Newswire

Newsletter date: 24 September 2015, 7:45am AEST

Contents:

* Media Release: 'concerned Australians': New Book, 'The Intervention - an Anthology', is Very Timely.
published by 'concerned Australians'; edited by Rosie Scott and Dr Anita Heiss

The idea of youth at risk has become central to a range of discourses, academic and professional. In the regional and global contexts of significant social, economic and technical change, narratives of risk and uncertainty are widespread  Young people, meanwhile, are seen both as a treasured resource and as endangered and dangerous—at risk.

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/ - Last year I founded a campaign to urge of the implementation of the Custody Notification Service (CNS) across the nation but without delay in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. In meeting Federal Ministers and State Governments I implored the wisdom of this move – in reference to the saving of lives. In NSW, the CNS has led to zero lives lost of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders detained in police watch houses – since 1998.

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/ - 18 years young, Phillinka died on October 18 last year. At the time, at her anguished mother’s request I wrote of the loss of Phillinka and of so many others in the Kimberley. I am once again in the Kimberley – surrounded by the most pristine nature and by the loss of so many young lives.

By Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/ - The presumption that Australia’s modernist racist past is being whittled away has long been a fallacy and every once and a while shows its hand. The modern Australian nation arrived on the back of invasion, apartheid, genocidal policies – justified by the worst forms of racisms. The invaders continued on as oppressors and wrapped racist narratives around the dispossessed and oppressed.

As part of a journey through Eastern Europe a member of the Anarchist Radio Berlin had the opportunity of talking to a comrade of the Anarchist Federation in Poznan in Poland in the Rozbrat squat. In the following interview we talk about the historical development of the squat, that celebrated its 21st anniversary on the weekend of September 18 and 19, and also about current struggles of FA Poznan, especially the workers' struggle of the Amazon workers in Germany and Poland.

Newsletter date: 20 September 2015

Journal of Social and Political Psychology, Vol 3, No 1 (2015)

Decolonising Australian Psychology:

Discourses, Strategies, and Practice

Pat Dudgeon*a, Roz Walkerb

[a] School of Indigenous Studies, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.

[b] Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing, Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia.

Dear Radio Friend,
            The latest Shortwave Report (September 18) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml  in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (160kb)(33MB), broadcast quality (13MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom

Newsletter date: 19 September 2015

Contents:

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: Do not play with people's lives - Climate of death

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: When will they implement the CNS? Western Australia's deplorable pace of change is glacial

* Analysis / Opinion: Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: National Indigenous Human Rights Awards