November 2013 – Honduras coup (and now electoral fraud) update
On 24/11/13, the presidential election happened again in Honduras.
Newsletter date: 22 December 2013
Contents:
* NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services: Government to defund Aboriginal Legal Services Peak Body and all Law Reform and Policy Positions
* NATSILS Factsheet: funding cuts to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
* CAALAS - Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service: Cuts to Aboriginal legal aid will silence Aboriginal communities
* NACCHO political health news: Abbott Government cuts to impact on Aboriginal health
Newsletter date: 21 December 2013
Contents:
* Shyamla Eswaran, Green Left: Aboriginal languages a source of strength
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Curtis Taylor - world's largest digital storytelling archive for 16 language groups
* Claire Bowern, The Conversation: Language nests: a way to revive Indigenous languages at risk
* Chris Raja, ABC Indigenous: Australia is the place of vanishing languages
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools (bilingual education)
Indefinite punishment for refugees. Thanks Kevin Rudd, Thanks Tony Abbott. What a disgrace.
Please read this message from Amnesty’s Graeme McGregor who has just finished a visit to the Manus Island detention centre:
While many journalists have been denied access, our Amnesty research team was let inside. Now for the first time we're able to reveal what life and conditions are like inside this secretive detention centre.
Newsletter date: 19 December 2013
Contents:
* SMH: Indigenous burning among ancient practices being studied to save eco-systems
* Anna Salleh, ABC Science: Bead currency used in Australia's first export industry
* Benedict Scambary, CAEPR: My Country, Mine Country: Indigenous People, Mining and Development Contestation in Remote Australia
* Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street: Coalition stirs the ghost of Jimmie Blacksmith [99-year leases]
* WGAR News: "Statement by Rev. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra OAM regarding MOUs on township 99 year leases" (11 Nov 13)
Argentina is expected to appeal to the US Supreme Court by mid-February in response to a US 2nd Circuit Court ruling ordering the country to pay $1.33 billion to predatory hedge funds. The precedent the case sets will hurt poor countries in financial distress and could allow a small group of hedge funds to target assets that benefit vulnerable populations. At the same time, debt holders who restructured their debt with Argentina have hired lawyers to help negotiate the dispute between holdout hedge funds and Argentina.
China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the USA are among the world's most prolific executioners. There have been recent executions or resumptions of death sentences after de facto moratoriums in countries such as India, Indonesia, Kuwait and Nigeria.
Which country will be the last to abolish the death penalty?
Newsletter date: 18 December 2013
Contents:
* 3CR Community Radio: Radioactive Show: Maralinga - Muckaty - Medicine
[Featuring Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine, Barb Shaw, Penny Phillips, Isobel Phillips & Michael Fonda]
* Background to Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* RTRFM: Understorey: Regulating the Nuclear Village
[Featuring Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Uncle Glen Cooke, Kado Muir & Della Rae Morrison]
* Tracker: Federal govt suspends Ranger operations
Newsletter date: 17 December 2013
Contents:
* Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA) open letter: Tenth anniversary of TJ Hickey death
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: French Government presents human rights laureate to the Indigenous Social Justice Association
* YouTube: French government recognises Indigenous human rights - NITV SBS
* Deaths In Custody Watch Commitee WA: Build Communities Not Prisons Campaign
* Aboriginal Legal Service of WA: ALSWA hopes report will lead to Aboriginal people being In Safe Custody
Does the Australian branch of Scientology support L. Ron Hubbards anti gay policy?
Are LGBTI people welcome to join the church in Australia?
In recent years sections of the church of Scientology have tried to soften the churches anti gay stance.
But insiders and some former church members say the policy is still alive and well, although the church tries to avoid any public discussion of the matter.
While some local church branches have tried to appear gay friendly the gay hate policy persists.
But what about Australia?
