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International Day of Action: Stop Aboriginal Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
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International Day of Action: Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
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A mass rally will be held in Melbourne on Saturday 14 July, 12:30 pm, as part of an International Day of Action in opposition to the government's escalation of attacks on Indigenous communities and the denial of justice for Mulrunji and other Indigenous people who have been killed in police custody.
Greg Fryer, spokesperson for the Indigenous Social Justice Association, said, "Whilst the Labour opposition has cowardly failed to oppose the sending of police and military forces into Indigenous communities this rally shows that there is massive community opposition to these polices, by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.”
"Howard's intervention goes directly against the recommendations in the Little Children are Sacred Report. Instead, we support the many community-controlled initiatives already underway in Indigenous communities to improve the quality of lives for Indigenous children, women and men. If the politicians were serious about protecting the rights of Indigenous children they would support these community controlled initiatives and provide proper funding."
“At the same time that the federal Government is implementing this despicable land grab the Palm Island community is mourning the denial of justice for Mulrunji after the acquittal of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley. Indigenous lands continue to be destroyed by mining corporations, and many communities do not have proper health and education services."
On 20/06/07, Brisbane cop Chris Hurley was acquitted of manslaughter and assault of Mulrunji Doomadgee, despite the deputy State Coroner deeming him, responsible for the injuries suffered by Mulrunji Doomadgee leading to his death in the Palm Island watch-house in November 2004. Mr Doomadgee suffered four broken ribs, a ruptured portal vein and severely split liver as result of being struck during what has been described as a watch-house scuffle involving the Police.
Actions are being held through out Australia, New Zealand and in London. A call for a tourist boycott of Australia has begun circulating in the International community.
Robbie Thorpe, from the Krautungalung people of the Gunnai Nation, the traditional owners of Lake Tyers, and a spokesperson for the Black GST and Camp Sovereignty said:
“The Howard Settler Governments invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. This invasion is part of the neo liberal structural adjustment programme of Intuitions such as the World, Bank, and the IMF & APEC to diminish and extinguish Indigenous rights forever.
“It is no surprise to see that the four countries that are blocking the passage of the Draft Declaration of indigenous rights through the United Nations, Australia, New Zealand, United States & Canada, they are the same four states that as part of APEC are raping the marine ocean environment in the Pacific, and are further oppressing & eroding the hard won rights of their Indigenous Nations & Peoples through out the world and within their own countries. What is happening to our brothers and sisters in the NT, is part of that process, part of that genocide.”
We are demanding:
An end to Aboriginal deaths in custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody and the proper implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
Funding for community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law! Social welfare, not social control!
Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Greg Fyer concluded, "This rally will bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from across Melbourne in a colourful and vibrant show of support for Indigenous self-determination, land rights and treaty."
The rally is part of an International Day of Action, with rallies being held in cities across Australia and with solidarity rallies happening across the world. A full list of these actions is attached.
For further comment please contact:
Robbie Thorpe: 0437 967 039
Greg Fryer: 0407 101 535
David Dryden: 0419 662 812
(ends)
Confirmed Solidarity Rallies
Alice Springs
Alice Springs Council Lawns
Saturday July 14th
12:30pm
For information, contact Hilary on 0419244012
Kulin Nations (Melbourne)
Stop the Genocide on Stolen AboriginalLand!
End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law!
Social well-fair, not social control!
Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Saturday 14 July, 12:30 pm
City Square, corner of Swanston and Collins Streets
Turrbal Country, Brisbane
Rally: National day of action for Aboriginal justice
Brisbane
Start: 14 Jul 2007 - 11:00am
Stop black deaths in custody. Oppose Howard's racist treatment of Aboriginal communities. 11am Queens Park (Cnr George & Elizabeth Sts) Ph Sam 0401 227 443.
Gadigal Eora Nation, Sydney
Stand up with the Aboriginal community on Saturday 14th July at 10:00am at the Block to demand:
* Stop the genocide, end Indigenous deaths in custody
* Land Rights not mining rights - no mines and no dumps
* Funding for community controlled services not cops and troops
Rally at 10:00am at the Block (next to Redfern Station) for the march
These details come from Jenny Munroe, a local Redfern activist & long time Aboriginal Activist Please circulate widely
Canberra
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Saturday 14th July 2007
Saturday 11.am
Join us in a march from the Tent Embassy to Garema Place, Civic.
How can we celebrate NAIDOC when the government occupies Aboriginal Communities with armed forces? Invasion is happening again in Australia. The Howard regime similar to Hitler's regime has occupied communities. While they say it's in the best interest of the Aboriginal people we know it's a land grab. Fight for Justice for Aboriginal people.
Noongar country, Perth
Aboriginal Rights: National Day of Action - PERTH
Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody
Jail police who kill
RALLY 1pm SAT JULY 14 - Wesley Church
Implement all recommendations from the 1990 Royal Commission, and open a new Royal Commission into all deaths since - including Mulrunji's death in the Palm Island watchhouse…
Fund health, housing, education & jobs for Aboriginal communities NOT troops, cops and racist laws
Black control of Black affairs & land
Land rights not nuclear waste dumps
RALLY 1 pm SAT JULY 14
Wesley Church
Corner Hay and William Streets, Perth
Phone 9218 9608
Aotearoa
Te Upoko o te Ika /Wellington
Rally and march in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia's Northern Territory !
12-2pm Saturday July 14th, rally and march from Midland Park to Te Aro park
Central Wellington . Please show your support by joining the rally.
We aim to
- Send a loud and clear message of solidarity to the indigenous peoples suffering from Howard's racist attacks on human rights.
- Raise awareness of issues concerning colonisation and stolen land, racism, family violence, and how indigenous peoples throughout the South Pacific face further loss of land to big mining companies.
- And raise some money for communities which are suffering from Howard's policies.
Also the day before the solidarity rally, please come and protest Australia's racism at the Australian embassy.
12:30-1:30 pm Friday July 13th, demo at Australian Embassy
(Hobson St, Thorndon). Meet at the park over the road from 12:15pm.
For further info email Mark lifesariot@… or ph 021 2333 424.
Tamakimakaurau/Auckland
Auckland: Protest this Saturday | Stop the Invasion of Aboriginal Communities
Rally and march in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia's Northern Territory!
11am to 12pm Saturday July 14th, rally and march from Britomart Transport Centre to Australian Consulate.
Please show your opposition to Howards's racist attacks by joining the rally. Bring banners and placards if you can but some will be provided. Organised by A Space Inside anarchists, visting Australian students and Socialist Workers.
We aim to:
- Send a loud and clear message of solidarity to the indigenous peoples suffering from Howard's racist attacks on human rights.
- Raise awareness of issues concerning colonisation and stolen land, racism, family violence, and how indigenous peoples throughout the South Pacific face further loss of land to big mining companies.
We stand in solidarity with the International Day of Action against Howard's land grab-
*Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
*End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
*Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
*Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
*Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law!
*Social well-fair, not social control!
*Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Ōtepoti/ Dunedin
12pm onwards in the Octagon. The crew in Dunedin will be setting up a Tent Embassy.
Full List of endorsements to date:
Full endorsement list as Wednesday 11 July 2007 @ 11 pm Rally — Stop the genocide on stolen Aboriginal land
Endorsements
Australia
Black GST
Camp Sovereignty
Indigenous Social Justice Association – Melbourne
Australian Asia Worker Links
Chilean Popular and Indigenous Network
Freedom Socialist Party
Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET)
Ongoing G20 Arrestees Solidarity Network
Radical Women
Resistance
RMIT Student Union
Socialist Alliance
Socialist Alternative
Your Voice
3 KND
Nuclear Free Australia
International Socialist Organisation
3CR
Socialist Party
Electrical Trades Union
Plumbers Union
Union Community Alliance
Communist Party of Australia
Maritime Union of Australia
Geelong Trades and Labour Council
Moreland Peace Group
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (Victoria)
Campaign for Women’s Reproductive Rights
Indigenous Social Justice Association — Sydney
Anarchist Media Institute
IWW (Australia)
Leonard Peltier Support Group
Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
Union Solidarity
Anti Nuclear Australia
Australian Student Environment Network
Friends of the Earth
Lesbian and Gay Solidarity (Melbourne)
Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)
Women’s Web
International endorsements
Aotearoa
Te Ata Tino Toa
Conscious Collaborations - Global Indigenous Network
Mana Wahine
Komiti Pasifika
Solidarity Union
Socialist Worker (Aotearoa)
Human Rights Project Aotearoa
Whakaminenga o Te Paatu
Wellington Wildcat Anarchist Collective
Aocafe (Aotearoa Cafe)
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Radical Youth (Auckland)
Citizens Against Privatisation (Auckland)
IAImagine Native Action
Indiginz
Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP Te Tai, Tokerau
Te Ururoa Flavell, Maori Party MP, Waiariki
Metiria Turei List MP Green party Aotearoa/NZ
Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party and Member of Parliament for Te Tai Hauauru
Aotearoa Educators
Te Whanau a Kaiaio
Dr Pita Sharples, Member for Tamaki Makaurau, Maori Party Co-leader
Canada
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Aboriginal Fathers Support Program Vancouver
Chile
Mapuche Solidarity Coalition
People's Assembly Movement
Colectivo Avanzar - Santiago
United States/Great Turtle Island
Freedom Socialist Party — U.S. Section
U.S. Radical Women
American Indian Movement
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
The Management School of Restorative Business
Creating a Sustainable Future
Intelligentaindigena Novajoservo
Argentina
Argentina Coalition of Peasant and Mapuche Front
A mass rally will be held in Melbourne on Saturday 14 July, 12:30 pm, as part of an International Day of Action in opposition to the government's escalation of attacks on Indigenous communities and the denial of justice for Mulrunji and other Indigenous people who have been killed in police custody.
Greg Fryer, spokesperson for the Indigenous Social Justice Association, said, "Whilst the Labour opposition has cowardly failed to oppose the sending of police and military forces into Indigenous communities this rally shows that there is massive community opposition to these polices, by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.”
"Howard's intervention goes directly against the recommendations in the Little Children are Sacred Report. Instead, we support the many community-controlled initiatives already underway in Indigenous communities to improve the quality of lives for Indigenous children, women and men. If the politicians were serious about protecting the rights of Indigenous children they would support these community controlled initiatives and provide proper funding."
“At the same time that the federal Government is implementing this despicable land grab the Palm Island community is mourning the denial of justice for Mulrunji after the acquittal of Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley. Indigenous lands continue to be destroyed by mining corporations, and many communities do not have proper health and education services."
On 20/06/07, Brisbane cop Chris Hurley was acquitted of manslaughter and assault of Mulrunji Doomadgee, despite the deputy State Coroner deeming him, responsible for the injuries suffered by Mulrunji Doomadgee leading to his death in the Palm Island watch-house in November 2004. Mr Doomadgee suffered four broken ribs, a ruptured portal vein and severely split liver as result of being struck during what has been described as a watch-house scuffle involving the Police.
Actions are being held through out Australia, New Zealand and in London. A call for a tourist boycott of Australia has begun circulating in the International community.
Robbie Thorpe, from the Krautungalung people of the Gunnai Nation, the traditional owners of Lake Tyers, and a spokesperson for the Black GST and Camp Sovereignty said:
“The Howard Settler Governments invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. This invasion is part of the neo liberal structural adjustment programme of Intuitions such as the World, Bank, and the IMF & APEC to diminish and extinguish Indigenous rights forever.
“It is no surprise to see that the four countries that are blocking the passage of the Draft Declaration of indigenous rights through the United Nations, Australia, New Zealand, United States & Canada, they are the same four states that as part of APEC are raping the marine ocean environment in the Pacific, and are further oppressing & eroding the hard won rights of their Indigenous Nations & Peoples through out the world and within their own countries. What is happening to our brothers and sisters in the NT, is part of that process, part of that genocide.”
We are demanding:
An end to Aboriginal deaths in custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody and the proper implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
Funding for community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law! Social welfare, not social control!
Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Greg Fyer concluded, "This rally will bring together Indigenous and non-Indigenous people from across Melbourne in a colourful and vibrant show of support for Indigenous self-determination, land rights and treaty."
The rally is part of an International Day of Action, with rallies being held in cities across Australia and with solidarity rallies happening across the world. A full list of these actions is attached.
For further comment please contact:
Robbie Thorpe: 0437 967 039
Greg Fryer: 0407 101 535
David Dryden: 0419 662 812
(ends)
Confirmed Solidarity Rallies
Alice Springs
Alice Springs Council Lawns
Saturday July 14th
12:30pm
For information, contact Hilary on 0419244012
Kulin Nations (Melbourne)
Stop the Genocide on Stolen AboriginalLand!
End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law!
Social well-fair, not social control!
Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Saturday 14 July, 12:30 pm
City Square, corner of Swanston and Collins Streets
Turrbal Country, Brisbane
Rally: National day of action for Aboriginal justice
Brisbane
Start: 14 Jul 2007 - 11:00am
Stop black deaths in custody. Oppose Howard's racist treatment of Aboriginal communities. 11am Queens Park (Cnr George & Elizabeth Sts) Ph Sam 0401 227 443.
Gadigal Eora Nation, Sydney
Stand up with the Aboriginal community on Saturday 14th July at 10:00am at the Block to demand:
* Stop the genocide, end Indigenous deaths in custody
* Land Rights not mining rights - no mines and no dumps
* Funding for community controlled services not cops and troops
Rally at 10:00am at the Block (next to Redfern Station) for the march
These details come from Jenny Munroe, a local Redfern activist & long time Aboriginal Activist Please circulate widely
Canberra
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Saturday 14th July 2007
Saturday 11.am
Join us in a march from the Tent Embassy to Garema Place, Civic.
How can we celebrate NAIDOC when the government occupies Aboriginal Communities with armed forces? Invasion is happening again in Australia. The Howard regime similar to Hitler's regime has occupied communities. While they say it's in the best interest of the Aboriginal people we know it's a land grab. Fight for Justice for Aboriginal people.
Noongar country, Perth
Aboriginal Rights: National Day of Action - PERTH
Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody
Jail police who kill
RALLY 1pm SAT JULY 14 - Wesley Church
Implement all recommendations from the 1990 Royal Commission, and open a new Royal Commission into all deaths since - including Mulrunji's death in the Palm Island watchhouse…
Fund health, housing, education & jobs for Aboriginal communities NOT troops, cops and racist laws
Black control of Black affairs & land
Land rights not nuclear waste dumps
RALLY 1 pm SAT JULY 14
Wesley Church
Corner Hay and William Streets, Perth
Phone 9218 9608
Aotearoa
Te Upoko o te Ika /Wellington
Rally and march in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia's Northern Territory !
12-2pm Saturday July 14th, rally and march from Midland Park to Te Aro park
Central Wellington . Please show your support by joining the rally.
We aim to
- Send a loud and clear message of solidarity to the indigenous peoples suffering from Howard's racist attacks on human rights.
- Raise awareness of issues concerning colonisation and stolen land, racism, family violence, and how indigenous peoples throughout the South Pacific face further loss of land to big mining companies.
- And raise some money for communities which are suffering from Howard's policies.
Also the day before the solidarity rally, please come and protest Australia's racism at the Australian embassy.
12:30-1:30 pm Friday July 13th, demo at Australian Embassy
(Hobson St, Thorndon). Meet at the park over the road from 12:15pm.
For further info email Mark lifesariot@… or ph 021 2333 424.
Tamakimakaurau/Auckland
Auckland: Protest this Saturday | Stop the Invasion of Aboriginal Communities
Rally and march in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia's Northern Territory!
11am to 12pm Saturday July 14th, rally and march from Britomart Transport Centre to Australian Consulate.
Please show your opposition to Howards's racist attacks by joining the rally. Bring banners and placards if you can but some will be provided. Organised by A Space Inside anarchists, visting Australian students and Socialist Workers.
We aim to:
- Send a loud and clear message of solidarity to the indigenous peoples suffering from Howard's racist attacks on human rights.
- Raise awareness of issues concerning colonisation and stolen land, racism, family violence, and how indigenous peoples throughout the South Pacific face further loss of land to big mining companies.
We stand in solidarity with the International Day of Action against Howard's land grab-
*Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
*End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
*Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
*Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
*Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law!
*Social well-fair, not social control!
*Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Ōtepoti/ Dunedin
12pm onwards in the Octagon. The crew in Dunedin will be setting up a Tent Embassy.
Full List of endorsements to date:
Full endorsement list as Wednesday 11 July 2007 @ 11 pm Rally — Stop the genocide on stolen Aboriginal land
Endorsements
Australia
Black GST
Camp Sovereignty
Indigenous Social Justice Association – Melbourne
Australian Asia Worker Links
Chilean Popular and Indigenous Network
Freedom Socialist Party
Latin American Solidarity Network (LASNET)
Ongoing G20 Arrestees Solidarity Network
Radical Women
Resistance
RMIT Student Union
Socialist Alliance
Socialist Alternative
Your Voice
3 KND
Nuclear Free Australia
International Socialist Organisation
3CR
Socialist Party
Electrical Trades Union
Plumbers Union
Union Community Alliance
Communist Party of Australia
Maritime Union of Australia
Geelong Trades and Labour Council
Moreland Peace Group
Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (Victoria)
Campaign for Women’s Reproductive Rights
Indigenous Social Justice Association — Sydney
Anarchist Media Institute
IWW (Australia)
Leonard Peltier Support Group
Victorian Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby
Union Solidarity
Anti Nuclear Australia
Australian Student Environment Network
Friends of the Earth
Lesbian and Gay Solidarity (Melbourne)
Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)
Women’s Web
International endorsements
Aotearoa
Te Ata Tino Toa
Conscious Collaborations - Global Indigenous Network
Mana Wahine
Komiti Pasifika
Solidarity Union
Socialist Worker (Aotearoa)
Human Rights Project Aotearoa
Whakaminenga o Te Paatu
Wellington Wildcat Anarchist Collective
Aocafe (Aotearoa Cafe)
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Radical Youth (Auckland)
Citizens Against Privatisation (Auckland)
IAImagine Native Action
Indiginz
Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP Te Tai, Tokerau
Te Ururoa Flavell, Maori Party MP, Waiariki
Metiria Turei List MP Green party Aotearoa/NZ
Tariana Turia, Co-leader of the Maori Party and Member of Parliament for Te Tai Hauauru
Aotearoa Educators
Te Whanau a Kaiaio
Dr Pita Sharples, Member for Tamaki Makaurau, Maori Party Co-leader
Canada
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Aboriginal Fathers Support Program Vancouver
Chile
Mapuche Solidarity Coalition
People's Assembly Movement
Colectivo Avanzar - Santiago
United States/Great Turtle Island
Freedom Socialist Party — U.S. Section
U.S. Radical Women
American Indian Movement
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
The Management School of Restorative Business
Creating a Sustainable Future
Intelligentaindigena Novajoservo
Argentina
Argentina Coalition of Peasant and Mapuche Front
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Re: International Day of Action: Stop Aboriginal Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
I am going to be in the Baltimore/DC area on Saturday - does anyone know of any solidarity actions ova here in North America? I've Googled but haven't found anything yet....
Re: International Day of Action: Stop Aboriginal Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
sorry folks
Otautahi solidarity action planned
Come and support our Aboriginal brothers and sisters as we join in the International Day of Action: Stop Aboriginal Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land.
"Under the cynical guise of protecting indigenous children from sexual abuse, the Howard government announced on Thursday a 'national emergency plan' to take control of dozens of Aboriginal communities throughout the Northern Territory and impose virtual martial law conditions. Over coming weeks, police and troops will flood into as many as 60 towns and camps to enforce a series of draconian measures."
indymedia.org.nz/feature/display/71682/index.php
If anyone wishes to speak or to help organise an on going campaign to support this cause contact jo (at) katipo.net.nz or 021 2591549
So come along and join in solidarity this Saturday 14 July, Otautahi, Cathedral Square at 12pm.
Please forward this email to anyone you think may be interested
OTTAWA, Ontario: Rally in Solidarity with Aboriginal People in the Northern Territory
RALLY ON THE "INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS
50 O'CONNOR STREET, AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISSION
12 NOON JULY 13/07
In a show of Indigenous solidarity, a rally is being held Friday July 13, 2007 at 12 noon outside the Australian High Commission at 50 O'Connor to express opposition to the extreme measures implemented by the Howard government against Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory. Organized by Prosperity for First Nations and a diverse, ad-hoc group of concerned Aboriginal people, the rally will support other rallies being held on July 13 and 14 in Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, and Perth Australia, and in Wellington and Auckland, Aoteaoroa/New Zealand. Speakers will include Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, a well known member of the local and national Aboriginal community, and others.
The paternalistic, culturally insensitive, racist and short-sighted measures announced by the Howard government include:
* widespread bans on alcohol and pornography,
* forcing all indigenous children under the age of 16 in the territory to submit to medical examinations,
* putting a quarantine on 50 per cent of welfare payments to parents of children in affected areas,
* linking welfare payments to school attendance for all people living on Aboriginal land,
* and enforcing unilaterally imposed land reforms on Aboriginal lands.
The plan shifts the overall control of communities away from Aboriginal land councils to the federal government, which has assumed five-year leases of the townships.
These measures only affect Aboriginal Australians in these areas. Police and military troops have been deployed in the area to enforce these measures. Permits previously required by police to enter these communities (in place to protect Aboriginal people from a history of police brutality and Aboriginal deaths in custody) have been rescinded. Police and the military now have free access to these vulnerable communities.
The goals of the rally are to:
* Send a message of solidarity to Aboriginal Australians who are suffering from Howard's racist attacks on human rights;
* Raise awareness of this issue and related issues of colonization, racism, family violence, and human rights;
* Garner public support for a boycott of Australia and a petition denouncing the actions of the Howard government and demanding they enter into meaningful discussions with the Aboriginal community;
* Express to the Australian High Commission our opposition and outrage to the attack on the human rights of Aboriginal peoples in Australia.
Please lend your support. Circulate this message. Attend the Rally. Sign the petition. Join the Boycott. Show your Support. Stand in Solidarity with our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters.
More info:
www.nwac-hq.org/en/documents/PressReleaseAustraliaJune29-07.pdf
www.nowpublic.com/aotearoa_national_day_action_july_14th_melbourne
action.amnesty.org.au/index.php/centre/action/ensure_aboriginal_communities_right_to_consultation_consent_and_participati/
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Re: International Day of Action: Stop Aboriginal Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
Please where is the Australian Embassy in Auckland, thank you..
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