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Welcome to The Stringer’s final newsletter for 2013 - "a rise of voices"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 24/12/2013 - 8:13pm

NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20, 2013. Ten months later we would like to thank you, our readers, for your support, for accompanying us on this journey thus far. We cannot do what we love to do without you. We thank you, our readers, those of you who continue to share our articles, those of you with your messages of support. Thank you for sharing of our articles and your messages of support and encouragement do mean a great deal to us.

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Sydney 2014 Events: John Pilger's film 'Utopia' + 'concerned Australians': In the Absence of Treaty

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 23/12/2013 - 10:46am

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

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Event: 7 December 2013 to 3 January 2014: Surry Hills, Sydney, NSW
Coranderrk
By Andrea James & Giordano Nanni; Director Isaac Drandic
"A definitive story from our neglected Indigenous history."
Venue: Belvoir St Theatre
"At a Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry in 1881,
the men and women of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve

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Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 23 December 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 22/12/2013 - 5:52pm

Newsletter date: 23 December 2013

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

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Events: various times during 2014: various locations around Australia
SNAICC Training Workshops will be held Nationally in 2014 -
Through Young Black Eyes & Working and Walking Together
SNAICC: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
Expressions of interest forms and flyers are available from the SNAICC training page:

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Statistics speak - as we wander into 2014

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 21/12/2013 - 1:54pm

Twenty years ago models weighed six per cent less than the average woman, today they weigh 27 per cent less.
African-Americans are taught in schools that Jefferson was a great man, ignoring the fact that he owned 330 slaves and raped his female slaves.
The United States sells an average of $68 billion in weapons each year to middle eastern dictators and ‘kings’.
Since September 2001, terrorism has killed 4300 civilians, the war on terror has killed more than 2 million civilians.
Americans and Europeans throw away enough edible food to feed every starving person in Africa.

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The Disgrace that is Manus Island

Submitted by 2060 on Fri, 20/12/2013 - 1:24am

Indefinite punishment for refugees. Thanks Kevin Rudd, Thanks Tony Abbott. What a disgrace.

Please read this message from Amnesty’s Graeme McGregor who has just finished a visit to the Manus Island detention centre:

While many journalists have been denied access, our Amnesty research team was let inside. Now for the first time we're able to reveal what life and conditions are like inside this secretive detention centre.

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Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 17/12/2013 - 11:42am

NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20, 2013. We are a not-for-profit independent news format. We believe in the importance of independent media with a bent for investigative journalism.

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WGAR News: French Government presents human rights award to Indigenous Social Justice Association

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 16/12/2013 - 3:22pm

Newsletter date: 17 December 2013

Contents:

* Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) open letter: Tenth anniversary of TJ Hickey death
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: French Government presents human rights laureate to the Indigenous Social Justice Association
* YouTube: French government recognises Indigenous human rights - NITV SBS

* Deaths In Custody Watch Commitee WA: Build Communities Not Prisons Campaign

* Aboriginal Legal Service of WA: ALSWA hopes report will lead to Aboriginal people being In Safe Custody

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Is Scientology Still Homophobic

Submitted by 2060 on Mon, 16/12/2013 - 12:30am

Does the Australian branch of Scientology support L. Ron Hubbards anti gay policy?

Are LGBTI people welcome to join the church in Australia?

In recent years sections of the church of Scientology have tried to soften the churches anti gay stance.

But insiders and some former church members say the policy is still alive and well, although the church tries to avoid any public discussion of the matter.

While some local church branches have tried to appear gay friendly the gay hate policy persists.

But what about Australia?

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