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Human Rights and Resistance in West Papua: An Update 29th August, 2019

Our information evening of Thursday 29 August at the Leichhardt Library dealt with the human right situation in West Papua, the former Dutch Colony taken over 56 years ago by Indonesia.

The West Papuan People have been calling since then for independence and are still protesting, risking arrest, torture and their own life.

The evening was presented by:
Joe Collins, secretary of the Australia West Papua Association, and
Sister Susan Connelly of the Order of St. Joseph introduced the issue and gave an update.

The very informative documentary Land of the Morning Star was also screened, and those who could not attend will be able to see it on YouTube at the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUT6hPRjb6o

 

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Nuovo Paese – Numero di luglio 2017

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L’EDITORIALE DI LUGLIO

Dopo l’alternanza, l’alternativa

Sembra che in Occidente si stia per esaurire la democrazia parlamentare forgiata dall’età industriale, che si dimostra sempre più incapace di gestire le politiche sociali ed economiche e di affrontare il problema dell’inquinamento, che è una parte del costo dell’industrializzazione ancora da
pagare.
Bisogna ricordare che l’età industriale è stata segnata da un lungo boom economico, nonostante le frequenti
oscillazioni, sostenuto dai proventi del colonialismo, dalla ricostruzione dopo due guerre mondiali, dall’impulso
consumistico. Tale boom era reso possibile dallo sfruttamento della classe operaia che, con le sue finora
corpose organizzazioni, era riuscita a moderare gli aspetti più brutali del capitale.
Oggi esiste una sindrome comune tra i governi occidentali, cioè l’incapacità di affrontare le difficoltà oggettive
della gente attraverso il rispetto dei diritti previsti dalle varie convenzioni internazionali e dalle Costituzioni più attrezzate e sensibili, come i diritti al cibo, all’acqua, alla casa e al lavoro, tanto per citare i più basilari.
Paradossalmente, il raggiungimento dell’apice della ricchezza, della produttività e della tecnologia, coincide,
anche nei paesi ricchi, con il ritorno a livelli di povertà, miseria e abbandono che sembravano estinti.
Le risposte che venivano dalle dinamiche parlamentari fra forze diverse collocate al governo o all’opposizione
non sembrano convincere gli elettori, che percepiscono sempre meno differenze fra le varie forze politiche
convenzionali . Perde fascino l’alternanza al governo fra partiti convenzionali o coalizioni di partiti, prende quota
la richiesta di alternativa, che si tratti di un Trump o di un Corbyn.
Le alternative sono possibili, ma non passano attraverso i sistemi distruttivi imposti dal capitale, che sta
trasformando i rapporti sociali ed economici, ma attraverso investimenti su progetti e servizi infrastrutturali legati ai diritti e ai bisogni della gente, e non all’esigenza del capitale di trovare occasioni di investimento sicure.

After alternating, the alternative

It seems that the effectiveness of Western parliamentary democracy, forged from the
industrial age, is waning as shown by its inability to manage social and economic
policies and addressing environmental pollution whose cost industrialization still
has to pay.
It must be remembered that the industrial age was marked by a long economic boom,
despite the frequent oscillations, supported by colonial income, the reconstruction after
two world wars, consumer demand and the exploitation of workers who through their organizations so far, had managed to moderate some of capital’s brutal aspects.
The common thread among Western governments is their failure to address people’s objective difficulties and ensure rights agreed in international conventions and in the better and fairer Constitutions, such as rights to food, water, home and work, to name the most basic.
Paradoxically, despite achieving increasing wealth, productivity, and technology even rich countries are seeing a return to a poverty, misery and abandonment that seemed to have been extinguished.
Responses from oppositional parliamentary dynamics do not seem to persuade voters, who perceive less and less differences between the various conventional political forces and instead of alternating between
conventional parties or party coalitions, are increasingly attracted to alternatives, whether they be a Trump or a Corbyn.
Alternatives are possible, but not those imposed by capital’s disruptive measures that are transforming social and economic relations. The current push is for infrastructure spending but it must be on projects and services related to people’s rights and needs, and not to capital’s need for safe and guaranteed investment opportunities.

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Nuovo Paese – Numero di giugno 2017

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L’EDITORIALE DI GIUGNO

Terrorismo: quale strada per l’Occidente

La tragedia di Manchester ha di nuovo scombussolato il mondo, e soprattutto il mondo occidentale. Ormai la sequenza di questi atti atroci è sempre uguale – l’atto è totalmente inaspettato, la notizia provoca orrore e un forte senso di compassione per le vittime, i governi ovunque esprimono solidarietà ai paesi colpiti e grande determinazione a sconfiggere il terrorismo, che non avrà successo nel suo obiettivo di distruggere lo stile di vita e le
libertà occidentali.
Non soltanto il linguaggio dei capi di governo è identico, ma anche le risposte si somigliano: più misure poliziesche e un forte richiamo alla vigilanza, ma anche l’appello a non lasciarsi prendere dalla paura.
L’altro elemento comune a questi episodi tragici che prendono di sospresa tutti, inclusi i servizi segreti, è che poco tempo dopo viene scoperto il nome dell’autore e vengono diffusi pezzi della sua biografia. In altri termini, c’è una grande incongruenza fra il carattere inaspettato dell’atto e le rivelazioni successive.
A prescindere da questi elementi, non si tratta solo di valutare ome reagire, ma soprattutto come prevenire l’atto, che è inaccettabile non solo perchè causa vittime innocenti, ma anche perchè contribuisce a diffondere odio e sospetto verso minoranze e diversità.
Le risposte date finora non sembrano in grado di evitare questi orrori, è pertanto necessario considerare risposte alternative.
Prima di tutto una riflessione sull’impatto delle azioni dei paesi occidentali sui paesi in cui sono presenti covi terroristici. Se si sostituissero i bombardamenti con un aiuto alle popolazioni di quei paesi, probabilmente con la stessa spesa si creerebbe un ambiente meno favorevole ai terroristi.
La stessa cosa si potrebbe fare nei paesi occidentali in cui vivono minoranze emarginate e discriminate, attraverso misure di contrasto alle ingiustizie e alle diseguaglianze.
Occorre inoltre affidarsi alle norme di legge e alle strutture internazionali per la soluzione dei conflitti e per la promozione delle misure di cooperazione necessarie per affrontare le sfide climatiche e la costruzione di un’economia sostenibile.
Questa strategia appare molto più concreta della vuota retorica della “guerra al terrorismo” e dell’impegno dei
governi a proteggere i propri cittadini, sempre più stressati quotidianamente dall’aumento del costo della vita, dalla precarietà del lavoro, da un cambiamento sociale e tecnologico impetuoso, dalla mutazione della natura in senso sempre meno ospitale per l’umanità.

Terrorism: Where goes the West?

The tragedy in Manchester has again taken the world by surprise especially the West.
The sequence of these atrocious acts remains the same – the act is totally unexpected, it provokes repugnance and strong compassion and governments express their solidarity by stating that they will not give up their
determination to defeat terrorism which will not be allowed to destroy their Western lifestyle and liberties.
Not only is the language the same, but, the answers so are the responses: more police measures and a strong call to vigilance with an appeal not to be overcome by fear.
The other element of these tragic episodes (which took all by surprise, including intelligence services) is that shortly after the attacks the perpetrator is known with biographical information about the person
released.
There appears an incongruity between the total surprise and the revelations released
almost immediately after.
This aside there remains the challenge of how to prevent such acts that in addition to the unacceptable innocent victims contribute to promoting hatred and suspicion of minorities
and diversity.
A first and obvious consideration is for the West to send goods instead of bombs in
countries believed to harbour terrorist.
A second measure is to help eliminate injustices and inequalities in those countries.
Thirdly, insure respect for international laws and structures for conflict resolution while
promoting co-operation on climate challenges and building a sustainable global economy.
Such a strategy seems far more concrete than continual conflict and the rhetoric of governments on their commitment to protecting their citizens who daily are more likely to be terrorized by increasing living costs, insecurity from unbridled social and technological change and threats from climate change.

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Make sure you get to the Eveleigh Locomotive Workshops at Carriageworks, on Saturday 5th, from 10am for the next great performance of 1917 Strike!

When NSW railway and tramway workers from Eveleigh Railway Workshops and Randwick Tramsheds walked off the job on 2 August 1917, they triggered a strike that became one of Australia’s largest industrial conflicts. The strike came at a tumultuous time in Australia’s history, against the backdrop of World War 1, rising prices and challenging working conditions. Its impact was felt for years to come.

The 1917 Great Strike Community Day will commemorate this event across the former Eveleigh Railway Workshops on Saturday 5 August. The significance and legacy of the Great Strike will be explored at Carriageworks, the past will come to life at Australian Technology Park and the recently restored Chief Mechanical Engineers Office will be revealed.

Music, art, heritage, and stories come together to mark this historic event.

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Ban the Bomb, on Sunday 6 of August Rally, at 1pm Hyde Park North

Hiroshima never again!

Join us for the commemoration of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Japanese drummers & dancers, speakers.
Urban guerrillas , followed by a street procession.

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5th Annual Festival of Democracy, from the 13th to the 15th of September 2017, at the University of Sydney

The SDN 2017 Festival of Democracy will feature three days of sessions covering:

Kidnapped democracy: how can the notion of the kidnapping of democracy help us imagine and formulate new ways of preventing dangerous concentrations of power? Are we all suffering from Stockholm syndrome?

The truth of post truth: how do ‘objective facts’, ‘fake news’, opinion, disagreement, knowledge, insult, the role of experts, conflict and public debate come together in the era of ‘post truth’?

Authoritarianism: the historical allusions of contemporary governments in the US, and in Europe, are driving all manner of comparisons with the 1930s in particular, and the rise of Nazism, Fascism, and Authoritarianism. What is the relevance of the past and these categories to today?

Broken news: our news is broken. It informs us most about the least important affairs in the world, while leaving us completely in the dark about the most fundamental developments that shape our lives and societies. New business models and digital tools won’t save journalism so what will?

Rethinking territory: do we need to ‘re-invent territory’ – and to imagine radically new institutional forms of representing our overlapping local attachments to the territories in which we dwell as we deal with global problems?

The origin and extinction of species: why should humans be concerned about the massive daily extinction of species? Can anything be done to slow down or reverse this unprecedented trend?

Join us for the Festival finale on Friday night for the launch of the Change Makers podcast telling the stories about what is working and not working in the world of social change, and two new books from SDN Associates Refiguring Democracy: the Spanish Political Laboratory and When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter.

Co-hosted with Sydney Ideas, the Post-Truth Initiative, the Thinker’s Guide to the 21st Century and UTS School of Communication.

To view the full program and register, visit here

13-15 September 2017

Starts 12.30pm Wednesday 13 September 2017

The University of Sydney

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Sardinia & Shardana, a conference about the Nuragic civilisation and the mysterious Sea People, at Five Dock RSL on Sunday 6 august


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Discover the Italian island of wonders, home of the prehistoric Nuragic civilisation and the unexpected link with the Shardana, the mysterious Sea People.

Guests From Italy
Fabio Serchisu /Phd, Archaeologist) and Carlo Lai (Filef)

SUNDAY 6 AUGUST 2017 – 2.30pm

VENUE: FIVE DOCK RSL 66 GREAT NORTH RD, FIVE DOCK

PROGRAMME:
• CONFERENCE AND PRESENTATION OF THE BOOK “SHARDANA E SARDEGNA” BY ARCHAEOLOGIST PROF. GIOVANNI UGAS
• DISCUSSION
• LIGHT REFRESHMENTS

This is a free event, RSVP by 29 July required

CONTACT TERESA (0411 283 159) OR ASSUNTA (0418 435 834)

sardisydney@bigpond.com www.sardisydney.com

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Socialism for today, a seminar on socialism theory and practice at the Sydney Resistance Centre in Ultimo on Saturday 15 July

PROGRAM:

1-2pm: Lunch

2-3.15pm: Introduction to the political ideas of Antonio Gramsci (Daniele Fulvi)

3.30-5pm: Feature Forum: “Politics in the wake of Corbyn and the Grenfell fire” with the Green Left Weekly’s correspondent in Edinburgh, Simon Butler (via Skype); Hall Greenland, state convenor NSW Greens; Susan Price, Socialist Alliance nation co-convenor.

Registration: $5 concession (students, unemployed, pensioner), $10 waged, $50 solidarity

More info: Peter 0401 760 577

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25 APRIL 1945 – ITALIAN LIBERATION DAY


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FROM THE RESISTANCE THEN TO GLOBAL RESISTANCE DAY

Come and join us on Friday 28 April, 6.30pm

FILEF invites you to an evening commemorating 25 April 1945 and the victory of the Resistance to nazi-fascism that gave birth to the Italian Republic and to a Constitution founded on the values of democracy and work.

La Festa della Liberazione of Festa del 25 Aprile is a classic yearly celebration for FILEF and its supporters, over 45 years of activism in Australia.

Venue: ITALIAN FORUM CULTURAL CENTRE, Studio 1, Norton St, Leichhardt.

Speakers, screenings, refreshments, live music.

GUESTS include:

Umberto Grassi, of the University of Sydney, researcher for ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, will outline the context of the resistance movements in Europe during WW2 and in the following years, and the role they played in the creation of democracies in their countries.

Frank Panucci, Filef committee member, will give an overview of the relevance of that movment on today’s global resistance to the dangerous rise of populism.

Cesare Popoli, Filef committee member and film fan, will offer a glimpse on stories of resistance and liberation by great masters of Italian cinema.

Entry by donation

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Nuovo Paese – Numero di aprile 2017

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L’EDITORIALE DI APRILE

Terrorismo omicida

Qualsiasi uccisione di esseri umani da parte di altri esseri umani è un abominevole atto di terrore.
Tuttavia, abbiamo creato una cultura globale sul terrore che è pericolosamente divaricata.
Per esempio, una persona che usa un’automobile e un coltello per uccidere quattro altre persone, ed è quindi a sua
volta uccisa, porta l’attenzione del mondo intero sulla grande Londra, e al blocco della città.
Allo stesso tempo, migliaia di bombardamenti, che uccidono grazie ai mezzi tecnologicamente avanzati di cui dispongono i paesi coinvolti, passano largamente inosservati e suscitano ben poca emozione.
Perché un attentatore solitario, forse affetto da problemi psichici, suscita una paura così profonda e diffusa da
scuotere momentaneamente la routine e il comfort della vita nel mondo occidentale?
Ma sopratutto, perché questa esperienza non sembra porti ad un senso di empatia verso le persone che subiscono, o
fuggono da, situazioni di morte e di distruzione organizzata?
Viceversa, si rafforzano i confini, economici e politici, sull’onda di un aumento dell’intolleranza, mentre in
paesi lontani l’aggressione è il solo mezzo utilizzato per la risoluzione dei conflitti, spesso in spregio alle leggi
internazionali.
La politica interna dei capi di governo in Occidente è tutta concentrata sui temi della sicurezza pubblica, mentre la sfida storica più grande che si trovano a fronteggiare è in realtà quella sull’insicurezza economica, se non la miseria, che colpisce un numero crescente di cittadini.
Davanti agli attacchi terroristici, i capi di governo promettono di mantenere la democrazia, che sta mostrando segni di debolezza, e di proteggere lo stile di vita occidentale che, stranamente però, più che dal terrorismo, è minacciato dalla sua intrinseca insostenibilità economica e ambientale.

Terror killings

Any and every killing of humans by humans is an abhorrent act of terror.
However, we have created a global culture about killing that is dangerously detached.
For example, a person using a car and knife to kill four others, and lead to his
shooting, brings great London to the world’s attention, and to a halt.
Meanwhile, thousands of bombing missions, the killing favoured by technologically advanced governments, go
largely unanalysed and unfelt.
How is it that a lone and most likely deranged person strikes such profound and widespread fear that momentarily
shocks the comfort of routine Western life?
And yet this experience does not appear to provide a basis for empathy to the many subjected to, or fleeing, organised death and destruction.
Instead borders, economic and political, are being tightened as intolerance heightens and in far away places military
aggression is de rigueur for conflict resolution often with disregard to
international law.
At home government heads strenuously stand in defence of public safety at a time when Western governments’ biggest
historical challenge is the economic insecurity and misery faced by increasing numbers of their citizens.
They vow to uphold their democracies, that are showing signs of frailty, and to protect their way of life, which
strangely enough is threatened by its inherent economic and environmental unsustainability.

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RALLY – Refugee Action Coalition Sydney


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SATURDAY 27 AUGUST

SYDNEY TOWN HALL @ 1PM

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INCONTRI CULTURALI – Islamophobia or Inclusion?

FILEF and the Greens NSW Multicultural Committee invite you to a discussion evening to raise awareness on Islamophobia in Australia and on how to overcome it. The evening will include a short film, speakers and a Q&A, as well as refreshments.

ISLAMOPHOBIA OR INCLUSION?

ITALIAN FORUM CULTURAL CENTRE

Studio 1, Norton Street Leichhardt

FRIDAY 26 AUGUST

6:30pm refreshments, 7pm start

 

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EDITORIALE NUOVOPAESE – agosto

Il fattore ‘dirompente’

Non c’è dubbio che viviamo tempi incerti. Però in Occidente le incertezze riguardano l’incapacità di sostenere il livello di vita finora raggiunto grazie allo sfruttamento di masse di operai e di consumatori, oltre che della natura e, non bisogna domenticarlo, anche grazie allo sfruttamento di quello che una volta si definiva Terzo Mondo.
L’attuale preoccupazione dell’Occidente per il rischio terrorismo è totalmente sproporzionata rispetto alla preoccupazione derivante dal rischio causato da un sistema economico, politico e sociale, palesemente insostenibile e per il quale è responsabile principalmente l’Occidente stesso.
Gli indici di guai seri non mancano: una crescente disoccupazione, un mondo del lavoro aggressivamente precario, una montagna di capitale inerte, governi incapaci di governare, una natura in rovina, una crescente disparità globale, e cosi via.
Lo stile o modo di vivere, che secondo la leadership politica soprattutto occidentale gli estremisti islamaci vogliono distruggere, sembra non sia abbastanza seducente per i popoli in cui nuota l’estremismo.
Ma l’Occidente, nonostante il continuo bombardamento di questi popoli e la devastazione delle loro società, non è ancora riuscito ad convincerli della superiorità e santità della vita occidentale.
Invece, la ricetta offerta, dopo ogni tragico episodio terroristico, dove pare che il filo comune più probabile sia l’instabilità mentale dell’individuo piuttosto che l’Islam, contiene più bombardamenti, più controlli, meno libertà e meno spazio per un dibattito civile e democratico sulle problematiche generate dal modo di vita occidentale e sull’attuale rivoluzione del sistema economico che surrealmente si autodefinisce ‘dirompente’.

The ‘disruptive factor’

There is no doubt that we live in uncertain times. But in the West the uncertainties relate to the inability to sustain the standard of living achieved so far thanks to the exploitation of the masses of workers and consumers, as well as of the environment and it should not be forgotten, thanks also to the exploitation of what used to be called the Third World.

The current West’s concern about the risk of terrorism is totally disproportionate to the concern arising from the risk caused by unsustainable economic, political and social systems, and for which the West is responsible.
There are many indications of the serious problems in the West: rising unemployment, a world of work that is aggressively precarious, an inert mountain of capital, governments incapable of governing, environmental ruin, growing global inequality, and so on.
It appears that the style or way of life, which Western political leadership especially allege Islamic extremists want to destroy, is not seductive enough for the people within which extremists thrive.
But the West, despite the constant bombardment of these people and the devastation of their societies, has not yet managed to convince them of the superiority and sanctity of Western life.
Instead, the recipe offered after each tragic terrorist episode, where it seems more likely that the common thread is the individual’s mental instability rather than Islam, is for more bombings, more control, less freedom and less space for a civilized and democratic debate on the problems generated by Western lifestyles and on the current revolution of the economic system that it has surreally self-defined as ‘disruptive’.