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Rally: End Indefinite Detention, End ASIO Checks on Refugees

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 7:08pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 25/05/2012 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Department of Immigration and Citizenship Melbourne,

At least 56 refugees are facing indefinite detention after being declared a 'security threat' by ASIO. This includes two families with young children. They have no right to review or appeal the decision, nor do they have the right to know the grounds on which they have been rejected. Three Tamil refugees rejected by ASIO have attempted suicide in Broadmeadows detention centre. Alongside this mounting despair inside the camps, there is a growing chorus of outrage against this affront to natural justice.

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Melbourne

Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - 2012 Winter Action

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 2:46pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 11/08/2012 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Location:

Old GPO Corner Burke and Elizabeth St's Melbourne 3000

Contact Name:

Alison Thorne

Contact Phone:

03 9388 - 0062

Contact Email:

alison.thorne@ozemail.com.au

Website:

isja-msg.com

• 31st anniversary of the death of Eddie Murray in Wee Waa (12 June)
• 5th anniversary of an all white jury acquitting Chris Hurley (20 June)
• 27th anniversary of the suspicious prison death of Douglas Scott (5 July)
• 2nd anniversary of the gagging of Lex Wotton when released on bail(19
July)
• 25th anniversary of Bob Hawke’s announcement of the establishment of the
Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (10 August)

• Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody — implement all 339 recommendations of
the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Implement

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Melbourne

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 10 events from 16 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 16/05/2012 - 9:44am

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Event: Wed 16 May 2012: Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane
National Day of Action
in solidarity with the people of Broome
"250 police have converged on Broome, Western Australia,
as the WA Government attempts to crush peaceful
community opposition to a proposed industrial complex
at James Price Point on the pristine Kimberley coast."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://www.kimberleycampaigner.com/stories/national-mobilisation-of-kimb...

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Melbourne

Victoria

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 15 May 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 15/05/2012 - 1:05pm

Newsletter date: 15 May 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 32 events from 15 May 2012

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

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Upcoming Indigenous rights events around Australia

Tamil refugee from the Oceanic Viking attempts suicide overnight

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/05/2012 - 5:45pm

RAC Press Release - 14/5/2012 A Tamil man who was on the Oceanic Viking has attempted suicide in Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation in Broadmeadows overnight. Jasee is the third Tamil with a negative ASIO security clearance to try and take his own life this month. Tamils in this situation face a life of indefinite detention, unable to be returned to Sri Lanka as they have been recognised as refugees, but the Immigration Department refuse to release genuine refugees if they have unappealable negative security clearances from ASIO.

Geography:

Melbourne

Keywords:

human rights

asylum seeker

Australia's Mandatory Detention

ASIO security clearance

self-harm

Bank Street Market - South Melbourne Commons

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 14/05/2012 - 4:51pm

Date and Time:

Sat, 19/05/2012 -

10:00am to 2:00pm

Location:

Corner Bank & Montague Street South Melbourne

Contact Email:

bstmarket@hotmail.com

Website:

http://bankstreetmarket.blogspot.com

The Big Bank Street Market is on again this Saturday May 19th at the South Melbourne Commons. Be sure to make it part of your weekend plans. Discover an array of quality vintage, handmade, designer flea & eco-friendly arts, crarts & retro clothing at the Bank Street Market. The first Bank Street Market was a big success with over 30 stalls and 500 visitors on the day. They Commons came to life with colour, music and bargan hunters and Melbourne turned on the weather to make it a day to remember.

Geography:

Melbourne

RAAF 2012 Ideas to Change the World

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 13/05/2012 - 8:43pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 27/07/2012 - 9:00am to Sun, 29/07/2012 - 5:00pm

Location:

Trades Hall 54 Victoria Street, Melbourne, VIC 3053

Renegade Activists presents to you a weekend of ideas to challenge Capitalism. Over the last year we have seen and been involved in vastly different struggles taking on the system.

The world rose as one to Occupy and the Arab spring rocked the very foundations of the system.
Leaders have come and gone and not just in Canberra and austerity cuts have forced people the world over into struggle.

On top of the economic crises we still face the environmental impacts of human made climate change.
With an Environmental movement (mainly) unwilling to put blame at the problem Capitalism.

Geography:

Melbourne

Civil Liberties Fundraiser: Determined to Protest

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 8:46pm

Date and Time:

Fri, 18/05/2012 -

7:00pm to 9:45pm

Location:

Trades Hall (Cnr Lygon and Victoria St, Carlton)

Contact Name:

Vashti Kenway

Contact Phone:

0410 513 302

Contact Email:

vashtijane@gmail.com

Website:

www.boycottisrael19.com

There are currently two major political trials going on in the Australian court system. Firstly there are the 16 pro-Palestine protesters who are on trial for their participation in a demonstration against the Israeli owned Max Brenner chocolate shop. They are facing fines of tens of thousands of dollars for the 'crime' of 'trespassing in a public place.' The other is the Occupy trial - a case which is attempting to defend our legitimate right to public civil disobedience.

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Melbourne

Save the Kimberley solidarity protest

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 4:49pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 16/05/2012 -

5:15pm to 6:15pm

Location:

Outside BP head office (Tower, Melbourne Central, 360 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne),

We have received Reports of more than 100 police arriving in Broome, their intentions look to be to crush the Broome community’s peaceful protest and dismantle all blockade capabilities. They have warned the blockade camp that they must be gone by Wednesday. We need as many people as possible to show our support for those blockading, and send a message to police and Joint Venture Partners that brutality and intimidation will not discourage us, it will only make us stronger.

Geography:

Melbourne

ASIO negative Tamil refugee attempts suicide - second in one month

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 11/05/2012 - 4:45pm

RAC Press Release> Fellow detainees rescued a Tamil refugee who had attempted suicide by hanging from a roof beam at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre at 1.30 am this (Friday) morning.

The Tamil refugee, the first Tamil to receive a negative ASIO finding had been in detention for 37 months. He was taken to hospital by ambulance, unconscious and with a weak pulse. His present condition is not known. The refugee is in his early thirties.

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ASIO security clearance