SERCO

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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Refugee activists picket SERCO office in Melbourne - 16 September 2011

peter — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 07:01:17 +0000

Members and supporters of the Refugee Action Collective, Victoria, including contingents from Monash and Melbourne Universities, held a protest on Friday 16 September outside the Melbourne office of SERCO, the company which holds the contract for running Australia’s immigration detention centres.

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HRA MEDIA RELEASE: 6TH DAY SCHERGER HUNGER STRIKERS - EMAIL FROM INSIDE SCHERGER - Three unconscious, others self harm, they say they will not stop. 53 Hazaras rejected.

Gerry Georgatos — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:05:47 +0000

HRA MEDIA RELEASE:

EMAIL STATEMENT FROM ASYLUM SEEKERS INSIDE SCHERGER WHO ARE HUNGER STRIKING - 6TH DAY

NUMEROUS PHONE CALLS.

11:30AM EST AUSTRALIA

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UN Observers need to be stationed at all Australian Detention Centres. Asylum Seekers punished at Christmas Island.

Gerry Georgatos — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 03:51:11 +0000

The Human Rights Alliance Media Release:

19.7.2011

Overnight the Christmas Island Detention Centre roof protest escalated with the response a severe lockdown. Christmas Island Detention Centre is now as bad as Woomera and Baxter. UN Observers must be located in these unlawful Detention Centres.

The Christmas Island roof top protest unnecessarily escalated and once again there was no appropriate de-escalation, mitigation or humanity.

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Citizen Inspection Team on the scent of war profiteers in Rockhampton

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 07:58:54 +0000

Peace Bus Press Release June 8th A Citizen's Inspection Team will be demanding entry to the premises of Serco Sodexo, from noon Thursday 9 June 2011 at Building 23, Western Street Barracks, Rockhampton. Serco and Sodexo are global corporations which in return for tax payer dollars provides management services for army barracks, refugee detention centres, prisons and the like.

Serco Sodexo Defence Services holds the service contract for the Talisman Sabre war games and it is the newest member of Capricorn Tourism and Economic Development Ltd.

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HRA media release: The frontiers are ugly, violence and deaths on the horizon

Gerry Georgatos — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:33:26 +0000

The Human Rights Alliance
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Urgent Action Required to Stop Detention Centre Deaths in Custody and the rise of mental illnesses. DETENTION CENTRES AT CRISIS POINT. Violence on the horizon.

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Death in custody should be explored before the criminal justice system and the buck should not be passed as happens. 2,300 Australian deaths in custody since 1980

Gerry Georgatos — Sun, 01 May 2011 01:57:59 +0000

In terms of culpability and liability the death of the Warburton Elder in the back of a prisoner transport typifies so many unwarranted deaths in custody in Australia including the Palm Island death in custody, the impaling death of the young man in Redfern, and so many thousands of other deaths. Australia has a long tragic history of deaths in custody, and is not limited to the horrific record during the last 31 years which has claimed in excess of 2,300 lives.

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The Human Rights Alliance calls for a UN Special Rapporteur to enter the Curtin Detention Centre

Gerry Georgatos — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:32:36 +0000

The Human Rights Alliance
Curtin Detention Centre - UN Special Rapporteur must be called in. Independent observers must enter Curtin. The protests have ceased due to promises made by DIAC to the Asylum Seekers. The media must be allowed into Curtin Detention Centre.

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Converge 2011 Day 3: Protestors return to unlawful Curtin Detention Centre - DIAC and SERCO disgrace themselves

Anonymous — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:30:55 +0000

The Department of Immigration and Citizenship has continued its criminality in its unlawful establishment under the instruction of the Australian government of Mandatory Detention Centres, such as the unlawful establishment that is the Curtin Detention Centre.

Hunger strikers, sit ins, petitions by brutalised souls cannot inspire the Government, DIAC and Serco to allow their visitors to meet them. The culture of secrecy and silence is unbelievable. The layers of racism in Australia continue unabated.

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Australian deaths in custody - Twenty years later - Nothing has changed - The answers do exist

Gerry Georgatos — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:15:58 +0000

Australia has one of the world’s worst deaths in custody records. As a researcher I have compared Australia 's deaths in custody record in terms of proportion to populations with other countries. Deaths in custody includes prison and police custody. We compare badly with even Apartheid South Africa .

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Deaths in Custody rally in Perth calls for end of prison privatisation

takver — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:05:33 +0000

A rally in Perth on March 22 by the Deaths in Custody Watch Committee protested the increasing moves for prison privatization and in particular the death of Aboriginal elder Mr Ward while he was in private prison transport. The rally called for these services to be returned to public operation where they are accountable to the public through parliament.

The secretary of Western Australia's prison officers union, John Welch, called on the government to tear up its contract with the private company responsible for prisoner transport.

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Another Night of "SHOCK and AWE" on Christmas Island

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:44:30 +0000

"When the AFP and TRG boarded the plane for Christmas Island at 4pm last Friday, the Christmas island protest had just begun. It was a totally peaceful action with groups of men walking the 15 kilometres through the jungle to the inhabited parts of the island." writes Pamela Curr, Co-ordinator of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre in Melbourne.

Over the next two days some went to the Mosque, some to the Construction Camp to visit family, some went swimming and some went to the airport to sit. No crime, no theft, absolutely peaceful.

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Blockade against hospital privatisation outside Premier's office

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 08:22:56 +0000

United Voice Press Release: Wed 02 Mar 11 Officials and members from United Voice were involved in a protest against public hospital privatisation which blocked the traffic on St George’s Terrace this morning. Commuters were held up for around 90 minutes before police moved seven cars which stopped the traffic in front of the Premier’s office in Governor Stirling Tower.

United Voice organised for the keys of the cars blocking the terrace to be brought to the scene as soon as police said it was a public safety issue.

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