Unfair Industrial Laws: It's up to you!

Say No to Unfair Industrial Laws

When the WorkChoices legislation was before Parliament, GetUp members sent emails to Senators Barnaby Joyce and Steven Fielding asking them to stay strong and independent. This was followed up with a national telephone campaign.

The Coalition Government wanted to create a harsh, winner-takes-all industrial relations system in Australia, with dramatic effects on our wages, working conditions and holidays.

Two Senators held the key to this legislation passing. John Howard needed the vote of either National Party Senator Barnaby Joyce or Family First Senator Steven Fielding to pass these laws. Both men had serious concerns about the government's legislation, but came under heavy pressure to support the laws.

At that critical moment GetUp members sent them a message, explaining their concerns about the Government's industrial relations agenda and encouraging them to stand up for all those Australians who felt the same way.

By Getup! posted 16 October 05

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No! Your Rights Australia

[Your rights explained for you]

You have the right to not remain silent

You have the right to not question, decide, remember, observe, create, nor otherwise consider yourself a free individual.

You have the right to work long hours for less than fair pay, without holidays and sick leave, and subject to arbitrary dismissal without appeal.

You have the right to remain in debit for life, and to engage in conspicuous over-consumption.

You have the right to be kept alive and force-fed, but not to euthanasia.

You have the right to remain indoors, stupefied in front of the TV, except on Sundays.

You have the right to eat irradiated genetically-modified inorganic foods that are fat free, low cholesterol, high in carbohydrate sugar salt preservative and behavior modifying drugs.

You have the right to be gouged by oil companies, insurance companies, supermarkets, privatized monopolies, taxation, and dentists.

You have the right to second rate, high cost, and impersonal medical care from poorly trained doctors and overworked, tired nurses.

You have the right to be scared by your government, and abused by public servants and their cut-outs.

You have the right to believe this is not a quasi-police state, run by unprincipled authoritarians who can't tell the difference between an activist and a terrorist.

You have the right to be watched, followed, and tracked, overheard, profiled, identified, classified, correlated, and suspected.

You have the right to indefinite detention, to inadequate counsel, to declared guilty by media leaks and defamation, and to secret trials requiring you prove your innocence without being told the accusations.

You have the right to be deported at your own expense, despite being a citizen, crippled, young, or mentally ill.

You have the right to bank accounts that cost you money, while the executives are paid well to devise ways of outsourcing the staff.

You have the right to be arbitrarily denied welfare, child care, health care, or work assistance.

You have the right to the total absence of privacy, to always carry your ID, and to surrender your DNA and biometrics with complete trust.

You have the right to be searched, insulted, manhandled, confined, menaced and rejected by overzealous security guards on every train, airport, and entrance, and at every event, gig, show, movie, birthday party or cake stall that you might even think of enjoying yourself at.

You have the right to be poorly governed by a parliament that is dominated by extremists, segregated from the electors, unaccountable and undemocratic.

You have the right to vote for liars, bible thumping red necks, charlatans, bigots, failed lawyers, and other upstanding self-interested cheats.

You have the right to be lied to, persuaded, misled, misinformed, and kept ignorant by a media that is complacent, biased, contrived, and for sale to the most ruthless and wealthy.

You have the right to be socially engineered, dog-whistled, pork barreled, demographically data mined, lumped with the lowest common denominator, and ignored.

You have the right to become a statistic, a frangible entity defined by your patterns of expenditure.

You have the right to be waited on by asylum-seekers who are temporarily welcome, provided they keep their children away from the water.

You have the right to inform on your colleagues and friends; to ridicule the defenseless; and to blame, accuse, and libel without foundation.

You have the right to have opinions conforming to those the officially mandated mainstream gives you, and to express them when it allows you.

You have the right to attend, read, watch, and listen to commercially viable, advertising saturated, highly censored, warning stickered, sexist, unchallenging entertainment, approved by politicians, accountants, churchmen, and self-appointed eminences.

You have the right to have your homes and your community destroyed at the whim and design of property developers.

You have the right to a fundamentalist fee-paying education, to be fitted for the most menial and casual of jobs.

You have the right to respect authority, to worship celebrities and sports stars, to disparage artists and despise intellectuals, to harbor racism and foster intolerance, and to deny that global warming is real.

You have the right to be criminalised for smoking, but not for drinking; to be stigmatized for drug addiction, but not for gambling.

You have the right to a small, heterosexual, god fearing, law abiding, car owning, fashionably dressed, tax paying family.

You will attend places of instruction, worship, labour, diversion, and correction without deviation from the designated routes.

You have the right to exploit the environment, pollute, degrade, and occupy without compassion for animals and other humans, and without respect for the indigenous.

You will sleep, eat, work, play, fornicate, exercise, consume, barrack, and commute in the prescribed manner only.

You have the right to not protest, demonstrate, or organize, and to be labeled and detained as an extremist if you do.

You have the right to conduct yourself according to the edicts of the cartel that owns the government today.

You have the right to be compliant customers of globalised corporations, who have neither responsibility, nor ethics, or constraints on their ability to make a profit.

You have the right to be bombed, invaded, gassed, shot at, interrogated, shocked, interned, beaten, subjected to indignity, threatened, hooded and deprived, to encourage you to become a more co-operative and patriotic citizen.

You have the right to be abandoned in time of crisis and need; to be sacrificed; to be forgotten, mocked, and overlooked.

You have the right to endure fake terrorism, real war crimes, notional liberties, and military injustice.

You have the right to be protected by expensive taxpayer-funded government advertising, and fridge magnets, while the police guard the property of the rich.

You have the right to the arbitrary denial of civil rights as a refugee in your own modern 1950s styled free-market penal colony.

You have the right to a future the same as yesterday, without evolution, relativism, feminism, socialism, post-anything-ism, or enlightenment to trouble your mind, or to interrupt the holidays of your superiors.

You have the right to forget that you ever had rights, or that you will ever need them again.

(c) 2005 AL is added to the copy.

By AL 28 September 05

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The new laws will allow police to access emails and mobile phone SMS messages, enable wider use of surveillance devices, and protect sensitive national security information during terrorism trials.

Community seeks more power to interrogate ASIO suspects
Greens Senator Bob Brown does not think increased police powers are necessary. "We have enormous powers for surveillance, apprehension or punishment of people who are engaged in or intending to engage in or thinking about being engaged in terrorist acts in this country," he said.

Greens warn of 'politicised' terror trials
AUSTRALIA/CUBA?: The Australian Greens say they are concerned that new anti-terrorism laws being debated in the Senate allow for the "political black-banning" of defence lawyers at terrorism trials.

Lawyer claims Al Qaeda suspect's evidence tainted!
Before returning to Australia last year, Thomas was arrested and held in custody for five months by Pakistani authorities before being released without charge.

Man terrorised by ASIO remanded in 'AA' isolation!
A Victorian man has been remanded in custody after being charged with terrorism offences, including having links to Al Qaeda?

Melbourne man charged over ASIO links
ASIO a know Australian terrorist organization is verballing the community again...about allegations that a man, while living overseas, received funds from Al Qaeda and had close association with the members of the terrorist group.

DING DONG! THE WITCH IS DEAD
A court has been told Joseph Thomas is a sleeper? ZZZ! Melbourne Australia: A court has been told that Osama bin Laden asked a Melbourne man to become a "sleeper" in Australia before undertaking activities for the Al Qaeda network? Munchkins: "Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch! Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead."

AFP: The unlikely CRIMINAL
It was born of a bombing and it made its name after a far more devastating act of terrorism. But for most of the 25 years in between, little was known about the Australian Federal Police force or the work it did.

Mamdouh Habib: Taunted and Tortured!
Four Corners [Walls]: Terrorist - or Taunted by the Australian Defence Force who sacked him as a cleaning contractor? Who is Mamdouh Habib? And why was he harassed by the Australian Federal Police? Then tagged and labelled as a spy? Why was he vilified by the community? When he fled to Pakistan how did he end up being tortured in Egypt? And how did he end up at Guantanamo prison camp reserved for the men America calls "the worst of the worst.

He was an undercover agent for the blues
He was my journalist, he was working undercover. The fellow knew all of the moves.... He really had me romping, bare footing stomping. He just kept igniting my fuse....

Up there Khasali: Innocent man new bail laws
The New South Wales Supreme Court has asked innocent man Bilal Khazal to increase to amount of surety offered, before the bail is formally continued.

HEY! BIG BROTHER? LET INNOCENT PEOPLE GO!
Young men terrorised, tortured, and threatened with charges for no crime by Australia mate the lucky country. Lucky if you're not used for Howard's FEDERAL ELECTION and George Dubya's WAR ON LIBERTY! Who shot liberty? IGNORANCE!

Keelty foresees more terrorism
Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty says terrorist groups will continue to find new ways to threaten countries.

Islamic movement denies links to Al Qaeda
The Islamic Youth Movement has denied having any links to Al Qaeda and says it is considering legal action against the Four Corners program. In a statement released early this morning, the group rejects allegations it is helping coordinate any kind of terrorist network inside Australia and says it is being unfairly targeted.

2nd Renaissance -10 The War on Witches [150]
In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a Papal Bull that became the rationale for establishing the Inquisition in Germany. The following excerpt from the Bull sets out the official view of the danger of witches to the community. The Bull and this this passage provided the sole excuse for the torture and cruel executions that were, ultimately, to be the fate of up to fifty percent of the population of some villages.

GetUp! Stand Up! Stand Up For Your Rights!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Thanks for being there at the beginning of a new movement to build a more progressive Australia!

hoWARd man, don't tell me, heaven is under the earth. I know you don't know, what life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold; 'alf the story has never been told:

So now you see the light, eh! Stand up for your rights, come on!

Because of you, something exciting happened in our democracy last week. From every corner of the country, more than 20,000 emails were sent to the Coalition Senators. Our message was simple: now you have control of the Senate, we will be holding you to account. Thousands of you added personal messages to your representatives about the issues you care about.

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

NowYouAnswerToUs

The Government's response to this outbreak of political participation was anything but democratic. Coalition MP and key strategist Andrew Robb appeared on national television to condemn the emails you sent to your elected representatives as "highly irresponsible" and "spam". Coalition MP Tony Smith called your messages an "email scam". And Senator Eric Abetz was so upset he complained to the Australian Electoral Commission!

Most people think, great God will come from the skies, take away everything and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth: And now you see the light, you stand up for your rights. jah!

This government is already rattled. But our work has only just begun. This morning Senator Robert Hill announced that the Government plans to roll back the Senate budget estimates process, which plays a crucial role in exposing government bungles and cover-ups.

Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!), Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!), Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!), don't give up the fight!, (life is your right!), Get up, stand up! (so we can't give up the fight!), Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!), Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on!), Don't give up the fight! (yeah!)

The traditional checks and balances in our parliamentary process are under threat, and we know the other political parties are incapable of a strong or effective opposition. If this government is going to be held accountable, GetUp needs to grow in strength and numbers - and we need your help to do this. Please forward this email to your friends and tell them to join the campaign:

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game - Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a jesus' name, lord. We know when we understand: Almighty God is a living man. You can fool some people sometimes, but you can't fool all the people all the time. So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ), we gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!).

As we write, the government is preparing to unveil a raft of new legislation that we deserve a say on. In the crucial period ahead, GetUp will help you take action on the major issues of the day. Stay tuned -- we are just getting started.

Thanks for being part of this,

David, Jeremy & the GetUp team

GetUp!
Action for Australia

So you better:

Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!) Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!) Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight! (don't give it up, don't give it up!) Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!) Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... ) Don't give up the fight!
(get up, stand up!) Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up! Don't give up the fight!

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