refugees

We Are At War [ audio ]

huxwell — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 06:29:51 +0000

https://archive.org/download/kr318/kr318.mp3

How we make big bucks with arms sales fomenting proxy wars and produce refugees becoming a new cheap labour force = foreign policy

Script by S. Sorrenson, spoken by Tanya - http://echo.net.au/here-and-now

5:40 min 128 kbps stereo 5.3 MB

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Nauru: Anti Democratic, Anti Refugee

nader — Tue, 10 Mar 2015 13:58:34 +0000

The government of Nauru is a disgrace.

It has arrested over 150 refugees who held a peaceful protest and has threatened to jail anyone who assembles in groups of three or more.

Nauru claims to be a democracy but it is clear it’s fast becoming a pathetic, tin pot dictatorship.

The refugees arrested are not those held in the detention centre. These are the ones who have been given official refugee status.

But they say they are being treated like second class citizens and don’t have freedom of movement or access to several basic services.

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Protester

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Apr 2014 14:36:10 +0000

I've been filming at protests for the last 5 years in Australia as an independent film-maker using the footage I capture in documentaries. I've always wanted to make a video using all the protests I have filmed at and this is it, well, almost all the protests I've filmed at. This video is rather special to me and I composed this tune myself for my latest documentary, Surviving Earth. http://youtu.be/Grvf9TNCmwY

www.survivingearthmovie.com

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FoE: Military pollution an additional insult to human rights in the “Pacific Solution”

kimk — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 05:43:59 +0000

The leaking of an environmental report into the Manus Island detention centre (The Guardian 4 Feb, 2014) reveals additional risk to the health and well being of people seeking asylum. Military bases leave a legacy of water and land pollution that can poison inhabitants for decades.

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The Disgrace that is Manus Island

2060 — Thu, 19 Dec 2013 14:24:59 +0000

Indefinite punishment for refugees. Thanks Kevin Rudd, Thanks Tony Abbott. What a disgrace.

Please read this message from Amnesty’s Graeme McGregor who has just finished a visit to the Manus Island detention centre:

While many journalists have been denied access, our Amnesty research team was let inside. Now for the first time we're able to reveal what life and conditions are like inside this secretive detention centre.

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whoever is elected, we will remain ungovernable

Anonymous — Sat, 07 Sep 2013 05:25:50 +0000

The current border policies of the ruling elite are cruel, oppressive, revanchist. Over the course of the elction campaign we have vandalised the electorate offices of Kelvin Thomson, Martin Ferguson, Josh Frydenberg, Anna Bourke, Brendan O'Connor, Simon Crean, Mark Dreyfus, Kelly O'Dwyer, Mike Symon and Andrew Robb; they are complicit.

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Last night we vandalised the offices of Simon Crean, Anna Burke, and Andrew Robb; they are complicit.

Anonymous — Fri, 30 Aug 2013 01:07:19 +0000

The current border policies of the ruling elite are cruel, oppressive, revanchist. Last night we vandalised the offices of Simon Crean, Anna Burke, and Andrew Robb; they are complicit.

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Last night we vandalised the office of Brendan O'Connor.

Anonymous — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 03:59:08 +0000

The current border policies of the ruling elite are cruel, oppressive, revanchist. Last night we vandalised the office of Brendan O'Connor; he is complicit.

The politicians and bosses have driven wedges between us, trying to convince us there is an enemy in people from across the sea. The real enemy, of course, is those who seek to rule us. Our sisters and brothers, the 'boat people', have been asking for our solidarity for years. They have petitioned, protested, hunger-striked, self-harmed and suicided. But help has not come. The only rational response left is to riot.

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Christians label Rudd’s asylum policy morally bankrupt

2060 — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:59:17 +0000

Christian churches say The Rudd Government’s so called “PNG Solution” is morally bankrupt and unworthy of a civilized community.

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Refugee advocates rally to support refugees in immigration limbo at Broadmeadows

takver — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 13:18:32 +0000

Over 300 people gathered to support the 55 asylum seekers in immigration detention at the Broadmeadows Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation (MITA) Centre, organised by the Refugee Action Collective (Victoria). 55 asylum seekers have refugee status but are in immigration limbo as they have adverse security assessments from ASIO with no right of appeal or ability to question ASIO's sources. More than 30 of these people are locked up at Broadmeadows, some for more than 4 years, with no end in sight.

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Refugee Action Collective

The Judge is wrong - Tell it to Malala, to Soraya, to the many dead and tortured

Gerry Georgatos — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 23:07:24 +0000

Judge Stephen Scott during sentencing of an Iranian-Australian (to 14 years) for his role in assisting Asylum Seekers to our shores (others mistakenly ill-define this as 'people-smuggling') said that there were greater risks for Asylum Seekers fleeing by boat than there are in if they remained in the country they were fleeing from.

The sentenced man was jailed for his part in several voyages in assisting people to Asylum, one which tragically ended in the 2010 Christmas Island disaster where thereabouts 50 people drowned.

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Prime Minister Julia Gillard

Australian government authorises forced interrogation of refugees

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 07:14:50 +0000

By Mike Head 9 August 2012 Reposted from WSWS Australia’s Labor government has given the go ahead for forced interrogations of asylum seekers who have arrived in the country by boat. Australian Crime Commission (ACC) chief executive John Lawler told the Australian this week that his agency has already conducted 31 compulsory questioning sessions in the past 18 months and plans to hold more before the end of the year.

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ASIO negative Tamil refugee attempts suicide - second in one month

Anonymous — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:45:29 +0000

RAC Press Release> Fellow detainees rescued a Tamil refugee who had attempted suicide by hanging from a roof beam at Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation centre at 1.30 am this (Friday) morning.

The Tamil refugee, the first Tamil to receive a negative ASIO finding had been in detention for 37 months. He was taken to hospital by ambulance, unconscious and with a weak pulse. His present condition is not known. The refugee is in his early thirties.

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International Day of action against Serco, report-back from Sydney.

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:23:02 +0000

On Friday 9th of March in response to a call for an international day of action against Serco, a corporation running government services from juvenile and adult prisons to immigrant detention centres, to army bases in Afghanistan, to speed cameras in Victoria, and soon the Sydney Ferry system.

Demonstrations were held in London, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney, where a number of cordinated demonstrations were held throughout the day.

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To get the justice done, the splintered, shard-like "left" needs to coalesce

Gerry Georgatos — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:32:13 +0000

Gerry Georgatos

The compassionate left wing screams for social justice and argues for our governments and society's institutions to have a heart and help people from the bottom end up, and to desist with the proposition that they can achieve for the downtrodden by working from the top end of town and down.

The bona fide left wing is fractious and forever splintering and yet it calls out for groundswells of people power to coalesce in mass social movements which will give rise to cultural waves.