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New issue of FTP zine out now

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 14/07/2015 - 9:57pm

Download zine: https://ftpzine.wordpress.com/

“This is the fifth issue of FTP zine, our biannual report on anti-colonial, anti-state resistance, compiled within occupied Cadigal territory.

Like previous issues we have chosen to highlight acts of resistance to the Australian state and its control of this territory, such as attacks on its police, its prisons, its monuments and its schools.

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WGAR News: The May 1st rallies have Gone Global: States in Australia, Aotearoa (NZ), Canada, Germany, Hawaii, Hong Kong China, UK, USA

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 01/05/2015 - 10:20am

Newsletter date: 10:20 am, 1 May 2015; Last updated 4:40pm, 1 May 2015

* Analysis / Opinion: SOGIP: Aboriginal communities should not be closed ! By Martin Préaud, Barbara Glowczewski and 16 French researchers working in Australia
* Analysis / Opinion: Arena Magazine: The Real Cost of Closing Remote Communities, by Brian F. Codding, Douglas W. Bird and Rebecca Bliege Bird
* Analysis / Opinion: Jon Altman, Land Rights News - Northern Edition: The quest for the good life

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Aboriginal communities should not be closed

Martin Préaud

Barbara Glowczewski

French researchers working in Australia

Arena Magazine

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The Real Cost of Closing Remote Communities

Land Rights News - Northern Edition

Northern Land Council

The quest for the good life

Stop the Forced Closure of Aboriginal Communities in Australia

2nd Official Call To Action 1st May 2015

SOSBlakAustralia

The May 1st 2015 rallies have gone global

May 1st 2015 rallies have gone global - Aotearoa (NZ) Canada Germany Hawaii Hong Kong UK and USA

May 1st 2015 Global Solidarity

Green Left

International day of protest on May 1 2015 against forced closure of Aboriginal communities

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

Protests against closures of Aboriginal homelands

Protests against closures of Aboriginal communities

April 5, 2010 - Collateral Murder Tape - April 5, 2014, world's first WikiLeaks parliamentarian

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 27/03/2014 - 2:00pm

April 5, 2010, WikiLeaks Publishing Organisation downloaded caches of hundreds of thousands of emails and the Collateral Murder Tape, bringing truth to the world. April 5, 2014, Western Australians will have the opportunity to elect the world's 1st WikiLeaks Party parliamentarian and bring truth in and to Government.

Please view this 53 second clip and then please consider sharing it far and wide, day in day out.

WGAR News: Urgent Congress meetings to be held over next few days in major Australian cities

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 27/01/2014 - 4:16pm

Newsletter date: 27 January 2014

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* Anthony Stewart, ABC Indigenous: Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts
* SNAICC News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

* ANTHONY STEWART, ABC INDIGENOUS: INDIGENOUS CONGRESS VOWS TO GO ON DESPITE FUNDING CUTS

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ABC Indigenous: Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-16/indigenous-congress-vows-to-go-on-...

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SNAICC - Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care

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SNAICC News

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

Anthony Stewart

ABC Indigenous

Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters

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Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts

TREATY - Change.org petition for Treaty - please sign and share

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 20/01/2014 - 9:13am

Petitioning the Australian Government, To the Prime Minister, To the Attorney-General
TREATY

Go the change.org petition site to read and sign the petition - here: http://www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/to-the-australian-government-to-th...

TREATY is the justice - when TREATY is here, "that'd be the justice" said a Central Desert Elder to me.

When we settle for less, in general we are left with 'the less', period.

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WGAR News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters [around Australia]: SNAICC

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 19/01/2014 - 1:35pm

Newsletter date: 20 January 2014

Contents:

* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples - A National Voice
* Congress: Message from Co-Chairs Les Malezer and Kirstie Parker
* SNAICC News: Defunding of NATSILS and Congress raises major concerns
* SNAICC News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters
* Congress Events: Unite & Support Strong Black Voices
* Brooke Boney, NITV News: Audit chief: No guarantee Indigenous spending will be immune from cuts
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

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National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

Brooke Boney

Les Malezer

Kirstie Parker

National Congress of Australia's First Peoples - A National Voice

Congress Co-Chairs Les Malezer and Kirstie Parker

Defunding of NATSILS and Congress raises major concerns

Congress Events - Unite and Support Strong Black Voices

Audit chief - No guarantee Indigenous spending will be immune from cuts

WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day Events: Sun 26 January 2014

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 15/01/2014 - 8:48pm

Newsletter date: 16 January 2014

Last updated: 16 January 2014

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* Background to Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day
* Adelaide events
* Alice Springs event
* Brisbane and Queensland events
* Melbourne and Victoria events
* Perth events
* Sydney and NSW events

* BACKGROUND TO SOVEREIGNTY DAY, INVASION DAY AND SURVIVAL DAY

Event: Sun 26 January 2014: various locations in Australia
Sovereignty Day / Invasion Day / Survival Day / Day of Mourning
"'Australia Day', also known as Survival Day,
Invasion Day and Sovereignty Day:

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Peace Activists face court over Talisman Saber arrests

Submitted by kimk on Sun, 05/01/2014 - 9:08pm

UPDATE: ALL CHARGES DROPPED! Four Brisbane peace activists will appear in the Rockhampton Magistrates Court at 9am Monday, January 6, 2014 for charges related to resisting the 2013 Talisman Saber military exercise which took place July 15- August 5, last year. Jim Dowling, David Sprigg, Andy Paine, and Robin Taubenfeld were arrested on July 19 for lying on the road outside the Rockhampton Army Barracks.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - November 29

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 29/11/2013 - 2:53pm

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - 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.

How many more suicides will it take?

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 20/09/2013 - 10:58pm

by Gerry Georgatos of The Stringer, The National Indigenous Times, the National Indigenous Radio Service - September 20th, 2013 - Two years ago, as part of my academic research into the prevalence of suicides in Australia, particularly among Aboriginal youth, to my horror I discovered that Aboriginal youth suicides are tragically at record high levels – that spates of Aboriginal youth suicides are proportionately the world’s highest rates. Aboriginal youth is suiciding at the world’s highest rates.

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