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MCN: Celebrating Campaign Success

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 07/05/2013 - 11:19am

Date and Time:

Thu, 30/05/2013 -

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Ross House, Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Contact Name:

Holly Hammond

Website:

http://plantowin.net.au/2013/04/may-mcn/

Is the state of Australian politics getting you down? Get a pre-election morale boost from the Melbourne Campaigners’ Network.
* Celebrate and acknowledge recent campaign wins and significant wins from social movement history.
* Learn how to use stories and experiences of success to build momentum and move people to action.
* Come along with successes we can celebrate - big or small, recent or distant!

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - May 4

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 2:29pm

The Stringer went live February 20 - NEWS update: More contributors and writers have joined The Stringer as we continue to extend our reach nationally and internationally. We are also keen to share with you that in the 73 days we have been bringing to you The Stringer we have been reaching an audience in such high numbers that it was beyond our expectations. We are establishing a healthy national reach but also an international social reach.

The Prime Minister believes she will win September 14

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 04/05/2013 - 1:00pm

Every poll nationwide portrays either a decisive or catastrophic defeat for the Australian Labor Party come September. But the Office of the Prime Minister has gone heavy into campaign strategies since late last year according to our source. These include not just make overs for the Prime Minister but the commissioning of their own polls and surveys.

Read the whole story here: http://thestringer.com.au/prime-minister-believes-she-will-win/#.UYR3A7W...

WGAR News: Ongoing racism and abuse at Brisbane [Aboriginal] Sovereign Embassy: Sovereign Union

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 03/05/2013 - 2:07pm

Newsletter date: 4 May 2013

Contents:

* Michael Anderson: Don't sign your sovereign rights away with ILUAs [Indigenous Land Use Agreements]
* The Stringer: Ceding Sovereignty for a few crumbs
* Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson & Mary Graham
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies

* Sovereign Union: Ongoing racism and abuse at Brisbane Sovereign Embassy
* Sovereign Union Audioboo: Musgrave Park Arrests - Wayne Coco Wharton Interview

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Aboriginal Tent Embassies

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Sovereign Union

Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy

Aunty Lilla Watson and Mary Graham

Wayne Coco Wharton

The Stringer

Indigenous Land Use Agreements - ILUAs

sovereign rights

Ceding Sovereignty

Musgrave Park Arrests

Michael Anderson - Sovereign Union - Don't sign your sovereign rights away with ILUAs

The Stringer - Ceding Sovereignty for a few crumbs

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Aunty Lilla Watson & Mary Graham

Sovereign Union Audioboo - Musgrave Park Arrests - Wayne Coco Wharton Interview

4ZZZ Brisbane - BCC clash with Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy - Kevin Arjin Interview

Workers Bush Telegraph - Why the sacred fire is important to everyone

Australian - Aboriginal actors refused taxis four times before being racially abused

Australia’s Aboriginal children detained at the world’s highest rates

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 02/05/2013 - 4:31pm

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/

In the United States, the Annie Casey Foundation’s report ‘No Place for Kids: The Case for Reducing Juvenile Incarceration,’ has an assembly of juvenile crime statistics that evidence why locking up children does not work. The United States has the highest documented incarceration rates of adults and children than any other nation.

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Feature

Melbourne events: Human Rights and the Northern Territory + Film Screening of 'Our Generation'

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 7:43pm

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

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

Event: Thu 2 May 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Next Meeting:
Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne:
http://www.isja-msg.com/index.htm
"During 2013, ISJA will meet the
first Thursday of every month."
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm

Event: Fri 3 May 2013: Grovedale, Geelong, Vic
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Speakers:

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Northern Territory Intervention

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 47 events from 2 May 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 01/05/2013 - 5:58pm

Newsletter date: 2 May 2013

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

Event: Fri 3 May 2013: Grovedale, Geelong, Vic
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Speakers:
Auntie Betty Pike, Elder from the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Victoria

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Refugee advocates rally to support refugees in immigration limbo at Broadmeadows

Submitted by takver on Sun, 28/04/2013 - 11:18pm

Over 300 people gathered to support the 55 asylum seekers in immigration detention at the Broadmeadows Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) Centre, organised by the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria). 55 asylum seekers have refugee status but are in immigration limbo as they have adverse security assessments from ASIO with no right of appeal or ability to question ASIO's sources. More than 30 of these people are locked up at Broadmeadows, some for more than 4 years, with no end in sight.

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Refugee Action Collective