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Live recordings from the recent drug law reform protest in Nimbin by Grover from Community Radio www.nimfm.org, David Marr on Australia's drug policies, and music by the Spliffmasters
39:30 min 128 kbps stereo 37 MB
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Live recordings from Lismore's recent Coal Seam Gas Mining protest.
We hear Aboriginal Elder Louis Walker's views on the sideline.
Recording by Grover and friend [ www.nimfm.org ]
music: "4 Tha Tribes" by Kaliba
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The judgment in WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange’s final appeal against extradition to Sweden was handed down by the UK Supreme Court on Wednesday 30 May.
Assange now faces being sent to Sweden by force within 10 days. From Sweden, he could be sent immediately to the US where he faces prosecution for publishing information just like any other journalist.
Rallies on the 31st May: Details on Wikileaks Central
Newsletter date: 24 May 2012
Contents:
* BNI: Trade union support strengthens NT nuclear waste dump campaign
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Tracker: Brisbane tent embassy given permanent site
* Video: Sam Watson: The police attack on the Aboriginal Sovereign Tent Embassy, Brisbane
* ISJA: On Sovereign Embassies and police brutality
* IC: More Aboriginal Tent Embassies Appearing Throughout Australia
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Video: Lest We Forget the Frontier Wars - ANZAC Day 2012
Indonesian children continue to languish in Australian adult prisons. The HRA can confirm that conversations took place between the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and their Indonesian counterparts, between Foreign Minister Bob Carr and similarly with his predecessor, Kevin Rudd and their Indonesian counterpart - commencing in July last year and till very recent, regarding the release of the Indonesian children and Schapelle Corby.
The only surviving founder of the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra yesterday (23 May) told a Wollongong forum that indigenous sovereignty was not a matter of if, but when.
Speaking at a legal symposium held at the University of Wollongong’s Innovation Campus, Michael Anderson said indigenous people had a legal right to sovereignty, which would lead to a complete change in the legal and political dynamics of Australia.
Interviews with the HRA's National Renters Alliance
It started in the Blackwood region of the South West of WA, and then became the WA Renters Alliance, and now it's a national movement with the National Renters Alliance campaign
In August there will be a renters rally for justice at WA's state parliament followed by a coordinated national day of rallies in October
China is now Australia’s largest trading partner. Western Australia’s Premier is right to point out that: “… of the 60,000 new jobs created in Australia over the past 12 months, 50,000 were in WA, which now accounted for 70 per cent of the nation's exports to China … To some extent, the strength of the WA economy is concealing the true weakness of the national economy.” Therefore, it is in Australia national interest that our policy makers are able to understand China in an objective manner. I hope that the following article will contribute to such an objective.
Newsletter date: 23 May 2012
Contents:
* Matilda Bogner, UN Human Rights Office: NT intervention law must comply with Australia’s human rights obligations
* ABC: NT Aboriginal intervention breaches Human Rights - NGO
* Panel discussion: Poverty reduced by Indigenous communities' self-management
* Congress: Unity is the key: Speech to ACTU Congress 2012
* Gerry Georgatos: The NT is a prison built brick by brick by the Commonwealth
* Jack Waterford: Macklin policies do not translate
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
The signing of the Long term partnership between Australia and Afghanistan by Julia Gillard and Hamid Karzai at the NATO summit in Chicago on 20th May is being presented by the government and the press as an “aid commitment” as part of the “end of the Afghanistan war”. This is a lie.
Whilst the majority of Australian troops are returning from Afghanistan in 2013, these are the troops involved in training the Afghan army, the agreement is a commitment for Australian Special Forces to occupy Afghanistan indefinitely alongside the U.S. Our Special Forces, the only Australian troops in a combat role, will continue in the name of “security” to operate as defacto assassination squads for the U.S. Peace activist will be saying no to both the U.S. alliance, escalating militarism and the occupation of Afghanistan when they blockade the Swan Island military base where the SAS train in September at the Swan Island Peace Convergence 2012
Related: Text of the Agreement -- Interview with Defence Minister Stephen Smith -- The SAS dirty war -- WSWS analysis
