Welcome to Occupy Sydney For the past week, Sydney residents gathered in Martin Place to participate in a 24/7 forum to discuss creating futures that are more inclusive, just and sustainable. In the heart of the city, Martin Place is wide enough to host hundreds of people while accommodating passers by. This patch of Sydney, [...]

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Poor Erin, stuck with a 1GB ipod. Poor Red, he only has a PlayStation 2. A new video examines some of the real challenges middle class Aussie kids face. Congratulations to World Vision for their great work on this video. It’s worth the full five minutes.

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My cousin Mark sent me the link to Kiva.org and has decided that if he could work for any organisation in the world, it would be them, or google.org. Here’s Kiva’s positive self-talk… “Kiva lets you connect with and loan money to unique small businesses in the developing world. By choosing a business on Kiva.org, [...]

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Members of the Global Justice Movement should insist that journalists refrain from labeling them “anti-globalisation” protestors. How can people from international networks advocating a world that works for everyone be labeled “anti-globalisation”? It doesn’t make sense. For more info on the Global Justice Movement’s advocacy at the G20 in Melbourne, check out indymedia.

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Iraq is such a mess these days. As the Bush administration appear to be trying to spin their way out of a quagmire, Mother Jones has published an interactive timeline of how they got there. The timeline highlights the ‘bad intelligence’, ‘misinformation’, ‘faulty intelligence’ and lies that made the Iraq invasion so hard to swallow. [...]

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