The Lectures of Joseph Campbell

Bhagavad Gita : Chapter 3 : " Karmayoga or the Yoga of Action" : Overview : Guru Haridasji

Stand by Me - strike at UQ 4 May 2023.

Speakers in favour of a better Enterprise Bargaining Agreement at UQ.

Dr Sharleen Leroy-Dyer
Damien Cahill – NTEU President
Andrew Bonnell – historian and chief negotiator. Andrew is an Associate Professor, History at University of Queensland and NTEU Branch President.
Dr Kelly Greenop – School of Architecture and academic representative on EBA team.

 Song 
Tracey Chapman - Stand by Me

We are the University

This is an anti apartheid song sung by the Songshine Choir at the Anita Reed Peace Concert held on 21 May 2023 at the Coorparoo Memorial Hall.  The song was led led by their musical director Greta Hunter who has a beautiful soprano voice in a call and response refrain so common in African music.

Origins of the song are not clear. I know the song was sung at Steve Biko's funeral.  Zimbabwean poet Albert Nyathi wrote a song by the same title, "Senzeni Na?" on the day that activist Chris Hani died.

The lyrics very but these are some with the English translation below.
    Senzeni na?
    Sono sethu, ubumnyama?
    Sono sethu yinyaniso?
    Sibulawayo
    Mayibuye i Africa

			

    English translation[6]

    What have we done?
    Our sin is that we are black?
    Our sin is the truth
    They are killing us
    Let Africa return

Recorded by Ian Curr on 21 May 2023 at Coorparoo Memorial Hall in Meanjin (Brisbane). The concert was organised by 'Just Peace' Qld.

Senzeni Na

Independent and peaceful Australia network (IPAN) Call on Australian Government and International Community to End the Siege of Gaza.

IPAN calls on Australian government and international community to end the siege of Gaza

Summary

Israel's war on Gaza and its devastating consequences. 0:00

Israel's military forces perpetrate genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, killing over 11,000, including 4500 children (at time of broadcast)

Gaza conflict and Australian government's response. 2:08

Israel's actions in Gaza are disproportionate and have been called genocide by the UN.

Australian government abstains from UN vote for Gaza ceasefire, prioritizes US approval over humanitarian needs.

Depopulating Gaza for strategic benefits. 6:25

Bevan Ramsden and Andrew discuss the Israeli Intelligence document's plan to depopulate Gaza, with options including evacuation to a new location (Option C) or maintaining the population with a change in ideology (Option A).

The Ben Gurion canal project is mentioned as a long-standing reason for Israel to benefit from depopulating Gaza, as it would provide a shorter and straighter route for shipping.

Gaza crisis and Australian government's inaction. 9:25

Andrew: Australian govt abstained on UN resolution to protect civilians in Gaza, calling for urgent action to change position (11:33)
Bevan Ramsden: IPAN urges writing to local federal member or senator to express concern over Australian govt's lack of action in Gaza (11:54)

Image: Not in our names! - Jewish occupation of Australian Defence Minister's office.

IPAN: Stop Genocide in Gaza!

Radio Reversal 7th of December  2023 4ZZZ @ 9 a.m. on Thursdays.

In this week’s episode of Radio Reversal, join Anna and super special guest producer Malaak as they think through the deep links between climate justice, environmental violence, and the struggle for a free Palestine. As we speak, organisers from around the world are converging on the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates, just a few thousand kilometres from Israel's genocidal siege on Gaza.

Songs
Ena Malibu x Ta'sia - High Tide
Thelma Plum - We don't talk about it
Spinifex Gum - Juukan

Featured image
Aboriginal and Palestinian flags at the corner of Boundary and Vulture Street in West End in Meanjin, 13 Dec 2023.

From Palestine to the Pacific, Land Back is Climate Justice

Human rights advocate, Roba, speaking on 17 December 2023 about Palestinian resistance against genocide and occupation. 
Photo: Lachlan Hurse

Speech summary
– acknowledges traditional custodians of the land and pays respects to elders past, present, and emerging, while emphasizing the importance of land rights and resistance.
– shares personal story of resistance by her daughter, when a 11-year-old girl who refused to play the Israeli national anthem; and, a 9-year-old aboriginal girl who was suspended for not standing for the Australian National Anthem,
– highlighting the importance of standing up against colonization and oppression.

Palestine solidarity and indigenous rights. (0:00)

Palestine and resistance against oppression. (3:12)

Resistance

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell

Hear the voices of Wael al-Dahdouh (journalist in Gaza) and his colleagues who have been targeted by Israel, Jeremy Corbyn (former leader of the Labour Party in Britain), Antony Blinken (US Secretary of State)  and John Boyd (activist and singer from Queensland in the 1980s).

Condolences
We are deeply saddened by Israeli murders of two journalists who have been bringing news from Gaza for the past three months. They were Al Jazeera's Hamza Wael Al-Dahdouh and Agence France Press journalist, Mustafa Thuraya.

Image: Wael Al-Dahdouh and family member. Al Jazeera journalist Wael Dahdouh holds the hand of his son Hamza, who also worked for Al Jazeera and who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Jan. 7, 2024.

Song: Freedom in Palestine by John Bord

War on truth

Each day brings news of more Palestinian civilians killed and injured in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza. Homes, schools, hospitals, farms – nothing is spared. Nowhere is safe. Hunger, thirst and disease have emerged as an even greater threat than bombs. Gaza’s 2.2 million people are trapped without food, water and healthcare. Israel is using starvation and thirst as weapons of war and refusing to provide unhindered safe access for humanitarian aid to meet the needs of civilians. UN oﬃcials and aid agencies alike, along with hundreds of scholars and practitioners of international humanitarian and genocide law are warning Israel is carrying out genocide.  

The UN General Assembly has called for a ceaseﬁre. The UN Security Council has failed to do so because the US blocks it. South Africa is asking the International Court of Justice to order a ceaseﬁre because of the genocide underway. Jordan has opened a ﬁeld hospital in the Gaza strip and airlifted supplies in. Yemen’s Ansarallah (Houthi) movement is attacking ships supplying Israel, in the Red Sea. Instead of supporting South Africa’s case, or trying to send aid, Australian government oﬃcials continue to pretend Israel’s aims are legitimate. But there is nothing legitimate about genocide and war crimes. 

Voices: 4PR, Ciaron O'Reilly, US Apache helicopter pilot. 
Features Collateral Murder by Wikileaks.
Image: March in Solidarity, Magandjin
Song: Crying, Laughing, Loving, Lying by Labi Siffre

Gaza, dying, crying, existing, resisting, returning

Interview with Jonathan Sriranganathan about support for Palestine in the 2024 Brisbane City Council Election.

Poem by Jonathan Sriranganathan

Photo by Green Left

Greens mayoral candidate challenge to Brisbane City Council complicity in genocide

Interview with Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner in the lead up to the Brisbane City Council Elections on 16 March 2024.

Song - 'If I had a rocket launcher 'by Bruce Cockburn.

"The Games Excerpt" by John Clarke and Brian Dawe.

Image - Brisbane City Hall with a Palestinian rally in the foreground.

With thanks to Sue (voice actor) & Trevor (selected 'If I had a rocket launcher').

Brisbane Lord Mayor offers advice to Hamas

Here is an independent candidate against the Labour Party in Liverpool in England speaking about the genocide in Ghada at the Palm Sunday Peace rally in Brisbane

Scousers for Palestine

There is nothing more evil than a prison posing as freedom. - Anon
In an exclusive interview with Paradigm Shift (4ZZZ Fridays at Noon), Chief Justice Carmody yesterday revealed that his mates on the bench had knifed him in the back. He demanded that the ALP government declare a People's Court in Queensland and that he get a $50k raise in salary from his current $500k per annum to sort it all out. Otherwise he would fall on his sword.

Yvette D'Arth (Attorney General) was too busy stopping council de-amalgamation in Redcliffe to talk with P Shift about this new development. Last night Hetty Johnson was backing 'Big' Tim's stand and wants to see Archbishop George Pell in the dock for child abuse.

Carmody wants the four-month-old Labor government led by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk 'to wake up and set up a judicial commission'.

There are rumours that the ALP will back an outsider for Carmody's job as Chief Justice. Paradigm Shift has been talking odds that Father Frank Brennan has been offered the post.

While still at long odds 'Saint' Frank LLB (UQ) claimed that he had given up a seat on Court of Appeal to former UQ sweetheart Margaret McMurdo in order to help aboriginal people and refugees. Not Guilty.jpg

During his ten-months in the state’s top judicial job, the court system has seen fierce in-fighting and controversy including judges publicly challenging and condemning Justice Carmody and the Court of Appeal President Margaret McMurdo refusing to work with him due to his handling of the appeal case of Daniel Morcombe’s killer.

Frank Brennan says he does not care less about Archbishop George Pell and feels that the catholic church is 'on the rocks' as a viable religious institution". He has penned a book called "Too much Latin and not enough Morals" in a savage critique of Tim Carmody's prior appointment to the Supreme Court by Campbell Newmam who is walking around Ashgrove with a big "L" pasted to his forehead.

Father Frank said: "My dad and chief justice Jed Brennan (who ruled in favour of Eddie Mabo's land rights claim) would turn in his grave to see such dysfunction on the bench in Queensland. "

"It is a sad day for the court and for the catholic church's grip of top jobs in the law" Saint Frank said as he disappeared into his grate for evening prayers.

Should he fail in his attempt to set up a People's Court, Tim Carmody said that he would retire on his $400K per annum pension and write a memoir called 'Guilty' in reply to Terry O'Gorman's wonderful guide to Civil Liberties in Queensland called "Not Guilty" (pictured).

The former President of the Council for Civil Liberties was briefly interviewed coming out of the YMCA gym saying "No, No, No to Tim!"  

O'Gorman said that Frank Brennan was 'born with a silver spoon in his mouth' and that the ALP should look elsewhere for Chief Justice, 'preferably a St James College oldboy' but if that is not possible "to recall the former Qld Solicitor General and now High Court judge Pat Keane  who went to St Joseph's Gregory Terrace."

Pat Keane is best known for a remark made at the Gabba nets one day while facing up to a leftie and tearaway fast bowler. "Hey Ian, will you tell that fella on your team to give us a break ... we have  wives and children."

Neither Anastasia nor Tony Abbott had anything to offer on the subject both claiming that the principle of 'separation of powers' prevents political interference in the judiciary. However the Prime Minister did say that he would not recall George Pell from the Vatican, mumbling a quote from Jesus: "Give back to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's."
By the way, Frank Brennan and Tim Carmody both went to the same school in Brisbane: St Jospeh's College, Nudgee. Terry O'Gorman went to the working class St James and former chief Justice of the High Court, Jed Brennan went to the toffy nosed school in Toowoomba, Downlands College, Prime Minister Tony Abbott went to St Ignatius College Riverview.

Carmody's Curse

Out now: https://pro.beatport.com/release/the-light-remixed/1724089

Sabretooth and Datacult deliver two impeccable remixes from our latest BMSS album by The Key. Sabretooths remix is like rocket fuel, accelerating the original tune and speeding it up to a Psytrance Goa monster. Datacults signature Technodelic take on Progressive Trance pulls the groove deeper, delivering the sound he is known for. Created with powerful emotions and an innovative vision, Ovnimoon and Ascent come together with brilliant technical precision now remixed by two members of the BMSS family.

Artist: The Key (Ovnimoon & Ascent)
Title: The Light Remixed EP
Label: BMSS Records
Cat no.: BMSSDigi070
Format: Digital Download
Release Date: 21 March 2016
Mastering: XSI Masterings

Track Listing :

01: The Key - The Voice of the Universe (Sabretooth Remix)
02: The Key - Tridimensional Abstractions (Datacult Remix) 

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The Key (Ovnimoon & Ascent) - The Voice of the Universe (Sabretooth Remix)

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Carmody's Curse

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