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Click here to call on MTN, a major telecommunications operator in Syria and Iran, to stop enabling repressive regimes to commit human rights abuses.

By Rob Scott 15th August 2012.A report by US journalist Eric S Margolis indicates that the United States is already deeply involved in a secret operation to support the revolt currently underway in Syria. Margolis is a respected journalist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, International Herald Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. Building upon the history of secret operations by US and French forces to help the recent Libyan insurrection, Margolis has been able to construct a picture of emerging high level clandestine US support for the Syrian opposition. This support includes command and control resources, encrypted signals networks and sophisticated weaponry such as Stinger missiles.

RALLY

Wednesday 15 August, 12.30
Immigration Department building, corner Lonsdale St & Spring St, Melbourne

The Gillard government has caved in to the Liberal’s demands to kick the boot harder into refugees, and is using recommendations from its "expert panel" to introduce new legislation to parliament this week to immediately reopen offshore processing centres on the Pacific islands of Nauru and Manus Island, and deny family reunion to refugees.

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Event: 15 August 2012: Parramatta, Sydney, NSW
Building Bridges 2012
Constitutional Recognition of ATSI People
Presenter: Sarah Maddison
Campaign for Referendum
Presenter: Aunty Sandra Lee
Legal and Strategic Considerations
Presenter: Terry Chenery
Organised by Reconciliation for Western Sydney
Event details: http://reconciliation4westernsydney.org/index.php/building-bridges-2012
Event details: http://www.nswreconciliation.org.au/events-1/building-bridges-forum

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Doubting Thomas, Scott Sandwich, Len Martin, Tug Dumbley recorded live 5th August 2012 in Nimbin

29:32 min 128 kbps stereo 27.8 MB

sorry for the lofi - not my fault

Refugee Action Collective Victoria - Media Release - 13/8/2012The expert panel on asylum seekers and offshore processing has [ignored the opposition to offshore processing in the overwhelming majority of submissions it received and] recommended policies to the government, the vast majority of which undermine refugee rights, and the spirit of the 1951 refugee convention

The exchange (reproduced below) of Facebook correspondence over the past week or so between myself and the Australian Socialist Alliance co-convenor Peter Boyle, on the subject of Alliance policy relating to erotica and pornography, arose from a question about Alliance policy on this issue that I put to Boyle during the discussion following his presentation of the new draft Socialist Alliance programme: 'Towards a Socialist Australia', at an Alliance/Resistance-sponsored, one-day, socialist educational conference held at the Activist Centre in East Perth a couple of weekends ago.

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples
08 August 2012

GENEVA. The UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples have marked the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (9 August 2012).

the following report that the queensland police union is arrogantly expecting the tax-payers of qld to pay the million dollar plus costs for the whitewash of then s/s chris hurley's involvement in the death of mulrunji doomadgee in november 2004 on palm island is just another kick in the guts by qld police for the doomadgee family, his wife tracey and the whole of the palm island community.