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Letter Requesting Sen. McClellan to Co-sponsor ERA Bill
No full textLetter from Aurelle Burnside to U.S. Sen. John L. McClellan requesting that he co-sponsor the Equal Rights Amendment
The Burnside Expedition
No full textBy Ambrose E. Burnside, Late Major-General, United States Army. Personal Narratives of Events of the War of the Rebellion being papers read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society. No.6 – Second Series. 1882.
Written by Ambrose Burnside and read before the Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society on July 7, 1880, the author discusses his military expedition along the North Carolina Coast between February and June of 1862. The expedition was part of General Winfield Scott’s overall Anaconda Plan, which was aimed at closing the blockade-running ports inside the Outer Banks.https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/ri_history/1001/thumbnail.jp
David Kilcullen and Julian Burnside on tactics in the Iraq War
No full textAustralian-born David Kilcullen was the senior advisor to US General Petraeus during his time in Iraq, advising on counter-insurgency. The implementation of his strategies is now regarded as a major turning point in the war. Kilcullen is now advising the US military in Afghanistan. Here, in a brilliant discussion with human rights lawyer Julian Burnside at the Melbourne Writers Festival, he talks about the ethics and tactics of contemporary warfare.
David Kilcullen is a consultant to the US State Department on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism. He is the author of numerous publications including "The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One" and "Twenty-Eight Articles", a how to guide for junior commanders involved in counterinsurgency.
Julian Burnside is a human rights barrister and refugee advocate. He is the author of numerous publications and books including "On Privilege" and "Watching Brief: Reflections on Human Rights, Law and Justice".
26 August 2009
 
Julian Burnside on freedom of expression
No full textWith the International Day of the Imprisoned Writer tying in with International PEN\u27s 50th anniversary of its Writers in Prison Committee, Julian Burnside and Panel came together to discuss the complex elements that permit and hinder freedom of expression.
These scholarly humanists "tell it like it is", regarding law enforcement in an age where the blanket term "terrorism" has muddied the waters with ideology, to the point where laws have perversely come to abrogate human rights in the name of defending them.
Burnside and co. argue that while the Australian public may believe in the idea of freedom of speech, they\u27re not so willing to actively fight for it, and with a marked lack of diversity in the media, how much of our democracy is in fact ruled by fear?
Julian Burnside AO is a barrister, human rights and refugee advocate, and author. He is known for his staunch opposition to the mandatory detention of asylum seekers, and has provided legal counsel in a wide array of high-profile cases.
Burnside was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009, "for service as a human rights advocate, particularly for refugees and asylum seekers, to the arts as a patron and fundraiser, and to the law."
Dr Kath Gelber teaches in Government and International Relations at the University of NSW. She has recently published "Speaking Back: the free speech versus hate speech debate", and has also published several journal and newspaper articles on the topics of hate speech and hate crimes.
Associate Professor Ben Saul is Co-Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law (SCIL) and a barrister. He has published widely in international law journals and his recent book, "Defining Terrorism in International Law" is the leading scholarly work on the subject. He has taught law at UNSW, Oxford, and in Nepal, Hong Kong and Cambodia and is Editor in Chief of the "Australian International Law Journal".
Professor Michael Fraser AO is the Vice President, Sydney PEN and a Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and Director of the Communications Law Centre (CLC), UTS, Australia\u27s independent, non-profit, public interest centre specialising in communications, media and online law and policy.
Bonny Cassidy is a poet and writer based in Sydney, and president of Sydney PEN. In 2008 she undertook an Asialink/Malcolm Robertson Foundation literature fellowship in Japan, and she is currently the recipient of the Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry 2010-2011. Cassidy has taught Creative Writing and Australian Literature, and written on Australian poetry and poetics.
Zoe Rodriguez, a lawyer, manages Copyright Agency Limited\u27s (CAL\u27s) Cultural Fund - a philanthropic fund aimed at promoting the creation of Australian content, by enabling creators to derive an income from their creative work.
 
Sen. John L. McClellan Agrees to Co-Sponsor E.R.A.
No full textLetter sent to Miss Aurelle Burnside in response to her request that Sen. McClellan co-sponsor the Equal Rights Amendment.AURELLE BURNSIDE LEGISLATION
E QUAL RIGHTS
COPY
February , 1955
Miss Aurelle Burnside
State Le islation Chairman
Ark. Fed. of B. & P . W. Clubs
El Dorado, Arkansas
Dear Miss Burnside:
This acknowledaes your letter of February 7 reg-
garding the Equal Rightll Amendment. I will
confer with Senator Butler riaht away about it.
I have been a co- sponsor of this measure in the
past and may coneent to do ao again. While I am
of the impression that many do not understand
the full impact of this proposed Constitutional
Amendment, still I have taken the position that
if our women want it, then I shall support it.
With kindest regards , I am
Sincerely yours,
John L. McClellan
J LMc:h
The bludgeonings of chance: 2015 Hal Wootten Lecture
No full textJulian Burnside AO QC delivered the 2015 Hal Wootten lecture - "The bludgeonings of chance" about becoming an advocate for the human rights of asylum seekers. Julian Burnside is a distinguished Australian barrister, human rights advocate and author. In 2014, he was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize
The Burnside Groups and Small Cancellation Theory
No full textIn a pair of recent articles 1 , the author develops a general version of small cancellation theory applicable in higher dimensions ([5]), and then applies this theory to the Burnside groups of sufficiently large exponent ([6]). More specifically, these articles prove that the free Burnside groups of exponent n 1260 are infinite groups which have a decidable word problem. The structure of the finite subgroups of the free Burnside groups is calculated from the automorphism groups of the general relators used in the presentation. The present article gives a brief introduction to the methods and techniques involved in the proof. Many of the ideas originate with the recent work of A. Yu. Ol'shanskii and S. V. Ivanov. Some familiarity with their work on the Burnside problem will be assumed. 1 Introduction Ninety-five years ago William Burnside asked whether every finitely generated group of finite exponent must be finite [2]. Since then, significant progress has been made in the study o..
Equivariant birational types and Burnside volume
No full textWe introduce equivariant Burnside groups, new invariants in equivariant birational geometry, generalizing birational symbols groups for actions of finite abelian groups, due to Kontsevich, Pestun, and the second author, and study their properties. We establish a specialization map for the equivariant birational type of a smooth algebraic variety with an action of a finite group
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The A-fibered Burnside Ring as A-fibered Biset Functor in Characteristic Zero
No full textLet A be an abelian group and let K be a field of characteristic zero containing roots of unity of all orders equal to finite element orders in A. In this thesis we prove foundational properties of the A-fibered Burnside ring functor B^A_K as an A-fibered biset functor over K. This includes the determination of the lattice of subfunctors of B^A_K and the determination of the composition factors of B^A_K. The results of the paper extend results of Coşkun and the author for the A-fibered Burnside ring functor restricted to p-groups and results of Bouc in the case that A is trivial, i.e., the case of the Burnside ring functor over fields of characteristic zero
Burnside rings for Real 2-representation theory : the linear theory communications
No full textThis paper is a fundamental study of the Real 2-representation theory of 2-groups. It also contains many new results in the ordinary (non-Real) case. Our framework relies on a 2-equivariant Morita bicategory, where a novel construction of induction is introduced. We identify the Grothendieck ring of Real 2-representations as a Real variant of the Burnside ring of the fundamental group of the 2-group and study the Real categorical character theory. This paper unifies two previous lines of inquiry, the approach to 2-representation theory via Morita theory and Burnside rings, initiated by the first author and Wendland, and the Real 2-representation theory of 2-groups, as studied by the second author
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