Re: [recoznet2] One answer to PP McGuinness

1999-09-23 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
You're welcome, Tim. I thought you and everone else would enjoy the letter. I usually cannot stomach reading PP but occasionally it is good to find out what kind of racism is on offer under the guise of 'reasonable discourse'. He doesn't usually cover it up as well as he did in his last article.

Re: [recoznet2] One answer to PP McGuinness

1999-09-23 Thread tdunlop
Thanks for this, Trudy - I had missed it in today's paper. This response is spot on, capturing the insidious, hidden racism of the McGuinness piece. Much better than anything I could've written, though I have decided to approach him directly. Actually, if people can stomach it, next month's Quad

[recoznet2] One answer to PP McGuinness

1999-09-23 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
>From the letters page of the SMH http://www.smh.com.au/news/9909/24/text/letters.html Racist card Don't you know, Mr McGuinness, that a straw argument is the weakest kind? Apparently neither you, nor any of the the others involved in the scenario you describe (Herald, September 23), found the

[recoznet2] [Fwd: LL:DDV: Speaking Strong: Australian Indigenous Struggles on Film]

1999-09-23 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
Speaking Strong: Australian Indigenous Struggles on Film Over the next four weeks, Students for Land Justice and Reconciliation bring you a festival of great and rarely screened Australian films. Each night there will be two short films and speakers to introduce the themes of the evening.

[recoznet2] Lack of courses delays release

1999-09-23 Thread Trudy and Rod Bray
"Deaths In Custody Watch Commitee (WA) Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lack of courses delays release one would like to think that those people who are in charge ( not repsonsible) of prisons here in WA would try to reduce the costs of incarceration through simply getting people prepared for release a

[recoznet2] Grubby Leader.

1999-09-23 Thread Laurie Forde
I just watched that grubby little psychopath John Howard on 7.30 Report. Referring to that Foreign Affairs incompetent Downer ,Howard smarmed "He has handled the East Timor thing exquisitely" . ''Thing" -What a way to refer to the horror that is taking place just off our northern shore.-