Archive for the 'Politics' Category
RiP Trailer
Just in case the post below doesn’t entice you to come along to the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice’s screening of RiP, hopefully the trailer will:
RiP: A Remix Manifesto
To help Launch the Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice launch its latest campaign: En Masse, we are screening the exciting new documentary on remix culture: RiP: A remix manifesto.
In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the [...]
Probably not PC
I’m not sure where this sits on the PC scale, but it made me laugh so hard I nearly had tears in my eyes.
(via Department of Internets)
Kind of a big deal (for me): Your Voice in House
Last Friday over six month’s of work came to fruition. The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice launch it’s latest campaign: Your Voice in House.
As we said for the launch:
The Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice is excited to announce the launch of our latest campaign: Your Voice in House.Check out the website today:
www.yourvoiceinhouse.org.au
The “your [...]
Just Change
A friend of mine is involved in a fantastic project called Just Change. It’s well worth checking out.
The aim is to try and improve the energy efficiency of rental properties for low income households.
They’re thinkers alright.
Mental Health Reform in Victoria
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I got a promotion. Yep, I’m officially HACSU’s Publicity and Communications Officer.
And I’d like a little support from the likes of you for the first major action associated with this promotion.
The Victorian government is current reviewing it’s mental health policy. At the moment it looks like the [...]
This is an important one
Well the only semi-decent paper in the country has decided to cut it’s staff by 30%. That’s 550 journalists and editorial staff who will no longer have a job. Needless to say this has two pretty significant problems.
Firstly, no one likes to see people loose jobs. Especially as unnessisarily as this.
Secondly, it’s going to make [...]
Vote 1, Vote Rayna
Well I’m already getting sick of feeling sick every time I look at this blog (thanks to the pic of my knee). So I thought I’d give a comrade a plug:
Tonight I’ll be down at the Horse Bazaar – you should come along.
ACDJ pumping again!
For those of you interested in my Australian Centre for Democracy and Justice activities, it’s all up and going again in a big way.
Check out our latest newsletter with all the details here: http://democracyandjustice.org/content/view/98/53/
