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WGAR News: Forty uranium mines is the plan for Western Australia: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 04/12/2013 - 4:31pm

Newsletter date: 5 December 2013

Contents:

* Ryan Emery, SBS Radionews: Elder pleads with BHP "don't make me bankrupt"
* Ryan Emery & Greg Dyett, SBS Radionews: Indigenous elder appeals to BHP Billiton
* Babs McHugh, ABC Rural: Aboriginal elder Kevin Buzzacott gets no answer from BHP AGM
* Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge

* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Forty uranium mines is the plan for Western Australia
* WANFA nuclearfree WA, YouTube: WANFA roadshow [an interview with Curtis Taylor]

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Callout! Seeking case studies of WA activists who have been arrested and been found Not Guilty in court.

Submitted by Jerome Keightley on Wed, 04/12/2013 - 2:45pm

Hi there.
I am seeking case studies of WA activists who have been arrested for any charges relating to protest and who have been found Not Guilty in court since January 1st 2008. I am trying to learn as much about the law as I can to help plan more strategically for Direct Action in the future.

I will be sitting with a Barrister some time soon to ask some legal questions so it would be great to have some interesting Not Guilty findings to quiz him on and how they might help us in the future.

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The Stringer weekly newsletter - November 29

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Fri, 29/11/2013 - 2:53pm

Welcome to The Stringer’s weekly newsletter - NEWS update: The Stringer went live February 20, 2013. We are a not-for-profit independent news format. We believe in the importance of independent media with a bent for investigative journalism.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 40 events from 28 November 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 28/11/2013 - 9:23am

Newsletter date: 28 November 2013

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

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

Event: Now Open [as of 27 Nov 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

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Perth Events: Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse + Seminar: Boot prints: Deaths in Custody

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 27/11/2013 - 9:29pm

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

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

Event: Fri 6 December 2013: Perth, WA
Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
Featuring guest speaker, Commissioner Helen Milroy
"Would you like to find out more about the Royal Commission
and how to be involved?
Do you want to share your story and provide information? ... "

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Congo, Libya, Lebanon, Syria, Vietnam, Sri Lanka - help us along

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Wed, 27/11/2013 - 12:20pm

In recent months hundreds of children's wheelchairs have reached each of the Congo, Libya, Lebanon, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Syria. Leaving in the next several days are 506 children's wheelchairs for Pakistan. To donate to the Wheelchairs for Kids Foundation:
ANZ BSB: 016261 - ACC: 267255563
Any school, association, organisation or individual that would like to assist WFKids please contact me - 0430 657 309

Australia, the mother of all jailers of Aboriginal people

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 12:02pm

Gerry Georgatos - http://thestringer.com.au/ - Lo and behold, Australian prison numbers are on the increase, record high – and Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples now comprise nearly one in three of all prisoners. 30 per cent of the Australian prison population is made up of Aboriginal peoples, up from the much touted 26 per cent, the more than one in four of all prisoners. As a researcher in custodial systems and as a prison reform advocate I predicted the rise, accurately.

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Thousands of children evicted – nowhere to go

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 11:55am

Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/ - Recently in Western Australia, an 86-year-old grandmother, an Aboriginal lady, was threatened with eviction for non-payment of a state-housing water bill. Her eviction has only been stalled by the intervention of Kimberley parliamentarian, Kija woman Josie Farrer. Recently, two Perth families, once again Aboriginal, with 9 children and 11 children were evicted from their homes.

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Help us assist children in 68 countries

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 11:48am

Brother Olly Pickett was building wheelchairs for children in a tiny workshop in Cambodia when he came across one of the youngest workers in the group. Brother Pickett told ABC journalist, Stephanie Dalzell, that the 15-year-old amputee was propped up on his knees, undeterred by the rough concrete floor he was kneeling on.

He was helping construct one of a dozen wheelchairs for children on the outskirts of the town who struggled to get to the local school each day.

Brother Pickett says at the end of his trip, the group decided to give the boy his own wheelchair.

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‘Close the Gap’ – failed

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sat, 23/11/2013 - 11:35am

Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - photo, Palm Island kids, courtesy of NACCHO - http://thestringer.com.au/ - Last week we revealed the lie of $25 billion spent on Indigenous disadvantage, and several weeks ago we revealed that almost 1000 Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders died from suicide throughout Australia between 2001 to 2010, and that we estimate this national epidemic is probably twice the reported numbers.

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