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Freedom walk for people and Country nwalliance@healthyland.com.au

First Nations Women’s ceremonial walk for freedom – Local walk from Wailwaan country to Wiradjuri country.

Yanhagagi Wailwaandhi biladhi Wiradjurigu bilagu bilingarra ngiyanhigingu mayiny/dhiiyaan, bilingarra ngiyanhigingu ngurambang/dhawun.

A walk from the Wailwaan side of the Castlereagh River to Wiradjuri Talbragar river to take care of our people, to take care of our country.

By Rainforest Rescue, Hamburg

Bumitama Gunajaya Agro (BGA), a palm oil company, is clearing large areas of rainforest in Tanjung Puting National Park and the adjacent buffer zone in order to convert the land into oil palm monocultures.

Borneo's Tanjung Puting National Park covers an area of 400,000 hectares and is home to unique tropical forest ecosystems. The coastline and the estuaries are lined by dense mangrove forests. Swamp and peat forests still dominate the landscape.

Treaty on land rights which was never kept. See also http://treatyrepublic.net/content/bob-hawkes-draft-treaty-includes-nos-2...

A group of "Concerned Australians" has published an excellent YouTube video outlining how governments are still mistreating Aborigines, stealing their money and land, keeping them poor and stripping them of any power they may have had.

III ANARCHIST AND PUNK FILM FESTIVAL - SÃO PAULO – BRASIL

Tony Abbott, Scott Morrisson and Bob Carr all claim that Sri Lanka is 'at peace'
What's the real situation? Speakers will include:
- Sarah Ross (Refugee Rights Action Network Activist)
- Gary Holliday (Socialist Alliance & Tamil Rights Activist)
- Dr Brian Senewiratne (Sinhalese Human Rights Campaigner & Consultant Physician)

Plus launch of Dr Senewiratne's new book: 'Rape of Tamil Civilians in the North & East by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces & Their Collaborators'

Date: Wednesday, August 20th
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location: Fremantle Workers Club 9 Henry Street, Fremantle

AUSTRALIA

Radioactive wastes.  The Australian government is still licking its wounds from the debacle of their attempt to impose a waste dump on Aboriginal land at Muckaty  - (the shame, with all their resources,  of being beaten by a few elderly and poor black women).  However, that hasn't stopped them from calling for volunteers in Aboriginal communities to accept a (presumably bigger) bribe to host the dump.

By Gerry Georgatos - Courtesy of The Stringer and The National Indigenous Times - http://thestringer.com.au/ and http://nit.com.au/ Children in the Northern Territory are three times more likely to die before they turn five years of age than children born into the suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney. But when the data is disaggregated, the Northern Territory’s First Nations children, who are nearly half the Northern Territory child population, fare dramatically worse.

We were not put on this Earth to bury our children, but in the Northern Territory, this is what is happening.

GoTopless.org Australia
We will be hosting a peaceful Protest at the Byron peace Pole, on August 24th 12pm - 3pm

A woman deserves the same choice as a man...
International GoTopless Day August 24th Women and supportive friends are taking part in this action all around the world to help free Humanity in regards to this issue of Equal Rights for Women. www.gotopless.org

Dr Woolombi (Marcus) Waters - courtesy of the National Indigenous Times - http://nit.com.au/ - Courtesy of The National Indigenous Times - Noel Pearson said the Forrest report struck at the “roots of the passive-welfare predicament of Indigenous Australians”. He said the Forrest reforms did not displace the welfare safety-net system but rather built “a new opportunity staircase as an alternative pathway for individuals and families to climb out of disadvantage and into the advantages enjoyed by their fellow Australians”.