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WGAR News: Good housing keeps people out of gaol: The Wire [Featuring Shane Duffy, CEO, NATSILS]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 25/02/2014 - 10:05am

Newsletter date: 26 February 2014

Contents:

* Annie Hastwell, The Wire: Good housing keeps people out of gaol [Featuring Shane Duffy, CEO, NATSILS]
* Dylan Clarke, SBS Living Black Radio: Youth Initiatives for Justice Reinvestment [Featuring Kaleesha Morris]

* Deaths in Custody Watch Committee WA: Australian prisoner numbers reach 30,000 for the first time - over 27% of them are Aboriginal
* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): ALS calls for Justice Targets to be incorporated into Closing the Gap

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From Sydney to Nantes, resistance & sabotage

Submitted by autonomousactions on Tue, 25/02/2014 - 7:01am

On the evening of the 22nd of Feburary we vandalised the local headquarters of VINCI and their subsidiary company 'Advitam' in the Seven Hills industrial zone in western Sydney.
Some windows were cracked, and the slogans: “AGAINST VINCI AND ITS WORLD” &
“THE ZAD IS EVERYWHERE” were painted.

This small act was made in response to a call for actions in solidarity with the monumental struggle in Notre-Dame-des-Landes, France, against an airport which Vinci has been contracted to build.

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WGAR News: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?: Eva Cox, The Conversation

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 24/02/2014 - 4:25pm

Newsletter date: 25 February 2014

Contents:

* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Closing the Gap: we know what works, so why don't we do it?
* SNAICC News: Disappointing sense of deja vu on closing the gap - Article by Angela Webb in The Australian 13 February 2014
* Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT): ALS calls for Justice Targets to be incorporated into Closing the Gap
* CAAMA Radio: Working together… [Featuring Barbara Shaw discussing the National Apology and Closing the Gap report]

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Antifascist Actions

Submitted by autonomousactions on Thu, 20/02/2014 - 9:03am

On the 26th of January in Brisbane, a few members of a fascist sect called the 'Australia First Party' attempted to disrupt the annual invasion day march held by the local indigenous community.

On the same day in Canberra the fuehrer of the party, Jim Saleam (former leader of ‘National Action’ and ’Australian Nazi Party’) gave a podium speech at a protest against the new Bikie laws in Queensland.

Back in December the party held a small rally outside the Greek consulate in Sydney in support of the ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn party.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 49 events from 20 February 2014

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 19/02/2014 - 3:29pm

Newsletter date: 20 February 2014

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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New Events: 20-25, 27-28 February 2014; 2, 6-7, 10-11, 13-14, 16-18, 20, 26, 28 March 2014; 28 June 2014:
Various locations around Australia including:
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Bendigo, Geelong, Newcastle, Canberra,
Redfern, Kalgoorlie, Moree, Adelaide, Rozelle, UNSW, Cairns,
Waurn Ponds, Mona Vale, Uni of Western Sydney, Perth,

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Upcoming Indigenous rights events around Australia

Revenge for TJ

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sun, 16/02/2014 - 6:37pm

In the early hours of February 14, various anti-police slogans were sprayed across dozens of fences, walls, billboards and bus stops throughout Woolloomooloo, Redfern, Chippendale, Camperdown, Darlington and Newtown.

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WGAR News: 'In the Absence of Treaty' speeches by Graeme Mundine, ACM & Dr John Falzon, St Vincent's

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 15/02/2014 - 2:44pm

Newsletter date: 16 February 2014

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians': 'In the Absence of Treaty' book launch Waurn Ponds (Vic) with screening of 'Utopia' - 6 March 2014
* 'concerned Australians': 'In the Absence of Treaty' book launch Mona Vale (NSW) with screening of 'Utopia' - 10 March 2014
* 'concerned Australians': 'In the Absence of Treaty' book launch Ryde (NSW) with screening of 'Utopia' - 28 June 2014
* ACM Sydney: 'In the Absence of Treaty' launched in Canberra
* Graeme Mundine, ACM Sydney: Launch of 'In the Absence of Treaty' - Canberra

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Northern Territory Intervention

ACM Sydney

Graeme Mundine

St Vincent de Paul Society

TREATY - Change org petition for Treaty - please sign and share

True Reconciliation Requires a Treaty

Dr John Falzon

The history of colonisation

In the Absence of Treaty Book Launch ANU Canberra

Waurn Ponds - Geelong - Victoria - In the Absence of Treaty book launch

Mona Vale - Sydney - NSW - In the Absence of Treaty book launch

Yolngu Nations Assembly supports the call for treaties with indigenous peoples

WGAR News: Q&A with Robert Eggington: on tackling Indigenous suicide rates: The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 14/02/2014 - 9:51am

Newsletter date: 14 February 2014

Contents:

* The Guardian: Q&A with Robert Eggington: on tackling Indigenous suicide rates
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Olga Havnen about education, housing, employment and the rising rates of youth suicide
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Suicide crisis - from tragic to catastrophic
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Suicide crisis - genocidal numbers
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* Malarndirri McCarthy, NITV: Gunnedah grandmothers rally against removal of Indigenous kids

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 48 events from 8 February 2014

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 08/02/2014 - 2:24pm

Newsletter date: 8 February 2014

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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New Events: 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28 February 2014; 2, 7, 10, 13, 14, 16-18, 26 March 2014:
Various locations around Australia including:
Sydney, Rozelle, Darwin, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Ryde, Hebersham,
Geelong, Newcastle, Canberra, Moree, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne,
Cairns, Mona Vale, Perth, Macquarie University, Parrammatta, Armidale, Epping

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Northern Territory Intervention

International news and opinion

Canberra events: Celebrating Apology & 50 years of AIATSIS + John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 08/02/2014 - 12:53pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: 12 February 2014: Acton, Canberra, ACT
Call for volunteers:
Celebrating National Apology & 50 years of AIATSIS with a sea of hands
"AIATSIS (Australian Institute of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islander Studies) and ANTaR
are celebrating the anniversary of the National Apology
and 50 years of AIATSIS with a large, colourful

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Northern Territory Intervention

International news and opinion