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Sydney & NSW Aboriginal rights events for your diary - 13 events from 8 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 08/07/2012 - 2:22pm

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Event: 7 June to 14 July 2012: Kings Cross, Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: Ghost Citizens: Witnessing the Intervention
Talks on Saturday 23 June at 3pm
Curator Djon Mundine OAM
Artists: Alison Alder, Bindi Cole, Fiona Foley, Dan Jones,
Chips Mackinolty, Fiona MacDonald, Sally M Mulda,
Amy Napurulla, Brendan Penzer, Michael Riley,
Deborah Vaughan, Jason Wing
"The word 'intervention' is popular in the art and architecture
worlds, but in this context it condemns the Northern Territory

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WGAR News: Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia - 22 events from 8 July 2012

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sun, 08/07/2012 - 1:56pm

Newsletter date: 8 July 2012

Last updated: 11 July 2012

Upcoming Aboriginal rights events around Australia
- 22 events from 8 July 2012

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The Labor-Greens carbon tax hoax

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 08/07/2012 - 9:47am

By Patrick O’Connor, SEP candidate for Melbourne: 6 July 2012 Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s carbon tax finally came into effect on July 1. The Labor government and its de facto coalition partner, the Greens, marked the occasion by again boasting of the measure’s environmental and social credentials.

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ACTA goes down! Now what?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 3:57pm

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Undermining sovereignty unity to get at colonial compensation treasure?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 3:23pm

Ballina, NSW, July 2, 2012 -- Michael Anderson, the political activist and last surviving member of the four Aboriginal men who challenged the State by erecting the beach umbrella Aboriginal Embassy on the front lawns of Parliament house in 1972 says he has been made aware that the Aboriginal sovereignty movement is being undermined by a number of people who it seems are attempting to derail the process and the movement for personal gain and to protect the interests of the British Crown.
His statement in full:

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Background: Calls for 'Stronger Futures' laws to be subject to Human Rights scrutiny

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 3:14pm

Last updated: 9 January 2013

CONTENTS:

* Take Action regarding Human Rights compliance for 'Stronger Futures' laws
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/09/take-action-regarding-human-rights-co...
(Last updated: 18 July 2012)

* Media Releases, Letters, Statements calling for 'Stronger Futures' Human Rights compliance
http://indymedia.org.au/2013/01/09/media-releases-letters-statements-cal...
(Last updated: 25 July 2012)

* Analysis and Opinion regarding 'Stronger Futures' Human Rights compliance

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Australia’s human rights obligations - the Parliamentary Scrutiny Human Rights Act 2011

Australia’s human rights obligations - Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights

Northern Territory NT Interventionindigenous

Court orders extraordinary general meeting of Woolworths to discuss and vote on high-loss poker machines

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 07/07/2012 - 1:46pm

On Friday 6 July we walked out of Federal Court and are pleased to say that there will be an Extraordinary General Meeting of Woolworths to discuss and vote on making the company's high-loss poker machines safer for communities.

-- In a nutshell, Woolworths on Friday was today unsuccessful in denying GetUp members and Woolworths shareholders the right to an EGM about poker machine reform. They did however manage to buy some extra time before that meeting; it will now happen in November. --

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Solidarity message from Sydney Stop The War Coalition

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 11:47pm

Sydney Stop the War Coalition in Australia extends its solidarity the Philippines Stop the War Coalition and the other groups demanding that your country's Senate not to ratify the Republic of the Philippines-Australia Status of the Visiting Forces Agreement.

This is a military agreement, developed in secrecy by the governments and military chief of both our governments, that will allow the deployment of Australian military forces on Philippines territory for "combined training, exercises, or other activities mutually approved by the Parties".

This military deal is an attack on the peace, freedom and independence of the Filipino people, and the other peoples in Asia.

We understand that under this agreement, the Philippines cannot exercise primary jurisdiction over visiting Australian military personnel accused of a crime or other breach of the law if the Australian military claims that the action concerned was carried out in performance of an "official duty".
Related: Protests hit Phillipines-Australia Military Deal

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International news and opinion

Community Assembly to support 500 striking Coles Wharehouse workers starts Tuesday 10 July

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 8:45pm

Support Toll workers’ strike against substandard wages and conditions
500 workers at the Coles distribution centre in Somerton, in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, will start an indefinite strike from 6am on Tuesday 10 July. They are demanding equal pay and conditions with other Coles warehouse workers (see below).

Join the community assembly
When ordinary workers are up against a giant corporation like Coles, they need help and solidarity from all of us!

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Police cut ties with Trades Hall because of a forum attended by more than 100 on the topic of Police Brutality and Racism

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 1:12pm

Among the speakers were Flemington and Kensington Community Legal Centre lawyer Tamar Hopkins, Aboriginal activist Robbie Thorpe, journalist and researcher into Australian deaths in custody Gerry Georgatos and anti-racism activist Louisa Bassini - these four were invited as speakers on the topic of police brutality and racism however none of them belong to the political group or affiliated to it that coordinated the event. More than one people came to listen to them.

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WGAR News: "Abbott wrong on nuclear waste: NT campaign has strong national support" BNI

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 12:08pm

Newsletter date: 6 July 2012

Contents:
* BNI: Abbott wrong on nuclear waste: NT campaign has strong national support
* Nuclear Freeways: 3,376km A long haul for nuclear waste
* ABC The Drum: Muckaty nuclear dump shows Mabo still matters
* Background to the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste dump
* Background to Mabo and Native Title
* Petition Online: Stop the expansion of Olympic Dam uranium mine
* Background to expansion of Olympic Dam mine challenge
* Gary Foley: A punter’s guide to stealing the rights of Aborigines

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Nuclear Freeways - 3376km A long haul for nuclear waste

ABC The Drum - Muckaty nuclear dump shows Mabo still matters

Petition Online - Stop the expansion of Olympic Dam uranium mine

Gary Foley - A punter’s guide to stealing the rights of Aborigines

WGAR News: "a bad government policy that ... has set the community back decades" Tracker

Submitted by WGAR - Working ... on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 10:38am

Newsletter date: 6 July 2012

Contents:
* Tracker: The truth about Toomelah
* Amy McQuire: CDEP: A timeline of destruction
* CAAMA: Pat Turner challenges Government on Intervention!
* NLC: NLC disappointed with passing of 'Stronger Futures' legislation
* Socialist Alliance: Stolen Futures: 10 more years of racism
* Lee Rhiannon: Vigil against Income Management starts in Bankstown
* More 'Stronger Futures' Legislation related articles
* Background to 'Stronger Futures' new NT Intervention laws
* Background to the Northern Territory (NT) Intervention

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More Stronger Futures Legislation related articles

Tracker - The truth about Toomelah

Amy McQuire - CDEP - A timeline of destruction

CAAMA - Pat Turner challenges Government on Intervention!

NLC - NLC disappointed with passing of Stronger Futures legislation

Socialist Alliance - Stolen Futures - 10 more years of racism

Lee Rhiannon - Vigil against Income Management starts in Bankstown

Nicole Watson - Forget the courts - let’s turn to the tents

SBS Living Black - Stories From Sandon Point - Bulli - near Wollongong NSW

The Wire - NAIDOC Week - stories from the Tent Embassy

The Shortwave Report 7/6/12 Listen Globally!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 10:22am

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (July 6) 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=&)

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shortwave

China Radio International

Radio Havana Cuba

Voice of Russia

Radio Deutsche-Welle

NHK Japan National Radio

Evidence of police state

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 6:31am

See my reports showing crimes and coverups by military intel, fbi, police, UT Chancellor & Counsel, et al , in fraudulent efforts to arrest me.

This date as I prepare this report, the fbi blocks my gmail account preventing me from access; the thugs also hack some of my posts as I type them.

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police state

Venezuela: Interview with Rafael Uzcátegui

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 06/07/2012 - 5:50am

* Rafael Uzcategui is a member of the group that publishes the anarchist newspaper El Libertario in Caracas (Venezuela). As antimilitarist, he is also a member of the War Resisters’ International and works in a Venezuelan human rights NGO called Provea. He is author of the books “Heart of Ink” and “Venezuela: Revolution as Spectacle” in which he reports the so-called Bolivarian process of Chavez and the true face of his “revolutionary” government. Taking advantage of his conference tour in Germany, we interviewed Rafael for the magazine Gai Dao.

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The past week in nuclear news

Submitted by Christina Macpherson on Thu, 05/07/2012 - 6:21pm

Information on these news items, and source links, can be found at www.antinuclear.net, and at www.nuclear-news.net

AUSTRALIA
Muckaty nuclear waste dump plan to meet increasing opposition, as Australian groups, especially unions, support traditional owners’ legal action against the plan. Meanwhile Tony Abbott is happy about the plan – saying that “local concerns have to give way to the national interest”

Keep Fighting Stronger Futures plea from Yolngu leader

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2012 - 3:24pm

The Stolen Futures Legislation was passed through the Senate on Friday 29th of June, 2012. Dr Djiniyini Gondarra, a Yolngu leader is calling for all people to join the fight against this paternalistic, disempowering and deceptive policy that is now spreading to other parts of Australia.

Hear him for 11 minutes at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3oyLUK-Jac

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We were just served by Woolworths and tomorrow we will be heading to the Federal Court

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2012 - 2:03pm

It's on. We were just served by Woolworths and tomorrow we will be heading to the Federal Court.

Why? GetUp members who are Woolworths shareholders have exercised their shareholder power under corporations law, calling an Extraordinary General Meeting to vote on making the company's poker machines safer for communities.

Gillard government intimidating and suppressing persecuted Australian human rights abuse victims!

Submitted by JenniferNash on Thu, 05/07/2012 - 11:52am

I never received any reply to my communications with Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s office. And the former Labor PM Kevin Rudd also ignored all my communications with his office on the suppressed documented and corroborated human rights abuses against my innocent son Jordan, a victim of severe school bullying and escalating home rights abuses. And this includes my open letter to Ms Gillard and parliament (below).

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media suppression

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Clontarf community cabinet forum

Governor Penelope Wensley

Robert Wensley QC

Melbourne solidarity for Julian Assange

Submitted by Sasha Brown on Wed, 04/07/2012 - 6:56pm

Around 200 people turned out in the Melbourne rain to show solidarity for Julian Assange (1st July 2012) at a rally organized by Wikileaks Australian Citizens Alliance/ The crowd heard from a range of speakers including Greens MP Adam Bandt, SEP Melbourne by-election candidate Patrick O’Connor, Wikileaks co-founder

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