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Update on Honduras Coup for November 2012
Terrible wave of assassinations

Newsletter date: 13 December 2012

Contents:

* Eva Cox, The Conversation: Government remains deaf to the data on income management
* Paddy Gibson, Overland literary journal: Income management in the Northern Territory: racism is still the issue
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

* Allyson Horn, ABC: NT Labor draws line in sand on nuclear waste dump
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump

12 December 2012

Your Excellency,

Re: 12 December 2012 Assault on Aboriginal Embassy in Brisbane by colonial authorities

Just after midnight on 12 December 2012 eighty police, firemen and council workers stormed the Brisbane Aboriginal Embassy for no justifiable reason. The Embassy has been established for the last nine months, as a focal point for Aboriginal expression and representation of issues. Our Aboriginal Embassies are no longer viewed as protests, but as an expression of our continuing sovereignty in our own land.

UPDATE: Funding for half a year approved - see details in comment below

Do you like Australian music on the radio? Well, you’d hear hardly any of it if it weren’t for a government funding programme set to end on 31 December.

It’s AMRAP, the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project, helping more than 3,000 musicians and 1,500 broadcasters on community radio stations across the country to air Australian music.

And they’re asking for your protest to the government at http://www.amrap.com.au/funding.html.

Typhoon Bhopa (Philippine name Pablo) have resulted to a total number of 647 casualties, with another 1,842 people injured, and 780 missing.

Typhoon Pablo and Doha: Ways Forward for the Philippines

By Akbayan (Citizens Action Party)

It is truly a sad day for Filipinos across the nation, as the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council announced the devastation of typhoon Pablo to have resulted to a total number of 647 casualties, with another 1,842 people injured, and 780 missing.

Everything needs to be recycled all over the world, not just in Australia

If you eat food, maybe you've noticed groceries costs more and more. Well stock up now, food inflation is just ramping up. It's not just the extra 200 million mouths to feed on the planet next year. Climate change is already re-arranging your food bill. Learn how cities can start feeding themselves - in just one year! from Lamanda Joy in Chicago.

Download Radio Ecoshock special on Victory Gardens (1 hour, 14 MB LoFi)
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock12/ES_121212_Show_LoFi.mp3

Or 56 MB in CD Quality
http://www.ecoshock.net/eshock12/ES_121212_Show.mp3

Brisbane and Queensland Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 17 events from 11 December 2012

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

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."
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/news/film-released-free-online-1
About the film: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about

6 December 2012

An artwork that will continue to grow is among the highlights of an art exhibition honouring 40 years of the Aboriginal tent embassy.

The tent embassy was erected in Canberra in 1972 to protest against a court decision over mining operations on Aboriginal land and other social equality issues. Many battles and struggles later, the embassy has become a heritage-listed landmark for Aboriginal protest.

"The students have grasped a strong understanding of the roots of the tent embassy ...