indigenous

ethiopia youth live with poverity and migraion.

Over half of Ethiopia’s population consists of young people between the ages of 15-24 years. Many of the youth face diverse problems and live with constant life challenges. Especially in urban centers of the country, the number of delinquent juveniles is increasing. In Addis Ababa alone it is believed that there are over 100,000 people living on the streets, and more than half of these are young people. This number is increasing every day due to poverty and migration of people from the rural to urban areas in search of a better life.

WGAR News: Survival Day - Andrew Davis' response to Warren Mundine: The Stringer

Newsletter date: 3 February 2014

Contents:

* WGAR News: Aboriginal Sovereignty Day, Invasion Day and Survival Day Events: Sunday 26 January 2014

* The Stringer: Survival Day - Andrew Davis' response to Warren Mundine

* CAAMA Radio: Mansell shares his thoughts on Australia Day celebrations
[Featuring veteran Tasmanian Aboriginal rights campaigner Michael Mansell]

* Amy McQuire, The Guardian: Australia Day: Indigenous people are told to 'get over it'. It's impossible

* Nakkiah Lui, The Guardian: Australia Day is a time for mourning, not celebration

WGAR News: Robert and Selina Eggington, Rosalie Kunoth Monks and John Pilger speak about 'Utopia'

Newsletter date: 2 February 2014

Contents:

* Upcoming screenings of John Pilger's documentary film, 'Utopia'

* Perth Indymedia Radio Show: Utopia: a new documentary from John Pilger we speak with Robert Eggington about it
[Featuring Robert and Selina Eggington speaking about their involvement in Utopia]

* Joanna Lester, Living Black Radio: Remembering Communities Under The Intervention This Survival Day
[Featuring Elder Rosalie Kunoth Monks explaining her role in Utopia]

Akbayan welcomes Philippines-MILF deal with hopes for inclusive peace

Akbayan (Citizens Action Party) today said it welcomes with high hopes the signing of the last annex to the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro between the Aquino government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

The normalization agreement was signed last January 25, 2014 completing 17 years of peace negotiations and intermittent armed encounters that left thousand of lives lost and communities shattered.

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

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

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

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

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,

Geography: 

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