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What future does this little boy have? 5 hours ago the first car bomb was detonated in Samawa

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 04/07/2013 - 8:05am

I woke this morning to a message and photo from Samawa, Iraq, hometown of my good friend Riyadh Al-Hakimi. Riyadh came to Australia in 1993 as a child refugee with his family fleeing the prospect of persecution. We met at university, I was the general manager of a Student Guild and coordinator of Students Without Borders and Riyadh was an international relations student, now graduated.

“What do these blacks want? An education? Send them back to the bush where they belong."

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 02/07/2013 - 4:11pm

Courtesy of The Stringer, “What do these blacks want? An education? Send them back to the bush where they belong.” - http://thestringer.com.au/what-do-these-blacks-want-an-education-send-th... - by Gerry Georgatos - June 30th, 2013 - Today, Yothu Yindi’s great songwriter, musician, educator and social justice campaigner is at rest. Mr Yunupingu rocked the boat on racist stereotypes as he called for equality, and through Treaty.

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Australian embassy attacked in Berlin

Submitted by autonomousactions on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 12:53am

On the evening of the 29th of June we took it upon ourselves to beautify a large eyesore called the Australian Embassy in Mitte, Berlin. This small gesture was taken in solidarity with comrades across the world, in the colonised region known as Sydney.

We painted

VIVA OCCUPY SYDNEY

DEATH TO SYDNEY COUNCIL

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anarchists

solidarity

Occupy Sydney

The Stringer weekly newsletter - June 29

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 29/06/2013 - 10:47am

NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20. Four months young The Stringer has been reaching a growing readership, nationally and internationally. In the three months since March 1, The Stringer on average has had 12,340 new visitors each month with May recording 15,072 new visitors.

The downfall of Prime Minister Julia Gillard began with broken promises on the Intervention and the lies about the Lobby restaurant incident

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 29/06/2013 - 10:29am

- The following article has been republished on a number of sites in various formats, originally from various versions on The Stringer and in The National Indigenous Times. - Gerry Georgatos' investigations reveal the beginning of the end for Julia Gillard as Australia’s Prime Minister started with the revelations of the involvement of the Office of the Prime Minister to use the 40th anniversary Aboriginal Tent Embassy celebrations to wedge Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott. Gerry broke the story nationally that parliamentary staffer, Tony Hodges did not act alone.

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Police deaths in custody in South Africa worse than Apartheid years

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 26/06/2013 - 12:44pm

There is international silence about one of the world's worst rising police deaths in custody records, South Africa - worse than in the Apartheid years.

Read the whole story at: http://thestringer.com.au/south-africas-tragic-deaths-in-custody-record-...

"This system has made it much harder for us to share and care for each other" - After 6 years of NT intervention

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 21/06/2013 - 10:17pm

By Barbara Shaw - Six years ago my family watched the TV in my living room as John Howard announced he would be sending in the military and taking control of our communities.

I have never been more frightened in my life. I locked the gate of my town camp and kept the kids inside for two weeks for fear of them being taken. I worried constantly about my family out bush who didn't understand what was coming.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - June 21

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 21/06/2013 - 7:25pm

The US Wants Syrian Oil, Not Democracy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 19/06/2013 - 9:09am

By Carl Gibson - 18 June, 2013

"... the Persian Gulf, the critical oil and natural gas-producing region that we fought so many wars to try and protect our economy from the adverse impact of losing that supply or having it available only at very high prices." -John Bolton, George W. Bush's ambassador to the United Nations

All the hubbub over Syria is all about oil. And if you don't believe me, believe John Bolton.

Sixth Anniversary of the Northern Territory Intervention

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 19/06/2013 - 9:01am

Concerned Australians Striking the Wrong Note - By Michelle Harris

Aboriginal advocate Olga Havnen, in her Lowitja O’Donoghue oration has asked a critical question. She asks what has been the psychological impact of the Intervention on Aboriginal people of the Northern Territory. It is surprising that so little attention has been given to this critical, yet in some ways tenuous, link before now.