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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

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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."

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Upcoming Indigenous rights events around Australia

Police amassing at James Price Point (Monday May 14) - after yesterday's 600 people power peaceful protest at Broome Police Station

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 14/05/2012 - 1:22pm

Gerry Georgatos - INDYMEDIA first with this story - Australia needs Indymedia.
Today, Monday May 14, after yesterday's peaceful protest by 600 folk outside Broome Police Station, police are amassing in large numbers at Blacktank camp access route - to ensure Woodside Petroleum geophysical site work for the proposed gas hub precinct at James Price Point. Police are reportedly expected at Manari Road access (near Walmandan Tent Embassy), and Cape Leveque after between 140 to 250 police officers with riot gear arrived in Broome in the last several days.

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The Indigenous culture and heritage of WA’s SouthWest forests - how do we protect it?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 4:12pm

Date and Time:

Wed, 27/06/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:30pm

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City West Lotteries House 2 Delhi St, West Perth 6005

Contact Name:

ccwa

Contact Phone:

(08) 9420 7266

Contact Email:

conswa@ccwa.org.au

Website:

www.ccwa.org.au

This CCWA Environment Matters event will explore how indigenous cultural heritage values will be determined and protected under the new Forest Management Plan.

The WA landscape, including Southwest forests, is central to one of the oldest surviving indigenous cultures in the world. Logging, burning and other impacts are taking their toll on species and ecosystems, but what are the impacts on WA’s unique indigenous cultural heritage values?

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Two sides to the debate on logging forests and the issues that concern us all

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 10/05/2012 - 3:43pm

What are the issues affecting forestry, timber harvesting, the loss of habitats? Environmental Scientist, Dr Beth Schulz says logging is a crime against nature. Forester and Chair of the WA division of Foresters of Australia, John Clarke says anti-logging protestors have got it wrong and that Western Australia's regrowth forests are thriving. Read the full article as the two sides of the forestry debate are presented

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Lizard's Revenge: a dinner and talk

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/05/2012 - 9:43pm

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Fri, 18/05/2012 -

6:30pm to 8:30pm

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Earthwise community centre Perth, WA

Lizard's Revenge will be a three day blockade and music/arts festival at the Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia. Join BUMP and the unnamed collective to hear about the plans for Olympic Dam and the current Court Challenge by Arabunna elder Uncle Kevin.

More info on the blockade here: https://www.facebook.com/events/224524544273924/

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Perth

The Australian prison system has failed; warehouses of illness & death. Bring on Bastoy for starters

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 11:30pm

Gerry Georgatos
If you want to know the hearts and minds of a nation, of its consciousness, of its legislators, then day and night look into our prisons.

The two century old modern day prison experiment is failing, that is if we look at the spiralling incarceration rates, adult and youth, and if we look at re-offending rates, the recidivism.

My PhD research argues that people who enter the prison experience, who are incarcerated for relatively short or long terms leave the prison experience worse than they came in.

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On recent revelations concerning sexual culture among student youth at the University of WA

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 3:19pm

Dear A.,
The University of Western Australia (UWA) is in the news ('The West Australian' - and online). Apparently these days UWA orientation camps are fuckfests. There has been a scandal this year about a 17-year old woman possibly being raped, and multiple reports of sexual harrassment. It confirms what I suspected about contemporary youth sexual culture - there are many categories on the web (erotic sites) depicting freestyle sexual behaviour (sex parties, etc.) among student youth in many countries.

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WGAR News: "Stronger futures or stolen futures - Bishops and Religious question legislation" ACBC

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 10:24am

Newsletter date: 8 May 2012

Contents:
* Graeme Mundine, ACM: "Stronger Futures Legislation. Points Against"
* ACBC Media Blog: Stronger futures or stolen futures - Bishops and Religious question legislation
* Video: Jeff McMullen: "Stand for Freedom" campaign against "Stronger Futures" policy
* ANTaR: Time now critical to set new path in NT
* Congress: Stop and Listen on the Intervention
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention
* Background to National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples

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Submissions to the Parliamentary Inquiry into language learning in Indigenous communities

Graeme Mundine ACM - Stronger Futures Legislation - Points Against

Video - Jeff McMullen - Stand for Freedom campaign against Stronger Futures policy

ANTaR - Time now critical to set new path in NT

Congress - Stop and Listen on the Intervention

Video - Aboriginal protestors and WA police clashing at Nyoongar tent embassy

Four Corners TV - Judgement Day - High Court's Mabo judgement

Control bill pushed to target Aboriginal peoples and to erode civil liberties

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 4:09pm

Gerry Georgatos
Australia-wide Aboriginal organisations, communities and rights advocates are more than just apprehensive of the consolidated push by State and Territory governments for the introduction of Criminal Association Control Bills better known as anti-association laws – in Western Australia, the Criminal Organisation Bill 2012 appears that it will be passed and within days.

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Renters Alliance coming to the Blackwood to meet the people and get the ball rolling

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Sun, 06/05/2012 - 3:57pm

Gerry Georgatos
The renters’ rights movement that recently started in the Blackwood region has spread Australia-wide with the Renters Alliance swamped with emails and calls from distressed renters, said Lea Keenan, WA Renters Alliance co-ordinator.

As a result of the burgeoning movement other organisations have also begun highlighting the plight of renters, and rent stress, and of those in social housing, and the increasing hardship most face.

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Perth

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