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Crack down begins on Christmas Island – refugee supporters say open the gates

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/03/2011 - 10:06pm

Refugee Action Coalition Media release March 14, 2011 There are disturbing reports from Christmas Island asylum seekers that a number, perhaps 20, of the people who escaped from the detention centre on Friday night have been handcuffed and taken to the high security management unit, Red Compound, last night (ie Sunday night).

Some reports indicate that up to 20 people may have been taken to the Red Compound. At least two Afghans, one a teacher, inside the detention centre, were handcuffed and taken away last night.

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Australia

Keywords:

refugee rights

Current Affairs Lite mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Mon, 14/03/2011 - 11:33am

http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr__190_current_affairs_lite.mp3

We Are Family Kaputt-Remix, a sample of the Now Show, Charlie Broker versus Colonel Gaddafi, more media mash, Tony Abbott by Clarke n Dawe, Nimbin bashing

music by Sister Sledge, and Supahempadoxical

29:00 mins 128 kbps stereo 26.6 MB

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Global/International

Australia

Keywords:

current affairs humor

Asylum seekers break out of Christmas Island detention centre

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:44pm

Sydney Refugee Action Collective Media release, 12 March 2011 Reports from asylum seekers on Christmas Island indicate that at least 150 asylum seekers, believed to be mostly Iranian, have broken out of Christmas Island detention centre.
All Serco guards have withdrawn from the detention compound and are believed to be searching for the escaped detainees.

The trouble began around 11.30 Christmas Island time and seems to have been concentrated on the main compounds of the detention centre. All compounds have been locked down, leaving remaining asylum seekers unattended.

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Australia

Keywords:

Christmas Island

refugee rights

WGAR News: Aboriginal women of Lake Tyers are staging a blockade

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:57am

Newsletter date: 12 March 2011

Contents:
* Petition to Support the Northern Territory Elders' Statement
* Aboriginal women of Lake Tyers are staging a blockade
* More on 'racist' Alice Springs TV advertisement
* More on the UWS Anti-Racism Research Project
* More on the Reconciliation Barometer
* More on the ACTU’s Indigenous Conference
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

PETITION TO SUPPORT THE NORTHERN TERRITORY ELDERS' STATEMENT:

Friends of Australia’s First Peoples petition:

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Northern Territory Intervention

43 million refugees, a billion in abject poverty, the facts on asylum seekers & refugees and Australia's shameful record.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:53am

by Gerry Georgatos
At least 43 million people displaced. At least 16 million refugees. Only 800,000 Asylum Seeker applications per year. Millions have not been counted. Millions are trapped. If you are a Hazara in Quetta, Pakistan there is are no holding camps, no UNHCR, no queues. My sister-in-law is of refugee-origin, Vietnamese, having arrived as a baby on a 'boat' in 1980. Afghanis, Tamils, Iraqis, Iranians are fleeing civil strife, persecution, war. Let us not forget anyone. Let us embrace the ideal of helping out one another.

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Global/International

Australia

Keywords:

asylum seekers

VIictims of war - Iraqi children and families - Depleted uranium and trauma

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 10:10am

Riyadh describes, "The years of sanctions have deeply affected Iraqi society and people have learned to survive individually and have lost the sense of community and caring for others."

"As a result of the 1991 Gulf War the province of Al Muthanna is littered with thousands of unexploded landmines and missiles." "There are many heartbreaking of disabled children in Iraq."

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The Human Rights Alliance

Students Without Borders

Wheelchairs for Kids

Al Munthanna

Basra

Live Below the Line (Aus)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/03/2011 - 9:26am

Date and Time:

Mon, 16/05/2011 - 12:00am to Fri, 20/05/2011 - 11:30pm

Location:

Australia

Website:

www.livebelowtheline.com.au.

The week of Live Below the Line is a week like no other. From May 16th - 20th, thousands of Australians will spend just $2 each on food, and use their daily experiences to bring extreme poverty to the centre of conversation in homes, businesses and schools around Australia.

We'll do this because while we struggle to Live Below the Line for a week, there are 1.4 billion people who live below it every day: forced to make choices between basic necessities like food, medicine and education.

You can sign up for this life-changing challenge at www.livebelowtheline.com.au.

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Australia

WGAR News: Complaint against ‘racist’ Alice Springs TV advertisements

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 10/03/2011 - 9:58am

Newsletter date: 10 March 2011

Contents:
* Complaint against ‘racist’ Alice Springs TV advertisements
* Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Jude Kelly invites Kevin Rudd to Aboriginal Tent Embassy
* Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra speaks about Aboriginal Customary Law
* “The biggest failure in our health system”

COMPLAINT AGAINST 'RACIST' ALICE SPRINGS TV ADVERTISEMENTS:

- Statement / Report

Rollback the Intervention - Statements/Reports:
Intervention Rollback Action Group Response to ‘Action for Alice’

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Northern Territory Intervention

Science and a bi-polar climate

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/03/2011 - 5:35pm

By Kristy Henderson: Leading climate scientists declared last Tuesday night that the recent Australian floods are not necessarily attributable to climate change. According to Professor David Karoly, Professor Neville Nicolls, and Dr Karl Braganza from the Bureau of Meteorology, the scientific basis for human induced climate change is overwhelmingly compelling, yet more research will need to be done to quantify its impacts with regard recent extreme weather events.

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Radioactive Exposure Tour

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/03/2011 - 10:49pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 19/05/2011 - 9:00am to Sun, 29/05/2011 - 9:00pm

Location:

South Australia

Contact Name:

Jim Green

Contact Phone:

0417318368

Contact Email:

jim.green@foe.org.au

Website:

www.foe.org.au/anti-nuclear/issues/oz/radtour

Friends of the Earth is hosting the annual Radioactive Exposure Tour from May 19−29, 2011. Since the 1980s, these tours have exposed thousands of people first-hand to the realities of 'radioactive racism' and to the environmental impacts of the nuclear industry.

We’ll travel from Melbourne to Adelaide then head north to the South Australian semi-arid outback. From there we'll visit BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam uranium mine at Roxby Downs, the largest uranium deposit in the world.

Geography:

Australia