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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 13 events from 14 August 2012

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

Epping DoCS stole my autistic child when I went to them for help

Below is one of the most disgusting displays of DoCS bullying and mismanagement of families I have come across. A mother who went to DoCS NSW Epping office for help. Never, ever ever ever, never go to docs for help. This poor woman has never abused or neglected her son. Epping DoCS need to be fully investigated.

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August 5 Sydney: banners dropped in solidarity with Toronto G20 Prisoners

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'

Sex, Lies & Uranium - a Hiroshima Day Event

'I shall write peace upon your wings, and you shall fly around the world so that children will no longer have to die this way.'Haiku attributed to Sadako Sasaki, a Japanese girl who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, on Hiroshima. Sadako is remembered through the story of a thousand origami cranes before her death, and is to this day a symbol of innocent victims of war. She died in 1955, aged 12.

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Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 8 events from 6 August 2012

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Event: Mon 6 August 2012: UTS, Sydney, NSW
Our Generation film screening
Film followed by Panel session with:
* Amy McQuire, Tracker
* Jason de Santolo, UTS Jumbunna
* Paddy Gibson, UTS Jumbunna
"Panel discussion on how creativity, media and
activism can drive change for Indigenous Australians"
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.respectandlisten.org/
Further Info: http://sdc.groupsite.com/calendar/event/2012/8/6/338444
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 16 events from 2 August 2012

Newsletter date: 2 August 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 16 events from 2 August 2012

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Event: Thu 2 August 2012: Monash University, Melbourne, Vic
Our Generation film screening
A group discussion of the film afterwards
Organised by Students for Indigenous Sovereignty
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/51731
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Fri 3 August 2012: Adelaide, SA

WGAR News: "Representatives of more than 30 nations see Aboriginal affairs at an all-time low"

Newsletter date: 1 August 2012

Contents:
* Michael Anderson: Representatives of more than 30 nations see Aboriginal affairs at an all-time low
* Interview with Michael Anderson following Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement
* Congress: No apology needed for being proudly Aboriginal
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
* CAAMA: Senior APY leader rejects claims that communities want income management

WGAR News: "Bob Brown: why I’m leading the Sea Shepherd to the Kimberley" Crikey

Newsletter date: 28 July 2012

Contents:
* Greens Rachel Siewert: Overwhelming support for Low Aromatic Fuel at Alice Springs Inquiry Hearing
* Bob Brown: why I’m leading the Sea Shepherd to the Kimberley
* Walmadan Tent Embassy, James Price Point, north of Broome, Kimberley Region, WA
* Background to the Aboriginal tent embassies
* Moree Sovereign Union Interim Government Gathering: 28 & 29 July 2012
* National Unity Government Foundation - Sound & Pictures
* Sovereignty Conference 2012 - Sound & Pictures
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Moree, Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 12 events from 27 July 2012

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Event: Fri 27 July 2012: The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
Talks on The Rocks:
Spirit of the Tent Embassy: 40 years on
* July 27 - Gabi Widders, an Anaiwan and Gumbangier woman
"To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Tent Embassy,
The Rocks Discovery Museum has invited four
Aboriginal women to reflect on the significance
of the Embassy in their own and their family's
lives for Talks on The Rocks in July."
Event details: http://www.therocks.com/sydney-Things_To_Do-The_Rocks_Discovery_Museum-T...