Newcastle

New issue of FTP zine out now

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 14/07/2015 - 9:57pm

Download zine: https://ftpzine.wordpress.com/

“This is the fifth issue of FTP zine, our biannual report on anti-colonial, anti-state resistance, compiled within occupied Cadigal territory.

Like previous issues we have chosen to highlight acts of resistance to the Australian state and its control of this territory, such as attacks on its police, its prisons, its monuments and its schools.

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WGAR News: The May 1st rallies have Gone Global: States in Australia, Aotearoa (NZ), Canada, Germany, Hawaii, Hong Kong China, UK, USA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 01/05/2015 - 10:20am

Newsletter date: 10:20 am, 1 May 2015; Last updated 4:40pm, 1 May 2015

* Analysis / Opinion: SOGIP: Aboriginal communities should not be closed ! By Martin Préaud, Barbara Glowczewski and 16 French researchers working in Australia
* Analysis / Opinion: Arena Magazine: The Real Cost of Closing Remote Communities, by Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird
* Analysis / Opinion: Jon Altman, Land Rights News - Northern Edition: The quest for the good life

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aboriginal

First Nations

SOGIP

Aboriginal communities should not be closed

Martin Préaud

Barbara Glowczewski

French researchers working in Australia

Arena Magazine

arena

The Real Cost of Closing Remote Communities

Land Rights News - Northern Edition

Northern Land Council

The quest for the good life

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia

2nd Official Call To Action 1st May 2015

SOSBlakAustralia

The May 1st 2015 rallies have gone global

May 1st 2015 rallies have gone global - Aotearoa (NZ) Canada Germany Hawaii Hong Kong UK and USA

May 1st 2015 Global Solidarity

Green Left

International day of protest on May 1 2015 against forced closure of Aboriginal communities

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

Protests against closures of Aboriginal homelands

Protests against closures of Aboriginal communities

Newcastle University IYSSE meeting: A socialist program to fight war and austerity

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 17/05/2014 - 6:25pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 29/05/2014 -

5:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Math Building, Room V111 University Drive, Callaghan

The budget handed down by the Abbott government on May 13 is a decisive political event for the working class, students and youth. It marks a major intensification by the financial and corporate elites of their assault on all the rights of the working class. This offensive, begun by the former Labor government, parallels the social counter-revolution imposed across Europe and the United States.

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Newcastle

ANZAC Day Sydney: Militarism & Repression

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 16/05/2014 - 8:09pm

In the early hours of April 15 a group of anti-militarist activists gathered in Martin Place. They carried a number of banners and placards which bore slogans such as “NO WAR BETWEEN NATIONS, NO PEACE BETWEEN CLASSES” “FIGHT THE RICH NOT THEIR WARS” and “SUPPORT THE DIGGERS WHO SHOOT THEIR OFFICERS”.

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Train blockade: Maules Creek protesters take campaign to the coal - May 10, 2014

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 11/05/2014 - 7:33pm

15 protesters from the Maules Creek coal mine blockade have taken their campaign to the other end of the coal chain this morning, stopping a coal train in Newcastle.

Protesters approached the stopped train as it entered the Kooragang Island coal terminals from where Whitehaven Coal intend to ship coal mined at Maules Creek. One of the protesters is suspended from the railway bridge, blocking access by the train.

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Newcastle

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coal protest

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 70 events from 1 May 2014

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 01/05/2014 - 12:08pm

Newsletter date: 1 May 2014

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

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

New Events: 4, 13, 17, 26, 31 May 2014; 28 June 2014:
Various locations around Australia including:
Newcastle Resistance Centre NSW, Vermont Vic, Upwey Vic,
La Perouse NSW, Australia SBS Television, Ryde NSW
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
"When I began filming this secret Australia 30 years ago,
a global campaign was under way to end apartheid in South Africa.

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NSW Events: 'Utopia' film + Jacky Green: Flow of Voices + RightsTalk: Advancing Aboriginal social and economic rights

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 30/04/2014 - 5:58pm

Sydney and NSW 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

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

Updated Events: 4, 26, 31 May 2014; 28 June 2014:
Various locations around Australia including:
Newcastle Resistance Centre NSW, La Perouse NSW,
Australia SBS Television, Ryde NSW
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
"When I began filming this secret Australia 30 years ago,
a global campaign was under way to end apartheid in South Africa.

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Northern Territory Intervention

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

From Sydney to Boggabri: Smash ANZ and Whitehaven Coal

Submitted by autonomousactions on Tue, 29/04/2014 - 2:34am

Throughout Februrary and March 2014 dozens of ANZ billboards were vandalised across Sydney. Numerous ANZ branch facades were painted with slogans denouncing Whitehaven coal and the destruction of Leard state forest while their ATM card slots were glued shut. During the Mardi Gras festivities numerous ANZ “GAYTM’s” were vandalised with paint and in the days following the parade two of the pinkwashed machines on Oxford St were smashed with a metal bar.

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Sydney & NSW Events: Inner West Film Forum April Screening - Stop the New Stolen Generations! + 'Utopia' film

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 28/04/2014 - 1:22pm

Sydney and NSW 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

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

New Event: Tue 29 April 2014: Petersham, Sydney, NSW
Inner West Film Forum April Screening - Stop the New Stolen Generations!
Venue: Petersham Bowling Club, Petersham, Sydney, NSW
Co-hosted by:
* Inner West Film Forum and
* Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney: http://stoptheintervention.org/
"This month's screening is a fundraiser to assist with

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Northern Territory Intervention

International news and opinion

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

From Sydney to Boggabri: Smash ANZ & Whitehaven Coal

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 27/03/2014 - 2:35pm

Whitehaven coal and the destruction of Leard state forest while their ATM card slots were glued shut. During the Mardi Gras festivities numerous ANZ “GAYTM’s” were vandalised with paint and in the days following the parade two of the pinkwashed machines on Oxford St were smashed with a metal bar.

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Newsletter date: 10:20 am, 1 May 2015; Last updated 4:40pm, 1 May 2015

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