liverpool Plains Youth and their tractors, the Knitting Nannas, Paul Robert Burton, Sara Tindley and Jodi Martin. You can see it on YouTube at http://bit.ly/lukelight and engage in some activism of your own by giving it a thumbs-up and a share. Q Q Q Q
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Byron College’s Term 4 course program is now on the loose and if you don’t have a paper copy you can check it online at www.byroncollege. org.au. You can learn practically everything from breadmaking to Kinergetics. But, unfortunately, not unicycling with your monkey. Q Q Q Q
Just a reminder that our office is closed on Monday October 5, which is Labour Day. The union movement, so vilified by hardline capitalists, helped to bring about the so-called ‘eight hour day’, which Labour Day celebrates. The movement advocates eight hours for work, eight hours for recreation, and eight hours for rest. People fought hard for this right, so don’t neglect it, otherwise you might find yourself working in a dark satanic mill for 18 hours straight with only laudanum as your true companion. Q Q Q Q
‘But if refugee advocates hope to see a softening of offshore detention policy under Mr Turnbull’s leadership allowing those detained to be resettled in Australia, those hopes were quickly dashed when he told
Local identity Shanti has now extended the coordination of his remarkable sartorial elegance to include cafe furniture. Photo Jeff ‘Orange is the New Orange’ Dawson
Radio National that people held on Manus Island and Nauru, “will never come to Australia”.’ – Malcolm Turnbull quoted in the SMH. Good announcements last week from Turnbull on family violence funding; we hope most of it goes to the pointy end rather than to advertising agencies. But his position on refugee detainees, quoted above, seems to reinforce the idea that government-sponsored human rights abuse is okay. Bit of cognitive dissonance there from a smart man.
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For when too much Existentialist Aesthetics is never enough, visit the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at http://plato.stanford.edu/ index.html. It is not as dry as you might think. If you search ‘juggling’, then you find out that Pyrrho accompanied Alexander the Great on his expedition to India, and that in the course of this expedition he encountered some ‘naked wise men’ (gumnosophistai).
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