Published 28 September 20233 October 2023 · Cartoons Ban cars from the city Sam Wallman This piece is sponsored by CoPower, Australia’s first non-profit energy co-operative. To find out more about CoPower’s mission, services, and impact funding, jump online at https://www.cooperativepower.org.au/ or call 03 9068 6036 today. Sam Wallman Sam Wallman is a unionist and cartoonist based on unceded Wurundjeri country. He is a member of the Workers Art Collective and the Maritime Union of Australia. His new book 12 Rules for Strife was produced in collaboration with Jeff Sparrow and will be published by Scribe Publications on May Day 2024. You can follow his work here. More by Sam Wallman › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 12 May 202414 May 2024 · Cartoons “Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage”: the anti-war meaning of Mother’s Day Sam Wallman What we now call Mother's Day was born of the anti-war movement. In 1870, Julia Ward Howe called for an annual 'Mother's Peace Day': "Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caress and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn what we have been able to teach them..." 8 May 20248 May 2024 · Cartoons Against unpaid student placements Sam Wallman From next year, students in Australia will be forced to work conventional jobs for $8 an hour in order to get their degree. Listen to the rumbling of a massive placement strike on the horizon.