Austin G. Mackell
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me on twitter…
- if you call your self a leftist, and you live in Australia, go have a political conversation with someone in high-visibility work-vest. 4 hours ago
- @occupySYDNEY @JamesGRickards @nypost not if you look at the Nasdac we aren't. unemployment cues a diff question.. 4 hours ago
- @historyben yeah... but isn't it on the privileged elite academics to make the effort? They expect their doors bashed down by tradies? 5 hours ago
- @alexeiw123 @DoctorKarl @Kev_Richards73 @Fifty2Pickup source? 5 hours ago
- have they made the lists available for review? //'Rebel' campaigners announce 3 million anti-Morsi signatures en.aswatmasriya.com/news/view.aspx… 5 hours ago
Blogroll
- Acitv8Change The fantastic and fiery Kate Ausburn’s blog
- Antony Loewenstein One of Australia’s best and most critical intellectuals
- Disgruntled Biped “23 year old curmudgeon. Serial pessimist. Born in Jesusland, raised in Redneck Wonderland… suffice to say that both these experiences damaged me profoundly. Much happier now in the Inner West.”
- Inner West Live A community of blogger/journo/food-reviews/catlovers from around the Inner West (The Cool Part) of Sydney
- Lorenzo Tugnoli An amazing Italian photojournalist.
- Patch Galey A very sharp young British journalist based in Beirut and working at the Daily Star (also once my flat-mate)
- Penultimo A blog about my neighbourhood run by Jesse Stein and Erin Riley… Coz I still got love for the streets.
- Richard Hall Another fine young Daily Star Journo, writing from Beirut about the Middle East and beyond.
- Sam Tarling English Photojournalist bouncing round the Middle East. In Cairo (in the thick of it) last I checked.
- The Review of The New York Review of Books A side project of mine, featuring meta-reviews (reviews of reviews), video digests, and comment pages for the NYRB
- The Tongue Are you ready for a taste of the realness?
- The Tracy and The John “the men danced the dance of the gays”
- Two Bullets an anonymous insider from the Sydney music scene
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Petition Page Up
Mike Brull, with massive support from Elizabeth Humphrys and others, has authored an excellent open letter about my case to the Australian Government. Please sign and circulate. —————- Dear Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Austin Mackell is a young freelance journalist, who … Continue reading
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An open letter to The Hon Kevin Rudd MP
Reblogged from Patrick Galey: Mr. Rudd PO Box 6022 House of Representatives Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 Let be begin by saying that I have no reason to believe you are anything other than a humane and decent man. I … Continue reading
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Arrested: inside my Egyptian nightmare
Had my account of our Feb 11,12 and 13, arrest and detention published over at The Drum Traffic was light on the road out of Cairo. The oppressive density of the metropolis gave way to an uneven patchwork of small … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrested journalists, Egypt, Feb11, Kamal El-Fayoumi, Mahalla
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Tahrir at Dawn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP0-5D0dw1g
Tahrir Square before it has it’s coffee.
Protesters clash with police in street around the Ministry of the Interior.
Taste the Tear Gas
filmed in Cairo -on 2 Feb 2012 After the violence at a Port Said soccer match, which left at least 70 dead, protesters flooded the streets around the Ministry of the Interior, which they say was complicit in the attack.
The Ultras take on the MOI
As I post these shots the police are defending the Ministry of the Interior, on several fronts, from hordes of hardcore soccer fans, referred to as “Ultras”. This is because they see MOI as having been complicit in, or even … Continue reading
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