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Sydney Peace Foundation Statement, May 10 Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has been awarded the Sydney Peace Foundation’s Gold Medal at a ceremony overnight in London’s Frontline Club for “exceptional courage in the pursuit of human rights”.

Presented by veteran Australian broadcaster Mary Kostakidis, The Sydney Peace Medal recognises Assange’s leadership, courage and tenacity in journalism and publishing, and pays tribute to his enduring conviction that truth matters and justice depends on it.

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In a few hours Uganda could pass a law that imposes the death penalty for homosexuality. An international outcry shelved this bill last year -- we urgently need to ramp up the pressure to press President Museveni to stand up for human rights and stop this brutal law. Sign below, and tell everyone:

Thousands of Ugandans could face execution -- just for being gay.

We've helped stop this bill before, and we can do it again. After a massive global outcry last year, Ugandan President Museveni blocked the bill's progress.

During the running of the Grand Annual Steeplechase at the May Warrnambool Jumps Carnival, there was carnage on the racetrack as numerous horses fell and one horse jumped over a 2 metre fence into a crowd of spectators injuring young children and the elderly.

The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses believes this is further proof as to why a ban on jumps racing is necessary as the sport will never be made safe.

To donate or to join the movement to ban jumps racing, please visit horseracingkills.com

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The World Socialist Website has published a very compelling article on how NAPLAN is being used undermine public education and attack teachers working conditions. It also outlines how the AEU is complicit in these attacks. I agree completely with the article's contention that parents and teachers should work together outside the AEU to start a real campaign against NAPLAN before public education completely goes the why of the U.S. system.

Read the article on the website here

The Human Rights Alliance
We will continue to call for a JOINT COMMITTEE SENATE INQUIRY INTO AUSTRALIAN DEATHS IN CUSTODY.

The Human Rights Alliance, on this occasion led by its PhD Law researcher into Australian Deaths in Custody, will continue to urge Australian Senators for the need to call for a Joint Committee Senate Inquiry into Australian Deaths in Custody.

Nuclear Adviser Resigns over Japanese Government's Increasing Level of Allowable Radiation Exposure for Children

Interview with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of "Physics of the Future" , conducted by Scott Harris

http://traffic.libsyn.com/kaputtradio/kr194.mp3

News commentary, media collage, Lubricate the White Red and Blue, Quiz by Clarke n Dawe, sounds by Dana Lyons, Dubland - The Orb, Ylem - Urban Grey - thecommunity.com.au/ylem

10:11 min 128 kbps stereo 9.4 MB

Refugee Action Coalition media release detailing immediate concerns with MALAYSIAN SOLUTION.

Also on this issue.

Julia Gillard's announcement of a deal to send asylum seekers attempting to arrive in Australia by boat to Malaysia is just the latest chapter in Australia's attempts to dodge its international obligations as a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees, according to the Refugee Action Coalition.

Newsletter date: 7 May 2011

Contents:
* Speech by Pat Anderson, co-author of the "Little Children are Sacred" report, on the NT Intervention
* Interview with Barbara Shaw, of the Intervention Rollback Action Group, on the NT Intervention
* Justice for Aboriginal workers in the NT - Petition to be presented to Parliament next week
* Interview with Michael Anderson on the New Way Sovereignty Summit, now concluded
* Background to New Way Sovereignty Summit, last updated 6 May 11
* Speech by Les Malezer, Co-chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples