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Brutal gang-rape in India is a call to everyone, worldwide, to ensure changes

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 12:44pm

Gerry Georgatos - Inhumanity knows no bounds just as equal to humanity's limitlessness. Recently, in Pakistan a fourteen year old school girl was shot the in head by the Taliban for speaking up for the right of young girls to an education. They stopped the school bus bringing home the children and shot the young Malala. On March 31 a Ukranian teenager died after a brutal gang rape. On December 16 the ugliest inhumanity was broadcast to the whole world when a 23 year old physiotherapy intern was gang raped on a bus in Delhi.

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Michelle Lovegrove (SBS) interviews journalist Gerry Georgatos returned from Roebourne & Yindjibarndi CEO Michael Woodley

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 13/12/2012 - 10:23am

SBS Living Black Michelle Lovegrove interviews Gerry Georgatos on stark contrasts between Yindjibarndi poverty and the wealth nearby, and then Michelle continues on with an interview with Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation CEO Michael Woodley.

https://www.yousendit.com/download/WUJhYnV5Tk1VVG5MYnNUQw

This interviews says quite a lot about it everything wrong in the Pilbara and for Indigenous people all over Australia.

The National Indigenous Times – ‘voice to the voiceless’

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 11/12/2012 - 7:49pm

Published at Indymedia courtesy of the National Indigenous Times (12.12.2012) - Photo courtesy of the National Indigenous Times, by Geoff Bagnall; January 26, Lobby Restaurant

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events from 5 November 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 05/11/2012 - 2:59pm

Newsletter date: 5 November 2012

Updated 22 November 2012 to include new venue for the Adelaide Book Launch on Sun 9 Dec 12

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

Event: Mon 5 November 2012: Glebe, Sydney, NSW
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
To be launched by:
* Graeme Mundine, respected Aboriginal leader and
Executive Officer of Australian Catholic Ministry in Sydney
* Deni Langman, Traditional Owner from
Uluru in Central Australia
* Jeff McMullen AM, well known Journalist and
Indigenous advocate

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FMG/Yindjibarndi - mining deal bombshell - whistleblower blows the lid on Wirlu-murra

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 31/10/2012 - 6:45pm

The National Indigenous Times has run the story of the year - reporter Gerry Georgatos covers solicitor Kerry Savas' claims which blows the lid on the Wirlu murra and FMG - circulate this story, it's the big one that may change things - http://nit.com.au/news/2167-exclusive-mining-deal-bombshell.html
Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation—BULLETIN
http://yindjibarndi.org.au/
Wednesday 31 October 2012
ANOTHER WHISTLEBLOWER DROPS FMG MINING DEAL BOMBSHELL

Nauru - Governments normalising racism while people suffer and die - "there is the smell of death here"

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 21/10/2012 - 11:35am

Gerry Georgatos
The veils and layers of racism are myriad – a trickle of humanity flees from persecution and horrific conditions, from civil strife, to our shores and Australian Governments react with racism, fall into the trap of justifying their racist actions, deeds and words and then normalise the racism and stereotype peoples.

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Paul Keating interviewed by Kerry O'Brien - Sydney Writers Festival

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 12/10/2012 - 8:04am

An interesting twilight years (post prime ministerial) interview of Paul Keating by Kerry O'Brien at last year's Sydney Writers Festival - Sunday October 30, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAOPX5A6GXY

(75 minutes)

Royal Commission or bust on the AWU scandal and Prime Minister Julia Gillard - there is no other way

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 11/10/2012 - 6:41pm

ROYAL COMMISSION or bust into AWU scandal and Prime Minister Julia Gillard, it goes to the highest office in the country with too many involved - from Gillard, Shorten, Ludwig, Roxon and others and of course McClelland too. The questions out there are so many, the allegations everywhere that not having a Royal Commission is bull dust and a different set of rules for the privileged and the elite.

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https://www.indymedia.org.au/2012/08/05/royal-commission-into-the-awu-al...

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Tarkine World Heritage Now!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 04/10/2012 - 2:11pm

MEDIA RELEASE 3/10/12

Tarkine – World Heritage Now!

A group of activists have gathered at the community forum today in Launceston to send a clear message to the Labour Government that the Tarkine needs an emergency world heritage listing.

T-shirts reading “TARKINE HERITAGE LISTING” were displayed outside the community cabinet forum at the Launceston College on Brisbane Street. Members of the newly formed environmental advocacy group GroundSwell maintained a silent peaceful vigil as the cabinet continued inside.

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CLIMATE of DEATH - justice denied means more will die

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 29/09/2012 - 4:23pm

CLIMATE of DEATH - justice denied means more will die, by Gerry Georgatos (courtesy of the National Indigenous Times - nit.com.au)

"We have to get rid of racist cops. I don't want to dwell on the past but I have grown up bitter," said Nyungar Elder Ben Taylor. Mr Taylor is on the mark when he says, "They have been killing our people for two hundred years."

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