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WGAR News: Aboriginal deaths recalled at Canberra vigil: Biwa Kwan, SBS Radionews

Newsletter date: 27 April 2013

Contents:

* SBS Radionews Audio: Aboriginal deaths recalled at Canberra vigil
* SBS Living Black Radio Remembers Our First Nations ANZACS, from two countries
* NITV News: Black Diggers Project brings Indigenous soldiers to the stage
* NITV News: Calls to better honour Indigenous soldiers
* SBS Radionews Audio: Recognising the role of Indigenous and Maori soldiers
* SBS Radionews Audio: Indigenous families in ANZAC Day march
* The Wire Audio: From the boxing ring to Gallipoli: Joe Murray's story

The Shortwave Report 4/26/13 Listen Globally!

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (April 26) is up at the website http://www.outfarpress.com/shortwave.shtml in 3 forms- (new) HIGHEST QUALITY (128kb)(27MB), broadcast quality (16MB), and quickdownload or streaming form (6MB) (28:59) Links at page bottom
(If you have access to Audioport there is a highest quality version posted up there {35MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)

Coal ship boarded by Greenpeace activists off the Great Barrier Reef

In a climate change protest over Australian coal exports, Greenpeace activists boarded a bulk coal carrier while navigating through the Great Barrier Reef on 23 April 2013. The ship, the MV Meister, had just loaded coal from Abbot Point, located 25km north of the town of Bowen on the central Queensland coast.

Abbot Point coal loading facility is being expanded, with four new coal terminals proposed to be built, part of the development of 9 new coal terminals for the Great Barrier Reef Coast.

Geography: 

Creating fuel from air & algaculture

A team of scientists might have the solution to global warming & carbon sequestration by converting air into fuel.

So far two technologies seem to be the most vital for carbon sequestration . . .

[1] The air to fuel technology

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-pioneering-scie...

[2] And feeding C02 into Algaculture.

‘Gallipoli, Inc’ helps the denial of genocide

Tuesday, April 23, 2013
By David T. Rowlands

The truth about Anzac Day is that it is as much about denial as it is about remembrance. It is a denial that functions for both sides of the original conflict.

The two countries that have invested much energy into sustaining the Gallipoli industry — Australia and Turkey — also have a genocidal past. Not coincidentally, both countries have used the device of “Gallipoli, Inc” to blot out shameful historical memories that they would rather not address.

WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 42 events from 26 April 2013

Newsletter date: 26 April 2013

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Ongoing: Cherbourg Aboriginal community, S-E Qld
The Ration Shed Museum
"When our Elders were moved off the land and taken to
Cherbourg they were cut off from their traditional sources
of food and were given weekly rations of mainly flour,
sugar, tea, sago, rice, split peas and meat. The rations
were given from a wooden shed which we have restored
and call The Ration Shed Museum. We use the Ration
Shed as a space to tell our stories."
Event details: http://rationshed.com.au/

NT events: Tennant Creek rally and concert (Muckaty) + Alice Springs National Native Title Conf

Northern Territory Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 25 May 2013: Tennant Creek, NT
Tennant Creek rally and concert
"May 25 marks six years since the Northern Land Council
voted to nominate the current Muckaty site for assessment.
The annual community rally will be held on this date
in Tennant Creek."
"Supporters from across the Northern Territory and
country are invited to attend."
Event details: [scroll down page] http://ohmsnotbombs.net/archives/809

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Queensland events: Dinner & re-union Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy + National Treaty Talks

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Ongoing: Cherbourg Aboriginal community, S-E Qld
The Ration Shed Museum
"When our Elders were moved off the land and taken to
Cherbourg they were cut off from their traditional sources
of food and were given weekly rations of mainly flour,
sugar, tea, sago, rice, split peas and meat. The rations
were given from a wooden shed which we have restored
and call The Ration Shed Museum. We use the Ration
Shed as a space to tell our stories."

Melbourne events: ISJA + A Decision to Discriminate + Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention

Melbourne and Victoria Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Thu 2 May 2013: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Next Meeting:
Indigenous Social Justice Association - Melbourne:
http://www.isja-msg.com/index.htm
"During 2013, ISJA will meet the
first Thursday of every month."
Event details: http://www.isja-msg.com/coming_events.htm

Event: Fri 3 May 2013: Grovedale, Geelong, Vic
Book Launch: A Decision to Discriminate
Aboriginal Disempowerment in the Northern Territory
Speakers:

Canberra events: National Corroboree + Manuwangku: Under the Nuclear Cloud + Indigenous Media

Canberra Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: 27, 28 April 2013: Canberra, ACT
National Corroboree
* Bringing our warriors together * Uniting our strength ~
* Asserting our sovereignty * Stepping up the fight
First Nations Gathering - All Welcome
* workshops * men’s circle * women’s circle * youth circle
Aboriginal Tent Embassy Canberra
Event details: http://indymedia.org.au/corroboree-aboriginal-tent-embassy
Event details: http://brisbaneblacksmonthly.weebly.com/upcoming-events.html

Geography: 

Sydney events: Racism & Police Brutality + NT Intervention update + A Decision to Discriminate

Sydney and NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary

Click on the links for details of the events ...

Event: Thu 25 April 2013: Redfern, Sydney, NSW
2013 - Redfern ANZAC Day March and
Commemorative Service
Honouring our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Servicemen and Servicewomen
Event details: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Redfern-Waterloo/message/7135

Event: Tue 7 May 2013: Newtown, Sydney, NSW
Special public mtg: Racism and Police Brutality - panel discussion
Socialist Alternative: http://www.sa.org.au/index.php

Philippine climate activists expose risks of dirty coal.

300-strong climate activists and anti-coal advocates stormed the Department of Energy to voice out their opposition to coal mines and coal-fired power plants promoted by the government and to launch the group’s Campaign Against Dirty Energy and for People’s Access to Safe, Renewable and Democratic Energy Alternatives.

This is in celebration of Earth Day and the group’s National Day of Action against Coal.

WGAR News: 'Gallipoli, Inc' helps the denial of genocide: David T. Rowlands, Green Left

Newsletter date: 25 April 2013

Contents:

* David T. Rowlands, Green Left: 'Gallipoli, Inc' helps the denial of genocide
* Dean Ashenden, Canberra Times: Best we forget?
* Gerry Georgatos, The Stringer: The Killing Times
* Noah Riseman, WA Today: Our black history: lest we forget Aboriginal veterans
* Keeli Cambourne, Illawarra Mercury: Aboriginal Diggers 'couldn't even get a beer in a pub'
* The Stringer: Roger Cook gets it right, Governor wrong
* Richard Fotheringham, Australian: Inside the killing fields of Queensland
* NIRS: Australians urged to remember Indigenous diggers

Honduras coup update for March 2013

Honduras coup update for March 2013

http://www.sydney-says-no2honduras-coup.net/much-shorter-monthly-summari...

Political persecution in March 2013 ...

In March 2013, two political activists were assassinated. Such assassinations take place every month. This month they are:

Eduardo Mord Rivera (37), the spokesperson for Mocra farmers’ movement and a leader of the Regional Agrarian Platform of Aguan Valley, assassinated by hitmen;
Roberto Weddle Calderón, Choluteca resistance leader and Libre political party activist, who was found dead.

West Papua's Prisoners of Conscience

A new website and campaign has been launched to highlight Indonesia’s appalling record of jailing peaceful activists.

 www.papuansbehindbars.org

The website is intended to support advocacy for the rights of the political prisoners who are currently languishing in jails across West Papua.

There are at least 40 political detainees being held in Papuan jails. Many have been subjected to torture, denied access to lawyers, and suffered all manner of other human rights violations.