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[WGAR-news] Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 27 events from 17 December 2012

Newsletter date: 17 December 2012

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Event: 10 December 2012 to 10 January 2013: Online
Our Generation film
Film released free online
"To mark the International Day for Human Rights
(10 Dec), we have uploaded the original version
of the film to watch for free online.
It will be available to view until 10 Jan 2013."
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/news/film-released-free-online-1
About the film: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about
Film Reviews: http://indymedia.org.au/2012/09/24/our-generation-film-reviews

Hit the road 'brother' - Bruce Woodley, chairman of the Wirlu-murra Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation

By National Indigenous Times reporter Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of the National Indigenous Times - http://www.nit.com.au/news/2299-hit-the-road-twiggy.html - Wednesday 28, November 2012

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Stopping the military's war on animals - it just goes on and gets more evil

Gerry Georgatos
The exploitation of animals has reached never before seen extents, with animals bred in the most horrific conditions to be en masse slaughtered for so-called food production and human consumption. In the meantime humankind is getting physically and mentally sick on the excess consumption of animals as food.

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WGAR News: Premier’s approach ostracising all in the push to develop James Price Point: Greens

Newsletter date: 16 December 2012

Contents:

* Greens Senator Rachel Siewert: Premier’s approach ostracising all in the push to develop James Price Point
* The West: Wide-ranging rally [in opposition to the gas hub at James Price Point]
* Background to the Save The Kimberley Campaign - James Price Point, north of Broome, WA

* SBS World News: [National Indigenous Television] NITV goes free to air

* SBS World News Video: National strategy launched to reduce Indigenous suicide rates

* SBS World News Video: Indigenous Aussies 'should vote for their own senators'

Tropical Cyclone Evan damages Samoa, heading for Fiji

The tropical paradise of Samoa in the South Pacific has been lashed with gale force winds, flash flooding from torrential rain and a 3 metre storm surge from Category 2 tropical cyclone Evan on Thursday and Friday. After two days the tropical cyclone is now moving west and intensifying to a Catergory 4 storm as it heads in the direction of Fiji. Wallis and Fortuna Islands lie directly in the storm path and northern atolls of Tonga may also be affected to some degree.

WGAR News: "High Court gives Congress chance to argue equality before the law"

Newsletter date: 15 December 2012

Contents:

* National Congress of Australia’s First Peoples: High Court Statement
* Human Rights Law Centre: High Court to hear landmark case on race discrimination and "special measures"

* The Wire Audio Interviews: Amelia Kunoth-Monks following in her grandmother's footsteps
* ABC Alice Springs Audio Interview: Guestroom - Olga Havnen
* 19th Maurice Blackburn Oration: Professor Clare Martin
* VEOHRC: Human Rights Oration 2012: Ron Merkel, QC
* STICS Forum Videos: After the NT election... The Struggle Against the NT Intervention:

Australian slavery buried in Queensland mass grave

Hidden under an old sugar cane plantation outside the Queensland city of Bundaberg lies an awful secret - the bodies of 29 South Sea Islanders buried in an unmarked grave. Bundaberg and District South Sea Islanders Action Group president, Matthew Nagas, says they could be his ancestors. And he believes they were probably worked to death "like pieces of machinery".

"If they weren't working anymore, you just pushed them aside and covered them with dirt," Mr Nagas told the AAP news agency. "They were buried in that place with no name, and forgotten. It cuts deep.”

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Working Together Towards Sovereignty

Working Together Towards Sovereignty

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The site of the Brisbane Embassy at Musgrave Park had become an eyesore and an embarrassment for the Aboriginal community over the last few months.

So a number of elders and traditional owners from the area banded together to ensure the inevitable Brisbane City Council clean up was done in consultation with them with respect to culture.

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Plans To Waterproof Sydney

Note its good to experiment living underground & under the ocean to prepare for outerspace colonization.

Note it has been predicted by scientists that all coastal cities & towns will be under 30 metres of water in 500 to 1000 years time due to global warming or the sun expanding into a red giant, therefore robots will have to farm the landmass's & mining & manufacturing can also be done by robots on land & under the ocean as well.

Philippines condemns North Korea rocket launch

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippines "strongly condemns" the surprise rocket launch by North Korea on Wednesday, December 12, 2012 (12-12-12).

"The Philippines strongly condemns the launch undertaken by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on 12 December 2012," a statement released by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.

The Shortwave Report 12/14/12 Listen Globally!

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (December 14) 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=&)

Timor Leste, human development and foreign vanities

By Tim Anderson
On 26 November 2012 more than 400 new doctors graduated in Timor Leste, bringing the total number of Cuban trained doctors to nearly 500.

The graduation was notable for two reasons: first, this was the largest graduation of doctors in the region (probably the largest in the world, outside Latin America); and second, it attracted not a single news story in the English speaking world.