Canberra

WGAR News: Calls for compensation for the Stolen Generations (27 May 10)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Background
Calls for compensation for the Stolen Generations
Compensation and Reparations Petition
Stolen Generation legal action
Stolen Generations Working Partnership announced

BACKGROUND:

NSDC National Sorry Day Committee: http://www.nsdc.org.au/home/

Stolen Generations Alliance: http://www.sgalliance.org.au/

CALLS FOR COMPENSATION FOR THE STOLEN GENERATIONS:

- Radio

666 ABC Canberra: Afternoons with Genevieve Jacobs
Sorry Day

FootPrints For Peace Australia

On 13 March 2010 five women aged from 37 to 69 began walking from Brisbane to Canberra to take a message to the prime minister. The message conveys the hopes and dreams of the Australian people, asking that we take steps towards a nuclear free future.

Promotion: 

WGAR News: National day of action against Muckaty nuclear waste dump: 12th April!

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
National Day of Action against Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump: 12th April!
Nuclear Waste Dump: Possible Legal Challenge; Tennant Creek Protests

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST MUCKATY NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP: 12th APRIL!

[Please note, WGAR is not the organiser for the National Day of Action. See ASEN link below for details of contacts.]

- Background of Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump

Beyond Nuclear Initiative’s weblog:
http://beyondnuclearinitiative.wordpress.com/

Women's Peace Walk to take people's opposition to nuke dump to Canberra

The Women's Peace Walk “Footprints for Peace” will begin their epic three month trek from Brisbane to Canberra to send a message of peace, sustainability and anti-nuclear proliferation to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

The Women-organised event is expected to take three months taking in many towns and cities before finishing in Canberra. They will meet with Prime Minister Rudd and deliver a message stick to the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.

2010 Climate Action Summit

Date and Time: 
Sat, 13/03/2010 - 10:00am to Mon, 15/03/2010 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Australian National University in Canberra.
Website: 
http://www.climatesummit.org.au/

You're invited to the 2010 Climate Action Summit, the only national meeting of the grassroots movement for a safe climate, March 13 - 15 at Australian National University in Canberra.

The Summit will provide much needed space to work out how we move forward in the year of a federal election after Copenhagen. Plenary speakers include David Karoly, Christine Milne, and Walden Bello, and there is a strong focus on alliance building and tactics to build the movement.

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WGAR News: Upcoming Events - Northern Territory (NT) Intervention (11 Feb 10)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
Prescribed Area People's Alliance Meeting - 12 Feb 2010
National Day of Action - 13 Feb 2010
Ampilatwatja – Celebration and opening of Protest House - 14 Feb 2010
National Book Launch: "This Is What We Said" - Feb 2010

BACKGROUND TO THE NORTHERN TERRITORY (NT) INTERVENTION:

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Northern Territory National Emergency Response
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Territory_intervention

WGAR News: Outcomes of the New Way Aboriginal Summit (6 Feb 10)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Outcomes of the New Way Aboriginal Summit
National Book Launch: "This Is What We Said"
National Day of Action - 13 Feb 2010
NT Intervention Articles
Other Aboriginal Articles

OUTCOMES OF THE NEW WAY ABORIGINAL SUMMIT:

- Statements

Indymedia Australia: Aboriginal sovereignty to go to the Senate
http://indymedia.org.au/2010/02/02/aboriginal-sovereignty-to-go-to-the-s...

WGAR News: National Day of Action - Saturday, 13 February 2010 (2 Feb 10)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
National Day of Action - Sat 13 Feb
Prescribed Area People's Alliance Meeting - 12 Feb
Ampilatwatja – Celebration and opening of Protest House - 14 Feb
Proposed National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
Indigenous progress report delayed by PM
January 26, a.k.a. Invasion Day / Survival Day
Other NT Intervention Articles
Other Aboriginal Articles

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION - SAT 13 FEB

WGAR News: Update on Aboriginal Summit in Canberra (23 Jan 10)

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Aboriginal Summit in Canberra
Making a submission on the NTER legislation amendments by 1 Feb 2010
Ampilatwatja Walk-off
Racist Website
Peace Walk for Aboriginal Sovereignty: 25, 26 Jan Canberra
Loan shark lends to Aboriginal Centrelink clients
UN Report on conditions of world's indigenous peoples
Recent attacks on Indian students in Melbourne
Other NT Intervention Articles

ABORIGINAL SUMMIT IN CANBERRA:

"NEW WAY SUMMIT: Our Way or No Way

Aboriginal summit: “Be prepared for the fight of your life”

Goodooga, northwest NSW, 16 January 2010 - - Euahlayi activist Michael Anderson says people coming to the three-day Aboriginal summit in Canberra two weeks from now should “be prepared for the fight of your life”.

“This will be heated and furious because when people are hurting they will not hold back. (But) it is important to understand that it is the system that we have to fight, not each other,” the veteran campaigner for Aboriginal rights says in a media release.

Related: WGAR News: Call to an Aboriginal summit | Overwhelming interest in summit | UN report paints grim picture of world’s indigenous peoples |

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