https://archive.org/download/kr318/kr318.mp3
How we make big bucks with arms sales fomenting proxy wars and produce refugees becoming a new cheap labour force = foreign policy
Script by S. Sorrenson, spoken by Tanya - http://echo.net.au/here-and-now
5:40 min 128 kbps stereo 5.3 MB
The government of Nauru is a disgrace.
It has arrested over 150 refugees who held a peaceful protest and has threatened to jail anyone who assembles in groups of three or more.
Nauru claims to be a democracy but it is clear it’s fast becoming a pathetic, tin pot dictatorship.
The refugees arrested are not those held in the detention centre. These are the ones who have been given official refugee status.
But they say they are being treated like second class citizens and don’t have freedom of movement or access to several basic services.
I've been filming at protests for the last 5 years in Australia as an independent film-maker using the footage I capture in documentaries. I've always wanted to make a video using all the protests I have filmed at and this is it, well, almost all the protests I've filmed at. This video is rather special to me and I composed this tune myself for my latest documentary, Surviving Earth. http://youtu.be/Grvf9TNCmwY
The leaking of an environmental report into the Manus Island detention centre (The Guardian 4 Feb, 2014) reveals additional risk to the health and well being of people seeking asylum. Military bases leave a legacy of water and land pollution that can poison inhabitants for decades.
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.
The current border policies of the ruling elite are cruel, oppressive, revanchist. Over the course of the elction campaign we have vandalised the electorate offices of Kelvin Thomson, Martin Ferguson, Josh Frydenberg, Anna Bourke, Brendan O'Connor, Simon Crean, Mark Dreyfus, Kelly O'Dwyer, Mike Symon and Andrew Robb; they are complicit.
The current border policies of the ruling elite are cruel, oppressive, revanchist. Last night we vandalised the offices of Simon Crean, Anna Burke, and Andrew Robb; they are complicit.
The current border policies of the ruling elite are cruel, oppressive, revanchist. Last night we vandalised the office of Brendan O'Connor; he is complicit.
The politicians and bosses have driven wedges between us, trying to convince us there is an enemy in people from across the sea. The real enemy, of course, is those who seek to rule us. Our sisters and brothers, the 'boat people', have been asking for our solidarity for years. They have petitioned, protested, hunger-striked, self-harmed and suicided. But help has not come. The only rational response left is to riot.
Christian churches say The Rudd Government’s so called “PNG Solution” is morally bankrupt and unworthy of a civilized community.
Over 300 people gathered to support the 55 asylum seekers in immigration detention at the Broadmeadows Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) Centre, organised by the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria). 55 asylum seekers have refugee status but are in immigration limbo as they have adverse security assessments from ASIO with no right of appeal or ability to question ASIO's sources. More than 30 of these people are locked up at Broadmeadows, some for more than 4 years, with no end in sight.
