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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 16 events from 16 September 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 16/09/2012 - 1:38pm

Newsletter date: 16 September 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 16 events from 16 September 2012

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Event: Tue 18 September 2012: Byron Bay, NSW
Our Generation film screening
Nigel Stewart, Bundjalung member will be doing
a welcome & didgeridoo performance
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/screenings/tue-18-sept-byron-bay-nsw
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Thu 20 September 2012: Lane Cove, Sydney, NSW

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Anarchist campaign against the NSW council elections

Submitted by autonomousactions on Wed, 12/09/2012 - 5:48am

In the weeks preceding the NSW council elections, some anarchists and anti authoritarians in Sydney mounted a campaign against the coerced ritual of voting.

A couple thousand posters and stickers were pasted on walls, bins, electricity boxes, telephone booths, and bus shelters mostly throughout the electorates of Ashfield, Leichardt, Marrickville, Rockdale, Hurstville and Sydney city.
Low lying politician signs from every party were torn down, numerous high ones were hit with paint bombs and at least 20 anti voting slogans were sprayed across walls, mostly throughout the inner west.

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Shaking hands with the architects of Sri Lanka's Killing Fields - No one should be deported to Sri Lanka

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 03/09/2012 - 1:20pm

Gerry Georgatos
Post-CHOGM Perth, a large billboard in Colombo displays Julia Gillard shaking hands with Percy Mahendra Rajapaksa. To the Sinhalese of Colombo the billboard sends a message of validation of President Rajapaksa.

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WGAR News: "What’s a group of Aboriginal elders and community leaders doing in Canberra this week?"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 01/09/2012 - 4:01pm

Newsletter date: 24 August 2012

Contents:
* Bryan Andy, AIA: What’s a group of Aboriginal elders and community leaders doing in Canberra this week?
* SBS: Indigenous rents bungled under NT Intervention
* CAAMA: Amnesty’s Monica Morgan discusses Stronger Futures Bill
* Speech by Greens NSW MP Cate Faehrmann: Northern Territory Intervention
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* SBS World News: Paying the Price: The battle for James Price Point

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Bryan Andy AIA - What’s a group of Aboriginal elders and community leaders doing in Canberra this week?

SBS - Indigenous rents bungled under NT Intervention

CAAMA - Amnesty’s Monica Morgan discusses Stronger Futures Bill

Speech by Greens NSW MP Cate Faehrmann - Northern Territory Intervention

SBS World News - Paying the Price - The battle for James Price Point

Broome Community No Gas Campaign - Original protester arrested at Walmadan Embassy

Greens Rachel Siewert - Senate misses chance to protect Kimberley dinosaur prints

Craig Longman - Opal fuel - It’s time to finish the job

Congress Extractive Industries Forum Statement

Greens WA - BHP dumps Olympic Dam plan - Uranium industry drifts towards extinction

The Wire - From little things big things grow - 46 years since the Gurindji Walk-Off

NIRS - Michael Anderson - Sovereignty must stay on agenda

Sovereign Union - All charges against Musgrave fire defenders dropped on Aboriginal Sovereignty Day

"None of these men had to die" - Bloodied hands, souls washed in red - Stop the killing in Afghanistan

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 01/09/2012 - 2:27pm

Gerry Georgatos
"None of these men had to die," said Andrew Wilkie. "To the families and friends of those who have lost loved ones to recent wars, Afghanistan and Iraq, I do extend my heartfelt sympthathies, and I grieve for your loss," Gerry Georgatos

The Tasmanian Independent Member of Parliament Andrew Wilkie is right when he said John Howard, Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Julia Gillard have "blood on their hands" after the deaths of five Australian soldiers recently, however the bloodied mutilated souls of these three leaders of our nation are not limited in their culpability to the deaths of these five young soldiers, however to every death in Afghanistan and Iraq since colliding Australia into a manufactured war zone, now for more than a decade.
Related Swan Island Peace Convergence 2012

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Mal Brough, 'Interventionist', clashes with The National Indigenous Times

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 30/08/2012 - 4:42pm

Brough clashes with The National Indigenous - Brough accused of racism

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/media/media-diary/brough-clashes-with-na...

Brough clashes with National Indigenous Times

by: Lara Sinclair
From:The Australian
August 29, 20121:37PM

THE return to federal politics of one-time Minister for Aboriginal Affairs Mal Brough has been interrupted by a clash with the National Indigenous Times and indigenous leaders.

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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

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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

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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'

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People smugglers they are not, lawful and heroes instead - we have to change the language

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 19/07/2012 - 1:02pm

Gerry Georgatos
The misappropriation of language and abuse of semantics in reference to ‘perceived people smugglers’ has to begin to change so we do not further erode compassion, and continue to skew the moral compass, bend and circumvent the rule of law- domestic and international.

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What's more important? The Queen's discontent or ten million Congolese dead and counting?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 12/07/2012 - 7:41pm

You cannot claim a moral compass if it is skewed and bent.

Our news media is crucial to our national consciousness, and to our children's form and content. An Australia-wide lead news item was the Queen's alleged discontent at honeymoon photos of her grandson being published.

However the news media makes just about zero mention of the 10 million Congolese who have been killed since 1996. Many of you will think, "10 million Congolese murdered? That's genocide, how wouldn't we know about this? This is more than 12 times the genocidal deaths in Rwanda during 1994.

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