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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 13 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/03/2013 - 3:35pm

Newsletter date: 13 March 2013

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Event: from 13 March 2013: Canberra, ACT
Exhibition now showing:
First Australians - Resistance
"The lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
peoples were profoundly changed by the arrival
of British colonists in 1788. Lives were lost
and land taken as the colonisers attempted to
impose new social, economic and religious
orders. ... "
"Indigenous people responded in a variety of ways.
Some fought back with weapons. Others
developed different strategies to survive this

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Queers against Cops respond to attacks

Submitted by autonomousactions on Sun, 10/03/2013 - 9:10am

Following the 2013 Mardi gras parade (the corporate gaystream shadow of a radical and militant queer protest in 1978) a video was released online that showed a young shirtless man being choked by a police officer, then slammed headfirst into the pavement while handcuffed.

Outrage quickly spread across the Queer community and far beyond. Within two days, Community Action Against Homophobia (CAAH) called for a demonstration against police brutality on Friday 8th of March. The rally was to gather at 6pm Taylor square, then to march to Surrey Hills cop shop then back.

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WGAR News: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms: The Wilderness Society

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 09/03/2013 - 1:36pm

Newsletter date: 9 March 2013

Contents:

* NITV News: Festival for the Kimberley in Sydney
* The Wilderness Society: Promising news for Kimberley, but industrialisation still looms
* ABC AM: WA Liberals promise national park on re-election
* Broome Community No Gas Campaign: Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds and to intervene to stop Woodside drilling works
* Hands off Country: Bob Brown Speaking at a Broome No Gas forum
* Greens Senator Scott Ludlam: Together, we're fighting for James Price Point

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Kimberley Campaign News

Kimberley national park

Broome Community No Gas Campaign

Shell

burial grounds

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam

NITV News - Festival for the Kimberley in Sydney

ABC AM - WA Liberals promise national park on re-election

Broome Community No Gas Campaign - Broome community calls on Shell to protect burial grounds and to intervene to stop Woodside drilling works

Hands off Country - Bob Brown Speaking at a Broome No Gas forum

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam - Together we're fighting for James Price Point

Environs Kimberley - Kimberley rainforest listed as endangered by Australian Government

Róisin Mortimer - Friends of the Earth Australia - James Price Point gas hub controversy

Conservation Council of Western Australia - Protect the Kimberley and Prevent More Carbon Pollution

How to have fun at corporatised O-Week

Submitted by autonomousactions on Wed, 06/03/2013 - 10:41pm

On Wednesday 27th February, some student dissidents and fellow rebels from Sydney University staged some O-Week counter-activities. O-Week, which runs for three days in the week before semester begins, provides corporations and banks, major sponsors of the Sydney University “Union” who organize O-Week, the opportunity to present a friendly face to the student public at their stalls, offering games, prizes and giveaways.

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Sydney events: Rex Bellotti + Kimberley Festival + Unsettling Suite + This Heaven + Shane Phillips

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 05/03/2013 - 12:30pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 6 March 2013: Sydney, NSW
Part of the National Day of Action for
Justice for Rex Bellotti in Perth, WA
Rally outside office of Police Integrity Commission (PIC) NSW
Organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association - Sydney (ISJA)
Event details: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Redfern-Waterloo/message/7099
ISJA Statement: http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/53467

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 46 events from 5 March 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 6:42pm

Newsletter date: 5 March 2013

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Event: 23 February - 10 March 2013: Eveleigh, Sydney, NSW
'Unsettling Suite' - Performance Space
"Performance Space is delighted to present
Sarah-Jane Norman's installation and performance
project bringing together her entire Unsettling Suite
project into a dramatically charged exhibition
and series of live performances."
"Through works that are both beguiling and disturbing,
Unsettling Suite explores the ways that Australia's
history of colonisation plays out on the body, and

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 40 events from 24 February 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/02/2013 - 5:25pm

Newsletter date: 24 February 2013

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Event: Sun 24 February 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Concert for the Kimberley:
A concert and march in the heart of Fremantle
The Wilderness Society WA
"Join us in Fremantle on Sunday 24 February 2013
for a free, open-air concert featuring the
John Butler Trio, Missy Higgins, Ball Park Music,
special guest Dr Bob Brown, and others."
"This concert and rally is a call to arms for
all West Australians to stand up and protect
one of our finest national treasures,

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Sydney events: Festival for the Kimberley + Play: This Heaven + Shane Phillips: Tribal Warrior

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 23/02/2013 - 4:34pm

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Fri 8 March 2013: Sydney CBD, NSW
The Wilderness Society Sydney:
Festival for the Kimberley
"STOP PRESS:
Due to a severe weather warning,
Festival for the Kimberley has been
postponed until Friday 8 March, 2013."
"Calling all Sydneysiders: This is your chance
join us for a fun-filled day to bring the stunning
beauty of the Kimberley region to Sydney,
and to stand in solidarity with the people of
Broome against industrialisation as a result of the

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WGAR News: Man allegedly bashed by NSW police testifies: NITV News

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 20/02/2013 - 2:25pm

Newsletter date: 21 February 2013

Contents:

* Alexandra Payne-Baggs, Green Left: March demands justice for TJ Hickey
* NIRS: Prison only a temporary solution: WA group
* SBS Audio Radionews: Fighting to reduce young Indigenous imprisonment
* NITV News: Man allegedly bashed by NSW police testifies
* SBS World News Video: NSW police accused of bashing cover-up
* Tracker: Cops taunted Aboriginal man: PIC
* ABC Indigenous: Police taunted bashed man's mother, inquiry told
* Background to Aboriginal imprisonment and Deaths in Custody

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WGAR News: Blackett, Western Sydney launch of the book 'A Decision to Discriminate'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 20/02/2013 - 10:04am

Newsletter date: 20 February 2013

Contents:

* Blackett, Western Sydney launch of the book 'A Decision to Discriminate'
* New 'A Decision to Discriminate' book review
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Mick Gooda on Stronger Futures
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Cathy Eatock, One Billion Rising: End violence against Aboriginal women

* NIRS: Compensation test case hoped to shine light on removal conditions
* NIRS: Stolen Generations victims deserve criminal compensation: Sam Watson

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