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THURSDAY – JULY 1 2010
OFFICIAL OPENING

1:00 – 5:00PM

@ KANGAN INSTITUTE BROADMEADOWS PEARCEDALE PDE BROADMEADOWS -WITH VARIOUS DIGNITRIES

TRADITIONAL, TEACHING DANCE AND SONG – Meaning & application of Aboriginal Sovereignty –

TEACHING OF SOVEREIGNTY AND ABORGINAL LAW– Legal place & position in Australia, post Mabo

REFRESHMENTS & STUDENT ENTERTAINMENT

FRIDAY JULY 2 2010

@ TRADES HALL COUNCIL, Lygon Street

10:00 AM - WELCOME TO COUNTRY

Australian Indymedia has been experiencing technical difficulties for the last week which meant that no-one could upload new stories to the site. As of 26th June we are functioning again so please start posting those stories! Apologies to our users and readers but this site is maintained by a collective of volunteers on very limited resources, so we appreciate your understanding. Thanks to the those people with tech skills who helped get us back up and running this week - Australian and Melbourne Indymedia Collective

Private computer networks were around all over the world long before the internet, many groups traded software & literature & their were countless BBS systems which were used all over the world, their was no monopoly over the technolgy as their is today, for the systems & networks were run by everyday people, for eg: (Drink Or Die) one of the many software trading groups was said to be founded in 1993 in Moscow by a Russian with the handle "deviator" and a friend who went by the code name "CyberAngel." By 1995, the group was global, but this is debatable, it seems they always p

It’s not that the Swiss and the French sound like the far right: the far right sounds like them

By Atman Zerkaoui
Traduction : Karen Wirsig/Decolonial traduction group
WEBSITE: http://www.indigenes-republique.fr/
EMAIL: redaction@indigenes-republique.fr

The result of the Swiss referendum held 29 November 2009 means that building a mosque with a minaret is now banned in that country. Switzerland is apparently shocked and even surprised by the vote.

Switzerland, the country that has already had several referenda to limit immigration, is surprised?

I was raised in the tranquil, spacious, sometimes ghostly-empty city of Adelaide, Australia. Like many activists, there was something easy, privileged, even boring about my upbringing that made me determined to work with people at the other end of the scale.

So I find myself now working as a human rights activist with the International Solidatiry Movement (ISM), in Palestine. ISM supports Palestinian civil and human rights, and provides an international presence wherever Palestinians are practising non-violent resistance to the military occupation.

Some of the leading lights in Australian mental health treatment and research will gather for a summit at the Sippy Downs campus of the Sunshine Coast University on the 24th and 25th of June.

They will include the 2010 Australian of the Year, Patrick McGorry, a campaigner for better treatment for mentally ill young people.

Also presenting to a master class of people working through their own illnesses will be Beck Schmelz.

RANGOON—From tree planting in Burma (Myanmar) to a solidarity rally in Washington and flash mobs in Britain, people around the world are holding events to mark the 65th birthday today of Aung San Suu Kyi.

Supporters of Burma’s iconic democracy leader plan to throw a small party for her at one of their houses in northern Rangoon, but Suu Kyi won’t be there.

In Makati, Philippines, about 70 activists yesterday marked Suu Kyi’s 65th birthday by rallying in front of the Embassy of Burma, demanding for her release.

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/

18 JUNE 2010: LAWS EXTENDING INCOME MANAGEMENT TO COME BEFORE THE SENATE:

- Background

Submissions to the Senate Inquiry
http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/clac_ctte/soc_sec_welfare_reform_...

Stop the Intervention:
Forum: Welfare Quarantining and the RDA
http://stoptheintervention.org/forum-welfare-quarantining-and-the-rda

Stop the Intervention:
Racial Discrimination Act - New Legislation

It's crunch time in the fight to protect whales! Let's get to 1 million signatures this week, before the final vote -- forward the email below to everyone!

Dear friends,

The international vote that could legalize commercial whale hunting is just days away. 650,000 of us have signed the petition to protect whales, and an Avaaz team is on the ground to make sure we're heard -- let's super-charge this campaign by hitting 1 million signatures! Add your name and then forward this message: