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Upcoming Melbourne Aboriginal rights for your diary - 7 events from 16 March 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 14/03/2012 - 5:30pm

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Event: Fri 16 March 2012: Melbourne, Vic
Rally for Aboriginal Cultural Education
Save Ballerrt Mooroop College
"Ballieu's government is attempting to close
Melbourne's Last Indigenous School.
This will be met with peaceful community
resistance and a rally from Parliament to the
Minister for Education's office in Collins St."
Event details: http://www.greenleft.org.au/events/50333

Event: 21 March 2012: various locations internationally
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

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Melbourne

Victoria

WGAR News: 28 Leading Australians call on government to abandon the Stronger Futures legislation

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 14/03/2012 - 4:23pm

Newsletter date: 14 March 2012

Contents:
* Statement supported by 28 Leading Australians
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Nuclear waste dump laws pass the Senate
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 19 events from 14 March 2012

* STATEMENT SUPPORTED BY 28 LEADING AUSTRALIANS:

- The Statement

Statement supported by 28 Leading Australians

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Northern Territory Intervention

More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

Background to Stronger Futures new NT Intervention laws

Nuclear waste dump laws pass the Senate

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 19 events from 14 March 2012

Bring Julian Assange home - national rallies alert

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 13/03/2012 - 6:21pm

BRING JULIAN ASSANGE HOME!
Stating that a decision on Julian Assange's extradition will likely be issued in the next 6 days, Julian's mother, Christine Assange is calling on Australians to get ready for snap rallies across the country, as the decision should come down between March 6 - 14th 2012. This is close to home. When someone is dragged from the pack, we go back for them. It is expected that the appeal outcome to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden will be announced between March 6 - 14.

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Wikileaks Solidarity Rally

Violence breeds violence, police brutality is just not on, shouldn't be!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 13/03/2012 - 3:44pm

Some call for police to stop investigating police, others call for just common decency, when will police be brought into line with the rest of us, and for their sakes too, in being held accountable for behaviour that just makes it too difficult for us to trust in each other?

WGAR News: "Hear the voice of the people!": Video of Senate hearing at Maningrida 22 February 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 13/03/2012 - 7:49am

Newsletter date: 13 March 2012

Contents:
* "Hear the Voice of the People!": Video of Senate Hearing at Maningrida 22 February 2012
* Sisters of St Joseph question 'Stronger Futures Legislation'
* Bishop Saunders calls NT Intervention Policy a "travesty"
* Amnesty: Policies of exclusion continue in NT remote Indigenous housing programs
* Book Review: 'NT Consultation Report 2011 - By Quotations'
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Petition to Save Ballerrt Mooroop College

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Northern Territory Intervention

More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

Background to Stronger Futures new NT Intervention laws

Sisters of St Joseph question Stronger Futures Legislation

Bishop Saunders calls NT Intervention Policy a travesty

Amnesty International Australia - Policies of exclusion continue in NT remote Indigenous housing programs

Book Review - NT Consultation Report 2011 - By Quotations

Petition to Save Ballerrt Mooroop College

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 17 events from 13 March 2012

Victorians want Baillieu state government to act on climate change, clean energy

Submitted by takver on Sun, 11/03/2012 - 1:09am

Most Victorians want more action on climate change and renewable energy from the Baillieu State Government according to a new public opinion survey commissioned by Environment Victoria.

The survey was conducted in late December 2011 and early January 2012 involving a series of questions to over 1000 people in Victoria conducted by Essential Media, a professional market survey company. The primary results show that 76 percent of Victorians expect the State Government to take action to reduce greenhouse pollution rather than leaving tackling climate change to the federal sphere of politics. There is also massive support for the implementation of renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, and just 22 per cent believe the 2km wind farm veto is fair.

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To get the justice done, the splintered, shard-like "left" needs to coalesce

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 09/03/2012 - 11:32pm

Gerry Georgatos

The compassionate left wing screams for social justice and argues for our governments and society's institutions to have a heart and help people from the bottom end up, and to desist with the proposition that they can achieve for the downtrodden by working from the top end of town and down.

The bona fide left wing is fractious and forever splintering and yet it calls out for groundswells of people power to coalesce in mass social movements which will give rise to cultural waves.

WGAR News: New report into Stronger Futures consultations by Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 09/03/2012 - 3:39pm

Newsletter date: 9 March 2012

Contents:
* New report into 'Stronger Futures' consultations by Jumbunna
* Former PM Malcolm Fraser launches new report into consultations
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 9 March 2012

* NEW REPORT INTO 'STRONGER FUTURES' CONSULTATIONS BY JUMBUNNA:

- The Report

Jumbunna, University of Technology Sydney:

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Northern Territory Intervention

More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

Former PM Malcolm Fraser launches new report into consultations

Background to Stronger Futures new NT Intervention laws

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 9 March 2012

WGAR News: Our Generation and ANTaR have launched a new video and campaign

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 08/03/2012 - 12:39pm

Newsletter date: 8 March 2012

Contents:
* Our Generation and ANTaR have launched a new video and campaign
* Proposed Stronger Futures laws "will kill Aboriginal people"
* Write to Senators re Stronger Futures laws
* NT Intervention panel discussion by Dr John Falzon, Lynette De Santis and Adam Giles
* More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention legislation
* "WA stolen wages offer 'cruel and heartless', says legal service" GLW
* "We are lucky Bob Carr was not appointed Indigenous Affairs Minister!" Gerry Georgatos

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to Stronger Futures new NT Intervention legislation

Proposed Stronger Futures laws will kill Aboriginal people

Write to Senators re Stronger Futures laws

NT Intervention panel discussion by Dr John Falzon Lynette De Santis and Adam Giles

More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

WA stolen wages offer 'cruel and heartless'

says legal service - GLW

We are lucky Bob Carr was not appointed Indigenous Affairs Minister! - Gerry Georgatos

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 20 events from 8 March 2012

Easter convergence 2012: free the refugees, end mandatory detention

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/03/2012 - 6:41pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 05/04/2012 - 7:00am to Mon, 09/04/2012 - 10:00pm

Location:

Darwin, Villawood and other detention centres across Australia

Website:

https://www.facebook.com/events/278228758899942/

REFUGEE MOVEMENT CALL TO ACTION…
Easter 2012: converge on Darwin!

When we again protest during Easter next year, it will mark 10 years since the refugee rights movement’s first Easter convergence—Woomera 2002, when busloads of protesters from across the country met magnificent protests by detainees, many of whom leapt through the fence and literally into the arms of the movement.

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