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The aftermath of the worst rail disaster in Canada for decades leaves at least 50 dead with many of the victims still unaccounted for. On Saturday, July 6 at one o'clock in the morning a train carrying crude oil derailed in the small town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec (6000 inhabitants), the fire and the explosion of several cars destroyed a large section of the downtown.

A more than 500-kilometre international march against nuclear power and for peace started in France on 1 July and will continue until 27 July. Participants will walk from Narbonne to Bugey, both major nuclear industry centres. Activists include French, Dutch, Australians, New Zealanders, Chileans and US Americans. They want to show solidarity with the worldwide struggle against any use of atomic power. See more pictures at https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/91069.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-12/wikileaks-party-gears-up-for-elect...

Long-time judicial critic and New Zealand activist Vince Siemer, will begin his prison sentence today for contempt of court following last week's Supreme Court ruling has found an ally in none other than Chief Justice Sian Elias.

The Chief Justice's minority opinion disagreed with her fellow judges, holding that Siemer's rights under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act to freedom of expression and natural justice extended to his ability to question the legality of the suppression orders made in the contempt proceedings that were before the Court.

Gerry Georgatos - courtesy of The Stringer - http://thestringer.com.au/ - July 18th, 2013 - Photo: Mother Mavis Pat at her son’s Fremantle Prison (museum) memorial, September 28, 2011 – Photo, Gerry Georgatos - “We have to get rid of racist cops. I don’t want to dwell on the past but I have grown up bitter,” said Whadjuk Noongar Elder Ben Taylor. Mr Taylor said of colonial and post-colonial Australia, “They have been killing our people for two hundred years.”

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Honduras in Australia, Without Borders

A collaborative piece between seven..

On 13 July 2013, in Sydney, we met at hollis park to ride our bicycles through Redfern down to Enmore park. Amongst all the voices there are there is one voice, the things said now, and to say those things we used our fingers where paintbrushes would go, and we painted a banner because our world is a world of words and on that sign we said, Plunders and murders stop 4 years of coup in Honduras.

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Newsletter date: 19 July 2013

Contents:

* Murrawarri Republic: Inaugural Meeting of the Peoples Council of the Murrawarri Republic
* Background to the Murrawarri Republic declaration

* Michael Anderson, Sovereign Union: ILUA (Indigenous Land Use Agreement) = Indigenous Land Under Attack

* Michael Anderson: Gomeroi Protest against Whitehaven Coal
* Maules Creek Community Council: Aboriginal workers walk off the job - Whitehaven in protest at Maules Creek coal mine

* Brisbane Blacks Monthly: Mabo Lawyer - Native Title Agreements Affirm the Sovereignty of the British Crown

By Christina Macpherson

AUSTRALIA

Newsletter date: 17 July 2013

Contents:

* Medical Journal of Australia (MJA): Volume 199, Issue 1 - 8 July, 2013
* Ruth Armstrong, MJA: A time and a place
* Tammy M Kimpton, MJA: Partnership and leadership: key to improving health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
* Sandra J Eades and Fiona J Stanley, MJA: Improving the health of First Nations children in Australia
* Melissa A Sweet, MJA: Social media: new links for Indigenous health
* Sarah L Blunden and Danny Camfferman, MJA: Can sleep contribute to "closing the gap" for Indigenous children?