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WGAR News: Petition calling for a national moratorium on government’s income management

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 06/09/2011 - 11:57am

Newsletter date: 6 September 2011

Contents:
* Indigenous groups challenge 'Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination'
* Petition calling for a moratorium on Income Management
* Upcoming 'Save the Kimberley' events
* Environmentalists: Kimberley Heritage listing inadequate
* AMSANT: Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker
* Unions support Aboriginal opposition to nuclear waste dump
* Remembering Wave Hill Walk-Off
* Sydney activists celebrate Wave Hill Walk-Off
* "Walk With Us" presents views of NT Elders on Intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Indigenous groups challenge 'Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination'

Upcoming 'Save the Kimberley' events

Environmentalists - Kimberley Heritage listing inadequate

AMSANT - Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker

Unions support Aboriginal opposition to nuclear waste dump at Muckaty

Remembering Wave Hill Walk-Off

Sydney activists celebrate Wave Hill Walk-Off

'Walk With Us' presents views of NT Elders on Intervention

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 33 events from 6 September 2011

Ballert Mooroop strong spirit festival

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 8:53pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 16/09/2011 - 6:30pm to Sat, 17/09/2011 - 1:00am

Location:

Northcote Uniting Church, 251 High St, Northcote, Victoria.

Join us for a very special night to celebrate Indigenous culture and raise awareness of the struggle to save Ballerrt Mooroop College, Melbourne's last Indigenous school. The Ballerrt Mooroop Strong Spirit Festival brings you an amazing mix of four of the most gifted Indigenous performers in the country and the high energy, socially conscious music of Melbourne's best local talent.

Geography:

Melbourne

Book group: Leon Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 6:45pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 17/10/2011 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

580 Sydney Road Brunswick

Contact Name:

Freedom Socialist Party

Contact Phone:

03 9388 - 0062

Contact Email:

freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Website:

www.socialism.com/melbourne

Monday 17 October, 7:00 pm

How do we change the world? For anyone searching for an answer, this discussion circle is a must! Discover the essential writings on workers’ power, internationalism and social transformation by Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Participate in a lively exploration of the relevance of these ideas to global rebellion today. A new re-issue of the book is available for purchase for $24 from Solidarity Salon.

Dinner served at 6:30 pm for an $8 donation.

Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick.

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Melbourne

Book group: Leon Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 6:36pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 03/10/2011 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

580 Sydney Road Brunswick

Contact Name:

Freedom Socialist Party

Contact Phone:

03 9388 - 0062

Contact Email:

freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Website:

www.socialism.com/melbourne

Commences Monday 3 October, 7:00 pm and then every second Monday until 17 October

Dinner served at 6:30 pm for an $8 donation.

Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick.

Geography:

Melbourne

Book group: Leon Trotsky’s Permanent Revolution

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 6:08pm

Date and Time:

Mon, 19/09/2011 -

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

580 Sydney Road Brunswick VIC 3056

Contact Name:

Freedom Socialist Party

Contact Phone:

03 9388 - 0062

Contact Email:

freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au

Website:

www.socialism.com/melbourne

Commences Monday 19 September, 7:00 pm and then every second Monday until 17 October

Dinner served at 6:30 pm for an $8 donation.

Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick.

Geography:

Melbourne

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 4 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 04/09/2011 - 7:55am

Newsletter date: 4 September 2011

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Ongoing protest: James Price Point, Kimberley, WA
Kimberley gas plant protest
Save the Kimberley info: http://www.savethekimberley.com/
Kimberley gas plant threatens Aboriginal culture: http://ccr.uws.edu.au/2011/06/22/kimberley-gas-plant-threatens-aborigina...
Aboriginal elder Elsta Foy at the protest camp: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3296152.htm
Protest updates: http://www.savethekimberley.com/wp/blog/

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Northern Territory Intervention

Our Generation film screenings

Upcoming Melbourne & Vic Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 6 events from 7 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 03/09/2011 - 6:25pm

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Event: Wed 7 September 2011: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Indigenous Social Justice Association:
Discussion of Justice Reinvestment
"On to 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission into
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody ANTAR issued a statement
criticising the lack of progress and putting forward a
range of strategies, including Justice Reinvestment,
a program being trialed in a number of U.S. States.
This meeting will discuss this program and evaluate its
usefulness in the Australian context"

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Last Wurundjeri school awaits government ministers' decision

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 02/09/2011 - 9:43pm

In Wurundjeri Country sits the only Aboriginal School since the christian William Thomas established a school on the Merri Creek in the 1830's. Today the only Aboriginal school Ballerrt Mooroop College may have its cultural heritage desecrated for sewerage pipes, better views and car parks to be built for the new $20m disability school, a prospect not welcomed by the Public.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

Defending Indigenous Rights

Save Ballert Mooroop College

Farms not fossil fuels - activists arrested at protest against planned coal mine at Bacchus Marsh - Melbourne, 1 Sept 2011- Updated 19 September

Submitted by peter on Fri, 02/09/2011 - 9:49am

Four anti-coal activists were arrested yesterday following the occupation of finance company Cygnet Capital's Melbourne office in protest at its backing of a projected open-cut coal mine at Bacchus Marsh.

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Malalai Joya talk: Ten Years After 9/11 - Pakistan Afghanistan and the Struggle for Democracy

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 02/09/2011 - 6:31am

Date and Time:

Sat, 03/09/2011 -

6:30pm to 7:30pm

Location:

BMW Edge, Federation Square

Malalai Joya shot to prominence in 2005 as a female parliamentarian in the National Assembly of Afghanistan. Since then, she's defied death threats from warlords and Islamists to speak out for the rights of women, and against corruption and foreign occupation. In this seminal address, a week before the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, she talks about what militarism and the 'war on terror' has meant for ordinary people in a region wracked by violence.

This event is part of the Melbourne writers festival and tickets must be purchased through the: costs $30 or $27 concession.

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Melbourne