Or Visit ycat.org.au
RSVP: office@apheda.org.au
For futher information contact: alison.thorne@ozemail.com.au
Transport: 422 Tempe bus to St Peters station, Princes Highway; train to St Peters Station; car to car park in Barwon Park Road on west side of Park.
Sydney City Council has advised SPAIDS that the 37th tree planting will be at Sydney Park on Sunday 31st JULY 2012.
The 37th SPAIDS planting between 11am and 2.30pm will be in the dedicated AIDS Memorial Groves, signposted, in the park in Sydney adjacent to Barwon Park Road off Princes Highway. Look for the Old Brickworks Chimneys entrance, opposite St Peters Station.
SPAIDS invites you to plant a young Australian tree provided by Sydney City Council's tree nursery to commemorate the life of someone who has died from HIV/AIDS. SPAIDS plantings also include commemorating lesbians, gay men and transgender people who have died as the result of violence, the Nazi Holocaust and as another memorial alternative to the Quilt Project and Candlelight.
SPAIDS advises that plantings are also to commemorate friends, relatives and people known to you who you may wish to remember by planting a tree in a memorial grove area.
Food and drinks should be available from the Kiosk in the Park, but should it be closed, nearby King Street, Newtown has many cafes.
SPAIDS has a complete listing of all names commemorated since the first plantings on 15 May 1994. The list has about 1200 names after 36 plantings, and is available for viewing at each planting day. To date over 8000 trees have been planted in the Groves.
Join us for our 37th planting and visit the Reflection Area in remembrance of those we have lost in our communities. Plant more trees and help to enhance the growing beauty of the SPAIDS Groves.
For futher information contact Alison Thorne at alison.thorne@ozemail.com.au
For more information, write to us at: om_iwd@yahoo.com.au
or call Beth on 0413 534 362
On Saturday 11 February the City will celebrate Sydney Park’s 21st anniversary. Please join me to celebrate with free coffee, cupcakes and fun activities for the whole family including pets.
The park was originally part of 40 acres granted to reformed First Fleet convict and successful Sydney businesswoman Elizabeth Needham in 1796. Originally a brickworks pit, the park later became a rubbish tip, using the pits which were left after clay was dug out.
Since 2004 the City has carried out extensive work and teh park now has nine hectares of garden, about 28,000 native trees and an award-winning children’s playground. The award winning, all abilities playground, kiosk and accessibility toilet facility create a friendly community gathering space. There are 12 kilometres of paths for walking and bike riding and a grass amphitheatre for holding community events.
Other work has created a wildlife habitat with thriving wetlands and more than 50 types of native birds, mammals, frog and reptile species call Sydney Park home.
A $10 million water-harvesting project is now underway. The second stage of this work will begin later this year and involves capturing up to 850 million litres of water – that’s the equivalent of 340 Olympic-sized swimming pools - filtering it through the parks wetland system and re-using it in the park and potentially, local businesses.
A fitness space with benches and bars, a bubbler and seating will soon be installed near the Alan Davidson Oval and Sydney Park will also be home to the first City Farm, where the community can learn about growing and harvesting food.
SPAIDS will be celebrating this event with a stall celebrating SPAIDS' part in the development of Sydney Park since 1994 - 18 years of successful joint partnership.
For further information contact: RICHARD. CAPUANO@GMAIL.COM
By participating in World AIDS Day activities you can make a difference - directly assisting people living with HIV through:
• Confronting the ongoing discrimination that exists within societyWe need you to join us to inform yourself and educate others this December. There are many activities that you can participate in:
VolunteeringWe are looking for volunteers to get involved in events and activities leading up to and including World AIDS Day on Thursday December 1. We are seeking volunteers in the following areas:
• Merchandise Pick and Pack – packing collection boxes for distribution to venues around Melbourne. You need to be available during business hours Monday to Friday.If you are interested please contact Shane Kelly on 9865 6700 or
emailOn Thursday December 1 the Positive Living Centre (PLC) will hold their annual World AIDS Day event.
The evening will include the World AIDS Day Remembrance Ceremony, where we remember all those we have loved and lost throughout the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Quilt Project Memorial Quilts will be on display at the PLC during the ceremony and throughout AIDS Awareness Week, as will the people living with HIV (PLWHA) Legends Exhibition and various other presentations. During the memorial there will be a special guest speaker and entertainment will be provided.
This event is open to all - admission is free and bookings are not required. The memorial is a collaborative effort undertaken by the Victorian AIDS Council/Gay Men's Health Centre, PLWHA, the AIDS Memorial Quilt Project, the Catholic AIDS Ministry, Straight Arrows and Positive Women.
Selling World AIDS Day merchandiseYou can sell WAD merchandise in the lead up to, and on WAD. The items we have for sale this year are:
• Red ribbonsTo order merchandise, or to make an enquiry about selling merchandise,
please contact
We are encouraging the general public to organise their own fundraising event or activity in support of our work this World AIDS Day. Some ideas for events include:
• A dress red dayFor a more detailed list of event ideas and more information, download the Fundraising Registration form. Posters are also available to help publicise your fundraising event.
Email:Wear a red ribbon, a red t-shirt, a red bow - anything red! Increase awareness of HIV issues in your work place and share information about WAD through your social and professional networks. Join our 'Wear RED this World AIDS Day' facebook event!
Take ActionSo take action - inform yourself and educate others this World AIDS Day.
For more information please call Michael Dalton on (03) 9865 6744 or
The SPAIDS World AIDS Day Event is being organised by the SYDNEY BEAT PROJECT
SPAIDS is situated in Sydney Park opposite St Peters train station and at the bottom of King Street Newtown, just off the Princes Highway. Bus 422 to or from Tempe will get you there. There is also ample car parking in the Park's parking areas. The entry to the SPAIDS area of Sydney Park is just off Barwon Park Road and the World AIDS Day event picnic will be held around the SPAIDS Reflection Area in the middle of the signposted SPAIDS Groves on the western side of the Park.
Contact person: Richard:
Contact Campaign for Women's Reproductive Rights - Join the e-list and stay informed:
email: cwrr.justice@hotmail.com or phone 03 9388 0062
At the last BDS demonstration against Max Brenner's chocolate shop the Victorian police arrested 19 people. While simply standing with arms linked, chanting slogans in support of the Palestinians and the BDS campaign, peaceful protesters were attacked by what seemed to be Baillieu's new riot squad.
Since then, there has been a flurry of right wing commentators and politicians including Kevin Rudd
http://m.theage.com.au/national/citizen-rudds-sweet-support-for-cafe-201107 14-1hg3l.htmlattacking the protesters and defending Max Brenner's right to support the Israeli military. Internationally the Israeli government is on the rampage, making it illegal in Israel to support BDS, stopping the aid flotilla reaching Gaza and arresting participants in the "flytilla".
Anyone who defends the right of pro-Palestinian activists to protest in Melbourne, anyone who is interested in defending the right to the freedom of speech and assembly, and anyone concerned by the Baillieu government's assault on civil liberties more generally is invited and welcome.
Max Brenner Chocolates is a 100% Israeli-owned company belonging to the Strauss Group, the second largest Israeli food and beverage company. On the "corporate responsibility" section of its website, the Strauss Group emphasises the support it gives to the Israeli army. The Strauss group is proud that for more than 30 years, it has supported the Golani reconnaissance platoon renowned for its involvement 2006 invasion of Lebanon and other atrocities. As their website puts it:
"Our connection with soldiers goes as far back as the country, and even further. We see a mission and need to continue to provide our soldiers with support, to enhance their quality of life and service conditions, and sweeten their special moments."
http://antonyloewenstein.com/2009/02/03/decision-to-boycott-max-brenner-pro ductsFor more information on the campaign to defend those protesters:
boycottisrael19.wordpress.comTransport: 422 Tempe bus to St Peters station, Princes Highway; train to St Peters Station; car to car park in Barwon Park Road on west side of Park.
Sydney City Council has advised SPAIDS that the 36th tree planting will be at Sydney Park on Sunday 31st JULY 2011.
The 36th SPAIDS planting between 11am and 3pm will be in the dedicated AIDS Memorial Groves, signposted, in the park in Sydney adjacent to Barwon Park Road off Princes Highway. Look for the Old Brickworks Chimneys entrance, opposite St Peters Station.
SPAIDS invites you to plant a young Australian tree provided by Sydney City Council's tree nursery to commemorate the life of someone who has died from HIV/AIDS. SPAIDS plantings also include commemorating lesbians, gay men and transgender people who have died as the result of violence, the Nazi Holocaust and as another memorial alternative to the Quilt Project and Candlelight.
SPAIDS advises that plantings are also to commemorate friends, relatives and people known to you who you may wish to remember by planting a tree in a memorial grove area.
Barbecue provided by Council will be at the community planting area, not at SPAIDS Reflection Area, on Sunday 31 JULY.
We also hope to have a short tree-blessing ceremony conducted by Sisters of the Order of Perpetual Indulgence (OPI) between 12.30pm and 1.00pm.
SPAIDS has a complete listing of all names commemorated since the first plantings on 15 May 1994. The list has about 1200 names after 35 plantings, and is available for viewing at each planting day. To date over 8000 trees have been planted in the Groves.
Join us for our 36th planting and visit the Reflection Area in remembrance of those we have lost in our communities. Plant more trees and help to enhance the growing beauty of the SPAIDS Groves.
Join us and march on World Refugee Day, Sunday June 19th at the Nicholson St entrance of the Royal Exhibition Building.
The Refugee Advocacy Network is calling on all groups and individuals who support refugee rights to come together and send a clear message to the government: it’s time to end mandatory detention.
The crisis in Australia’s detention system has reached a critical point. There are now almost 7,000 people locked in detention centres across the country. Increasing number have been incarcerated for long periods of time – months or even years. Asylum seekers and refugees in the camps are increasingly despairing and desperate.
Something needs to change. And yet the government’s response has been to simply blame detainees for the problems in the centres and implement draconian measures against those it considers “troublemakers”. We need a completely different approach. The core of the problem is mandatory detention – an inhumane policy that victimises people who have committed no crime, and simply want a better life for themselves and their family.
We will be meeting at 12.30pm at the Nicholson st entry to the Royal Exhibition Centre in Carlton (near Gertrude st). After speeches there will be a mass march to join the EMERGE festival in Fitzroy.
Last year’s World Refugee Day march was supported by over 60 organisations. 4,000 people joined the march. We want to do even better this year. If your organisation can endorse the event or to arrange to have flyers sent to you or your organisation for distribution, please email us: refugeeadvocacynetwork@gmail.com
There are events across the country. Please see below for more info:
BrisbaneOn the Saturday after Easter, the Helpers of God's Precious Infants unexpectedly appeared in large numbers at the clinic entrance. Clinic staff report that the situation "was not pleasant." One staffer stressed how crucial the clinic defence is:"it is the only thing standing between women and the antis’ intimidation."
All who believe in reproductive justice are needed now!
* Come to the clinic defence on June 25
The fear campaign against a price on pollution has become so absurd that talkback radio hosts are claiming that a price on pollution means the end of our economy and life as we know it. Independent MPs are even receiving death threats.
Now, these same radio hosts have joined with climate deniers and far-right politicians to organise anti-climate action rallies as part of Tony Abbott's "people's revolt". They start on Saturday outside Julia Gillard's electorate office in Melbourne. We must make sure that on the other side of town, our movement comes together to present the positive, mainstream views that hard-line 'shock jocks' prefer to ignore.
If we're successful, the media won't be able report on the anti-carbon price rallies without also reporting that more people turned out to express support for a price on pollution.
Can you join us?
Right wing shock jock Chris Smith said last week on MTR radio: "I'll do my best on a daily basis to spread the word". We don't have a radio network to promote our rally, but GetUp members have proved before that, when it counts, we're willing to publicly show how much we care about clean energy & climate action.
I was in Canberra last week and almost every politician and journalist I met with talked to me about the anti-climate action rallies. They're spooked. I assured them that the campaign for climate action was just as strong -- and now, we need to demonstrate this.
That's why it's so important we join together for a few hours this Saturday March 12 -- not to have a louder, angrier rally, but to show the difference in both size and tone. While they're shouting their angry slogans and misinformation, on the other side of Melbourne we'll hold a positive, family-friendly gathering to stand up for our vision for clean energy and preserving a safe climate for our kids.
With your help, we'll prove there are more of us than there are of them and in doing so we'll make a powerful statement.
See you this Saturday.
Simon SheikhP.S. We're counting on more then just your presence. We counting on your creativity (as you make a clever homemade banner if you can) and your persuasiveness (as you charm your friends into joining you).
Any queries ---- you can contact Greg or Richard via the email on the flier: picnic@camp.org.au
Visit the SPAIDS
Website for more information and history of the SPAIDS Memorial Groves.
Email: ausbds@gmail.com
Web site: http://australianbdscampaign.wordpress.com
The Refugee Advocacy Network, the coalition that organised the World Refugee Day march in Melbourne on June 20, has called another mass rally and march for Sunday November 7.
The focus of the rally will be to call for an end to the policy of Mandatory Detention. There are currently over 4600 people in detention centres, places that 2010 Australian of the Year, mental health advocate Pat McGorry, described as "factories for producing mental illness".
We have a new parliament, but the old, brutal policy of mandatory detention remains. We need to raise our voices and say enough. It is time for a fundamental change in the way we treat asylum seekers.
We are organising this rally in order to demonstrate that there is strong support for refugees, and that the refugee movement is expecting humanitarian changes to refugee policy from the new parliament.
For more information or to add your endorsement email
refugeeadvocacynetwork@gmail.com
On World Refugee Day in June thousands of us marched through the streets of Melbourne to "Say no to another Tampa election". But that is just what we are getting. Instead of welcoming refugees to this country as we should, both major parties are bickering about how we can "stop the boats" – boats of people fleeing persecution and misery that in many cases Australia had a role in causing.
We need to take to the streets again. The "stand up for refugees" rally on Friday August 13 will be a chance for us to provide an alternative to the racist, inhumane policies being put forward by the Liberals and Labor. We will be demanding that refugee boats should be allowed to land in Australia, which should be welcoming people seeking asylum, not locking them up in hellish detention camps.
Don't let the racists be the only ones who are heard in this election. Join the rally, bring your friends, family and co-workers. Send a message that there are people in this country prepared to take a stand in defence of refugee rights.
Organised by the Refugee Action Collective (Vic).
IT HAS BEEN SIX YEARS SINCE THE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT AMENDED THE MARRIAGE ACT TO BAN SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. SIX YEARS OF STATE-SANCTIONED HOMOPHOBIA IS TOO MUCH!
With a federal election approaching, all supporters of equal rights for same sex couples need to hit the streets this August to show their opposition to homophobia.
We need to send a clear message to the government that same-sex discrimination is not okay and will not be tolerated.
Local celebrities and community groups will be leading the march to the mid-winter vows to be held outside the marriage registry office.
Bring your placards, banners, family, friends and pets to show your support for equal rights 1pm, Saturday 14 August 2010.
For further information contact: picnic@camp.org.au
See also: www.camp.org.au
Transport: 422 Tempe bus to St Peters station, Princes Highway; train to St Peters Station; car to car park in Barwon Park Road on west side of Park.
Sydney City Council has advised SPAIDS that the 35th tree planting will be at Sydney Park on Sunday 2nd AUGUST 2009.
The 35th SPAIDS planting between 11am and 3pm will be in the dedicated AIDS Memorial Groves, signposted, in the park in Sydney adjacent to Barwon Park Road off Princes Highway. Look for the Old Brickworks Chimneys entrance, opposite St Peters Station.
SPAIDS invites you to plant a young Australian tree provided by Sydney City Council's tree nursery to commemorate the life of someone who has died from HIV/AIDS. SPAIDS plantings also include commemorating lesbians, gay men and transgender people who have died as the result of violence, the Nazi Holocaust and as another memorial alternative to the Quilt Project and Candlelight. Picnic around midday with barbecue provided by Council, on Sunday 2 AUGUST, after which we hope to have a short tree-blessing ceremony.
We will picnic in the Reflection Area, dedicated at the 21st planting. This area is on a hill overlooking the SPAIDS Groves area. SPAIDS has a complete listing of all names commemorated since the first plantings on 15 May 1994. The list has about 1200 names after 34 plantings, and is available for viewing at each planting day. To date over 8000 trees have been planted in the Groves.
Join us for our 35th planting and visit the Reflection Area in remembrance of those we have lost in our communities. Plant more trees and help to enhance the growing beauty of the SPAIDS Groves.
Have you heard about the new social security laws aimed at same-sex couples? As a result of this change elderly gay couples and those others receiving any kind of government support such as a disability or carer's allowance, will lose pension income, face Centrelink investigations into our sex lives, and be forced to "come out" of the closet or risk prosecution for fraud.
Some of us, especially those of us in our late 60s, 70s and 80s have faced a lifetime of inequality. We have missed out on benefits available to heterosexual couples and in so many instances, have experienced the full force of the nation's homophobia.
From 1 July this year, we will suffer pension losses through being treated as a couple rather than as two singles.
The Government's much-lauded same-sex reforms, ironically, have continued the tradition of treating gays differently from heterosexuals.
Every significant change to social security laws passed in the last 15 years has included a "grandfather" clause to minimise harsh consequences for those already in the system. Legal changes arising from the recognition of women's equality, for example, were introduced in a way that protected an older generation.
The changes to the age pension that raised the qualifying age for women from 60 to 65 were introduced gradually over a period of 20 years.
The wife pension, which enabled younger women married to pensioners to also qualify for a pension, was abolished in 1995 but recipients of the time were protected. Changes to the widow pension and other entitlements were grandfathered. But no grandfather clause has been included in the social security changes that extend equal treatment to gay couples.
As a result, human rights progress for many gays and lesbians will come at a cost to those who can ill afford to bear financial losses those whose retirement plans, and very relationships, were predicated on certain long-term expectations. Unlike other changes to Social Security payments, Old Age Pensions, and Disability Pensions, are not areas where the recipient can easily change status.
In addition individuals within couples who may dependent upon a disability support pension, must now re-negotiate the nature of their relationship, in a disempowering reclassification that will see one defined as the other’s carer, in order to reassign an economic responsibility that should be shared by the state in a compassionate and progressive society.
As many of us know, Centrelink has a record for zealous, even brutal, investigations into suspected "marriage-like" heterosexual relationships.
Lesbian and Gay couples can accrue big social security debts or face charges of fraud if we fail to register and have our payments reduced.
For many older same sex couples, Centrelink’s assessment process will prove distressing, and have a direct impact on our health and wellbeing
Is this the way to give us older Australians equality? Australians love to talk about a fair go and that's what we are after too.
Over 300 people have been killed and more than 1600 wounded since Saturday 27 December, when Israel launched air strikes against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip.
The air strikes come on top of the Israeli imposed blockade which has stopped adequate fuel, food, and medical supplies from reaching the 1.5 million Palestinians living in Gaza.
Rally in solidarity with the people of Gaza, who are standing steadfast in the face of these atrocities.
Social Justice and the Australian Building & Construction Commission (ABCC)
Inlaws & Outlaws cleverly weaves together the true stories of couples and singles — both gay and straight — and all into a collective narrative that is as hilarious as it is heartbreaking. You meet real people one on one. You don’t know who’s gay or straight or who’s with whom. As their stories unfold and stereotypes fall by the wayside, you won’t care because you’ll be barracking for everybody. With candour, good humour, great music and real heart, Inlaws & Outlaws gets past all the rhetoric to explore what we all have in common.
This is entertaining and it is a campaigning movie. Filmmaker Drew Emery, and the crew, made this film as a contribution to the struggle for same-sex relationship equality. As well as screenings at festivals and in cinemas, they launched the Hearts and Minds Campaign to foster community screenings across the U.S. and around the globe.
By supporting this event, you’ll not only be helping educate about same-sex relationship equality, you will also help Melbourne Radical Women with vital fundraising. Our Send Feminists Flying fundraising campaign will assist members and other activists to attend RW’s 41st Anniversary Conference in San Francisco, October 3 - 6. With The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism as its theme, the international gathering will exchange ideas and strategies for winning in a better world.
Saturday 30 August, doors open at 6:30 pm
Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick
Then stay on and socialise into the evening at these licensed premises
Hosted by Radical Women. For more information, phone 03-9388-0062 or email: radicalwomen@optusnet.com.au Everyone is welcome!
Join all the boys and girls - all dressed up in dresses and other fancy dress as they dance their way through this carnival week of great atmosphere: Morrie, Tones, Georgie, Ratzie, and all the other gorgeous people, and dazzle the world with the splendour of the event!
Witness also the GREATEST SHOW IN SYDNEY - "RATZIES IN THE RANKS"
featuring the gayest costumes, the campest actors, a fantastic story about some mythical creature who lives in the sky and tells us all how to live our lives and have the greatest, gayest times imaginable! It also tells us how not to fuck with condoms - they prevent babies being made and HIV being distributed amongst the unsuspecting ignorant. WHAT A SHOW IT IS GOING TO BE!
The show that has cost millions and millionsof dollars to produce - YOUR DOLLARS - is another reason not to miss it!
Transport:
422 Tempe bus to St Peters station, Princes Highway; train to St Peters Station; car to car park in Barwon Park Road on west side of Park.
Sydney City Council has advised SPAIDS that the 34th tree planting will be at Sydney Park on Sunday 27th July 2008
The 34th SPAIDS planting between 11am and 3pm will be in the dedicated AIDS Memorial Groves, signposted, in the park in Sydney adjacent to Barwon Park Road off Princes Highway. Look for the Old Brickworks Chimneys entrance, opposite St Peters Station. SPAIDS invites you to plant a young Australian tree provided by Sydney City Council's tree nursery to commemorate the life of someone who has died from HIV/AIDS. SPAIDS plantings also include commemorating lesbians, gay men and transgender people who have died as the result of violence, the Nazi Holocaust and as another memorial alternative to the Quilt Project and Candlelight. Picnic around midday with barbecue provided by Council, on Sunday 27 July, after which we hope to have a short tree-blessing ceremony. We will picnic in the Reflection Area, dedicated at the 21st planting. This area is on a hill overlooking the SPAIDS Groves area. SPAIDS has a complete listing of all names commemorated since the first plantings on 15 May 1994. The list has about 1200 names after 33 plantings, and is available for viewing at each planting day. To date over 8000 trees have been planted in the Groves.
Join us for our 34th planting and visit the Reflection Area in remembrance of those we have lost in our communities. Plant more trees and help to enhance the growing beauty of the SPAIDS Groves.
June 21 will mark one year since the Howard Government announced the NT intervention. Far from improving child welfare, the intervention has created a new wave of dispossession and is compounding social problems.
The Racial Discrimination Act has been suspended, land taken over and business managers imposed on communities.
The universal quarantining of welfare payments, the closure of many Community Employment Development Projects (CDEP) and the compulsory acquisition of Aboriginal property has forced thousands of people from their communities into urban centres.
Bagot town camp in Darwin, for example, has increased in population from 500-1200 people since the intervention. People are facing extreme hardship without jobs, services or stable accommodation.
While the Rudd Labor government made a symbolic apology for the Stolen Generations, in practice, it has retained and expanded Howard's explicitly racist intervention laws. The government refuses to acknowledge the social break down taking place. They continue to deny protection under the Racial Discrimination Act.
Aboriginal people are suffering stark discrimination as they are forced to stand in segregated queues in Centrelink, in supermarkets and in schools. The practice of traditional culture is becoming impossible for many, unable to travel due to welfare restrictions. As Lyle Cooper, Vice President Bagot Community has said, "I thank you Prime Minister Rudd for your apology?(but) it's an invasion all over again. We are being told where to shop, what to eat, how to act and how to live".
Communities continue to stand up against the intervention. Scores of representatives from "prescribed areas" traveled to join the 2000 strong Canberra Convergence at the opening of the new Parliament. Many more will come from communities around the Northern Territory to protest in Alice Springs and Darwin as part of the national protests on 21 June.
One of the strongest examples is Yuendumu, where a strategy of non-cooperation has held off repeated attempts by the government to take over local programs and implement "income management". Jeannie Nungarrayi Egan from the community council has said, "No body likes it, we have to control our own community, we're going to push out the quarantine".
Social Justice Commissioner Tom Calma recently released a report which demonstrates how NT intervention legislation contravenes numerous UN charters to which Australia is signatory, including International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR); on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR); and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).
In July Jenny Macklin, the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs will begin a review of the Intervention. We need to bring thousands of people out onto the streets around the country to ensure grass-roots voices are no longer ignored. The new Government must break with the assimilationist policies of the Howard era. They must act on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. A massive injection of funds and resources into communities is badly needed, but cannot come at the expense of basic human rights.
Only an approach which respects self-determination will lead to improvements in community life.
Stop the intervention, Stop the Racism - Human Rights for all!
Rallies will be held in Melbourne, Sydney, Alice Springs, Darwin, Perth, Brisbane, Wollongong and Adelaide.
ENDORSEMENTS:Rally endorsed by the national conference called by the Aboriginal Rights Coalition on Sunday May 25 in Sydney attended by over 200 people. Support from Aboriginal leaders and activists includes: Barbara Shaw (Mt Nancy town camp, Alice Springs), Lyall Cooper (President of Bagot community, Darwin), Harry Nelson (President, Yuendumu community council), June Mills (Long-grass association, Darwin), Pat Eatock, Brian Butler, Shireen Malamoo, Millie Ingram, Pastor Ray Minniecon, Mitch, Peta Ridgeway, Heidi Norman, Shane Phillips
Supportive organisations include: Maritime Union of Australia (MUA NSW & NT), Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU), Railway Tram and Bus Union (RBTU NT), Australian Services Union (ASU NT), Top End Aboriginal Conservation Alliance, Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR NSW & NT), Indigenous Social Justice Association, Alliance for Indigenous Self Determination Melbourne, Intervention Rollback Action Group (Alice Springs), Aboriginal Rights Coalition (Darwin, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth), Australian Young Labor Left, Friends of the Earth, LASNET, ASEAN, University of Melbourne Student Union, Swinburne Student Union, Latrobe SRC, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Alliance, Union Solidarity.
In 1991, the Alice B. Theatre commissioned Drew Emery, who went on to produce the hit film, Inlaws and Outlaws, to write a theatre piece based on interviews with queers over 50 years of age. Hidden History tells the stories of five veterans. The cast — three women and two men — includes African-American nurse, Hurdie Styles, Radical Women member, Tamara Turner and retired maritime unionist, Steven Blair. Focused on personal stories, the production also provides historical insights. The play was launched in 1992 and became the smash hit of Seattle’s Gay Pride celebrations.
The early ’90s were a battleground in the Pacific North West with the right wing mobilising to take back gains as well as to keep gay rights measures from passing whenever they appeared on the ballot. To fight back, the Alice B. Theatre won a grant to take the play on tour. Over the next two years, Hidden History played in community colleges and universities and dozens of small town theatres. The play was filmed during one performance. The moving hour-long performance will be the first shown on Solidarity Salon’s new big screen! Alison Thorne, a feminist and queer freedom fighter, who has been on the frontlines for three decades, will introduce this Melbourne premier screening.
Mannie De Saxe also has a personal web site, which may be found by clicking on the link: RED JOS: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM
Mannie's blogs may be accessed by clicking on to the following links:
MannieBlog (from 1 August 2003 to 31 December 2005)
Activist Kicks Backs - Blognow archive re-housed - 2005-2009
RED JOS BLOGSPOT (from January 2009 onwards)
This page updated 14 APRIL 2016 and again on 29 OCTOBER 2016
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