aboriginal

Victorian events: 'Utopia' film in Melbourne & Geelong + Bart Willoughby pays homage to Kevin Gilbert

Melbourne and Victoria 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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New Event: Opening 30 January; until Wed 5 February 2014: Carlton, Melbourne, Vic
'Utopia': John Pilger’s film on Aboriginal Australia
Venue: Cinema Nova
"Drawing on his long association with the first people
of his homeland Australia, Utopia is both an epic
portrayal of the oldest continuous human culture, and

Some actions against 'Australia day'

On the 26th of January, the 226th year since the British Naval fleet of Arthur Philip landed on this territory, we made some modest actions to counter the colonial narrative of 'Australia'. 4 banners denouncing the nationalist holiday were hung from highway bridges in Broadway, Stanmore, Kogarah and Sutherland reading:

STOLEN LAND

NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE

FUCK AUSSIE PRIDE

BURN THE (AUSTRALIAN FLAG)

Canberra events: Farming without fences - how Aborigines made Australia + 'In the Absence of Treaty'

Canberra 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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New Event: 31 January - 16 February 2014: Belconnen, Canberra, ACT
Farming without fences - how Aborigines made Australia - Helen S. Tiernan
Exhibition opening: Friday 31 January
Meet the artist: Sunday 9 February
Venue: Gallery - Belconnen Arts Centre BAC
"Inspired by The Biggest Estate on Earth
- How Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage,

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Invasion day vandalism

Let no one say the past is dead.
The past is all about us and within
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal 1970

As settlers on stolen land,
we pledge our resistance to the
Australian state and its agents,
whose despotic practices we abhor,
whose police and prisons we despise,
whose laws we shall subvert and disobey.

On the night of January 26th, while drunken nationalists celebrated the 226th anniversary of a British military invasion, some unaustralians vandalised the facade of the Ryde electoral office of Victor Dominello, the state minster for Aboriginal affairs and for citizenship.

WGAR News: Urgent Congress meetings to be held over next few days in major Australian cities

Newsletter date: 27 January 2014

Contents:

* Anthony Stewart, ABC Indigenous: Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts
* SNAICC News: Congress to hold urgent meetings with members and supporters
* Background to National Congress of Australia's First Peoples

* ANTHONY STEWART, ABC INDIGENOUS: INDIGENOUS CONGRESS VOWS TO GO ON DESPITE FUNDING CUTS

- News

ABC Indigenous: Indigenous congress vows to go on despite funding cuts
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-16/indigenous-congress-vows-to-go-on-...

WGAR News: 'Wiradjuri Central West Republic' raise flag of Independence: Enlightning Productions

Newsletter date: 27 January 2014

Contents:

* 98.9FM: Smashing The Myths: "Reconciliation = Justice" [Featuring Dr Gary Foley, Monica Morgan, Wayne Wharton, Michael Mansell and Amy McQuire]

* Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: Latest Declaration of Independence and the web of controls we need to free ourselves from
* Enlightning Productions, YouTube: 'Wiradjuri Central West Republic' raise flag of Independence
* Enlightning Productions, YouTube: Eddie Turpin on Mbarbaram Declaration of Independence
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

WGAR News: Fight for land rights and justice for Aboriginal people: The Socialist Alliance

Newsletter date: 26 January 2014

Contents:

* The Petition Site: Halt Rocla Sand Mine's Proposed Destruction of Aboriginal Women's Fertility Site & Cultural History
* Marc Tong, SBS Living Black Radio: Secrets of the Dendroglyph
* Tracker: Protesters fight Maules Creek mine
* NIRS: 'Marginalised and disrespected': Gomeroi slam Whitehaven Coal

* Prof Jon Altman, Tracker: Evidently: Scullion peddles pipe dream reforms [Land tenure reforms in the Northern Territory]
* The Socialist Alliance: Fight for land rights and justice for Aboriginal people

Canberra events: John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia' + Book launch: 'In the Absence of Treaty'

Canberra 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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New Event: Fri 31 January & Sat 1 February 2014: Yarramundi Reach, Canberra, ACT
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
Venue: Theatrette at Burrunju Gallery (at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Centre)
"Reservations essential: no drop-ins please as each seat will be allocated by rsvp."

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WGAR News: Raising funds for Elders report into Preventing Self-harm & Indigenous suicide: NACCHO

Newsletter date: 25 January 2014

Contents:

* NACCHO community support: Raising funds for Elders report into Preventing Self-harm & Indigenous suicide
* Culture Is Life campaign - Promoting community led solutions to Indigenous youth suicide
* Culture Is Life campaign - The Elders Report
* Background to Suicide and Self-harm in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Communities

* Nicole Watson, Tracker: Little Black Duck: When reparations is the hardest word
* Kelly Briggs, The Guardian: Aboriginal mothers like me still fear that our children could be taken away

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WGAR News: Time to honour Aboriginal frontier warriors: Paul Newbury, Eureka Street

Newsletter date: 24 January 2014

Contents:

* Paul Newbury, Eureka Street: Time to honour Aboriginal frontier warriors
* Catherine Armitage, Sydney Morning Herald: Tim Flannery in call to honour Aborigines killed in land wars
* Catherine Armitage, Sydney Morning Herald: Put indigenous warriors in war memorials: Flannery
* Geoff Page and Digby Habel, Canberra Times Letters: Nelson out of step in failure to honour Aboriginal warriors
* Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: ANZAC Day - for those who served in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations