WGAR News: For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union

Newsletter date: 18 April 2015

Contents:

* Historical Analysis: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded
* Analysis: Aboriginal Genocide: 2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide
* Audio/Video Interview: Aimee Devlin & Brendan D. Murphy, Global Freedom Movement Media:
Land Grab In The Outback: Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders [Featuring Bella & Herbert Bropho]

* Background: CPA - Campaigns: 13 Points on Land Rights for Aboriginal People
* Background Letter: Michael Anderson 2011, Sovereign Union: Ethnocide: A crime equal to genocide - Letter to UN Comminssioner for Human Rights
* Background Historical Analysis: Michael Anderson 2009, Sovereign Union: 'That Word' Treaty - The Value of Historical Insights
* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement

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- Historical Analysis

Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded
http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/sovereignty-never-ceded
http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/sovereignty-never-ceded
http://sovereignunion.mobi/
10 Apr 15: "Given that sovereignty and what it stands for will be the flavour of the decade, it is only proper for me to retrace a timeline for our people to see how the issue of sovereignty has evolved to this day.
We can say that Aboriginal people throwing spears at the first white man was an act of sovereign Peoples in defense of their lands, territories and dominions. If we are to examine the political legal action by the people and their spear throwing, it was a military exercise authorised by their law and customs which, in total, represented an Act of State on behalf of the People. They were exercising their sovereign right to defend what was theirs.
The mass destruction of our people through the foreign diseases imported to this land by the illegal British boat people was tantamount to germ warfare. The fact that the invaders were massacring hundreds and thousands of people with impunity, through private militia groups and the British Redcoats, was one of the earliest forms of genocide that equated with any of the British crusades of the earlier centuries. ... " Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, Head of State of the Euahlayi Republic and co-founder of the 1972 Aboriginal Embassy

- Analysis

Aboriginal Genocide: 2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide
https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective
"Australian Aboriginal Genocide. Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention states: "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group." UN Genocide Convention ... "
"Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide. Ethnocide is the wiping out of languages and cultures. ... Federal Government policies against remote communities, the WA Government policy of eliminating up to 150 remote communities and the NT Government policy minimizing education in the first language of Aboriginal children ... "

- Audio/Video Interview

Global Freedom Movement Media: Land Grab In The Outback:
Australia Unites Against Genocide of First Peoples with Gerry Georgatos and Elders

http://globalfreedommovement.org/land-grab-in-the-outback-australia-unit...
4 Apr 15: "Right now we are in the midst of a battle to prevent the final corporate takeover of the traditional homelands of the landmass commonly known as "Australia" by hostile foreign powers of the NWO (a.k.a. the “Australian Government”). It is a thinly veiled process of displacement, "assimilation," and ultimately genocide which has outraged great swathes of not only the Australian population, but even significant activist groups abroad. ... Joining Gerry Georgatos will be Bella and Herbert Bropho, other elders and young people, to share their stories live from Matargarup."

- Background

CPA - Communist Party of Australia - Campaigns: 13 Points on Land Rights for Aboriginal People
http://www.cpa.org.au/indigenous/13-points-on-land-rights.html
"1. For at least 40,000 years Aboriginal people lived on this continent, owning, caring for and being sustained by the land. With their deep knowledge of nature and respect for the environment in which they lived, they developed a successful economy and a rich spiritual and cultural life.
2. In 1788 the British invaded this land and used military force to begin the land grab which continues to this day. The Aboriginal people fought back to protect their lands. Aboriginal people suffered murder on a huge scale, death through new diseases and poverty, and the destruction of much of Aboriginal traditional society. ... "

- Background Letter

Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union:
Ethnocide: A crime equal to genocide

Letter to United Nations Comminssioner for Human Rights
24 May 2011
http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/ethnocide-crime-equal-genocide

- Background Historical Analysis

Sovereign Union: 'That Word' Treaty
The Value of Historical Insights

Michael Anderson 2009
http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/word-treaty

- Background

WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-the-aboriginal-so...
(last updated: 16 April 2015)

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WGAR News: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra: Indymedia Australia

https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/20/wgar-news-anzac-day-2015-undeclared-...

Newsletter date: 20 April 2015

Contents:

* Frontier Wars Homepage: Sovereign Union: The Undeclared Frontier Wars: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/frontier-wars

* Upcoming Event: Indymedia Australia: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra - ACT
* Upcoming Event Flyer: Sovereign Union - Gatherings / Events: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/gatherings-events
* Current Event: Peacebus: Frontier War Storytelling Camp 2015 at Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra

* Media Release: Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: ANZAC Day - for those who served in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations

* Videos: Sovereign Union: Undeclared Frontier Wars Anzac Day Commemoration Videos [Anzac Day Marches 2011, 2012 & 2013]
* Video: akaWACA, YouTube: Frontier Wars Remembrance, Aboriginal ANZAC day, Canberra 2014
* Event Analysis: Ray Jackson, Sovereign Union: ANZAC day: Black Diggers buck the given history of "white men's business"

* Analysis / Opinion: Padraic Gibson, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Journal, UTS: Imperialism, ANZAC nationalism and the Aboriginal experience of warfare
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* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement

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https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/24/wgar-news-aboriginal-group-to-shadow...

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Aboriginal Group To Shadow ANZAC Day March And Highlight Frontier Wars
* Analysis / Opinion: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Gallipoli Could Never Define Australia Like This War Did

* Upcoming Event: Indymedia Australia: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra - ACT
* Upcoming Event Flyer: Sovereign Union - Gatherings / Events: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/gatherings-events
* Frontier Wars Homepage: Sovereign Union: The Undeclared Frontier Wars: http://sovereignunion.mobi/content/frontier-wars
* Audio: Melissa Lahoud, The Wire: Lest we Forget: Aboriginal people want their battles acknowledged [Featuring Graeme Dunstan & Dr Timothy Bottoms]

* Analysis / Opinion: Nicholas Clements, NITV News: Comment: Tasmania's Black War: a tragic case of lest we remember?
* Audio Interviews: Cassandra Tim & Warren Barnsley, NIRS Weekly News-in-Review: ANZAC centenary special: Honouring Indigenous service men and women
* Analysis / Opinion: Timothy Bottoms, The Canberra Times: Why we ought to be remembering the frontier wars on Anzac Day

* Background: WGAR News: Evicting Indigenous Australians from their homelands is a declaration of war: John Pilger, The Guardian
* Background: WGAR News: Anzac Day 2015 - Undeclared Frontier Wars Remembrance March - Canberra: Indymedia Australia
* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

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https://indymedia.org.au/2015/04/26/wgar-news-radioactive-racism-in-the-...

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Mia Pepper, Eco-Shout: Radioactive racism in the Wild West - WA takes aim at remote communities

* Video Special report back: Paddy Gibson, Stop the Intervention: First Nations Peoples and Australian Government Policy - What happened to the Intervention?
[Paddy also discussed of how the policy architecture of the Intervention is expanding across the country to include the threat of closure of WA homelands]

* Photo Essay: Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: Perth rally resists closure of Aboriginal communities, police harassment

* Audio Interview: CAAMA Radio: Maori leader shows his support for Aboriginal people [Featuring Hone Harawira, the leader of New Zealand's Mana Party]

* Analysis / Opinion: Jack Wilkie-Jans, The Age: Learn from history, forced closure of remote communities not the solution
* Analysis / Opinion: Alex Bainbridge, Green Left: Stand up against community closures
* Analysis / Opinion: Scott Mitchell, VICE News: Australian Aboriginal Communities Under Threat of Closure Take Their Case to the UN
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* Upcoming Event - 26 May 2015, Perth: Jemma Nott, Green Left: Convergence to help Aboriginal communities fight against communities' closure [Featuring Grandmothers Against Removals]

* Upcoming Event Info: Locations of 1 May 2015 Protests, around Australia and Internationally, against forced closure of Aboriginal communities, as of 23 Apr 15: #SOSblakaustralia: https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58824
* Upcoming Event Poster: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia, facebook: "We would like to confirm that that 2nd National Call of Action will be held Friday 1st May 2015."
* Facebook: Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia: https://www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia

* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

* WGAR Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
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WGAR News: Decolonisation: to be or not to be included in the Constitution?: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union

Newsletter date: 16 June 2015

This newsletter: https://indymedia.org.au/2015/06/15/wgar-news-decolonisation-to-be-or-no...

Contents:

* Survey Results: IndigenousX: Constitutional Recognition Survey [Data Analysis by Celeste Liddle and Survey Conducted by IndigenousX] http://indigenousx.com.au/constitutional-recognition-survey/

* Media Release & Discussion Paper: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: Decolonisation: to be or not to be included in the Constitution?

* Timeline: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: For the record: Sovereignty Never Ceded: http://www.sovereignunion.mobi/content/sovereignty-never-ceded

* Media Release: Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: Finding solidarity in the core of the resistance to 'recognition' in the racist constitution.

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* News Analysis: Amy McQuire, New Matilda: Aboriginal And Party Leaders To Discuss Recognise Campaign As Activists Call For More Radical Agenda
* Bio: Amy McQuire - New Matilda: https://newmatilda.com/users/amy-mcquire

* Analysis / Opinion: Michael Mansell, New Matilda: A 7th State: Michael Mansell On Another Way Forward For First Nations Self-Rule
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* WGAR Background to Treaties with Aboriginal Sovereign Nations of Australia
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