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Prime Minister Julia Gillard's legacy is a poor one - she has the opportunity to move forward and though unlikely to be re-elected at least to remedy wrongs and leave a more pro-social legacy.
Mathaba
For the history, start by reading The Problem With Anonymous. That article shows the history of ANONYMOUS in trying to hack Libyan Jamahiriya websites.
We clearly stated that the problem with "Anonymous" is exactly that: it has no ideology. It has no set of principles. It has no charter or platform. It has no points of reference.
The only trademark slogans are:
"We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us."
As Mathaba reader ImpulseRelay noted:
The Australian government has again threatened Julian Assange with arrest, this time over the release of the entire 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables online, in a searchable database. On Friday 2nd September, Federal Attorney General Robert McCelland released a statement expressing concern over the leaks which supposely include the name of at least one serving ASIO officer. He points out that "Section 92 of the ASIO Act makes it a crime to publish, or cause to be published, the identity of an ASIO Officer.". This leaves open the possibility that Julian Assange could face charges arising from the leak. McCelland also implicitly threatens Australian press outlets by urging them to "exercise caution" in discussing the leak. The Fairfax press broke the story of the ASIO agents identity on September 2nd.
Newsletter date: 4 September 2011
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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/
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Event: Wed 7 September 2011: Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic
Indigenous Social Justice Association:
Discussion of Justice Reinvestment
"On to 20th anniversary of the Royal Commission into
Aboriginal Deaths in Custody ANTAR issued a statement
criticising the lack of progress and putting forward a
range of strategies, including Justice Reinvestment,
a program being trialed in a number of U.S. States.
This meeting will discuss this program and evaluate its
usefulness in the Australian context"
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Event: 3 July to Sun 25 September 2011: Sydney, NSW
Exhibition: FREEDOM RIDERS
- Art and activism 1960s to now
Sydney University Art Gallery
"A unique and daring exhibition has pulled together some of
the most important political artworks produced by NSW's
leading Aboriginal artists and put them in one room for the
public to see." ABC News
Event details: http://sydney.edu.au/museums/events_exhibitions/art_gallery_exhibitions....
Featured in Video: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/07/01/3259282.htm
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Event: Tue 6 September 2011: Fortitude Valley, Brisbane, Qld
Homelands campaign training session
Amnesty International Qld/Northern NSW
"The training is designed for activists who want to play an
active role in the campaign, within their local group or as
a part of the Homelands Action Group."
Event details: http://www.amnesty.org.au/qld/event/26520/
Event: Fri 16 September 2011: Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, QLD
Our Generation Film Screening
Event details: http://www.ourgeneration.org.au/events/
By Rainforest Rescue
In central Sulawesi, Indonesia, powerful mining corporations are greedy for the minerals in the ground there. In contrast to the north and south of the island, exploitation in the centre has only just begun. But already clear-felling is causing flooding and mud slides. With great courage people are trying to save their rain forests.
In Wurundjeri Country sits the only Aboriginal School since the christian William Thomas established a school on the Merri Creek in the 1830's. Today the only Aboriginal school Ballerrt Mooroop College may have its cultural heritage desecrated for sewerage pipes, better views and car parks to be built for the new $20m disability school, a prospect not welcomed by the Public.
The independent community campaigning group, GetUp, is canvassing for donations to advertising against the Gillard government returning to the “Pacific solution” of sending boat people offshore for processing.
“The Pacific solution did not break the people smugglers' business model; it broke the will and spirit of asylum seekers,” Immigration Minister Chris Bowen told Parliament on June 15,” GetUp! reminds him and all of us.
Rob Gowland
The gall and hypocrisy of the US government and its NATO buddies continues to beggar belief. Using their own “special forces” and assorted mercenaries from such bastions of democracy as Saudi Arabia, they invaded Libya without even bothering to find a pretext.
Arming and financing a motley crew of “pro-democracy fighters”, amongst whom you can be sure are a plentiful number of US, British, French and Saudi agents, they subjected the country to a savage bombing campaign. After all, it worked in Yugoslavia.
Dear Radio Friend,
The latest Shortwave Report (September 2) 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 {27MB} http://www.audioport.org/index.php?op=producer-info&uid=904&nav=&)
Four anti-coal activists were arrested yesterday following the occupation of finance company Cygnet Capital's Melbourne office in protest at its backing of a projected open-cut coal mine at Bacchus Marsh.
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Shame on Australian acting foreign minister: meeting in Paris with rat representatives for fake democracy in Libya. Image: Australian People's Conference, the true face of democracy in Australia
Acting foreign minister of the Canberra government of Australia, which is not recognized by the original Australian population, Craig Emerson will join other neo-colonial leaders at a meeting with Libyan rebel representatives
Emerson will join other neo-colonial leaders at a meeting with Libyan rebel representatives in Paris, France.
During the last couple of weeks Indymedia Australia and The National Indigenous Times in its most recent edition highlighted the plight of a West Australian Nyungar family whose young son, the eldest of their six children, was hit by a police four wheel drive. There is no question that the police vehicle hit him however the acceptance of responsibility has not occurred – and within this journey various acts and stressors upon the family, are clear acts of various racisms and discriminations and some of these with their origin-of-thinking from within the many inter-generational stereotypes and other premises.Much has unfolded within the fortnight since Indymedia Australia featured on its site and The National Indigenous Times featured on its cover, and as its four-page centerpiece article within The Big Read the plight of the Bellotti family and their seeking of some justice, some remedy and closure.
Related: More background on issue -- Support for Belloti Facebook page -- sign the online petition
By GetUp!
The Government's plan to send 800 asylum seekers to Malaysia for processing is in tatters. But this isn't over.
Cabinet is meeting tonight and they have a stark choice: to recommit to processing asylum seekers in a faster, more humane way here in Australia -- or to reopen John Howard's 'Pacific Solution' processing centres in Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
See email below from Melbourne. Please spread the word about the next Boycott Max Brenner rally. It appears the fascists will be joining the Zionists to support Israel in opposition to the next Boycott Max Brenner protest. And they try to smear supporters of Palestine as "anti-Semites" while linking arms with the genuine article!!!
Free Palestine! Boycott Max Brenner
1pm Saturday 10 September
Rally outside Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (opposite station), march up to Max Brenner, King St Newtown.
More details from Patrick 0422 028 113 or Raul 0403 037 376
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL, August 31, 2011 - - The UN has launched a campaign to protect 35 indigenous tribes from extinction in Colombia. Survival International works closely with one of tribes, the Nukak, nomadic hunter-gatherers living in the northwest Amazon basin.
The campaign responds to a barrage of threats that could wipe out the Indians. These include internal displacement, disappearances, massacres, anti-personnel mines and forced recruitment of youngsters into armed groups.
By GetUp!
David Hicks has given his first television interviews. As the nation focuses on his story, let’s ensure Australia is never again complicit in torture. Click here
to email your MP to ask the Government to launch an inquiry into the torture and mistreatment of Australians in Guantanamo Bay.
Australians are owed an explanation.
Following on from the very successful ‘Keep the Kimberley’ rally on August 14th, campaigners in Melbourne organised on Saturday what is planned to be the first of a series of awareness raising gatherings. See the Walmadan Country is Calling Facebook page for details and other reports, including photos, and a slideshow of photos on Melbourne Protests:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Walmadan-Country-is-Calling/146535252088544
http://melbourneprotests.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/walmadan-country-is-ca...
