Gerry Georgatos
As my PhD progresses in researching Australian Deaths in Custody - I have visited Immigration Detention Centres - visited adult prisons - interviewed former detainees of the Immigration detention centres network - interviewed former prisoners of adult custodial jurisdictions.
Theme: Bushfires a growing impact of climate change
The incidence of extreme and catastrophic fire weather days is predicted
to increase as a result of climate change. (IPCC). Increased public
awareness of this and other climate impacts is critical to decisive action
on climate change. Help bring this message to other hills residents.
This will be one of many events across the globe focusing public attention
on the many impacts that climate change is already having on people,
Newsletter date: 2 April 2012
Click on the links for details of the events ...
Event: 11 February 2012 to 26 May 2012: South Bank, Brisbane, Qld
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
Event description: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/
Event location: http://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/from_little_things_big_things_grow/tra...
Event: Intermittent 1 March - 3 May 2012: Various Locations
House of Representatives Committees
Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities
These Machines Cut Razor Wire 2012 Lineup
Posted on February 26, 2012
These Machines Cut Razor Wire, a fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, is back in 2012 with an incredible lineup of pro-refugee artists and bands including
JEFF LANG
“Seeing Jeff Lang was like being at church for three hours – a totally sacred event. He’s the man as far as I’m concerned.” John Butler
THE STETSON FAMILY
BELL ST DELAYS (Tracy McNeil, Luke Sinclair and Matt Green)
FRASER A GORMAN
UNCLE BILL (lead by Gerry Hale)
THE CARTRIDGE FAMILY (lead by Sarah Carroll)
Last November more than 200 workers walked off the job at the Baiada Poultry processing plant in Laverton in Melbourne’s western suburbs. These workers, alongside community supporters, maintained a picket line for 12 days, eventually winning significant improvements to their pay, conditions, and union rights.
Come along to the public launch of this new pamphlet, published by Socialist Alternative, on the lessons of the Baiada strike and how striking workers can win.
Featuring:
The Lizard is rising up through our industrial wasteland to warn us about the potential apocalyptic endeavours of BHP in the sacred sands of northern S.A. BHP plans to expand Olympic Dam mine to be the biggest uranium mine in the world... so to raise some funds to mobilise the Desert Liberation Front into action at the gates of the mine on the 14th of July, 2012. Come enjoy an evening of performance and music with Melbourne's best!
-Rapskallion
-Combat Wombat
-Porcelain Punch
-Of Prey
-Racless
-Monkeymarc
-Flying Rats
-Dj Sofi fiya
-Dj Helmy
-Sam Star
-Dame Dusky
-Last Measure
April 20 is our day... It's cannabis day, a day to celebrate the spliff, glory in the ganja and revel in the heady aroma of freedom... to be. Change is in the air people, let's celebrate!
For one night we Occupy the Cinema for the movie http://www.10terroriststhemovie.com/ . Meet at City Square and march down to the cinema or meet us there. Further information to come on ticket prices/group discount etc.
To make this extra fun I thought we could go dressed as terrorists and have fake security screening at the cinema ? What about a fake cardboard full body scanner outside the cinema ?
Have your say about the security theater we live in.
The workshop reconsiders us as part of nature with all imensions of our being. It challenges our separation from nature as a false
consciousness.
We share in the hope for humanity as a constructive partner with the rest
of the earth's ecology. We explore the interconnections between person,
community, senses of place and local ecosystems.
We will explore the meaning of ecology as we enter into the ecology of
a particular place shaped as it is by its wildness, its human built and its
human perceived. The fusion of Social and Sacred Ecology joins the human-
The protest will march to the Melbourne Immigration Detention Centre
FREE THE REFUGEES
END MANDATORY DETENTION
NO DEPORTATIONS TO DANGER
NO OFFSHORE PROCESSING/DUMPING
Speakers TBC. The protest will fly freedom kites, have a floating banner and a phone hook up to other refugee protests around the country.
