Newsletter date: 15 August 2015; last updated 16 August 2015, 5:00pm AEST
Contents:
* Photos: Jaroslaw L Gasiorek: RATE, Third Court appearance 14.08.15 (216 images)
* Photo Archive: Jaroslaw L Gasiorek - Street Photography: http://www.yarek.com.au/
* Photos: Newzulu Australia: Sydney: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy fight trespass claims at Supreme Court
* News Analysis: Allan Clarke, BuzzFeed News: Federal Government Steps In To Mediate Over Fight For Redfern's The Block
* Bio: Allan Clarke on BuzzFeed: http://www.buzzfeed.com/allanclarke
* News Analysis: Diet Simon, Linksunten Indymedia: Fat cat and activist Aborigines fighting over prime Sydney land
* News Analysis: Rachel Evans, Green Left Weekly: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy defiant in court
* News Analysis: Peter Boyle, Green Left Weekly: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy protests at Parliament
* Bio: GLW author Rachel Evans - Green Left Weekly
* Bio: GLW author Peter Boyle - Green Left Weekly
* About GLW - the need for alternative media: https://www.greenleft.org.au/about
* Support GLW: https://www.greenleft.org.au/
* facebook: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy, facebook
* Past facebook event: Friday August the 14th 2015: Support Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy's right to occupy The Block: rally outside court to defend 'trespass' charges
* Background:
WGAR News: Attorney-General alerted as Redfern [Aboriginal] tent embassy feud intensifies: Daisy Dumas, Sydney Morning Herald
Analysis / Opinion: Rachel Evans & Jemma Nott, Sydney, Green Left: Redfern tent embassy is 'not laying down'
WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
WGAR Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies
'WGAR News' postings on Indymedia Australia: https://indymedia.org.au/newswire
WGAR News Public Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en-GB#!forum/wgar-news
WGAR News - Working Group for Aboriginal Rights (Australia)
- Photos
Jaroslaw L Gasiorek: RATE, Third Court appearance 14.08.15 (216 images)
http://jaroslaw-gasiorek.photoshelter.com/gallery/RATE-Third-Court-appea...
14 Aug 15: "Friday August the 14th: RATE vs AHC: rally outside court to defend charges of 'trespass' on Aboriginal land at The Block. Occupation of Aboriginal land is not trespass! Support the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy in court. ... Solidarity is needed at this important time of Redfern's fight! The Tent Embassy has been taken to court for trespass. The Supreme Court holds the principle of private property as sacred and has the legal power to decide who has the right to the land. The first Nations peoples of Redfern and their supporters, via RATE, are fighting for the right to control the land that belongs to them ... All images copyright Jaroslaw L Gasiorek"
- Photo Archive
Jaroslaw L Gasiorek - Street Photography
http://www.yarek.com.au/
- Photos
Newzulu Australia: Sydney: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy fight trespass claims at Supreme Court
http://www.newzulu.com.au/en/photos/australia/2015-08-14/11681/sydney-re...
14 Aug 15: "Members and supporters of the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy have rallied outside the Supreme Court in Sydney, Australia on August 14, 2015 to fight trespass claims laid against them by the Aboriginal Housing Commission (AHC) CEO Mick Mundine, concerning their 14-month occupation of the Block. ... Tent Embassy founder 'Auntie' Jenny Munro, Murri Poet and Playwright Ken Canning, activist and Researcher with Jumbunna at UTS, Padraic Gibson and the Federal Minister of Indigenous Affairs Senator Nigel Scullion were all in attendance."
- News Analysis
BuzzFeed News: Federal Government Steps In To Mediate Over Fight For Redfern's The Block
http://www.buzzfeed.com/allanclarke/government-to-mediate-over-block
14 Aug 15: "The Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Nigel Scullion has stepped in to mediate between the Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) and the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) in the increasingly acrimonious fight for control of The Block in Redfern. ... BuzzFeed News understands that a six-hour meeting took place yesterday between the AHC, Munro and Scullion. Munro says that despite a productive session the AHC failed to sign. ... Scullion is confident that his intervention can break the impasse before the eviction hearing next week telling BuzzFeed News that, ... " Allan Clarke, BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia
- Bio
Allan Clarke on BuzzFeed
http://www.buzzfeed.com/allanclarke
"Allan Clarke is an Indigenous Affairs Reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in Sydney."
- News Analysis
Linksunten Indymedia: Fat cat and activist Aborigines fighting over prime Sydney land
https://linksunten.indymedia.org/de/node/150770
15 Aug 15: "Well-to-do and activist Aborigines are fighting over a piece of prime real estate in inner Sydney, Australia, known colloquially as ‚The Block‘. The land was originally gifted by the government 40 years ago for building affordable housing for Aboriginal people, including many who came to Australia's biggest city from rural areas. The bitter dispute now is between Michael Mundine, chief executive officer of the Aboriginal Housing Company, who has plans to gentrify much of the area with a $70 million commercial and residential development to the detriment of poor Aborigines, and activists who are squatting on the site with an "Aboriginal embassy" of tents. ... " Written by Diet Simon, sourcing from WGAR News (Account: Nuclear Worrier)
- News Analysis
Green Left Weekly: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy defiant in court
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59769
14 Aug 15: " ... Munro addressed the crowd outside the court, which has reserved judgment until August 21. "Aboriginal housing must remain on The Block," she said. "We thought we had a breakthrough yesterday, but we will get more information today. "Our people decided 40 years ago that The Block would be ours. They put a black heart into this city. We will keep fighting till we win it." Murri writer, poet and RATE activist Ken Canning said: "They gave us Redfern in 1972, but people forget it is all Aboriginal land. So we go into this white man’s court today to defend ourselves against a charge of trespass. ... " By Rachel Evans, Sydney
- News Analysis
Green Left Weekly: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy protests at Parliament
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/59781
15 Aug 15: "On August 11, RATE and its supporters took the protest to NSW Parliament House. "What we need to see is Aboriginal housing on The Block, Aboriginal housing controlled by Aboriginal communities," Jenny Leong the recently elected Greens MP for Newtown - an electorate that includes The Block - told Green Left Weekly. "We all know that there is money in the NSW state government's coffers for major developments yet at the same time it is unwilling to commit any funds for Aboriginal housing on The Block." Leong said that the trespass action was "disgusting" and "wasn't a solution". ... " By Peter Boyle, Sydney
- Bios
GLW author Rachel Evans - Green Left Weekly
https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/1106
GLW author Peter Boyle - Green Left Weekly
https://www.greenleft.org.au/taxonomy/term/1073
- About
About GLW - the need for alternative media
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Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy, facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Redfern-Aboriginal-Tent-Embassy/249063975...
"Aboriginal Tent Embassy re established in Redfern on what is known as 'Sorry Day' 26th of May 2014. The Blacks in Sydney are silent no more... "
- Past facebook event
Friday August the 14th 2015: Support Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy's right to occupy The Block: rally outside court to defend 'trespass' charges
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Hosted by Alex Pademelon Johnson and 5 others
https://www.facebook.com/events/1685601811671669/
"Third Court appearance: Friday August the 14th at 9.00 a.m. RATE vs AHC: rally outside court to defend charges of 'trespass' on Aboriginal land at The Block. Occupation of Aboriginal land is not trespass! Support the Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy in court. Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) has led a successful occupation of the Redfern Block for more than a year, calling for affordable Aboriginal housing to be built on the site. RATE has been fighting off attempts by the Aboriginal Housing Corporation (AHC), led by Mick Mundine to develop the site with commercial projects, ... "
- Background:
WGAR News: Attorney-General alerted as Redfern [Aboriginal] tent embassy feud intensifies: Daisy Dumas, Sydney Morning Herald
https://indymedia.org.au/2015/07/14/wgar-news-attorney-general-alerted-a...
Analysis / Opinion: Green Left: Redfern tent embassy is 'not laying down'
https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/58404
1 Mar 15: "The Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy (RATE) is working hard to defend its right to stay at its current location following being served with an eviction notice from the Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) on February 20. The eviction orders mobilised a number of supporters and media to defend the site during the past week. So far, AHC head Mick Mundine has not called in police to shut the embassy down. Aboriginal activist Jenny Munro, a founder of RATE, offered to meet with the AHC on February 23. But the arranged meeting was cancelled by Mundine with the excuse that "too much media" were present. ... " By Rachel Evans & Jemma Nott, Sydney
WGAR Background to the Aboriginal Sovereignty Movement
https://indymedia.org.au/2014/12/24/wgar-background-to-the-aboriginal-so...
(last updated: 6 August 2015)
WGAR Background to the Aboriginal sovereignty movement and the Aboriginal tent embassies
https://indymedia.org.au/2012/04/22/background-to-the-aboriginal-soverei...
(last updated: 29 May 2014)
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