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Curtin Convergence 2011 - Refugee solidarity

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 23/02/2011 - 2:52pm

Date and Time:

Thu, 21/04/2011 - 7:00pm to Wed, 27/04/2011 - 7:00am

Location:

Curtin Detention Centre, RAAF-Curtin Air Force base, about 40 km south of Derby

Website:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=182945988410085

We'll go to Curtin,
to protest against mandatory detention without charge or trial.
We'll go to Curtin,
in solidarity with those imprisoned there.
We'll go to Curtin,
so they'll know they are not forgotten.
We'll go to Curtin,
to peacefully resist injustice.
We'll go to Curtin,
to act on our own conscience.
We'll go to Curtin,
to defy the secrecy and isolation.
We'll go to Curtin,
to give each other strength.
We'll go to Curtin,
to prove that we are determined.
We'll go to Curtin,
to reject racism and xenophobia.
We'll go to Curtin,
for the sake of our own humanity.

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Western Australia

Perth celebrates the end of Mubarak

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 15/02/2011 - 6:01pm

On February 13rh, after 18 days of unrest, local Egyptians from Western Australia joined others worldwide who have long opposed President Hosni Mubarak. There was drumming, dancing, singing and lots of sweet treats. It was a wonderful atmosphere filled with joy and laughter. Game over, Mubarak.

More photos by John Vidovich On Facebook

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R.I.S.E. media release on Curtin hunger strike

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 20/01/2011 - 6:20pm

Over 1100 people are currently in Curtin detention centre in the middle of the desert in Western Australia where most of them have been transferred from Christmas Island detention centre after last year’s freeze on the processing of visas for Afghan detainees. This transfer was done against the recommendations of many human rights and refugee rights advocates. Professor Sev Ozdowski, of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission was reported to have said last year that Curtin was the most wretched of all the detention centres he had investigated.

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Western Australia

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refugee

Curtin Detention Centre

Hunger strike at Curtin detention centre

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 19/01/2011 - 10:57pm

Hundreds of asylum seekers largely from Afghanistan are currently on a hunger strike at Curtin Detention Centre. Many fearing deportation back to war torn Afghanistan after the Australian Government this week struck a deal with the corrupt Karzai government on returning "failed" asylum seekers. One asylum seeker also attempted suicide. Despite attempts by Serco and the Immigration Department to play down the protest, messages form the asylum seekers have started to reach the outside world.
Related: Perth Indymedia -- Project Safe.com press release -- R.I.S.E. Press Release> -- Perth Now coverage -- Sydney Morning Herald coverage

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Global Day of Action for Tasmania's Forest's II

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 30/12/2010 - 10:31pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 15/03/2011 -

7:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Anywhere you want to hold an action!

Following the Global Action for Tasmania's forests on 15 December 2010, with the help of emails and actions in 52 cities in 21 countries around the world, the Tasmanian Government has announced a moratorium on the logging of High Conservation Value forests in Tasmania!

This is a tremendous victory for the conservation of nature BUT the devil is in the detail.

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Farm loses organic certification due to contamination by Monsanto GM canola

Submitted by takver on Sat, 25/12/2010 - 7:09pm

In Western Australia organic farmer Stephen Marsh has had his organic accreditation suspended after independent testing showed his oats and cereal crops had been contaminated by genetically modified (GM) seeds from a neighbouring property in Western Australia's Great Southern region. Tests by the WA Department of Agriculture have confirmed the contamination.

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People’s Assembly in Canberra at the Opening of Parliament

Submitted by Flowerpower on Tue, 14/09/2010 - 7:25pm

Date and Time:

Tue, 28/09/2010 -

11:30am to 1:30pm

Location:

Parliament House the grassy hill Canberra, Australia

Contact Name:

Sue Bolton

Contact Phone:

0413 377 978

Contact Email:

trconcepts@netspace.net.au

We are asking for you to join with us at a Peoples Assembly in Canberra at the opening of Parliament on Tuesday 28 September (2010).

We will assemble on the lawns outside Parliament House to call on the new Parliament to introduce humane refugee policies and stop using refugees as political footballs. Refugee groups are asked to bring banners with the key messages of the gathering as well as their own messages.

No coal mining in Margaret River protest

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 10/09/2010 - 5:18pm

by Conservation Council of Western Australia

Western Australia’s favourite tourist destination, Margaret River is renowned for its wines, surf, forests and natural beauty. It is difficult to imagine a worse place for a dirty industrial coal mine, but that’s exactly what’s being proposed just 15km from the town...

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Margaret River

Coal Mine

WA government seizing Aboriginal land for gas project

Submitted by Flowerpower on Mon, 06/09/2010 - 10:01pm

The WA Government has announced it plans to seize landof land in the Kimberley for a massive liquefied gas project north of Broome. The project will be developed by Woodside, the same company currently planning to cheat East Timor out of billions of revenue. The WA Premier has apparently lost patience after two years of negotiating. The has sparked opposition from local Aboriginal groups, the KLC, the Wilderness Society and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU).

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Western Australia

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Land rights

Call to protest at refusal to prosecute killers of Mr Ward

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 28/06/2010 - 6:01pm

"The decision not to charge two security guards over the heat stroke death of West Australian Aboriginal elder, Mr Ward, in a prison van is as outrageous as the cowardly decision taken by the Queensland DPP in the Mulrunji Doomadgee death on Palm island in 2004. To protect then Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley from facing charges the Qld. DPP overturned the recommendations of acting state coroner, Christine Clements, bravely found (some would say foolishly found) that Hurley definitely had a legal case to answer." said Ray Jackson, President of the Indigenous social justice association.

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