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The Stringer weekly newsletter - March 16

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 24/03/2013 - 6:58pm

The Stringer went live February 20. Some of our stories from the last week include:

Quality of life for Australians 2nd only to Norway, but for Aboriginal peoples 122nd

March 16th, 2013

Once again the United Nations has ranked Australia second behind Norway in its annual Human Development Index – for public health, social wealth, education, even happiness. But if Aboriginal peoples go stand-alone they would not be part of that 2nd rating – they would be 122nd.

The Prime Minister’s apology to victims of forced adoption

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 22/03/2013 - 12:13pm

Jennifer Kaeshagen - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/the-prime-ministers-apology-to-victims-of-forc...

On Thursday, 21 March, Prime Minister Julia Gillard delivered a national apology on behalf of the Australian Government to all Australians affected by removal policies and practices from 1932 to 1982 which resulted in forced adoptions. The exact figure of how many children were removed remains unknown but it is estimated that as many as 225,000 babies were removed throughout this time. Many adoptees may still not know this to have been the case.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 20 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 19/03/2013 - 7:15pm

Newsletter date: 20 March 2013

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Event: Tue 19 - Thu 21 March 2013: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
Preparatory Meeting for Pacific Indigenous Peoples on the
World Conference on Indigenous Peoples 2014
Co-hosted by:
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples; and
* New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council;
in collaboration with the
* Indigenous Peoples Organisations (IPO) Network of Australia
and * Global Coordinating Group
"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and
Indigenous peoples from the Pacific are invited

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Canberra events: Elimination of Racial Discrimination Panel + National Close the Gap Day

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 19/03/2013 - 6:18pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 20 March 2013: Parliament House, Canberra
International Day for the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination Panel
"21 March is the International Day for the Elimination
of Racial Discrimination. To commemorate this day the
Australian Human Rights Commission, in partnership
with the Department of Immigration and Citizenship
and the UN Information Centre for Australia,
New Zealand and the South Pacific, will hold a
high-level event at Parliament House in support

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WGAR News: Embassy warriors found 'Not Guilty': Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 16/03/2013 - 7:26pm

Newsletter date: 17 March 2013

Contents:

* Brisbane Aboriginal-Sovereign Embassy: Brisbane Sovereign Embassy warriors found 'Not Guilty'
* NIRS Audio: Brisbane Embassy members have charges dropped
* Christine Flatley, Brisbane Times: Aboriginal tent embassy charges dropped
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies

* SNAICC News: New approaches are needed to child protection - or we risk another Stolen Generation

* Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane: Let's Talk Interviews
- Nicole Watson, researcher with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning

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Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Chris Graham

Jeff McMullen

Brisbane Sovereign Embassy warriors found Not Guilty

another Stolen Generation

Let's Talk Interviews

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy - Brisbane Sovereign Embassy warriors found Not Guilty

NIRS Audio - Brisbane Embassy members have charges dropped

Christine Flatley - Brisbane Times - Aboriginal tent embassy charges dropped

SNAICC News - New approaches are needed to child protection - or we risk another Stolen Generation

Indigenous radio station 98.9FM Brisbane - Let's Talk Interviews

Sovereign Union - Australia's admissions against their own interest - an alert to the Canberra Centenary

SBS Audio Radionews - NT mainstreams Indigenous services

Nicole Watson - researcher with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning

Aunty Lilla Watson and Mary Graham

Anarchist intervention in the Sydney Uni strike

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sat, 16/03/2013 - 4:20pm

In the early hours of March 7 some anarchists broke into the abandoned St Michaels College building on City rd on the Sydney Uni campus.

(For three months in 2011 this large abandoned space, renamed the “Chapel of the Insurrection” was liberated from the Catholic Church, their bullshit morality and their vast landholdings. Inside dozens of comrades, students, street youth and wage slaves experimented with new ways of living and found love, laughter and joy. Inside we built barricades and outside a large vegetable garden.)*

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Canberra events: First Australians Resistance Exhibition + Elimination of Racial Discrim'n Panel

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 5:14pm

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: from 13 March 2013: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 13 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 3:35pm

Newsletter date: 13 March 2013

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Queers against Cops respond to attacks

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sun, 10/03/2013 - 9:10am

Following the 2013 Mardi gras parade (the corporate gaystream shadow of a radical and militant queer protest in 1978) a video was released online that showed a young shirtless man being choked by a police officer, then slammed headfirst into the pavement while handcuffed.

Outrage quickly spread across the Queer community and far beyond. Within two days, Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) called for a demonstration against police brutality on Friday 8th of March. The rally was to gather at 6pm Taylor square, then to march to Surrey Hills cop shop then back.

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How to have fun at corporatised O-Week

Submitted by autonomousactions on Wed, 06/03/2013 - 10:41pm

On Wednesday 27th February, some student dissidents and fellow rebels from Sydney University staged some O-Week counter-activities. O-Week, which runs for three days in the week before semester begins, provides corporations and banks, major sponsors of the Sydney University “Union” who organize O-Week, the opportunity to present a friendly face to the student public at their stalls, offering games, prizes and giveaways.

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