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WGAR News: Djiniyini Gondarra message to ALP conference; Analysis by Hilary Tyler and Paddy Gibson

Newsletter date: 7 December 2011

Contents:
* Herald Sun: Aboriginal leader takes fight to Europe
* ABC: Major Arnhem Land employer in financial trouble
* Video: Rev Dr Djiniyini Gondarra message to ALP conference
* Dr Hilary Tyler and Paddy Gibson: Still no evidence for Macklin’s Intervention
* Jon Altman: The cunning of consultation: school attendance and welfare reform
* 2SER's Razors Edge: Labor looking lost on Poverty
* Eva Cox: Stronger Futures demands are un-Australian
* Manuwangku, Under the Nuclear Cloud exhibition: support needed!
* What's Working: Valery's Bus

Occupy Melbourne “Tent Monster” stripped and assaulted by Council workers and police

A day after the video of Occupy Melbourne “Tent Monsters” went viral, revealing the absurdity of the Melbourne City Council and police harassment of Occupy Melbourne, the authorities have responded with another display of brutality. As if offended by the display of non-violent creative resistance police and council officers today stripped “Tent Monster” Sarah of her the tent she was wearing as her clothes. Despite being repeatedly told she was not wearing any clothes other than the tent, it was removed with some violence, leaving her only clad in her underwear in a public park.
Related:Liberty Victoria condemns police -- OM press release -- OM tent monsters chase off the Victoria Police!
Footage of the assault 10min version -- 90 second version -- 5 min version -- Sarah confronts police after assault

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Woman sexually assaulted at OM: Officer identified

Truth Media has identified the main officer responsible for a serious attack in Melbourne today. (see attached file) An innocent 20 year-old woman was sexually assaulted by a gang of Melbourne City Council and Victoria Police Officers in Flagstaff Gardens. She was protesting against the unjust power of corporations as part of 'Occupy Melbourne'. There is no suggestion that the pig has done anything unlawful.

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OM Press Release: “Occupy Melbourne woman stripped in public by Police ”

TUESDAY, 6th DECEMBER, 2011 This morning at 8:45am a peaceful Occupy Melbourne Protester was forcibly stripped of her protest costume and discarded on the ground in her underwear in public.

The individual in question was part of the Occupy Melbourne protest and was dressed in a protest costume made from a converted tent. The significance of the costume was to highlight restrictions placed on protesters staging a 24/7 protest in Flagstaff Gardens.

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Liberty Victoria condemns police action at Occupy Melbourne protest

6 December 2011 Liberty Victoria today condemned police interference with Occupy Melbourne demonstrators in the Flagstaff Gardens this morning, 6 December 2011. At approximately 8.30 am, several police officers approached a female demonstrator who was wearing a small tent.

This appeared to be the demonstrator’s way of protesting against an instruction by Melbourne City Council that no tents should be permitted in the Gardens.

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Conservationists in tree canopy lead way for tiny Leadbeater’s Possum

                                  Conservationists in tree canopy lead way for tiny Leadbeater’s Possum

Logging has been halted today in the Toolangi State Forest, in the Central Highlands just an hour and a half north of Melbourne. 

“The forests of the Central Highlands have been decimated by years of unsustainable logging and more recently by bushfire. Any forest left standing must be immediately protected from logging”, said spokesperson for the group, Luke Pavia.

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'ACROSS THE WATER' WEST PAPUA - BOUGANVILLE VIDEO NIGHT

Date and Time: 
Tue, 13/12/2011 -
6:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Ross House 247 Flinders Lane Melbourne

Screening the latest documentaries from the campaign against the re-opening of Panguna mine, the attacks against the 3rd Papuan People's Congress, and the 3 month long strike at Freeport mine.

Presented by
West Papua Melbourne
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000297749079
with
Clive Porabou mekamui.wordpress.com/
in conjunction with
Pax Christi
www.paxchristi.org.au/

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Occupy Melbourne Tent Monsters chase off the Victoria Police!

Occupy Melbourne's strategy of "going mobile" to get around the "Notice to comply" orders, continually issued against them by the Melbourne City Council and enforced by the police, was taken to a whole other level today 4th December. Watch the video below to see the Occupy Melbourne "tent monsters" emerge from their tents and literally chase the confused police and council officers out of the Flagstaff Gardens. This is a beautiful example of how creative non-violence can use humour to highlight and undermine the absurd use of state power. The hilarity of these actions does not change the fact that the State is trying to prevent Occupy Melbourne through constant harassment from creating a public space to discuss and organise for a fairer, peaceful and more sustainable world. On the 5th of December the Federal Court will hear a case testing the legality of the Melbourne City Council's actions against OM. May their spirit of resistance stay strong - get down there and support them!
Related: Occupy Melbourne outfoxes council and police -- OM Digest for news about the campaign -- OM Monsters on Youtube

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We are the 1% march

Date and Time: 
Tue, 06/12/2011 -
1:00pm to 2:00pm
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The Old Treasury building at 20 Spring street,
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https://www.facebook.com/events/325263237486915/

WHAT HAVE WE GOT? MOST OF THE MONEY!
WHAT DO WE WANT? THE REST OF IT!

We are the 1% and it's time we showed that shitty 99% that we can take the remaining wealth if we really wanted to, but thanks to our fair, decent, judeo-christian morals bestowed upon us by virtue of ...being superior Angloceltic Caucasians (with a few of the uplifted Chinamen and Negroes), we don't!
It's so very nice of us, one would think.

This is actually a parody event.
It's a real march, but we're taking the piss.

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WGAR News: Interviews with Dianne Stokes, Kylie Sambo and Barbara Shaw

Newsletter date: 3 December 2011

Contents:
* Interview with Dianne Stokes and Kylie Sambo re Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* MAPW: Risks of transporting radioactive waste to Muckaty
* Interview with Barbara Shaw, vocal opponent of the NT intervention
* Michael Anderson: Aboriginal tribal leader off to Europe to challenge Australian sovereignty
* Aboriginal Tent Embassy to mark 40th anniversary
* Michael Mansell: Why The Preamble Is A Hollow Gesture
* ANTaR: Govt commits to act to reduce Aboriginal imprisonment
* Michele Harris, 'concerned Australians': Opinion - NTER Evaluation 2011