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WGAR News: Shut Down Australia For Aboriginal Rights 10:30 - 11:30 am 1st June 2015, facebook

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 27/05/2015 - 3:01pm

Newsletter date: 28 May 2015; Last updated: 12.30pm

Contents:

* Homepage: Shut Down Australia - Down Tools Australia For Aboriginal Rights: http://www.shut-down-australia.com/
* Upcoming Event Notice: Shut Down Australia For Aboriginal Rights 10:30 - 11:30 am 1st June 2015, facebook
* facebook: Shut Down Australia: Because of the Forced Shutdown of Aboriginal Homeland Communities - Australia Closed for Business

Geography:

Global/International

South Australia

Western Australia

Keywords:

Shut Down Australia

Shut Down Australia - Down Tools Australia For Aboriginal Rights

Shut Down Australia - Because of the Forced Shutdown of Aboriginal Homeland Communities - Australia Closed for Business

Concert For Matagarup - First Nations Refugee Camp

30 May 2015 Concert For Matagarup - First Nations Refugee Camp

Concert For Matagarup - Refugees On Our Homelands

Gerry Georgatos

Concert to be held in support of Matargarup homeless camp

Wiradjuri elder Les Coe

Attacks on homelands highlight Aboriginal homelessness

Michele Madigan

Sr Michele Madigan

Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart

Sisters of Saint Joseph

Restore IAS funding that SA Aboriginal communities need to stay open and sustainable

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA (and NT?)

Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

WGAR News: Jennifer Kaeshagen & Gerry Georgatos speak out: Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp: Moki Waahuu, NZ interview

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 10/05/2015 - 6:41am

Newsletter date: 11 May 2015

Contents:

* Audio Interviews:

Moki Waahuu's Podcast: Jennifer Kaeshagen of Stringer news

Moki Waahuu's Podcast: Dr Gerry Georgatos talks Matagarup and the Indigenous refugee camp

Moki Waahuu's Podcast: Sam Cook Aboriginal Activist from Kimberly WA

Moki Waahuu's Podcast: Kado Muir Indigenous Australian Leader

Geography:

Global/International

Western Australia

WGAR News: Desire Mallet's Photographs of Matargarup First Nations Refugee Camp: Flickr

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 29/03/2015 - 2:54pm

Newsletter date: 30 March 2015

Geography:

South Australia

Western Australia

WGAR News: First Nations Women Speak out for a Treaty - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks sets out a brighter vision: STICS

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 25/03/2015 - 9:15pm

Newsletter date: 26 March 2015

Contents:

* Please Watch: NITV, Channel 34: Friday, 27 March 2015 at 7.30pm: NITV will broadcast a one hour program titled 'Opinion Piece - Women Speak Out For Treaty'
* Video: NITV News: "First Nations Women Speak out for a Treaty" - Rosalie Kunoth-Monks at Redfern Forum
* Video: STICS: First Nations Women Speak out for a Treaty: Videos from the Event

Geography:

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Keywords:

First Nations Women

First Nations Women Speak out for a Treaty

Please Watch - NITV Channel 34 Friday 27 March 2015 at 7.30pm - NITV will broadcast a one hour program titled 'Opinion Piece - Women Speak Out For Treaty'

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

STICS - Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney

Stop the Intervention Collective Sydney

Redfern Community Centre

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Aboriginal voices are calling for Treaty

sovereign rights as First Nations people

Independent Australia

First Nations women speak out about Treaty at Redfern

prominent First Nations women

Treaty between Indigenous Australia and their colonisers

Prominent women to speak at treaty forum

Arrernte-Alyawarra elder Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

Amnesty International Australia

Aboriginal sovereignty movement

Aboriginal sovereignty

WGAR News: Matargarup Aboriginal Refugee Camp: About 50 WA police officers have used mounted police and K-9 dogs to seize the tents and valuables

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 15/03/2015 - 9:34pm

Newsletter date: 16 March 2015

Contents:

* Petition: Change.org Petition: Stop displacing Indigenous Australians by the closure of Indigenous communities.

Geography:

Global/International

Western Australia

Keywords:

Petition - Stop displacing Indigenous Australians by the closure of Indigenous communities

Jennifer Kaeshagen

The Stringer facebook

Urgent Action - If anyone can donate to the Matargarup First Nations refugee camp then that be good - Jennifer Kaeshagen - The Stringer facebook

Police move in but fail to snuff out sacred fire at Matagarup

Matagarup (Heirisson Island)

Heirisson Island - Perth

Heirisson Island

Alex Bainbridge

Marianne Mackay

We have a right to be on Matagarup

Sovereign Union

WA uses mounted police and dogs to seize tents and valuables at Refugee Camp

Calla Wahlquist

Independent Australia

Abbott trashes Australia's reputation abroad - again

concerned Australians

Homelands under the hammer again from the aspiring PM for indigenous policy

Gerry Georgatos

WGAR News: Custody Notification Service will continue in NSW - but please hurry it up for WA: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 08/03/2015 - 2:39pm

Newsletter date: 10 March 2015

Contents:

* Audio Interview: Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Marianne Mackay, campaigner for First Nations rights within the WA criminal justice system

Geography:

New South Wales

Western Australia

Keywords:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Marianne Mackay

Marianne Mackay

Marianne Headland Mackay

Gerry Georgatos

Custody Notification Service

Family of Ms Dhu calls for Custody Notification Service

Family of Ms Dhu - mother Della Roe and grandmother Carol Roe

Family of Ms Dhu applaud Scullion in urging Western Australia to implement Custody Notification Service

NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

Aboriginal Legal Service

Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT

Death in Custody rally

Death in Custody rally - some meaningful changes can occur overnight

Western Australia urged to stop jailing fine defaulters

mandatory sentencing laws

Australia - locking up its First People for 200 years

Justice Reinvestment

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

WGAR News: We won't overcome Indigenous disadvantage by cutting legal services: Larissa Behrendt, The Guardian

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 08/03/2015 - 2:21pm

Newsletter date: 9 March 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Larissa Behrendt, The Guardian: We won't overcome Indigenous disadvantage by cutting legal services

Geography:

New South Wales

Keywords:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander

Larissa Behrendt

cutting Aboriginal legal services

Indigenous Disadvantage

National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services - Natsils

NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

Aboriginal Legal Service

Aboriginal Legal Service Faces Uncertain Future Despite Govt Promise Of No Cuts

Aboriginal Legal Service NSW ACT

The Aboriginal Legal Service defending their right to defend

Warren Barnsley

NSW ACT legal service flags reduced operation with funding cuts

Senator Rachel Siewert

Senator Penny Wright

Australian Greens

Indigenous legal cuts a national embarrassment

Indigenous legal service to shut down

Aboriginal Peoples and the impact of the Federal Budget

Justice Reinvestment

Aboriginal imprisonment

Aboriginal deaths in custody

WGAR News: Senate motion condemns Oombulgurri demolition: Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 04/03/2015 - 7:30pm

Background to the Oombulgurri demolitions commencing 30 September 2014 - 1 October 2014

Newsletter date: 5 March 2015

Contents:

* Open Letter:
To H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of UN General Assembly
From Ghillar Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union
Re: Refugee Camp in Perth and developing Humanitarian Crisis

Geography:

Western Australia

Keywords:

H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon - Secretary-General of UN General Assembly

Michael Anderson

Ghillar Michael Anderson

Sovereign Union of Aboriginal Nations and Peoples in Australia - Michael Anderson

Oombulgurri demolition

demolition of the remote community of Oombulgurri in Western Australia

Oombulgurri community

Senate motion condemns Oombulgurri demolition

Western Australia's Government to bury Oombulgurri

Oombulgurri demolition decision

Questions over mining influence on Oombulgurri demolition decision

Cissy Gore-Birch

WA Government must stop Oombulgurri demolitions after forcibly evicting community members

Oombulgurri demolitions - your questions answered

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert - Australian Greens spokesperson on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues

Gerry Georgatos

Amnesty International Australia

Plans to close Aboriginal homelands / remote communities in WA and SA

WGAR News: Upcoming STICS Forum: First Nations Women Speak out for Treaty - Guest Speakers: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Amy McQuire, Amala Groom & Natalie Cromb

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 26/02/2015 - 9:06am

Newsletter date: 3 March 2015

Contents:

* Upcoming Event: Fri 20 March 2015 STICS Forum: First Nations Women Speak out for Treaty [Guest Speakers: Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Amy McQuire, Amala Groom & Natalie Cromb]

* Manifesto: National Aboriginal Freedom Movement: Aboriginal Sovereign Manifesto of Demands

Geography:

New South Wales

Keywords:

Fri 20 March 2015 STICS Forum

Fri 20 March 2015 STICS Forum - First Nations Women Speak out for Treaty

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks

National Freedom Movement

Aboriginal Sovereign Manifesto of Demands

concerned Australians

Time to talk Treaties

Treaty Messages

Respect and Listen

Respect and Listen compilation - Treaties

Adam Evans with 98.9fm

Celeste Liddle urges Treaties before constitutional recognition

Unsettling Truths In Pilger's Utopia Reach US Shores

98.9FM Brisbane

Watch the Let’s Talk Treaty discussion

The Wheeler Centre

True Reconciliation Requires a Treaty

George Williams

Mark Yettica-Paulson

Gregory Phillips

Michael Williams

Gerry Georgatos

Yalmay Yunupingu

Callum Clayton-Dixon

WGAR News: Aboriginal Protestors Deliver List of Demands To Parliament: CAAMA Video

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 11/02/2015 - 11:15am

Newsletter date: 12 February 2015

Last updated: 19 February 2015

Contents:

Geography:

Global/International

Keywords:

First Nations Freedom Movement

freedom movement

National Freedom Movement

National Aboriginal Freedom Movement

Aboriginal Protestors

Manifesto of Demands

Michael Anderson

Eleanor Gilbert

Eleanor Gilbert Vimeo

Freedom Movement delegates report back on the meeting with Nigel Scullion

Freedom Movement delegates present Manifesto to Bill Shorten

Anthony Albanese

Clive Palmer responds to National Freedom Movement presence

Vanessa Culbong

Sisters protest the escalating humanitarian crisis perpetrated against Aboriginal Nations and Peoples in Australia

Gerry Georgatos

Freedom Movement meets with Indigenous affairs minister

Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles interviews Michael Anderson on the Sit-In

Aboriginal rights struggle