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BD News: Responses in Timor-Leste to Australia's asylum seeker plans

Update on Australian PM's proposal for Asylum-seeker Processing in Timor-Leste

BACK DOOR Newsletter on Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/Index.htm

Australian PM's proposal for Asylum-seeker Processing in Timor-Leste:
http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/asylum.html

13 October 2010

A collection of articles and news items about Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's proposal to establish a processing centre in East Timor for people seeking asylum in Australia.

Please find below the latest 17 articles from the website.

Climate protestors descending on Hazelwood power station

Approximately 300 climate activists have converged on Hazelwood Power Station in the Latrobe Valley in Victoria to demand its immediate shut down. The protest is one of the over 7000 thousand protests planned on the 10/10/10 to mark the annual 350.org protests. The protestors are planning to build a model of a solar power plant to symbolise how Hazelwood could be replaced to create a carbon neutral future.

For the latest photos see the Switch Off Hazelwood flickr Photostream | Takver's Replace Hazelwood Photostream | Climate Action Moreland | AYCC photostream | Youtube video: Shaun Murray on Replacing Hazelwood | Erecting the solar power tower | 'Switch off Hazelwood' Protest Rally - 10/10/10

To read updates from the day click here.

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Hugo Chavez: Nuclear blackmailer in American backyard

01.10.2010
It seems that the United States has yet another problem: Venezuelan nuclear program may be added to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs in the near future. The announcement was made the other day by "fierce" Hugo Chavez. Expert Vladimir Khrustalev spoke of the reasons of such intentions and the prospects of a nuclear project in Venezuela with Pravda.ru.

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Afghanistan: Bring the troops back.

Stop the War Coalition today said the charging of three Australian commandos over last year’s killing of six Afghan civilians, including children, sheds light on the reality of this nine-year war – a war in which no-one knows how many Afghans have been killed.

News that the International Criminal Court was likely to lay war crimes charges if the commandos were not brought to book underscores the seriousness of the charges. Five children and a woman were killed after Australian troops threw a grenade into an Afghan home.

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Australian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Conference for Palestine

Date and Time: 
Fri, 29/10/2010 - 7:00pm to Sun, 31/10/2010 - 6:00pm
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Conference launch - Friday 29th October Theatrette, State Library of Australia, cnr of Swanston and La Trobe St, Melbourne City. Conference sessions - Sat, 30th Oct & Sun, 31st Oct. Maritime Union of Australia Hall, 54 Ireland St, West Melbourne (5 minutes walk from North Melbourne train station)
Contact Email: 
ausbds@gmail.com
Website: 
http://australianbdscampaign.wordpress.com/

SPEAKERS AND UPDATED CONFERENCE AGENDA
Building Solidarity, Combating Occupation and Apartheid
National Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions conference
Melbourne, 29 - 31 October 2010
- activism in support of Palestine -

Endorsed by the Palestinian BDS National Committee

Our confirmed speakers so far include:

Rafeef Ziadah

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Andrew Wilkie blasts the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

In a hard hitting maiden speech as the independant MP for Denison in Tasmania, Andrew Wilkie has hit out at both the Iraq and Afghanistan War. He accused the architects of the Iraq war of not caring about those the war killed and labelled our involvement in Afghanistan as being based on a "great lie".:

In a blunt statement he stated on the Iraq War

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S11 / Melb Indymedia 10 year anniversary

S11, the protest against the WEF at the Crown Casino happened just over 10 years ago.

The website has been down for a few years, but it has just been archived at http://s11.media2.org

Melbourne Indymedia was launched a month or two before the protest, so this site has an anniversary to celebrate too.

Congrats everyone.

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