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Solidarity with Squat raids in Athens from Brisbane

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 13/01/2013 - 7:11pm

Photographs of 2 banners placed at the Brisbane Anarchist Summer School, held from 12-13 January 2013. As far away as Australia we look to the occupied social spaces such as Villa Amalias, Skaramagka, and the ASOEE steki in Greece as a source of inspiration in our struggle against the existent. With solidarity as our weapon we actively resist the isolation this society attempts to impose on us. You are not alone.

Comrades from the other side of the world

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anarchist athens solidarity villa amalias skaramagka squat

WGAR News: Government must do the right thing by Maralinga victims: Greens Senator Scott Ludlam

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 13/01/2013 - 11:46am

Newsletter date: 13 January 2013

Contents:

* Greens Senator Scott Ludlam: Government must do the right thing by Maralinga victims
* ABC: No way forward for Maralinga victims

* Brisbane Times: Aborigines' claim on Musgrave Park set to be tested in court
* Adelaide Now: [Brisbane] Tent embassy land 'for Aboriginal use'
* Background to Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy, Musgrave Park, South Brisbane, Qld

* NIRS: Ramindjeri lawman slams SA Government for destruction of burial site
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

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ABC - No way forward for Maralinga victims

Brisbane Times - Aborigines claim on Musgrave Park set to be tested in court

Adelaide Now - Tent embassy land for Aboriginal use

NIRS - Ramindjeri lawman slams SA Government for destruction of burial site

CAAMA - Aboriginal owned and operated youth program funding cut

Jepke Goudsmit - Green Left - Kinetic Energy brings solidarity with Aboriginal struggles

Maralinga victims

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Ramindjeri

sacred site

Aboriginal youth program

Aboriginal struggles

WGAR News: Briscoe family condemns NT prosecutor decision on anniversary of Briscoe death: MR

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 5:34pm

Newsletter date: 12 January 2013

Contents:

* Briscoe family condemns NT prosecutor decision on anniversary of Briscoe death: Media Release
* Tracker: Family, lawyers condemn DPP decision over Briscoe death
* Tracker: NT denies closing door on Briscoe talks
* Background to the justice for Kumentjaye Briscoe campaign

* NIRS: Incarceration should be "matter of last resort"
* ABC: Indigenous leader urges action on jail 'time bomb' [call for a national summit]
* ABC The World Today Audio: Jobs not jail for troubled Indigenous youths: Mundine [call for a national summit]

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income management

Aboriginal sovereignty

Aboriginal incarceration

Aboriginal imprisonment

call for a national summit

Indigenous youths

Indigenous youth justice

justice summit

Briscoe family condemns NT prosecutor decision on anniversary of Briscoe death: Media Release

Tracker - Family lawyers condemn DPP decision over Briscoe death

Tracker - NT denies closing door on Briscoe talks

NIRS - Incarceration should be matter of last resort

ABC - Indigenous leader urges action on jail time bomb

ABC The World Today Audio - Jobs not jail for troubled Indigenous youths - Mundine

ABC - Indigenous youth justice summit call dismissed

NIRS - Government doesn't want to hear bad news about income management

Sovereign Union - Sovereign Union and Our Political Future

Coniston Massacre documentary - ABC TV 14 January

Submitted by SusanLocke on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 3:18pm

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Mon, 14/01/2013 -

9:30pm to 10:30pm

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ABC1 TV

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coniston.pawmedia.com.au

Screening of the Coniston documentary about the massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia in August 1928.

Known as 'the last massacre', expeditions set out in August 1928 to mow down innocent people across the traditional lands of the Warlpiri people and their neighbours to avenge the killing of dingo trapper Fred Brooks at the hands of a Warlpiri man, Bullfrog, for taking liberties with Brook's wife.

Coniston is also the tragic tale of Australian contact history: dispossession by pastoralists and the struggle over resources in a drought-afflicted land.

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WGAR Events: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 45 events from 11 January 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 1:16pm

Newsletter date: 11 January 2013

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Fri 11 until Sat 19 January 2013: Footscray, Melbourne, Vic
Wominjeka 2013
Koorie Space - Footscray Community Arts Centre
"Wominjeka means 'welcome' in the language
of the Kulin Nation. Wominjeka has developed as
FCAC’s annual celebration of Australia’s
Indigenous artistic and cultural practices;
and the launch of the Centre’s annual program."
Event details: http://footscrayarts.com/access-blog-event/wominjeka-2013/
[From this link there are links to other activities, including:

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Greens Leader says 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by people who bankroll coalmines'

Submitted by takver on Thu, 10/01/2013 - 12:39pm

Jonathon Moylan's ANZ Bank hoax letter over the Maule's Creek Project open cut coalmine continues to produce reverberations. Greens Leader Christine Milne has now come out in his support arguing that we are in a climate emergency and we need to have a very serious 'Look at the damage to humanity being caused by people who bankroll coalmines'. Independent Economist Rod Campbell implies that the real hoax being perpetrated on small and institutional investors in Whitehaven coal is by Gillespie Economics and NSW Planning Department who massively overestimated the benefits and underestimated the social, environmental, health and climate costs of the project.

Related: ANZ Stop the Loan e-petition

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WGAR News: Canadian PM to talk with Aboriginal leaders following hunger strike: Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 09/01/2013 - 6:35am

Newsletter date: 9 January 2013

Contents:

* Tracker: Canadian PM to talk with Aboriginal leaders following hunger strike
* CBC News Canada: 9 questions about Idle No More
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* Tracker: Concern at high Indigenous youth jail rate
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

* Tracker: Doubts over income quarantine in APY Lands
* Background to Income Management for APY Lands in South Australia

* Kathy Marks, The National: Billionaire mining magnate accused of dividing indigenous communities

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Aboriginal sovereignty

Aboriginal imprisonment

Stronger Futures

Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

Yindjibarndi

APY Lands

CBC News Canada - 9 questions about Idle No More

Tracker - Concern at high Indigenous youth jail rate

Tracker - Doubts over income quarantine in APY Lands

Kathy Marks - The National - Billionaire mining magnate accused of dividing indigenous communities

NIRS - Sam Watson says Mabo Day a better day for national celebration

ABC Video - Calls to pardon hanged Aboriginal man

Climate Change: Records tumble in extreme heatwave as temperature scale adjusted upwards

Submitted by takver on Tue, 08/01/2013 - 11:58pm

On Tuesday January 8 the Bureau of Meteorology released an interim special climate statement on the Extreme January heat Australia is currently experiencing (Updated on January 14). Record temperatures both day-time maximum and night-time minimums continue to be broken as of 13 January. The extraordinary heatwave has also been the scene for catastrophic fires, especially in Tasmania.

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Burning the future

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/01/2013 - 5:58pm

Opens with a review of record heat and fires in Australia. Is coal destroying the country? Plus the under-reported monster storm in the Philippines, and Mexican gangs investing in coal.

Download/listen to Radio Ecoshock Show
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock13/ES_130109_Show_LoFi.mp3

Then I chat with one of the best environmental journalists, Mark Hertsgaard. Mark just wrapped up key articles for The Nation magazine and recently Newsweek.

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