On the pretext of a child sexual abuse crisis in Australia’s Northern Territory the Howard government passed emergency legislation and prepared a land invasion of aboriginal areas by police, doctors and the army. Elizabeth Povinelli locates this latest state of exception in a wider neoliberal project to impose work and austerity. Images and text box by Benedict Seymour

This text, passed on by Stewart Home from 'a guy I know from Newcastle', highlights several links between fascist organisations and musicians playing over the next two months at the Slimelight club night based in Islington, North London. In the cases of Boyd Rice (NON) and Albin Julius of Der Blutharsch both, according to this text, publicly express right wing views, associate with members of far-right organisations and dress themselves in Nazi regalia. Anyone out there with further information about these gigs or the groups involved please post here

As the second, or third, or fourth 'scramble for Africa' gets into full swing [see http://www.metamute.org/en/node/10832] - Africans everywhere were confronted with one of the more bizarre events in recent history, as the African elite welcomed one of Europe's foremost racists (in Mbecki's words) 'as a citizen of Africa'. Sarkozy, keen to shore up any danger of the colonial power relations being reversible, offered: 'Between Senegal and France history has woven ties of a friendship that no one can undo' [full English translation of Sarkozy's speech here: http://dionysusstoned.amagama.com/blog/2007/09/09/sarkozys-dakar-speech/]. While Achille Mbembe, in a demolition of the historical bad conciousness this occasion represents, begs to differ, insisting that to continue to see Africa as a place without a past or a critical tradition is simply not, now nor ever, an option

Occupation by locals and activists of New Orleans offices of HUD-contractor, Housing Agency of New Orleans. At least they got a press conference, though will be unlikely to attract Yes Men-like levels of media attention - the other recent intervention to expose HUD's malfeasances in New Orleans, specifically the one of barring displaced residents from returning to structurally intact but economically unsound public housing where they lived in those misty pre-Katerina days when such people were still suffered to live. Miami Workers Center Friday, Aug. 31, 2007 at 7:51 PM joseph@theworkerscenter.org http://miami.indymedia.org/news/2007/08/9131.php

This extract from an unfinished text by Angela Mitropoulos, posted on archive : s0metim3s (http://archive.blogsome.com/2007/08/07/indigenous-land/#comments), gives part of the historical background (which some European readers may have overlooked) to the current military-medical invasion of Aboriginal land in Australia's Northern Territory.  Most importantly, the text explains the concrete connection between intervention in the name of 'health' and 'education', the blackmailing of the 'economically inactive' into the 'job-seeking' reserve army, and the rush to extract resource rents from legally inalienable Aboriginal land.