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Not for as long as it takes to blink were Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott so much as threatened, even less endangered, on the 26th of January by demonstrators from the 40th anniversary Aboriginal Embassy camp in Canberra. Vision footage from activists and mainstream media almost inundating the internet makes irrefutably clear that it was police who were violent and caused the bedlam. At one point uniform was even roughing up plainclothes. For at least 10 minutes after Gillard/Abbott had been driven away, when there was nothing and no one left to “protect”, the police line kept pushing us back, some punching, shoving, throwing people on the ground and “f”- swearing at demonstrators.

Tent Embassy statements: Aboriginal Provisional Government statement | Declaration of Independence for a Sovereign Union of First Nations | Press conference | Comment: Embassy more relevant than ever | I see no riot or attack | Media paints black as white and might as right | Protest speaks for itself | A lesson in over-reaction and social context | No apologies are due to either politician, nor to anyone else |Forget the race card, they're playing the whole deck | Michael Anderson explained the importance of the Embassy on Radio Australia | First hand accounts: Chris Graham: fact v fiction, black v white | From field notes and footnotes | “You shoe’da come!” | Video | Photo essay by Green Left Weekly (what the media didn't show) | ABC’s Media Watch: An Australia Day beat up | AFP to review officers' conduct | Kim Sattler, Secretary, Unions ACT, to Barbara Shaw: "And Abbott's just made a statement to the press that the tent embassy should be pulled down ... he's over there." | Gerry Georgatos’ source: Multiple calls from Gillard’s office, awards ceremony not disturbed | Bob Carr: “The Tent Embassy in Canberra says nothing to anyone and should have been quietly packed up years ago.” | Solidarity actions: Solidarity billboard in Melbourne | Banner drop in Canberra

A group of Canberra anarchists dropped 3 banners around the Civic in the nation's capital, as an autonomous action in solidarity with Aboriginal Tent Embassy's 40 years of struggle. One banner was hung on the pedestrian bridge on Alinga St reading '(AUSTRALIA - crossed out) INVASION DAY. SOVEREIGNTY NEVER CEDED". Another two were hung from a large empty building on London CCt directly opposite the Department of Public Prosecutions and an Australian Federal Police station which read "224 YEARS OF OCCUPATION, 224 YEARS OF RESISTANCE" and "STOLEN LAND".

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REFUGEE PROTESTERS FIND LONG TERM DETENTION KIDS AT REMOTE LEONORA
DETENTION CENTRE

Around 40 refugee supporters of the Refugee Rights Action Network
(RRAN) travelling to Leonora this weekend have been shocked to
discover children who have been in detention for over a year when they
visited the remote Western Australian detention centre.

Around 140 unaccompanied minors have been moved in recent weeks from
Christmas Island and Darwin to the detention centre. The RRAN
activists have called for the immediate release of the children from
detention.

Below is the Press Conference Given at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on January 26th 2012 explaining why after 40 years the Tent Embassy continues. Footage orginally uploaded by Channel 10

Sovereignty Announced - No volence on Invasion Day: Treaty Republic

A group of aboriginal rights activists last night dropped a number of banners around the Civic in the nation's capital. One reading '(AUSTRALIA - crossed out) INVASION DAY. SOVEREIGNTY NEVER CEDED" was hung over the pedestrian bridge on Alinga St. Numbers 21-23 and 25 London Cct, across from the Department of Public Prosecutions, had banners which read, respectively, "224 YEARS OF OCCUPATION, 224 YEARS OF RESISTANCE" and "STOLEN LAND".

Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (January 27) 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
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America and the EU have decided on an embargo on oil from Iran because of its nuclear position.  Australia is following suite.  Surely if we are going to employ sanctions against Iran we ought to have sanctions in place against Israel who have nuclear weapons but are not a signatory to any agreement.  Israel presents the only nuclear threat in the middle east.  The ough tto be compelled to disarm, then countries such as Iran would have little or no reason to arm themselves wi

“We are a humanitarian country. We don't turn people back into the sea, we don't turn unseaworthy boats which are likely to capsize and the people on them be drowned. We can't behave in that manner." – John Howard.[1]

Tony Abbott has announced that if he becomes Prime Minister, he’ll force the navy to turn back all asylum seeker boats - asking Australian Navy personnel to do the extraordinary thing of repairing unseaworthy boats while out at sea, before sending asylum seekers back on a dangerous journey.

Newsletter date: 23 January 2012

Contents:

Reminder of upcoming events:
* Photographic exhibition: Manuwangku Under the Nuclear Cloud
* Congress Peoples' Forum: Sovereignty and Self Determination
* 40th anniversary of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy
* Other Aboriginal rights events

Reminder of submissions due:
* Extension of key NT Intervention measures for another decade
* Role of languages in the promotion of indigenous rights

* Constitutional Recognition

* Radio National: Awaye!: Aboriginal Tent Embassy

REMINDER OF UPCOMING EVENTS: