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WGAR News: "The Intervention is killing our people" - IRAG media release

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Thu, 15/09/2011 - 9:12am

Newsletter date: 15 September 2011

Contents:
* Nicole Watson: Intervention’s measures are inhumane, degrading
* IRAG media release: "The Intervention is killing our people"
* Fourth anniversary of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* Muckaty (NT) Aboriginal activists to address Melbourne conference
* Video compilation from the Sydney book launch of "Walk With Us"
* Tracker Magazine Analysis / Opinion on various issues
* Other articles
* Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 15 September 2011

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Nicole Watson: Intervention’s measures are inhumane degrading

Fourth anniversary of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Muckaty (NT) Aboriginal activists to address Melbourne conference

Video compilation from the Sydney book launch of 'Walk With Us'

Tracker Magazine Analysis / Opinion on various issues

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 32 events from 15 September 2011

Upcoming Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 8 events from 16 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/09/2011 - 3:45pm

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Event: Fri 16 September 2011: Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Qld
Our Generation Film Screening
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about-2/
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

Event: Sat 17 September 2011: Highgate Hill, Brisbane, Qld
Keep the Kimberley Benefit Gig
"Join us for an amazing night of music,
short films, wood fired pizza and tasty
beverages as some great acts from
around the country arrive at Turnstyle
to help Save the Kimberley!"

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Northern Territory Intervention

'Our Generation' film screenings

Upcoming Melbourne & Vic Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 7 events from 15 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/09/2011 - 3:17pm

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Event: Thu 15 September 2011: Bundoora, Melbourne, Vic
Our Generation Film Screening
With special guest speaker:
Walpiri leader Valerie Martin Napaljari from Yunedumu
Hosted by ESP (Equality, Sustainability and Peace) group at
La Trobe University
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/our-generation-documentary-screening-at-la-trobe...
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about-2/
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews

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Northern Territory Intervention

'Our Generation' film screenings

Upcoming Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 8 events from 11 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 11/09/2011 - 2:57pm

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Event: 3 July to Sun 25 September 2011: Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: FREEDOM RIDERS
- Art and activism 1960s to now
Sydney University Art Gallery
"A unique and daring exhibition has pulled together some of
the most important political artworks produced by NSW's
leading Aboriginal artists and put them in one room for the
public to see." ABC News
Event details: http://sydney.edu.au/museums/events_exhibitions/art_gallery_exhibitions....
Featured in Video: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/07/01/3259282.htm

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Northern Territory Intervention

Our Generation film screenings

WGAR News: 'Listen to us - negotiate with us.' - Central Land Council statement at Kalkaringi NT

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 10/09/2011 - 1:28pm

Newsletter date: 10 September 2011

13 September 2011 - Fourth anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/drip.html

Contents:
* Central Land Council statement, Kalkaringi, 26 August 2011
* Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT: 'Response to Stronger Futures'
* Perth launch of book: "Walk With Us" - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention
* Interview with Barbara Shaw about the NT Intervention
* Poems by Isobel Phillips, Muckaty Traditional Owner
* Paddy Dujack and Gus George at Wave Hill homestead

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Northern Territory Intervention

Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

Aboriginal Peak Organisations NT: 'Response to Stronger Futures'

Perth launch of book: 'Walk With Us' - Aboriginal views on the NT Intervention

Interview with Barbara Shaw about the NT Intervention

Poems by Isobel Phillips - Muckaty Traditional Owner

Paddy Dujack and Gus George at Wave Hill homestead

ANTaR: 'Support NT communities to shape their own development'

Eva Cox: 'Government ignores evidence of policy failure on Aboriginal issues'

ANTaR: 'Practical action needed now to address ‘national shame’ of Aboriginal imprisonment'

Video: An Aboriginal community from pre-colonial times to the 1990s

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 34 events from 10 September 2011

WGAR News: Petition calling for a national moratorium on government’s income management

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 06/09/2011 - 11:57am

Newsletter date: 6 September 2011

Contents:
* Indigenous groups challenge 'Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination'
* Petition calling for a moratorium on Income Management
* Upcoming 'Save the Kimberley' events
* Environmentalists: Kimberley Heritage listing inadequate
* AMSANT: Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker
* Unions support Aboriginal opposition to nuclear waste dump
* Remembering Wave Hill Walk-Off
* Sydney activists celebrate Wave Hill Walk-Off
* "Walk With Us" presents views of NT Elders on Intervention

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Northern Territory Intervention

Indigenous groups challenge 'Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination'

Upcoming 'Save the Kimberley' events

Environmentalists - Kimberley Heritage listing inadequate

AMSANT - Year of the Aboriginal Health Worker

Unions support Aboriginal opposition to nuclear waste dump at Muckaty

Remembering Wave Hill Walk-Off

Sydney activists celebrate Wave Hill Walk-Off

'Walk With Us' presents views of NT Elders on Intervention

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 33 events from 6 September 2011

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 30 events from 4 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 04/09/2011 - 7:55am

Newsletter date: 4 September 2011

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Event: Ongoing protest: James Price Point, Kimberley, WA
Kimberley gas plant protest
Save the Kimberley info: http://www.savethekimberley.com/
Kimberley gas plant threatens Aboriginal culture: http://ccr.uws.edu.au/2011/06/22/kimberley-gas-plant-threatens-aborigina...
Aboriginal elder Elsta Foy at the protest camp: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3296152.htm
Protest updates: http://www.savethekimberley.com/wp/blog/

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Northern Territory Intervention

Our Generation film screenings

Upcoming Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 10 events from 4 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 03/09/2011 - 6:21pm

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Northern Territory Intervention

Our Generation film screenings

Upcoming Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 6 events from 6 September 2011

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 03/09/2011 - 6:16pm

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Event: Tue 6 September 2011: Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Qld
Homelands campaign training session
Amnesty International Qld/Northern NSW
"The training is designed for activists who want to play an
active role in the campaign, within their local group or as
a part of the Homelands Action Group."
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/qld/event/26520/

Event: Fri 16 September 2011: Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD
Our Generation Film Screening
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/

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Northern Territory Intervention

Our Generation Film Screening

Indigenous health: Not bleeding hearts, just the bleeding obvious

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 28/08/2011 - 3:05pm

To many Aboriginal people in Central Australia the narrative of illness is very different from the one described by western clinicians, argues longtime pro-Aboriginal activist, Prof. Don Palmer Tjungurrayi. “Western doctors would say that kidney disease, for example, is out of control because Aboriginal people make poor choices about food and exercise. For many Aboriginal people the causes are personal and spiritual. They feel they have been cursed.

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