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The last few days have seen Occupy Melbourne develop some very creative tactics to prevent the convisgation of their property by the Melbourne City Council and Police. On Friday 25th of November after the Council served Notice of Compliance on the camp and came down with police protestors took their gear and left the park. However this wasn't enough a police and the police gave chase to the tents! One protestor, Sean Bedlam was arrested for "hindering council officers" whilst sitting on a tarp on the footpath outside the park.

by Gerry Georgatos It is indeed now common knowledge that Australian adult prisons are incarcerating children as young as 13. The human rights struggle to free these children from our adult prisons has been an arduous one, with the major obstacle the Australian government and the horrific prejudices and stereotypes they have shoved down throats so as to perceptually modify views. Many have now been freed, some brutally traumatised, one sexually abused, all of them losing some of the form and content of their youth to an unwarranted prison experience.
Related: Christmas at home for Bali boy however Christmas for many Indonesian children will be in Australian adult prisons -- Campaign Facebook page

A Perth branch meeting of the Australian Socialist Alliance held last November 16th ratified a decision made by the Perth branch executive to expel dissident member Graham Milner, after a motion was rammed through the branch meeting by the executive in Milner's absence. Milner had telephoned the branch convenor, Alex Bainbridge, before the branch meeting to ask Bainbridge to convey his apologies to the other comrades, as he was unable to attend the meeting.

Traditional owners and environmentalists descended on the Melbourne Convention Centre on Thursday 17 November for the BHP Billiton AGM. Using proxies, some twenty Aboriginal elders and supporters gained access to the meeting, while others held a protest outside.

Newsletter date: 26 November 2011

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

Event: Ongoing Protest: James Price Point, Kimberley, WA
Kimberley gas plant protest
Save the Kimberley info: http://www.savethekimberley.com/
Kimberley gas plant threatens Aboriginal culture: http://ccr.uws.edu.au/2011/06/22/kimberley-gas-plant-threatens-aborigina...
Aboriginal elder Elsta Foy at the protest camp: http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2011/s3296152.htm
Protest updates: http://www.savethekimberley.com/wp/blog/

Newsletter date: 26 November 2011

Contents:
* Stronger Futures is the same intervention says Amnesty
* "Cooperation not intervention: a call for a new direction in the Northern Territory"
- Joint Statement from ACOSS, APO NT and many others
* "Stand against Macklin’s decade of discrimination - No second Intervention!"
- Joint Statement from IRAG, DARC and STICS
* SNAICC: Elders and representatives express anger over future of NT Intervention
* Pat Turner: Cutting Centrelink cash won't stop indigenous truancy
* Interview with Paddy Gibson about the new school attendance measures

Gerry Georgatos The young boy convicted of marijuana possession will be home in Australia come Christmas. How many of Indonesia's most impoverished children, aged 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 years of age will be in an Australian adult prison on Christmas Day? More than fifty - even though the Prime Minister says 'only' 17, the Attorney-General says 27, the Australian Federal Police say 32.

New picture of an uncontacted Yanomami village in
Brazil. © Hutukara/Survival

SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL, November 22, 2011 - - Survival International has released new pictures of an uncontacted Yanomami village in Brazil, 20 years after one of its crucial campaigns created the biggest forested indigenous territory in the world.

Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation MEDIA STATEMENT
23 November 2011
http://yindjibarndi.org.au/

The Yindjibarndi People have been battling for 4 years against an increasingly belligerent, litigious, and unscrupulous Fortescue Metals Group (FMG).

On 28 October, at FMG’s Solomon Project in the Pilbara, the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) discovered that FMG had desecrated an ochre quarry and destroyed part of a creek where sacred Gandi are found (stones used in initiation rituals).