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Newsletter date: 10 December 2012

Contents:

* ABC The World Today Audio: Twenty per cent increase in Indigenous women in prisons
* The Wire Audio Interview: Indigenous women prisoners increased this year
* Rachel Browne, SMH: Aboriginal women in jail surge
* ISJA - Melbourne: Build the movement to Stop Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
* ANTaR: Justice Campaign

* Herald Sun: Slavery buried in Qld mass grave: Islanders

* AHRC: Where do we draw the line between hate speech and free speech?

* ABC THE WORLD TODAY AUDIO: TWENTY PER CENT INCREASE IN INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN PRISONS

Friday, 7 December 2012 – The Australian Bureau of Statistics reports that there are now more Indigenous women in prison than last year.

This is raising concerns about creating policies to address the issue.

The report shows Indigenous women prisoners increased up by 20%, compared to an increase of 3% in non-Indigenous women.

Experts worry whether there is a lack of support for Indigenous women prisoners have.

Newsletter date: 9 December 2012

Contents:

* Media Release: Alice Springs Human Rights Day Rally demands justice for Kumentjaye Briscoe
* Patricia Morton-Thomas: 'My Family Is Calling For Justice'
* Petition: Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe - lay charges against police

* STICS: NT Aboriginal Elder calls for repeal of 'Stronger Futures' at Sydney Human Rights Day forum
* PressTV Video: Australia Rights Forum centers on indigenous people
* Tracker: Lessons of Redfern speech lost: Elder
* Media Release: Union leaders join Bankstown Coalition to ramp up income management campaign

Newsletter date: 8 December 2012

Contents:

* Sovereign Union: Act of Recognition is an insult to First Nations Peoples
* The Wire: Sovereign group says Act of Recognition is 'so insulting'
* Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement

* NIRS: Media coverage influences Indigenous policy: Report [Demise of bilingual programs]
* Background to the use of Aboriginal languages in NT schools

* NSW Greens: Ausgrid will "get off with a modest fine" over the destruction of a significant Aboriginal site [Source: Tracker]

HOW DO I TREAT THEE? Let me count the ways. Statistics from the AFP-PNP over a 33-year period (1978-2010) report an aggregate of 29,553 fatalities in the ongoing conflict between GPH and the CPP-NPA categorized thus: 13,412 Communists (45%), 8,264 military and police (28%) and 7,877 civilians (21%). This further translates into 80 deaths daily for the period: 36 Communists, 23 soldiers and police, and 21 civilians.

To show Financial Crisis stems from UN: ethical human rights required.

Anthony Ravlich
Chairperson
Human Rights Council (New Zealand)
(0064) (09) 940.9658

I posted the following on the social networking sites and because of its importance and ‘immediacy’ I am alerting readers to my findings before it can be fully explained.

The post states:

"Statistics show Financial Crisis (2009) was due to ideological shift at UN to Asia and greater good at the expense of trickle down and growth in West. Ethical individual human rights required".

The Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill is racing towards passage -- LGBTI Ugandans are worried it could pass any day now, and are holding out hope that international corporations will speak up now against this hateful bill, before it becomes law. An incredible 100,000 of us have signed our petition calling for Pepsi to speak out unequivocally against this bill, but the corporate higher-ups at Pepsi have remained silent. Time is running out before the “Kill the Gays” bill becomes law -- so now is the time to ramp up our pressure on Pepsi.

The text below appeared briefly on the Perth Indymedia wire in August 2011. When that website closed down shortly before the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was held in Perth later in 2011, the article went with it. Along with the bulk of the contents of the site archive, several other, later, documents concerned with the issue of my expulsion from the Socialist Alliance were also 'lost'.

Perth and WA Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 11 events from 8 December 2012

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

Event: Sat 8 December 2012:
Broome, Perth, Adelaide & Melbourne
(Inter)national day of solidarity for the Kimberley
Broome No Gas Rally and Concert
- James Price Point: Pristine and Priceless
"On Saturday 8 December, the local community
in Broome, Western Australia, will hold a rally
and concert to oppose the construction of
a giant gas hub on their doorstep.
On the same day, we'll be holding events