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Indigenous Social Justice Association discussion of Justice Reinvestment

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 21/06/2011 - 6:41pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 07/09/2011 -

6:30pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Solidarity Salon 580 Sydney Road Brunswick Melbourne

Contact Name:

Alison Thorne

Contact Phone:

03 9388 - 0062

Contact Email:

alison.thorne@ozemail.com.au

Website:

http://www.isja-msg.com/

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? What might the benefits be? What about the risks? Is this something that grass roots activists should get behind?

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Melbourne

WGAR News: Speeches from Canberra rally against NT waste dump; Upcoming Aboriginal Rights events

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 19/06/2011 - 3:10pm

Newsletter date: 19 June 2011

Contents:
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - From 19 June 2011
* Speeches from Canberra rally against NT waste dump
* Plans for Australia to become world’s nuclear waste dump
* Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump

ABORIGINAL RIGHTS - UPCOMING EVENTS AROUND AUSTRALIA - FROM 19 JUNE 2011:

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

27 May to Sun 9 October 2011: Kalgoorlie, WA
Exhibition: From Little Things Big Things Grow
- Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to Muckaty nuclear waste dump

Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - From 19 June 2011

Plans for Australia to become world’s nuclear waste dump

Media Release: March on World Refugee Day June 19

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 19/06/2011 - 11:50am

Refugee Advocacy Network Press Release Mandatory detention is an inhumane policy that victimises vulnerable people who have committed no crime. It is time to end this unjust policy. In the name of protecting Australian borders, innocent individuals have been deprived of their right to freedom, separated from their families and endured severe mental distress.

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Melbourne

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asylum seekers

mandatory detention

National Day of Action to End Live Export

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/06/2011 - 8:55pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 18/06/2011 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Parliament House, Spring St

Join Us and Thousands of Others Around Australia This Saturday to Help Animals (Rallies will be held at all State Parliament Houses as well as in regional areas). If you’re in Pakenham, you can join the Pakenham Rally to End Live Exports at Burke Park - between Station St & Railway Ave, Pakenham from 10am onwards, Saturday June 18. If you’re in Western VIC (Portland, Warrnambool, Hamilton), you can join the Rally to End Live Exports in Mount Gambier, Ferrers St, outside Council Chambers at 12pm, Saturday June 18.

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Melbourne

Blue Wedges June 2011 update on the state of Port Phillip Bay after dredging

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 16/06/2011 - 8:36pm

1. Portsea beach….or what used to be Portsea beach

As reported in previous newsletters, ever since dredging enlarged the entrance to the Bay, ocean swell has pounded in through The Heads and Portsea beach has been on the slide. It’s still happening.

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Melbourne

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Blue Wedges

Port Phillip Bay dredging

Demand Equal Pay in 2011 - ASU rally and march, 8 June 2011

Submitted by peter on Thu, 16/06/2011 - 5:04pm

8 June was a National Day of Action, with rallies across Australia demanding pay equity for workers in the community and health sector. The rally in Melbourne was held in wet and wintry conditions, but as one speaker said, these did not dampen workers’ resolve to pursue the pay increases that Fair Work Australia had just announced they were entitled to. Several thousand gathered outside Trades Hall to hear speakers before marching through the CBD to Parliament House to make their voices heard there.

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WGAR News: Australia rejects international calls for action

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 14/06/2011 - 9:41am

Newsletter date: 14 June 2011

Contents:
* Australia rejects International Calls for Action
* Endorsing 'An Alternative to the NT Intervention' document
* Funds needed to take delegates to Darwin for Prescribed Area Peoples’ Alliance gathering
* 'Our Generation' awarded ‘Best Campaign Film’
* Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - From 14 June 2011
* Other Northern Territory (NT) Intervention articles
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Other Aboriginal articles

AUSTRALIA REJECTS INTERNATIONAL CALLS FOR ACTION:

- Media Statement

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Endorsing 'An Alternative to the NT Intervention' document

Funds needed to take delegates to Darwin for Prescribed Area Peoples’ Alliance PAPA gathering

'Our Generation' awarded ‘Best Campaign Film’

Aboriginal Rights - Upcoming events around Australia - From 14 June 2011

Amnesty International candle day in Melbourne - 27 May 2011

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 13/06/2011 - 12:10pm

The RMIT branch of Amnesty International Australia marked the annual candle day and the 50th anniversary of the movement with an information day outside the State Library, ending in the evening with speakers and the formation of a human candle on the lawns.

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Delicious Dining for Carbon Offset Project

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 12/06/2011 - 12:18pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 29/06/2011 -

6:30pm to 10:00pm

Location:

Sigiri Restaurant, 338 High Street, Northcote

Contact Phone:

0434 810 631

Contact Email:

jcj.secretary1@gmail.com

Website:

www.journeysforclimatejustice.org.au

Want to offset your carbon footprint and give to a meaningful cause?

Join us for a delicious Sri Lankan buffet to support The River Journey. The River Journey is an exciting partnership between JCJ and ECO-V, a Sri Lankan NGO. ECO-V will train and lead 20 young people on a 12 day journey to visit and assist river communities to respond to the impacts of climate change, and raise national awareness.

$50

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Melbourne

Greenpeace targets BHP Billiton over carbon pollution

Submitted by takver on Sat, 11/06/2011 - 7:08pm

A Busy week for the activists of Greenpeace Australia who did a banner drop outside BHP Billiton headquarters in Melbourne on Monday and followed it up midweek with erecting a Pollution Tax Collection Point at BHP’s Mount Arthur Mine in the Hunter Valley holding up a BHP coal train temporarily.

Youtube Video: BHP Billiton: The Polluter must Pay

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