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Marrickville has become the first local council in Australia to join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
This week the Council voted 10 to 2 for the motion to support the BDS -- an international campaign designed to stop trade and investment in companies, sporting teams and other institutions with ties to Israel.
It aims to coerce Israel to restore human rights and return occupied land to Palestinians.
December 14th/15th 2010, saw the biggest show of support for Tasmania’s ancient forests in history. In just over 24 hours, there were banner actions and film screenings in Tanzania, Reunion Island, Japan, Vanuatu, Thailand, India, France, Norway, Belgium, Denmark, England, Wales, Italy, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Ireland, Scotland, Ecuador and the United States of America.
First Julia Gillard bitterly attacked Wikileaks and Julian Assange. Then the Attorney General Robert McClelland suggested that Assange’s passport may be cancelled.
Now the member for Sydney, Tanya Plibersek is sinking the boot in.
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She says she’s progressive and a member of the ALP left. But it seems Tanya Plibersek agrees with her bosses – Wikileaks is bad news and Julian Assange is a law breaker.
Here some of what Plibersek said this week:
RESS RELEASE: DATE December 13th. 2010
On Monday 13th December at 4.30 pm, concerned Australian academics, artists, activists and expats will deliver a letter of demands to the Australian High Commissioner calling for the Embassy to be proactive in securing the immediate release from custody of fellow Australian citizen and founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange. The letter has been signed by celebrated journalist John Pilger, Australian born human rights activist
Peter Tatchell and a growing number of Bristish based stralians
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Free Julian Assange! Drop All Charges!
Hundreds of people took to the streets around Australia for Human Rights Day and to protest the persecution of Wikileaks editor Julian Assange and the attempts at suppression of the Wikileaks website.
Rally reports: Sydney rally, photos | Melbourne rally | Brisbane rally | Perth Rally photos 1, 2 | Adelaide | Hobart |
Youtube videos: Brisbane 1, Brisbane 2 | Melbourne: Robbie Thorpe, Indigenous Activist, Rally, Rap news | Sydney - Keith Dodd, Lee Rhiannon
More rallies are scheduled around the world in December and January. Activists in Australia have setup the www.rally4wikileaks.com website to mobilise global support of wikileaks or visit the Justice for Assange site. You can do your own report on the leaked cables by checking one of the thousand (and growing) wikileak mirrors and do a report for Operation Leakspin.
Statement - The Australian and Melbourne Indymedia Collective stand in solidarity with Wikileaks and its spokesperson Julian Assange and condemn their unprecedented persecution. Donate to Indymedia
We all know the great and tireless effort the "powers that be" have put into secrecy and all things clandestine. We know full well their power-trippy ways. Over the last several years, in particular, I believe this has made the world just that much more crazy. Stressed, anyway. A collective global frustration. Why else would there be such an epidemic of conspiracy theorists? People instinctively know when they are being lied to! It's not knowing the details that's made us feel unsafe somehow, suspicious, angry...
