Monthly Archive: December 2012

30 Dec

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2012 in review: The year that politics disoriented the Left

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Just before 2012 closes out, I’m reposting my last Overland blog of the year, which originally appeared here. In some ways it is a summing up of themes we have developed at Left Flank since we started in mid-2010; chiefly in our attempts to present not just a general ideological or theoretical approach to the […]

28 Dec

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2012: A lesson in how to blame the victim

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This blog post first appeared on LEFT FLANK @ Overland Journal. For the last post of 2012 we were asked to reflect on politics over the last year. In thinking on this for the last week I’ve drafted about ten first paragraphs. The writer’s block arises not from nothing to say, but from a place that […]

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08 Dec

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Children, women, men: The ALP’s conscious cruelty

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This blog post first appeared at Overland Journal. Govt confirms they have sent women and children refugees overnight to the detention camps in Manus Island indefinitely. Shameful. – Senator Sarah-Hanson Young on Twitter, 21 November 2012 In 2001 Four Corners aired a watershed episode on the mandatory detention of children in Australian refugee detention centers. The pain and […]

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02 Dec

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‘He Kills Me’: ACT UP and the AIDS crisis

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At this time of World Aids Day, I wanted to take the opportunity to celebrate the success and wonder that was ACT UP (in particular the NYC chapter). ACT UP turned 25 in March this year, and has long been a core inspiration in my own activism. It is worth taking a look at this […]

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