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SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE

June 16, 2010

The survival of the Jarawa tribe of the Andaman Islands is being threatened by human safaris run by local tour operators.

[The Andamans are a group of Indian Ocean archipelagic islands in the Bay of Bengal between India to the west and Myanmar (formerly Burma) to the north and east.]

Overnight, Afghanistan has gone from being a political pariah to one of the most significant, and potentially richest, countries on the globe. But can the rocky, war-torn desert - known mostly for harboring terrorists and exporting opium - be reborn as a major commodities exporter?

U.S. geologists have found some $1 trillion of untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, The New York Times reported Sunday. Afghanistan's mineral wealth includes large caches of iron, copper, gold and lithium that could turn the country into one of the most important mining centers in the world.

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Event 1-3 July: New Way Summit (Melbourne)
Event 6-9 July: Indigenous & Non Indigenous Gathering (Alice Springs)
Aboriginal low-paid employment
Aboriginal unemployment
Aboriginal housing
Other NT Intervention articles
Other Aboriginal articles

EVENT 1-3 JULY: NEW WAY SUMMIT (MELBOURNE)

- Media Release

Indymedia Australia: New Way Aboriginal summit just before NAIDOC week
http://indymedia.org.au/2010/06/07/new-way-aboriginal-summit-just-before...

If planning to implement one of the most draconian web censorship regimes in the world was not enough, the Federal ALP now plans to force ISP companies to keep your web search records and even possibly your emails for 10 years and for these to made available to law enforcement agencies without any need for a warrant.

By SARAH MARLAND, campaign co-ordinator for Amnesty International Australia

June 14, 2010

Three years on from the intervention, there is scant evidence that compulsory income management is doing any good.
REPORTS of widespread child abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory shocked the nation in 2007 and prompted the Northern Territory Emergency Response - a large-scale Commonwealth government intervention into nearly every aspect of the lives of about 45,000 Aboriginal people.

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR Website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
Federal Court legal challenge over nuclear waste dump
Other Nuclear articles
Background to Muckaty Station nuclear waste dump

FEDERAL COURT LEGAL CHALLENGE OVER NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP:

- Media Releases and Announcements

Maurice Blackburn Lawyers:
Indigenous owners launch Federal legal challenge over Australia’s first nuclear waste dump

Here is the story of the four children, one my own, and the three others belonging to other parents that I have met in the last year since my son died.

(Drink Or Die) 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 the above is very debatable, for an Australian from the central coast code name Bandito (Hew Raymond Griffiths) was the head of DOD for many years & he was arrested & extradited to America to receive a 51 month jail term issued by the FBI.

By The GetUp Team

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You've told us what you want to change in this election. It's time for action to solve the climate crisis. It's time to fix the broken mental health system that's shattering young lives. It's time to protect Australia's precious forests and to fight the conservative hysteria about refugees.