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Mardi Grass 2012 Nimbin, Australia Nimbin's Mardi Grass 2012

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 6:45pm

Mardi Grass in Nimbin is a movable feast: of colour, music and social networking along with mind-bending substance ingestion. The marijuana harvest is in and the green hills and valleys of Nimbin are awash with the best buds known to man. I used to live in Nimbin in the early nineties and always try and make the pilgrimage to Nimbin at this time if I'm in the country. Consequently, I've been to quite a few Mardi Grasses, not that I can claim to remember too much of what went down. I was in Nimbin at the first Mardi Grass in 1993. Compared to today it was a modest affair, with perhaps a hundred people in attendance.

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Mass Rally and ‘Rock the Gate’ Concert May 12th Lismore - planned by ‘CSG Free Lismore’

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 2:19pm

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Sat, 12/05/2012 -

10:00am to 3:00pm

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The mass rally and ‘Rock the Gate’ concert planned by ‘CSG Free Lismore’, a newly formed Lismore group, on Saturday May 12th at Riverside Park Lismore,

Contact Name:

John McPherson

Contact Phone:

6621 6965 0447 458

Contact Email:

john.mcpherson@scu.edu.au

Website:

http://www.csgfreenorthernrivers.org/

COUNCIL APPROVES PLAN FOR BIG CSG-FREE RALLY

The mass rally and ‘Rock the Gate’ concert planned by ‘CSG Free Lismore’, a newly formed Lismore group, on Saturday May 12th at Riverside Park Lismore, has been given the nod by council officials, media spokesperson for CSG Free Lismore, John McPherson, has announced. “The local government piece in the puzzle came through from the Lismore Council on Friday’ he said.

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NORTHERN RIVERS REGION RALLIES AGAINST CSG

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 1:55pm

Press Release: 10 May 2012
The regional rally for a CSG-free Northern Rivers will see people from the Clarence to the Queensland border and from as far away as Dorrigo and Glen Innes gather in Lismore on Saturday 12th May. The day will involve a march through town followed by a rally with a range of informative speakers and a great line up of musicians in a ‘Rock the Gate’ concert.

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The Australian prison system has failed; warehouses of illness & death. Bring on Bastoy for starters

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:30pm

Gerry Georgatos
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.

The two century old modern day prison experiment is failing, that is if we look at the spiralling incarceration rates, adult and youth, and if we look at re-offending rates, the recidivism.

My PhD research argues that people who enter the prison experience, who are incarcerated for relatively short or long terms leave the prison experience worse than they came in.

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Sydney, Wollongong & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 18 events from 8 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 2:27pm

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 8 May 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Public Consultation:
National Anti-Racism Partnership Strategy
"Want to hear your thoughts on how racism
affects the community and what we should
be doing about it."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.humanrights.gov.au/about/events/index.html#may

Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Curated by Sandy Edwards
Head On Photo Festival
""The photographs are excellent. They are a moving

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Sydney

Wollongong

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 8 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 1:23pm

Newsletter date: 8 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 30 events from 8 May 2012

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud

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Control bill pushed to target Aboriginal peoples and to erode civil liberties

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 4:09pm

Gerry Georgatos
Australia-wide Aboriginal organisations, communities and rights advocates are more than just apprehensive of the consolidated push by State and Territory governments for the introduction of Criminal Association Control Bills better known as anti-association laws – in Western Australia, the Criminal Organisation Bill 2012 appears that it will be passed and within days.

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WGAR News: "ANSTO radioactive waste application more responsible option than remote dump plan" BNI

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 11:44am

Newsletter date: 6 May 2012

Contents:
* BNI: ANSTO radioactive waste application more responsible option than remote dump plan
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* AuSIL: Indigenous languages in education: What the research actually shows
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools
* ABC Video: Elders take stand on intervention
* Congress: Stop, listen and test NT laws for human rights violations
* Background to the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles

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AuSIL - Indigenous languages in education - What the research actually shows

ABC Video - Elders take stand on intervention

Congress - Stop listen and test NT laws for human rights violations

Justice Reinvestment Campaign

NITV News - Moree Tent Embassy

Free Pussy Riot action at Russian consulate April 21 Sydney

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 4:01am

On April 21 a demonstration was held at Sydney's Russian consulate in solidarity with three young women imprisoned by the Russian state. They stand accused of being members of Pussy Riot and performing a punk prayer on the alter of Russia's central cathedral.

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WGAR News: Yolngu Nations Assembly Statement concerning 'Stronger Futures' laws and NT policies

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 04/05/2012 - 12:01pm

Newsletter date: 4 May 2012

Contents:
* Yolngu Nations Assembly Statement
* Pro Bono: Is Income Management Working?
* Sydney launch of "NT Consultations Report 2011: By Quotations" - 4 May 2012
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Northern Murray-Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN) website
* Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) website
* Video: Uncle Kevin Buzzacott at the Federal Court's decision
* Michael Anderson: Gomeroi activism stops Woolworths in Moree ...

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Pro Bono - Is Income Management Working?

Sydney launch of NT Consultations Report 2011 - By Quotations - 4 May 2012

Northern Murray-Darling Basin Aboriginal Nations (NBAN) website

Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations (MLDRIN) website