WGAR News: Desire Mallet's Photographs of Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp: Flickr

Newsletter date: 30 March 2015

Contents:

* Video: Lynda Nutter - My Movie, facebook: "Martagarup Dangerous Ladies Standing Strong, after the raid on 26th March 2015. They knew it would rain tonight and took all the tents, but People Power kept them dry! - at Martagarup."
* Photos: Flickr: Desire Mallet's Photostream of Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp
* Audio: Gerry Georgatos, NIRS: Police again step in to raid Matargarup embassy [Featuring Matargarup elder Bella Bropho]
* News: Kaitlyn Offer, Perth Now: Nyoongar campers return to Heirisson Island after being cleared off a second time
* Background: WGAR News: Breaking News: Homeless camp raided - City of Perth in disgrace, once again: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer
* Background: The Stringer facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheStringerNews

* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Remote communities - Homelands - 'leaked' reports corrupt the real story
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Here is part of the list of the threatened Homelands - remote communities

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

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- Video

Lynda Nutter - My Movie, facebook
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=648850048577490
"Martagarup Dangerous Ladies Standing Strong, after the raid on 26th March 2015. They knew it would rain tonight and took all the tents, but People Power kept them dry! - at Martagarup."

- Photos

Flickr: Desire Mallet's Photostream of Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp
https://www.flickr.com/photos/desire_mallet/

- Audio

NIRS: Police again step in to raid Matargarup embassy
http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Police-again-step-in-to-raid-Matargarup-embassy
27 Mar 15: "Matargarup elder Bella Bropho says the actions of the city were deplorable in trying to move Perth's homeless away from a safe space. She says donations of new tents and swags have poured in and the homeless camp was re-established hours after police and the City of Perth workers left." Gerry Georgatos, Correspondent

- News

Perth Now: Nyoongar campers return to Heirisson Island after being cleared off a second time
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/nyoongar-campers-retur...
27 Mar 15: "PROTESTERS have returned to Heirisson Island after their belongings were cleared on Thursday afternoon. The self-proclaimed refugee camp for homeless Aboriginals had tents removed by the City of Perth escorted by WA Police on Thursday. It is the second time the camp has been cleared and the third time police visited the island. ... " Kaitlyn Offer

- Background

WGAR News: Breaking News: Homeless camp raided - City of Perth in disgrace, once again: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/03/26/wgar-news-breaking-news-homeless-cam...
27 Mar 15: "Contents:
* Breaking News & News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Homeless camp raided - City of Perth in disgrace, once again
* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Help the First Nations Homelessness Project - help Matargarup refugee camp - help the homeless
* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Refugee camp thanks its founders with corroborree
* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: In the heart of Perth, Aboriginal Tent Embassy and a refugee camp
* News Analysis: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Jennifer Kaeshagen sets up The First Nations Homelessness Project
* WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
* WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement"

"To support or be supported by The First Nations Homelessness Project, email contact@thestringer.com.au or phone/text 0449 655 282." Jennifer Kaeshagen, coordinator

- Background

The Stringer facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/TheStringerNews

- News Analysis

The Stringer: Remote communities - Homelands - 'leaked' reports corrupt the real story
http://thestringer.com.au/remote-communities-homelands-leaked-reports-co...
27 Mar 15: "As soon as I released part of the list of remote communities - Homelands - to be targeted for ‘audit’ by the Western Australian Government, all of a sudden, ‘leaked’ lists were secured by other media. But the onus of what I argued that my Government insiders had to say was let slide altogether by the mainstream media. The mainstream media failed to chase down why the Government is doing what it is doing and instead kept signifying finely tuned Government mantras; ‘audit’ of community infrastructure, viability, sustainability, cost benefit, and to the latest sell of social ills. ... " By Gerry Georgatos, a life-long human rights and social justice campaigner, a multi-award winning investigative journalist

- Analysis / Opinion

The Stringer: Here is part of the list of the threatened Homelands - remote communities
http://thestringer.com.au/here-is-part-of-the-list-of-threatened-homelan...
22 Mar 15: "We will be damned by the future if we sit quiet on any dispossession of Homelands - ‘remote communities’ - just as we damn the past for similar brutal dispossessions, for the evil of the Stolen Generations, the Stolen Wages, en masse indenture, apartheid, the lot. The dispossession of hundreds of Homelands, loosely referred to as remote communities, has been in the mix for a long while. The bent of Governments for assimilation has not died, it is still their way. But assimilation is not their end all; it is a tool, a means to the end. Exploitation is the driver, and assimilation is the servant." By Gerry Georgatos

- Background

WGAR Background: Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/08/background-plans-to-close-aboriginal...
(last updated: 27 March 2015)

- Background

WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-the-aboriginal-so...
(last updated: 29 March 2015)

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