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Hank Skinner, 49, has been on death row in Texas since 1995 for the murders of his girlfriend and her two adult sons in their Panhandle home. He has steadfastly professed his innocence.
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No special theme, just a few thoughts and fun
16/10/2011
Well done to all those who participated in or helped build today's successful rally in Parramatta Mall in defence of the persecuted Aboriginal Hickey family in Riverstone and against racist and anti-working class police violence more generally.
Tomorrow the five adult family/friends will face court for the resumption of their trial on the trumped up charges. We will again be rallying - this time outside Parramatta the court from 9am.
I write this to u on the occupied lands of the Wurundjeri ppl and near the lands of the Bunwurrung ppl. Melbourne is again occupied by the ppl and not the corporations.
Victory 1 day one for Occupy Melbourne and the Bans, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Melbourne Central Shopping Centre was shutdown. It has a store owned by the Strauss Group called Max Brenner.
There were great and emotional speeches, covering the reasons to BDS businesses like Max Brenner.
Do you fancy a bit of chocolate every now and then? Perhaps a hot cup of drinking chocolate and milk before going to bed? or a few small pieces of a bar of chocolate while watching TV? Maybe a fancy imported Swiss or Belgium chocolate with coffee and liquers at the end of a dinner party? or maybe some cool chocolate icecream on a hot summer's day? This could all become a thing of the past as chocolate becomes an extreme luxury item due to global warming.
Related: Global warming a potent brew for coffee and tea drinkers | International Centre for Tropical Agriculture | Fair Trade on Cocoa | World Food Day
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Event: Wed 19 October 2011: Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Qld
Homelands Campaign training session and first action group meeting
Held by Amnesty International Qld/Northern NSW
"We invite all interested volunteers and
supporters to attend a training session."
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/qld/event/26674/
Event: Wed 2 to Sat 5 Nov 2011: South Bank, Brisbane, Qld
Theatre: Jane Harrison's Stolen
Directed by Leah Purcell
Presented by: The Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts
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Event: Fri 21 October 2011: Melbourne City, Vic
Public meeting:
You say you want a revolution: Not Sorry Enough
Speakers: Robbie Thorpe; Karla Grant; Linday Bruney;
Kim Hill; Tania Major.
"From the battles for basic civil rights four decades ago,
to the overturning of terra nullius and the stolen
generations apology, Australian Indigenous activists have
achieved much over successive generations.
Yet it would seem many aspirations have been left behind
along the way, and there is so much left to achieve. ... "
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Event: Mon 17 October 2011: Avoca Beach, Central Coast, NSW
Our Generation Film Screening
Hosted by Amnesty International's Central Coast Action Group
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/nsw/event/26574/
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/
Film info: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/about-2/
See bottom of this page for Our Generation film reviews
Event: Thu 20 October 2011: Paddington, Sydney, NSW
Special screening of excerpts from the emerging feature doco
Breath of Life
& Muckaty Voices,
Newsletter date: 13 October 2011
Contents:
* Amnesty International cheif Salil Shetty visits communities in Utopia, NT
* Calls for implementation of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
* Jon Altman: Homeland communities destroyed to save a bit of cash
* Amnesty International Australia Action: Tell the government: don’t abandon homelands
* Amnesty International Australia: Utopia Homelands featured on the 7pm Project
* What’s Working: Health-Utopia
* Rally against Income Management in Bankstown - 8 October 2011
On October 15th, a small group of people in Canberra gathered at City Hill to be part of the global Occupy day of action. The following is an account from an organiser, Nicholas, via the Occupy Canberra Facebook Pge.
Following previous media releases on the fact that we have come to Sydney to highlight the continuing predicament of Indonesian children in Australian adult prisons, and the fact that we will travel to Indonesia to aggregate as much court admissible evidence to assist in the release of as many of the thereabouts 100 children languishing in adult prisons, and the latest media release confirming that Senator Lee Rhiannon and Senator Sarah Hanson-Young have promised me that they will finally ask questions in the Senate Estimates and the Senate regarding the predicament of these children, I ad
I have come to Sydney to highlight the continuing predicament of the Indonesian children languishing in Australian adult prisons. Thereabouts a dozen have been released, charges withdrawn, however there is no consistency and it is piecemeal and it has taken a tremendous toll in terms of campaigning - Indonesian Solidarity, with the support of the Human Rights Alliance, and many endorsers, are coordinating, alongside various organisations, STOP JAILING THE CHILDREN forums at University of Sydney, UNSW, and UTS.
Hypocrisy never ceases to amaze and often serves to highlight immoral predicaments.
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd is concerned about the rights of a 14 year old Australian child who was arrested by entrapment for possession of marijuana in Bali. The child is not in an Indonesian adult prison however he is in custody and within the appropriate jurisdiction. I feel for him however he has a journey before the Indonesian Childrens Court.
There are near one hundred of the world's most impoverished children incarcerated, whether on remand or sentenced, in Australian adult prisons. The brunt of these numbers are in Western Australian adult prisons.
The 100 children are part of the perceived people smugglers, cooks and deckhands - and do not include the many Indonesian fisherpeople also incarcerated for fishing in excised waters - we need to review the cases of the 500 Indonesian folk, perceived people smugglers and fisherpeople damned to Australian prisons in the last few years.
Hundreds of people gathered in Forrest Place in Perth to speak and listen each other as the Occupy Perth movement began. According to Perth Now speeches covered “the unaffordability of housing, the Iraq war and having world leaders responsible for human rights abuses being wined and dined during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.” Plans are being made to Occupy CHOGM on the 28th of October.
Newsletter date: 16 October 2011
Contents:
* Advocates brief UN Committee on the Rights of the Child re Australia's performance
* Amnesty chief tells Macklin - We will be watching
* Attempted suicides in communities affected by NT Intervention has doubled
* Arnhem Land leaders are gathering on Elcho Island
* Arabunna elder Kevin Buzzacott calls for scrapping of Olympic Dam expansion
* What’s Working: A Better Way - ANTaR's book of success stories
* More on APY Lands
* Apology to the Aboriginal People of Australia on behalf of Australians of Arabic background
With about as many attendees as there were ideas, the Occupy Brisbane (OB) protest started on Saturday morning without much of an agenda. This is the challenge that the “occupy” movement is facing everywhere: we are against a multitude of things, but what do we stand for?
In solidarity with the Occupy Wall street protest that has been occurring in New York for the last 4 weeks, Occupy Protests occurred in capital cities around Australia and Asia today.
In Australia protests were organised in Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, with some of these setting up occupation sites for overnight and longer. Australian Bureau of Statistics show that the divide between the rich and poor is growing with the rich getting even richer, according to this ABC report.
Photos from the day at the Occupy Sydney protest. Apparently the police attacked at night after I left.
Couple of panoramas from day and night protest.
Day photo from around 4pm, night photo around 10pm (after police raid).
