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"We smell death" - 350 bravely hunger strike in Nauru - 30 collapse

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 03/11/2012 - 11:20pm

Gerry Georgatos
Heading into day four of the hunger protest on Nauru, in high temperatures, unhygienic high density conditions at the detention centre cropped by hills of disused phosphate mines and dugouts and thick jungle forest, here is the latest message from within:

More than 30 detained Asylum Seekers layed unconscious at the end of the third day of their hunger strike.

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Chilout press release - Boy attempts suicide in detention

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 03/11/2012 - 8:59am

2 November 2012
Boy attempts suicide in detention
Yesterday yet another young asylum seeker attempted suicide at Darwin Airport Lodge, as did a child, two weeks ago. Suicide attempts and self-harm are rife in Australia’s detention facilities as people grow anxious about being sent to Nauru and Manus Island.

Detention facilities are bursting at the seams with families, children and heavily pregnant mothers flown in from Christmas Island. The situation is a tinderbox.

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Darwin

Australia

Austerity - 101 ways to punish yourself mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Fri, 02/11/2012 - 11:52am

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/64093/71242/84437/?url=h...

Collaged Media Samples, Youtube Clips, and Electronica

In The Greek Midwinter, Financial Crisis In Greece, Greece and Germany Crisis Song, Clarke Dawe, Thomas and the EU Summit, Euro Austerity Mix, The Meaning Of Austerity, The Euro Crisis Song, Bank Enslavement Mix, The Story Of Your Enslavement - Faux Pas Electronica

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economics

Syria – Insight... now an Australian dilemma!

Submitted by ddchalmers on Fri, 02/11/2012 - 4:19am

By Douglas Chalmers

I am not Syrian, I am Celtic Australian ...but given Labor foreign minister Bob Carr's disgusting recent suggestion that Syria's president Assad should be assassinated, we have found ourselves embroiled in the international aspect of the argument at least. Perhaps worse, though, was prime minister Julia Gillard's signing an agreement with NATO earlier this year drawing us ever further into their ambitious neo-colonialist sphere [ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/defence/gillard-signs-d... ].

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Australia Al Qaida assassination Australian Senate Bashar al-Assad Bob Carr foreign minister human rights insurgency International news and opinion Labor Syria terrorism Australia Syriangirl SBS Insight NATO Turkey

Children attempting suicide in Immigration custody

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 02/11/2012 - 12:49am

Gerry Georgatos

The email below this one is the news that will imminently eventuate - which would grab the attention of the news media without fail. From Christmas Island families are transferred and crowded into Detention Centres - for instance Darwin Airport Lodge, which is bursting at the seams. Children are walking around witness to abominable tensions, in witness to young adults who are swathed in bandages from physical wounds - from injuries where blood stains are fresh.

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Darwin

Australia

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FMG/Yindjibarndi - mining deal bombshell - whistleblower blows the lid on Wirlu-murra

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 31/10/2012 - 6:45pm

The National Indigenous Times has run the story of the year - reporter Gerry Georgatos covers solicitor Kerry Savas' claims which blows the lid on the Wirlu murra and FMG - circulate this story, it's the big one that may change things - http://nit.com.au/news/2167-exclusive-mining-deal-bombshell.html
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN
http://yindjibarndi.org.au/
Wednesday 31 October 2012
ANOTHER WHISTLEBLOWER DROPS FMG MINING DEAL BOMBSHELL

"Kill us all, and bury us here" - Solidarity from Australia to the Amazon's Guarani

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 30/10/2012 - 7:37pm

Gerry Georgatos
“Kill us all, then bury us here” is the breaking point desperation of the Amazon’s Aboriginal peoples who are being pilloried out of their country – lands, rivers and forests, from their whole way of life – by multinational giants rapaciously profiting from the mining of their lands. Not only is the Amazon’s forest rapidly diminishing but so are the numbers of its Aboriginal peoples. The Government is seeking to remove them to impoverished reserves and missions. Aboriginal leaders and rights advocates Australia-wide have sent messages of solidarity - Goolarabooloo Law Boss, Phillip Roe in his own battle with multinationals to save Walmandan (James Price Point) said of the Amazon tragedy that it is "racism and the rape of a people who have done no one any harm.”

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The call for a Royal Commission into the AWU scandal involving Julia Gillard IS LOUDER THAN EVER - Gillard, the lawyer, brought a defamation action in defence of the 'bagman' who now wants to testify 'with immunity'

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 29/10/2012 - 1:51pm

THE CALL FOR THE ROYAL COMMISSION INTO THE AWU SCANDAL INVOLVING PRIME MINISTER JULIA GILLARD IS LOUDER THAN EVER – “It was not a slush fund” says AWU accountant – it was something more sinister – new revelation – Julia Gillard, lawyer, brought on a defamation action in defence of Ralph Blewitt (“the bagman”) – enough is enough, bring on the Royal Commission and step down Julia Gillard from the Office of the Prime Minister till the RC is concluded – The nation’s reputation is on the line

Gillard’s account of slush fund rejected – October 29, 2012 – Sydney Morning Herald

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Canberra

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Tarkine heritage listing – no new mines in the Tarkine

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 29/10/2012 - 8:12am

As Launceston awakes this morning, a clear message to Heritage List the Tarkine will resonate throughout the city.
Members of the group Groundswell have hung large banners in prominent locations in and around Launceston to highlight that Tasmanians will not allow the Tarkine to be mined.
On the corner of Tamar and Cimitiere Street in Launceston’s CBD, high up on the red gasworks framework, a message to the Federal environment minister Tony Burke reads: “TARKINE HERITAGE LISTING”.

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