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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 13 events from 14 August 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 14/08/2012 - 12:05pm

Newsletter date: 14 August 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 13 events from 14 August 2012

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

Fri 10 - Sun 26 August 2012: Darwin, NT
Official Opening Fri 10 Aug
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographer Jagath Dheerasekara, human rights defender
This traveling exhibition is a collaborative project with
* the Manuwangku (Muckaty) Traditional Owners,
* the Beyond Nuclear Initiative (BNI) and
* Amnesty International.
Presented by the Environment Centre NT
in association with Darwin Festival

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Darwin
Global/International
New South Wales
Melbourne
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Gold Coast
Queensland
Victoria
Western Australia

'No Impact Man' film screening

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 13/08/2012 - 6:45pm
Date and Time: 
Mon, 20/08/2012 -
6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Port Phillip EcoCentre cnr Blessington and Herbert Streets St Kilda (adjacent St Kilda botanic gardens)
Contact Name: 
Mark
Contact Phone: 
0425 728 922
Contact Email: 
reception@ecocentre.com
Website: 
http://www.ecocentre.com/node/819

Follow the quest of a young, guilty, New York Liberal who tries to live for a year with net environmental impact-without driving his family nuts in the process.

Can he put his money where his mouth is &pull it off: turn off the power; stop making rubbish; give up tv, taxis and take away and become a walking, bicycling, composting, tree-hugging, polar bear saving local food eating citizen!

Stay for a post film discussion and share ideas for a No Impact Day in the Port Phillip/Bayside region.

entry: gold coin donation.
Delicious snacks available.

Geography: 
Australia

Socialist Alliance national convenor dodges issues on 'porn'

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 13/08/2012 - 8:23am

The exchange (reproduced below) of Facebook correspondence over the past week or so between myself and the Australian Socialist Alliance co-convenor Peter Boyle, on the subject of Alliance policy relating to erotica and pornography, arose from a question about Alliance policy on this issue that I put to Boyle during the discussion following his presentation of the new draft Socialist Alliance programme: 'Towards a Socialist Australia', at an Alliance/Resistance-sponsored, one-day, socialist educational conference held at the Activist Centre in East Perth a couple of weekends ago.

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
censorship
wowserism

Petition to end puppy mills in Australia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/08/2012 - 10:42am

Puppy mills are sites of pain, fear and cruelty. Female dogs are forced to live their entire lives in small wire cages, with no human companionship or even any squeaky toys. They're kept constantly pregnant.

And in Australia, these inhumane puppy mills are still completely legal. »

Puppy factories farm puppies and sell them to pet shops and trade them online, with most animal owners unaware of the cruelty behind their puppies beginnings. 

Geography: 
Australia

The Aboriginal Visitors Scheme in disarray as two brothers attempt suicide within 12 hours

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 10/08/2012 - 9:34am

Gerry Georgatos - nit.com.au
In June, the National Indigenous Times broke the story of two brothers attempting suicide within 12 hours at Geraldton’s Greenough Prison and how the Aboriginal Visitors Scheme had been made defunct in the region by the Department of Corrective Services and how both the suicide attempts and the loss of the AVS had been kept from the news media.

"Aboriginal people are not sent to prison to die, or are they?" said Aboriginal Visitors Scheme (AVS) Officer, Joyce Capewell.

Geography: 
Perth
Australia
Western Australia
Promotion: 
Feature

Australian government authorises forced interrogation of refugees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 09/08/2012 - 5:14pm

By Mike Head 9 August 2012 Reposted from WSWS Australia’s Labor government has given the go ahead for forced interrogations of asylum seekers who have arrived in the country by boat. Australian Crime Commission (ACC) chief executive John Lawler told the Australian this week that his agency has already conducted 31 compulsory questioning sessions in the past 18 months and plans to hold more before the end of the year.

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
refugees
WSWS
ACC

August 5 Sydney: banners dropped in solidarity with Toronto G20 Prisoners

Submitted by autonomousactions on Wed, 08/08/2012 - 6:36pm

On August 5 some anarchists dropped two banners from the Cahill expressway bridge outside the Canadian consulate. The action was in response to a call for August 5 solidarity actions for Kelly Rose Pflug-Back, an anarchist hostage of the Canadian state, recently sentenced to 15 months in prison for her resistance to the 2010 Toronto G20. The banners read:

'EVERY PRISONER IS A POLITICAL PRISONER'

'FREE KELLY ROSE PFLUG-BACK'

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Global/International
Albury
New South Wales
Newcastle
Australia
Sydney
Keywords: 
anarchists
solidarity
banner drop

De Pod 2012-08-04 mp3

Submitted by huxwell on Wed, 08/08/2012 - 10:38am

http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/61976/68987/82335/?url=h...

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Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Keywords: 
german language news commentary