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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 21 events from 12 June 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 12/06/2012 - 12:57pm

Newsletter date: 12 June 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 21 events from 12 June 2012

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Event: 4 May - 8 July 2012: Circular Quay, Sydney, NSW
Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud
Photographs by Jagath Dheerasekara
Curated by Sandy Edwards
Head On Photo Festival
""The photographs are excellent. They are a moving
portrayal of Aboriginal Australia that all Australians
aught to know about on an issue that wont go away."
- John Pilger, Writer and Filmmaker, January 2012"

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Special Public Forum on Racism and Police Violence at Trades Hall, Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/06/2012 - 3:18pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 21/06/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:30pm

Location:

SA Centre, Trades Hall - corner of Victoria St and Lygon St

Website:

www.sa.org.au

Socialist Alternative invites you to a
SPECIAL PUBLIC FORUM
Racism and Police Violence
Thursday June 21, 6:30pm
SA Centre, Trades Hall
(corner of Victoria St and Lygon St)

Speakers:
Tamar Hopkins, Principal Solicitor for Flemington & Kensington Community Legal Centre, industry expert on police and racism
Robbie Thorpe, Aboriginal activist and one of the Organisers of the Victorian Tent Embassy
Gerry Georgatos, Journalist and PhD researcher into Australian deaths in custody and Australian prisons and detention centres
Louisa Bassini, Long-time Socialist and anti-racism activist

Geography:

Geelong

Melbourne

Victoria

Special public forum on racism and police violence at Trades Hall, Melbourne

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/06/2012 - 3:14pm

Socialist Alternative invites you to a
SPECIAL PUBLIC FORUM
Racism and Police Violence
Thursday June 21, 6:30pm
SA Centre, Trades Hall
(corner of Victoria St and Lygon St)

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Koala scam still not reported in mainstream media

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 10/06/2012 - 9:57pm

Sam the scam, Sam the koala is an impostor!

Media release – 13 February 2010

Sam the scam: Sam the Koala is an impostor!

On 12 February a paper was published that for the first time revealed that the stuffed “Sam the Koala” sitting in the National Museum of Victoria is an impostor or fake.

Yes, the original water-drinking Koala is a different animal!

That was a male Koala, later renamed “Bob”, who had been captive as far back as 2006!

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See it to believe it: 3 minute video clip - two human rights activists charged for singing Christmas Carols

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 10/06/2012 - 12:52pm

Human Rights belong to everyone

Our justice system struggles to find the time to prosecute major criminality however has the time to persecute ordinary folk in the business of awareness-raising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkxqt456sqw

Rally outside the Perth Magistrate Court on June 28

Expose about two pro-Palestine activists facing court on June 28, 2012 in Perth, Australia.

Miranda Wood and Alex Bainbridge were charged with trespass for singing modified Christmas carols in December 2011. They face a two day trial beginning 28 June 2012.

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Human Rights Alliance media release - The Australian Government is lying - they told me they knew, and face to face

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 09/06/2012 - 6:43pm

The piecemeal release of a score of Indonesian children from adult prisons is not enough

Another four children have been released from Australian adult prisons, following the three children released several weeks back, and therefore they were wrongly convicted. It is good they are going home to their families.

Country regions right behind the renters rights revolution – now a national movement

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 07/06/2012 - 10:15am

Gerry Georgatos
Renters Alliance (RA) WA coordinator Lea Keenan said that every week now Blackwood residents, renters and some who are home owners, are joining the movement and "are motivated for a united pursuance for legislation to make life fair for everyone."

Rally – August 15 – WA State Parliament – Rallies Australia-wide – October 16 – every capital city and many towns.
http://indymedia.org.au/2012/05/29/renters-rights-rally-wa-august-15-nat...

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 6 June 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 06/06/2012 - 11:18am

Newsletter date: 6 June 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 20 events from 6 June 2012

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Locals blockade Baillieu’s vandalism of iconic Yarra Valley mountain

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 04/06/2012 - 3:30pm

Local residents and environmentalists have this morning (4th June) blockaded the Baillieu government’s logging of the Yarra Valley’s most iconic mountain, Mt St Leonard.

Last week, the Baillieu government’s logging company VicForests sent bulldozers in to Mt St Leonard, one of the most controversial logging locations of recent years. Logging on the side of Mt St Leonard can be viewed from as far away as Kinglake and has residents who survived the 2009 fires fuming.

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Victoria

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logging protest Victoria

Mount St Leonards

Toolangi

Rights campaigner Julian Assange acknowledges his Torres Strait Islander form and content

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 02/06/2012 - 3:47pm

Gerry Georgatos
Global justice campaigner and WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange has contributed his life to standing up for the oppressed and in challenging the world’s most powerful governments and clandestine institutions.

Mr Assange was born in Townsville, Queensland however he readily acknowledges a diverse heritage which he proudly said includes a Torres Strait Islander great-great-grandparent. In his form and content is that of a Thursday Islander, his (step) great-great-grandmother.

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