solidarity

Melbourne 2014 events: Wominjeka Festival + Belgrave Survival Day + Apology Concert + Marumali workshop

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 22/12/2013 - 6:16pm

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: Sat 11 - Sunday 19 January 2014: Footscray, Melbourne, Vic
Wominjeka Festival 2014
Venue: Footscray Community Arts Centre
"From a one day gathering in 2010, our annual celebration
of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture has grown to
one of the most important events in our calendar,

Geography: 
Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 44 events from 23 December 2013

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 22/12/2013 - 5:52pm

Newsletter date: 23 December 2013

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 ...

Events: various times during 2014: various locations around Australia
SNAICC Training Workshops will be held Nationally in 2014 -
Through Young Black Eyes & Working and Walking Together
SNAICC: Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care
Expressions of interest forms and flyers are available from the SNAICC training page:

Geography: 
ACT
Canberra
Adelaide
Perth
Brisbane
New South Wales
Melbourne
Cairns
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Queensland
South Australia
Victoria
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal

WGAR News: First Peoples Voice will not be Silenced: Statement from Congress National Board

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 22/12/2013 - 1:49pm

Newsletter date: 23 December 2013

Contents:

* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: First Peoples Voice will not be Silenced - Statement from Congress National Board
* National Congress of Australia's First Peoples: Congress Condemns Cuts
* NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services: Government cuts support for National Congress
* Dan Harrison, SMH: Indigenous organisation to defy Tony Abbott funding cut
* Kaye Lee, The Australian Independent Media Network: Putting our First People last

Geography: 
Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Tony Abbott
National Congress of Australia's First Peoples
Dan Harrison
Patricia Karvelas
The Australian
Mid North Coast Greens
NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
First Peoples Voice will not be Silenced
Statement from Congress National Board
Congress Condemns Cuts
NATSILS - Government cuts support for National Congress
Indigenous organisation to defy Tony Abbott funding cut
Kaye Lee
The Australian Independent Media Network
Putting our First People last
cuts to the funding for the National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples
Aboriginal congress told funding will go
First Peoples body vows to continue despite funding cut

WGAR News: NATSILS Factsheet: funding cuts to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 21/12/2013 - 7:40pm

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

Geography: 
ACT
New South Wales
Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Victoria
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Gerry Georgatos
ANTaR
SNAICC
NACCHO
SNAICC News
Amnesty International Australia
Greens Senator Penny Wright
Aboriginal legal services
CAALAS - Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service
NATSILS - National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
Aboriginal Legal Services Peak Body
ATSILS - Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
NATSILS Factsheet - funding cuts to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Legal Services
Cuts to Aboriginal Legal Services
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Justice
ANTaR - Take Action
Oxfam Australia Media
WA Greens Senator Rachel Siewert
NATSILS chairman Shane Duffy
Shane Duffy
Indigenous legal services
Human Rights Law Centre
Equality Rights Alliance
NATSIWA
Videos on the cuts to Aboriginal legal aid

WGAR News: Aboriginal languages a source of strength: Shyamla Eswaran, Green Left

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 20/12/2013 - 4:37pm

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)

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
bilingual education
Aboriginal languages
Gerry Georgatos
The Conversation
Amy McQuire
Tiga Bayles
Let's Talk
Indigenous languages
Jon Altman
Jeff McMullen
Mary Graham
The Stringer
The Guardian
The Wire
Green Left
Rodney Dillon
Solidarity Online
ABC Indigenous
Let's Talk's Tiga Bayles
Curtis Taylor
Shyamla Eswaran
Curtis Taylor - world's largest digital storytelling archive for 16 language groups
Claire Bowern
Language nests - a way to revive Indigenous languages at risk
Chris Raja
Indigenous identity
Australia is the place of vanishing languages
Restricted - a new exhibition explores Indigenous identity
Raymond Zada
Five questions to Amy McQuire - on Australia's two worlds - one for black and one for white

WGAR News: Coalition stirs the ghost of Jimmie Blacksmith: Tim Kroenert, Eureka Street [99-year leases]

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Wed, 18/12/2013 - 12:01pm

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)

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
Queensland
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
native title
Gerry Georgatos
Indigenous people
The Stringer
Save The Kimberley Campaign
Djiniyini Gondarra
Eureka Street
99-year leases
Indigenous burning
Indigenous burning among ancient practices being studied to save eco-systems
Anna Salleh
ABC Science
Bead currency used in Australia's first export industry
Australia's first export industry
Benedict Scambary
CAEPR
My Country - Mine Country
Mining and Development Contestation in Remote Australia
Tim Kroenert
NT guilty of destroying sacred trees
Social Justice and Native Title state of the nation report
People of the whales unhappy with native title determination
Seán Kerins
Andrew Probyn

Predatory Hedge Funds and Argentina Face Supreme Court Showdown in Landmark Global Poverty Case

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 18/12/2013 - 4:31am

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.

Geography: 
Global/International
Keywords: 
human rights
solidarity
International news and opinion

WGAR News: Radioactive Show: Maralinga - Muckaty - Medicine: 3CR Community Radio

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Tue, 17/12/2013 - 8:00pm

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

Geography: 
Australia
Northern Territory
South Australia
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
environment
Australia
solidarity
aboriginal
Muckaty
Gerry Georgatos
Maralinga
Barb Shaw
Traditional Owners
The Stringer
NITV News
Tracker
Robin Chapple
3CR Community Radio
Kado Muir
Penny Phillips
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott
Ryan Liddle
proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
Radioactive Show
Aunty Sue Coleman-Haseldine
Isobel Phillips
Michael Fonda
Regulating the Nuclear Village
Justice for Aboriginal victims of Maralinga nuclear tests
RTRFM
Understorey
Uncle Glen Cooke
Della Rae Morrison
Ranger operations
radioactive spill at Kakadu
Major uranium leak endangers Kakadu
Greens WA Robin Chapple MLC
Uranium Fails Catastrophically

WGAR News: French Government presents human rights award to Indigenous Social Justice Association

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Mon, 16/12/2013 - 3:22pm

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

Geography: 
Global/International
Australia
Northern Territory
Sydney
Western Australia
Keywords: 
protest
indigenous
human rights
solidarity
aboriginal
TJ Hickey
Gerry Georgatos
Aboriginal deaths in custody
Aboriginal imprisonment
ALSWA
Justice Reinvestment
Indigenous youths
Aboriginal youth
ISJA
Indigenous Social Justice Association
The Stringer
Greens Senator Rachel Siewert
The Wire
Greens Senator Penny Wright
ALSWA - Aboriginal Legal Service of WA
Aboriginal Legal Service of WA
ISJA - Indigenous Social Justice Association
Natalie Ahmat
Michael Coggan
Tim Beard
Tenth anniversary of TJ Hickey death
TJ
French Government
Indigenous human rights
human rights laureate
John Mackenzi
Deaths In Custody Watch Commitee WA
Build Communities Not Prisons Campaign
Simon Lauder
WA's Aboriginal youth detention
Young Indigenous Australians
Indigenous offenders
NT alcohol rehabilitation program