human rights

NT Events: John Pilger's film 'Utopia' to screen in Alice Springs + SNAICC Training Workshops in Darwin

Northern Territory 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 Events: 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26 & 30 January 2014; 4, 13 February 2014; 1, 12 March 2014 :
Various locations around Australia including:
Sydney, Perth, Jervis Bay, Alice Springs, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Armidale
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
"When I began filming this secret Australia 30 years ago,

Adelaide events: Survival Day + Candle Light Walk + John Pilger's 'Utopia' + Anniversary of the Apology

Adelaide and South Australia 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 ...

New Events: 17, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26 & 30 January 2014; 4, 13 February 2014; 1, 12 March 2014 :
Various locations around Australia including:
Sydney, Perth, Jervis Bay, Alice Springs, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Armidale
John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'
"When I began filming this secret Australia 30 years ago,

Calls to Boycott Texas - Texas Sucks

The state of Texas in the USA continues to flout International Law as it prepares to wrongfully execute a Mexican citizen.

The Mexican Goverment has demanded life in prison for a Mexico citizen on death row in Texas, USA.

Edgar Tamayo Arias, 46, is scheduled for execution on 22nd January 2014.

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

December 2013 – Honduras coup/fraud update – more murders, higher living costs, worsened conditions, to welcome 2014...

http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...

December 2013 – Honduras coup/fraud update – more murders, higher living costs, worsened conditions, to welcome 2014...

Summary of political assassinations in December 2013

An unnamed youth of Anti-JOH 'black shirts' (antifraud) was assassinated on 1/12/13

journalist Juan Carlos Argenal was killed by hitmen on 7/12/13

Ex Libre candidate Graciela Suazo Solano was murdered on 7/12/13

Students, murdered and disappeared...

The Liberation of Adra

By Tim Anderson – 2 January 2014

On my last day in Damascus our soldier friend Sam joined us for a late lunch. However he could not eat, as his stomach was churning from what he had just seen at the industrial satellite town of Adra.

The Syrian Arab Army had been progressively liberating a huge civilian population held hostage for more than two weeks by thousands of foreign-backed armed fighters, most notably the al Qaeda-linked Jabhat al Nusra.

Hands Off Syria & Wikileaks Team Visit Syria

The Hands Off Syria, Sydney, team was part of an Australian delegation, which included members of the Wikileaks Party, and who recently visited Syria. Hands Off Syria member, Dr Tim Anderson, was head of delegation that visited hospitals, universities, and met with civilians as well as government authorities, and Syrian President Dr Bashar al-Assad.

Geography: 

Background to Dismantling the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT) - 99 year leases

Last updated: 1 January 2014

- Video Interview

The Hon Alastair Nicholson AO RFD QC
Answers Questions on 99-Year Leases
from Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM and Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaxc7Yw1Ys0
'concerned Australians': http://concernedaustralians.com.au/#V99NIC
'concerned Australians': [scroll down page] http://www.concernedaustralians.com.au/

- Video of Forum

99 year leases forum:
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks OAM in conversation with
Malcolm Fraser AC CH GCL PC, Frank Vincent AO QC and Alastair Nicholson RFD AO QC

Geography: 

WGAR News: Sydney, Melbourne & Canberra book launches: 'In the Absence of Treaty' by 'cA'

Newsletter date: 30 December 2013

Contents:

* 'concerned Australians' Sydney Book launch: 'In the Absence of Treaty' [Launched by Rosalie Kunoth-Monks & Jeff McMullen]
* 'concerned Australians' Melbourne Book launch: 'In the Absence of Treaty' & Screening of John Pilger's Film 'Utopia' [Speakers: Alastair Nicholson & Richard Frankland]
* 'concerned Australians' Canberra Book launch: 'In the Absence of Treaty' [Speakers: Graeme Mundine & John Falzon]
* Mick Estens, The Stringer: Northern Territory Intervention = injustice, prejudice, inequality