Borderlands Newsletter July 2026
Hi to everyone keeping up with Borderlands and with the many good things people are doing in the world. We hope our Newsletter gives you at least a tiny snapshot. I am sure there’s many of you who may not be following it, but there are billions tuned into the FIFA World Cup, many of us with a very sour taste…
Borderlands Newsletter April 2026
I think it’s important to start with the global picture, especially when you live in one of the few countries where the desperation of neoliberalism’s decline is yet to fully hit home. But as far away as Iran may seem, it is now around the corner at every petrol station, deepening and broadening the impact of the cost of living crisis…
Borderlands Newsletter February 2026
The new year brings a new office space for Borderlands and an especially big project: The People’s Plan for Footscray. It seems paradoxical that in a political era where democracy seems at a loss, that so much is being written about how empowering ordinary people as citizens offers real leverage against structural issues like economic inequality and insecurity, climate change, public…
Borderlands Newsletter November-December 2025
It hasn’t been long since our last Borderlands Newsletter, but it’s been a busy time and there’s lots coming up in the next few weeks. This coming Thursday we are hosting a very important fundraiser, Seeds for a Just Peace. The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is severe, the agricultural sector devastated, and food insecurity desperate. Urban family farmers need our support,…
Borderlands Newsletter, October 2025
Footscray is in the limelight at the moment. In ten days time, the Victorian community development conference will be happening in the heart of it, at Borderlands. At the same time, Footscray is now at the centre of a contest all too familiar, globally: the gentrification of the inner city, and the use of punitive measures and private policing to displace…
Borderlands Newsletter June 2025
Welcome to our latest Borderlands Newsletter, June 2025. To subscribe or unsubscribe email jorge@borderlands.org.au. While there is always good happening around us, it’s sometimes difficult to be comforted by it, especially so in this late, late capitalism we inhabit, among the barbarity that it breeds. In the United States, the House Republicans just passed a multitrillion-dollar tax and spending package, the…