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The monthly "Clinic defence" by pro-choice activists at the East Melbourne Fertility Control Clinic in Wellington Parade has taken on a new urgency following recent events in Queensland and the threat of challenges from the Catholic Church to the decriminalisation of abortion in Victoria.

Prapopoulou Squat is located in a suburb of Athens, Greece that is called Halandri. The building is an old upper class house which is surrounded by a big garden. This private property had been abandoned for 34 years, until 2 years ago a group of people from different ages and political references decided to transform it into a space of creativity and resistance.

WGAR: Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)

WGAR website: http://wgar.info/

Contents:
UN Expert James Anaya to examine NT Intervention
Aboriginal Housing in the NT
Other Aboriginal articles

UN EXPERT JAMES ANAYA TO EXAMINE NT INTERVENTION:

- Background

WGAR News:
UN Expert visits Australia to report on Aboriginal Human Rights (18 Aug 09)
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=145907

- UN Rapporteur's itinerary: Alice Springs

Rollback the Intervention:

Forest Art Renaissance Team - Media Release 18.08.09

This morning, the Forest Art Renaissance Team (F.A.R.T.) pinned a banner the size of a double decker bus, that's equivalent to 19,047.619 cigarette papers, onto the billboard perched 7 storeys on top of the Fountainside Hotel on the way into Hobart's CBD.

"The banner read "Gunns' Greed = Climate Chaos" to highlight to those who are unaware, that in Tasmania, Gunns are a huge contributor to climate change, compromising the future of our planet for profit."

Canberra, 17 August 09 - - A northwest NSW Aboriginal leader has put a submission to a visiting high United Nations official on indigenous rights, alleging that Australian governments are trying to wipe out Aboriginal identity.

Michael Anderson (pictured at left), leader of the Euahlayi Nation of northwest NSW and southwest Queensland and elected spokesman of the 16 tribes in the Gumilaroi nation had a meeting scheduled in Canberra today with Professor James Anaya, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights and freedoms of Indigenous Peoples.

While the repression following the coup d'etat continues in Honduras so too do the protests, both there and around the world: last Tuesday was a global day of action called by Via Campesina Honduras (http://www.viacampesina.org), and in Melbourne LASNET held a meeting that evening at Friends of the Earth in Collingwood, followed by a rally at Federation Square on Saturday August 15.

Greece: Teo Eliopulos still not in a real hospital!

The real struggle begins now!

Teo Eliopulos is an anarchist and the last prisoner from the December Revolt still in pre-trial detention and is denied bail for his beliefs.

Teo Eliopulos has been in prison since December (more than six months) and as of yesterday is the only prisoner of the revolt to be denied bail - still. On July 9 the Court of Appeals made it explicit, in rejecting Eliopulos’ application, that it did so on the grounds that Eliopulos is an anarchist and therefore a “danger for democracy”.

This Friday, 3 coaches of Israeli peace workers went on a water convoy to the Palestinian village Qarawat Bani Zayid near Ramallah. In the hot August heat, this village and five others have been suffering from severe and prolonged water shortages. This hasn't been caused by drought - but by Israeli political interference.

By Amnesty International

The untimely and preventable death in 2008 of Warburton community leader, Mr Ward, is emblematic of the deep running discrimination against and disregard for the human rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

Many of us are already familiar with the circumstances of Mr Ward's death. Mr Ward was arrested for allegedly drink-driving on Australia Day 2008. The next day, after being refused bail, he was put in the rear pod of a prisoner transport van and driven 360kms to Kalgoorlie.