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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 64 events from 13 January 2014

Newsletter date: 13 January 2014

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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New Event: 23 November 2013 to 18 May 2014: Parkes, Canberra, ACT
I’ve Been Working On The Railway
National Archives of Australia
Curated and toured by: The Workshops Rail Museum
"Through the 1950s, 60s and 70s, there were large scale
developments of rail infrastructure across Australia.
In the hot and dusty environments of the inland north,

WGAR News: John Pilger: Utopia is one of the most urgent films I have made: The Guardian

Newsletter date: 12 January 2014

Contents:

* Respect and Listen: 'Utopia' film has been named among the top five films of 2013
* Respect and Listen: John Pilger's video message about Utopia
* Respect and Listen: Utopia website
* Celeste Liddle, Tracker: Utopia: An Aboriginal perspective
* Chris Graham, Tracker: Utopia: The inside story
* The Guardian: John Pilger's Utopia: meet Felicity and Basil Hayes of Whitegate town camp - video
* The Guardian: John Pilger's Utopia: Meet Patricia Morton-Thomas - video

Hawke Cabinet decision on deaths in custody

Gerry Georgatos - Australians did not have to wait for the National Archives of Australia to release Cabinet papers (for 1987) to find out more about why the Government of Prime Minister Bob Hawke brought on what would become the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. There is nothing in the Cabinet documents that has not been widely known since Prime Minister Hawke moved on the dissent from the rising deaths in custody toll.

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Welcome to The Stringer’s final newsletter for 2013 - "a rise of voices"

NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20, 2013. Ten months later we would like to thank you, our readers, for your support, for accompanying us on this journey thus far. We cannot do what we love to do without you. We thank you, our readers, those of you who continue to share our articles, those of you with your messages of support. Thank you for sharing of our articles and your messages of support and encouragement do mean a great deal to us.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 23 December 2013

Newsletter date: 23 December 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Events: various times during 2014: various locations around Australia
SNAICC Training Workshops will be held Nationally in 2014 -
Through Young Black Eyes & Working and Walking Together
SNAICC: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
Expressions of interest forms and flyers are available from the SNAICC training page:

Statistics speak - as we wander into 2014

Twenty years ago models weighed six per cent less than the average woman, today they weigh 27 per cent less.
African-Americans are taught in schools that Jefferson was a great man, ignoring the fact that he owned 330 slaves and raped his female slaves.
The United States sells an average of $68 billion in weapons each year to middle eastern dictators and ‘kings’.
Since September 2001, terrorism has killed 4300 civilians, the war on terror has killed more than 2 million civilians.
Americans and Europeans throw away enough edible food to feed every starving person in Africa.

Perth Events: Boot prints: Deaths in Custody Seminar + Exhibits: Rosella Namok & Ampilatwatja Artists

Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: 10 December 2013: Bentley, WA
Special Seminar - Boot prints: Reading Inquests and Inquiries into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Professor Sherene Razack University of Toronto
Curtin University
" ... Are Aboriginal deaths in custody any different, then,
than other deaths where the dead are blamed for their own demise? ... "

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 7 December 2013

Newsletter date: 7 December 2013

Updated: 9 December 2013

WGAR events postings for each State and Territory: http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/03/about-wgar-news-wgar-events-postings

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Event: Now Open [as of 9 Dec 13]: Parkes, Canberra, ACT
Insurgence
Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House
"The Insurgence exhibition explores art, with all its
revolutionary potential, deployed as a platform for politics."
"The museum welcomes all voices in the House-
Insurgence is the voice of proppaNOW. Insurgence builds on

Major uranium leak endangers Kakadu - but played down

Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/ - A million litres of radioactive slurry has contaminated Kakadu National Park from a burst tank at Ranger uranium mine. It is a significant toxic accident but it has surprisingly generated relatively minimal news coverage. It took the local Traditional Owners to break the news to Australia.

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