Newsletter date: 18 February 2014
Contents:
* Solidarity Online: Assimilation and the Intervention: A Solidarity pamphlet
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* SOLIDARITY ONLINE: ASSIMILATION AND THE INTERVENTION: A SOLIDARITY PAMPHLET
[Editorial note: This is an excellent, well-presented, well-organised and well-written series of articles.]
- Collection of Articles
Solidarity Online: Assimilation and the Intervention: A Solidarity pamphlet
Solidarity pamphlet: http://www.solidarity.net.au/best/assimilation-and-the-intervention-a-so...
29 Jan 14: "Solidarity has been involved in the fight against the NT Intervention since it was launched in 2007. This pamphlet brings together articles published over this period that report on resistance from Aboriginal communities and supporters to the policy and analyse the assimilationist aims behind it."
"Click on contents link below to jump to that section. You can also download a pdf version of the pamphlet here: http://www.solidarity.net.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/NT-pamphlet-2014... "
CONTENTS:
"Timeline on the Intervention
ANALYSIS
Aboriginal assimilation and the NT Intervention
Fighting Income Management
Income Management expansion in effort to beat boycott
Aboriginal communities demand jobs and services
GenerationOne’s assimilation agenda
Aboriginal child removals: A new Stolen Generation
RESISTANCE TO INTERVENTION
Resistance at the beginning of Intervention
Gurindji demand freedom from Intervention
Demanding justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe
What happened to the resistance?
FEATURES
A history of assimilation
Why native title hasn’t delivered
Deaths in custody: Locked up and killed for being black
How Hawke and Keating destroyed land rights
Socialists and Aboriginal rights
Unions and the black moratorium of 1972"
* BACKGROUND TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT) INTERVENTION:
Last updated: 16 February 2014
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-northern-territory-...
* BACKGROUND TO 'STRONGER FUTURES' NEW NT INTERVENTION LAWS:
Last updated: 16 February 2014
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-stronger-futures-new-nt...
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