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Sydney, Wollongong & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 19 events from 16 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 9:54am

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Event: Wed 16 May 2012: Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane
National Day of Action
in solidarity with the people of Broome
"250 police have converged on Broome, Western Australia,
as the WA Government attempts to crush peaceful
community opposition to a proposed industrial complex
at James Price Point on the pristine Kimberley coast."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.kimberleycampaigner.com/stories/national-mobilisation-of-kimb...

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 15 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 15/05/2012 - 1:05pm

Newsletter date: 15 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 32 events from 15 May 2012

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Aboriginal passports issued to two asylum seekers incarcerated at Villawood

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 14/05/2012 - 11:35am

Gerry Georgatos
Sydney's Indigenous Social Justice Association president Ray Jackson tried to issue Aboriginal passports to two Tamil Asylum Seekers who are detained at the Villawood Centre.

Because he held a news conference outside the Villawood Detention Centre, he and three other gentlemen were denied a meeting with the two Tamil men, which had been previously agreed to, by SERCO's centre management.

Mr Jackson speaks to SBS: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/radio/episode/215387/Symbolic-passports-issue...

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Parliamentary sources speak about Aboriginal Australia - I have published this in the hope "that it is not too late"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 13/05/2012 - 12:34pm

Gerry Georgatos
As the government’s chances of re-election appear in tatters, some of their parliamentarians and Cabinet ministers believe that not all hope is lost, and some, as if in living up to the notion that politics is a calling, believe that in the year they have left in government that much can be achieved for the people of Australia, including Aboriginal peoples, according to two parliamentarians who spoke in confidence to The National Indigenous Times.

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WGAR News: More organisations state support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly Statement

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 6:03pm

Newsletter date: 11 May 2012

Contents:
* Quakers in Australia support Yolngu Nations Assembly rejection of Stronger Futures Bills
* Josephite SA Reconciliation Circle in support of Yolgnu Nations Statement
* CRA: Catholic Religious support the Yolngu Nations Statement
* Women for Wik respectfully support the Yolgnu Elders' Statement
* STICS: From the bush to Bankstown - communities prepare to fight 'Stronger Futures' implementation
* Presentation Sisters Victoria - Letter to the Hon. Jenny Macklin
* Public Statement protesting against the Stronger Futures Bills

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Quakers in Australia support Yolngu Nations Assembly rejection of Stronger Futures Bills

Josephite SA Reconciliation Circle in support of Yolgnu Nations Statement

CRA - Catholic Religious support the Yolngu Nations Statement

Women for Wik respectfully support the Yolgnu Elders' Statement

STICS - From the bush to Bankstown - communities prepare to fight Stronger Futures implementation

Presentation Sisters Victoria - Letter to the Hon Jenny Macklin

Public Statement protesting against the Stronger Futures Bills

WFFR - Stronger Futures (SF) legislation is No Future

Amy McQuire - Sydney Launch of NT Consultations Report 2011

UnitingJustice - Uniting Church calls on Senators not to pass Stronger Futures legislation

Josephites urge Senate to reject Stronger Futures Bill?

Michael Brull - Shameful second intervention slips under the radar

Rachel Siewert - Greens set for debate on NT Intervention expansion

Police threaten to seek ban on pro-Palestine march

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 9:25am

Press release – for immediate release The NSW Police have contacted the organisers of the Al-Nakba commemoration march in Sydney threatening to seek a Supreme Court injunction unless the march is cancelled. The protesters have decided to assert their right to public protest, saying that they will contest any attempt to prohibit the march.

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WGAR News: Several organisations express support for the Yolngu Nations Assembly statement

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 10:44am

Newsletter date: 10 May 2012

Contents:
* 'concerned Australians' gives its full support to the Yolngu Nations Assembly statement
* SNAICC  stands  in  solidarity  with  Yolngu  Nations  Assembly
* St Vincent de Paul Society respectfully supports Yolngu Elders
* UCA: Federal Government should heed Yolngu voices
* Mornington IAAG stands with Yolgnu Elders in their opposition to the "Stronger Futures" legislation
* ACM Melbourne: Yolngu Nations Reject "Stronger Futures Proposed Legislation"
* ACM Sydney: Yolngu Nations Reject "Stronger Futures"

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Congress - Stop listen and test NT laws for human rights violations

concerned Australians gives its full support to the Yolngu Nations Assembly statement

SNAICC  stands  in  solidarity  with  Yolngu  Nations  Assembly

St Vincent de Paul Society respectfully supports Yolngu Elders

UCA - Federal Government should heed Yolngu voices

Mornington IAAG stands with Yolgnu Elders in their opposition to the Stronger Futures legislation

ACM Melbourne - Yolngu Nations Reject Stronger Futures Proposed Legislation

ACM Sydney - Yolngu Nations Reject Stronger Futures

Institute of Sisters of Mercy supports Statement of Yolngu Nations Assembly

NATSICC Calls for Senators not to pass Stronger Futures NT Bill

NATSIEC - Stronger Futures or Stronger Policing

The Wire - Muckaty community living under the nuclear cloud

The Wire - Indigenous languages have role in education

ABC - Indigenous languages disappearing as lobbying starts for bilingual programmes

Unions back the fight for Aboriginal Rights in the NT

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 4:42am

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Tue, 15/05/2012 -

8:00am to 10:00am

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Please find information below regarding a Fringe event on 'Aboriginal RIghts Struggles in the NT' being held at the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) Congress next Tuesday morning in Sydney.

Come hear about the struggles against the NT Intervention (renamed “stronger futures”), income management and the proposed Muckaty radioactive waste dump.

Many unions have been actively involved in assisting and campaigning with communities on the “intervention” – what does the new policy mean? Help raise awareness about the impact on communities who will live under the “stronger futures” legislation.

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Lizard Rising Sydney Fundraiser

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 9:39pm

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Fri, 01/06/2012 -

6:00pm to 11:45pm

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SPACEPORT 1 COWPER ST MARRICVILLE

Another wild night in preparation for the Lizards Revenge global emergency $10 entry toward the Rollen Blockade of BHP Billitons Olympic Dam expansion

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The Australian prison system has failed; warehouses of illness & death. Bring on Bastoy for starters

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:30pm

Gerry Georgatos
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.

The two century old modern day prison experiment is failing, that is if we look at the spiralling incarceration rates, adult and youth, and if we look at re-offending rates, the recidivism.

My PhD research argues that people who enter the prison experience, who are incarcerated for relatively short or long terms leave the prison experience worse than they came in.

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