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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 48 events from 30 September 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 29/09/2013 - 1:22pm

Newsletter date: 30 September 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: 29th September 2013: Fremantle, Perth, WA
Murru: In Memory of John Pat Album Launch
"Big hART and the community of Ieramugadu (Roebourne)
proudly present the Album Launch of Murru
- a music collaboration between John Bennett, Shellie Morris,
Emma Donovan, Archie Roach, Lucky Oceans, Harry Hookey,
Bill Chambers, the Last Kinection, Trevor Jamieson,

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Melbourne events: ISJA Meeting + Film Real: Backroads + Henry Reynolds on the 'Forgotten War'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 29/09/2013 - 11:19am

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: Thu 3 October 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Next Meeting: Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne
"During 2013, ISJA will meet the first Thursday of every month."
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm

Event: Tuesday 8 October 2013: Footscray, Vic
Film Real: Black Screen October
Backroads
"Four men, one woman … a stolen Pontiac.
Joined by desperation and anger, bound for tragedy.
Speeding recklessly across the … Backroads"

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: "National Day of Action Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody John Pat Died 30 Years Ago"

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 27/09/2013 - 10:10am

Newsletter date: 27 September 2013

Contents:

* Upcoming Events - National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
* Deaths in Custody Watch Committee WA: National Day of Action Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody John Pat Died 30 Years Ago - Still No Justice!
* Deaths in Custody Watch Committee WA: National Day of Action - your support can make a difference
* The Wire: Aboriginal deaths in custody, remembering John Pat [Featuring Marc Newhouse and Rodney Dillon]
* SBS Radio News: Anniversary of deaths in custody Royal Commission

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Melbourne Rally: No to war against Syria! End the US-Australia military alliance!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 26/09/2013 - 9:38pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 05/10/2013 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

State Library, Swanston Street, 12pm.

Website:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/09/26/rall-s26.html

The Socialist Equality Party and International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) are sponsoring rallies in Sydney and Melbourne to oppose the preparations by the US Obama administration, backed by the Australian government, for war against Syria.

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Melbourne

OMISSIONS OF EMISSIONS: OUR ENVIRONMENT, LIVESTOCK AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 23/09/2013 - 7:37pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 12/10/2013 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Yarran Dheran Information Centre, Mitcham Mel 49 B6 (Enter from Ashburton Drive)

Contact Name:

Monique Decortis

Contact Phone:

9719 7661

Contact Email:

decortis@bigpond.net.au

Website:

http://mullummullumfestival.org.au

Presented by environmental and animal rights campaigner Paul Mahony

Paul will talk about the anthropogenic climate change crisis and demonstrate the impact of animal agriculture on climate and thus the environment we live in, and care about. Paul will also discuss measures that must be taken if we are to overcome the crisis.

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Melbourne

PALESTINE PUBLIC FORUM: We won't be Silenced! Pro-Palestine activists speakout: BDS, Lawfare and Free Speech

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 23/09/2013 - 3:44pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 03/10/2013 -

6:30pm to 9:00pm

Location:

KALEIDE THEATRE, BUILDING 8, 360 SWANSTON ST, MELBOURNE CITY

Website:

http://ozcoalitionagainstisraeliapartheid.wordpress.com/

Special Guest Speaker: Professor Emeritus Stuart Rees, Director, Sydney Peace Foundation at the University of Sydney

Other guest speakers:
Naomi Farmer - Max Brenner 19
Nada Breik- Palestinian activist, Students for Palestine

Plus: LAUNCH of new Students for Palestine Zine.

PUBLIC FORUM organised by Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid and Students for Palestine (Victoria).

Kaleide Theatre, RMIT
Building 8, 360 Swanston St, Melbourne City
entry by donation

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Melbourne

Space for Dissent | Panel discussion

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 22/09/2013 - 9:58pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 03/10/2013 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Elisabeth Murdoch Building, Victorian College of the Arts, 234 St Kilda Road, Melbourne

Contact Email:

words@architectsforpeace.org

Website:

http://urbantalks.blogspot.com.au/2013/09/space-for-dissent-panel-discussion.html

The recent Australian federal election was undeniably won in large part on a cynical appeal to economic self-interest, underpinned by the success of the major media outlets and other wealthy pressure groups in advancing their own interests. We have seen human rights violations packaged by both sides of politics as 'tough but fair' policy, and either ignored or actively supported by the wider public. The health of our democracy is in question, and with it, the welfare of our society as a whole.

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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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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 42 events from 20 September 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 19/09/2013 - 2:21pm

Newsletter date: 20 September 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Fri 20 September, 2013: Sydney, NSW
ISJA Rally DPP
"we will be rallying to strongly urge mr. babb and
his legal team of officers to fully charge those
errant police officers that have been recommended
by the police integrity commission, among other
legal entities, to answer charges for the killings of
adam salter and roberto laudisio curti and the

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Melbourne events: National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody + ISJA Meeting

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 19/09/2013 - 1:42pm

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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Event: 28 September 2013: Melbourne, Vic
Melbourne - Thirty Years But Still No Justice!
National Day of Action to Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody!
Remember John Pat and the hundreds
who have died in custody since!
"Support these demands made by John Pat’s mother, Mavis Pat:
* An apology from the WA government for my son’s death in custody
* An ex-gratia payment as compensation
* That the police officers involved need to be brought to account and

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Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary