Sydney

Q&A with Malalai Joya

Date and Time: 
Wed, 11/04/2012 -
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts 280 Pitt Street, Sydney, NSW 2000
Website: 
www.stopwarcoalition.org

After 11 years of war, and the US-NATO forces looking for an exit, what can Afghans expect from the talks with the Taliban? What should Australians be pushing the Gillard government to do? How can we help democratic Afghans reconstruct their country after a devastating 11 years of war? Malalai Joya will be in Sydney for this one public meeting.
CHAIR: Kellie Tranter, lawyer & human rights activist
Entry $8/5
http://www.trybooking.com/21958
Organised by STOP THE WAR COALITION

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Defend Workers Rights~ Support Maritime

Date and Time: 
Sat, 10/03/2012 - 8:45am to Tue, 13/03/2012 - 8:45am
Location: 
Friendship Rd, Sydney Docks
Contact Name: 
Sam
Contact Phone: 
0432803360
Contact Email: 
salvidge@gmail.com
Website: 
www.mua.org.au

PROTEST FOR WORKERS RIGHTS

6am (and continuing 24 hours a day)
Saturday 10 March 
DP World container terminal, 
Friendship Road, entrance to the employee car park 

(between Charlotte Road and and Inter-terminal Access Road) 

Port Botany, Sydney
(public transport and car directions at end)

Concerned members of the community are calling a protest at the docking of the ship Maersk Brani at Port Botany, starting 6am on Saturday 10 March.

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To get the justice done, the splintered, shard-like "left" needs to coalesce

Gerry Georgatos

The compassionate left wing screams for social justice and argues for our governments and society's institutions to have a heart and help people from the bottom end up, and to desist with the proposition that they can achieve for the downtrodden by working from the top end of town and down.

The bona fide left wing is fractious and forever splintering and yet it calls out for groundswells of people power to coalesce in mass social movements which will give rise to cultural waves.

Community Picket Line

Date and Time: 
Sat, 10/03/2012 - 6:00am to Sat, 17/03/2012 - 9:15pm
Location: 
Port Botany
Contact Name: 
Frank
Contact Phone: 
0403568029
Contact Email: 
frankbufalo@yahoo.com

Scab ship coming in from NZ after all 300 Union crew in Auckland sacked. Meet at friendship rd.

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WGAR News: New report into Stronger Futures consultations by Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning

Newsletter date: 9 March 2012

Contents:
* New report into 'Stronger Futures' consultations by Jumbunna
* Former PM Malcolm Fraser launches new report into consultations
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 9 March 2012

* NEW REPORT INTO 'STRONGER FUTURES' CONSULTATIONS BY JUMBUNNA:

- The Report

Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney:

WGAR News: Our Generation and ANTaR have launched a new video and campaign

Newsletter date: 8 March 2012

Contents:
* Our Generation and ANTaR have launched a new video and campaign
* Proposed Stronger Futures laws "will kill Aboriginal people"
* Write to Senators re Stronger Futures laws
* NT Intervention panel discussion by Dr John Falzon, Lynette De Santis and Adam Giles
* More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention legislation
* "WA stolen wages offer 'cruel and heartless', says legal service" GLW
* "We are lucky Bob Carr was not appointed Indigenous Affairs Minister!" Gerry Georgatos

Easter convergence 2012: free the refugees, end mandatory detention

Date and Time: 
Thu, 05/04/2012 - 7:00am to Mon, 09/04/2012 - 10:00pm
Location: 
Darwin, Villawood and other detention centres across Australia
Website: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/278228758899942/

REFUGEE MOVEMENT CALL TO ACTION…
Easter 2012: converge on Darwin!

When we again protest during Easter next year, it will mark 10 years since the refugee rights movement’s first Easter convergence—Woomera 2002, when busloads of protesters from across the country met magnificent protests by detainees, many of whom leapt through the fence and literally into the arms of the movement.

Nuclear Waste and a Western Sydney Suburb

The NSW State Liberal Government is planning to send Nuclear Waste from the site of an old uranium smelter in Hunters Hill to the Western Sydney Suburb of Lidcombe. The proposed storeage facility is within walking distance of thousands of local homes. Local residents have produced this film to try and explain why Nuclear Waste shouldn't be brought to our backyards.

Please send us your support.

You can find our film at: http://www.battler.org.au/2012/03/no-nuclear-waste-film/

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Upcoming Sydney Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 8 events from 11 March 2012

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

Event: Sun 11 March 2012: cities across Australia
Rally against uranium
Event details: http://www.acfonline.org.au/get-involved/take-action/renewable-not-radio...

Event: 21 March 2012: various locations internationally
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Event details: http://www.un.org/en/events/racialdiscriminationday/
Let's Fight Racism!: http://www.un.org/en/letsfightracism/

Event: Thu 22 March 2012: various locations across Australia
National Close the Gap Day

Anarchist intervention against the 150 year celebration of the NSW Police Force

At around 10am on March 1st, shortly before the police began their official ‘Sea of Blue’ anniversary march from the Rocks to the Sydney Town Hall, a group of anarchists dropped a banner reading “PIG BRUVA IS WATCHING, COMMUNITY NOT SURVEILLANCE CULTURE” from the Cahill Expressway bridge. The banner was hung directly above the George St march route while 750 pigs were gathered only two blocks away at the Rocks Police station.