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International Human Rights Day
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
One of the events for International Human Rights Day in Melbourne was a rally outside the State Library attended by about 100 people on Saturday December 10. Issues canvassed by speakers included opposition to mandatory detention of asylum seekers, treatment of indigenous Australians, opposition to the "anti-terror" laws, and scapegoating of the muslim community.
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At one point members of the crowd repeated an oath of disaffection against the government as a challenge to the new sedition laws.
After speeches the crowd marched down Swanston Street, then up Bourke Street and ended at the Eight Hour Day monument.
Waleed Aly from the Islamic Council of Victoria told the ABC that human rights issues are not on the political agenda and the community needs to engage in the topic again. "Hopefully today's rally is a way in which people can begin to start thinking about issues through a human rights framework, rather than through, for example, an economic framework or a security framework," he said. "Just broadening the thought to keep in mind human rights as an issue and just keep it alive on the political agenda."
In a similar rally in Sydney the ABC reported that former Guantanamo detainee Mamdouh Habibattended and said that his human rights do not exist. "I don't believe in human rights anymore," he said. "The human rights are taken away from everybody ... I was, four years ago, tortured and kidnapped and I haven't done anything wrong."
See also:
The Age:
Protesters want terror laws repealed
Labor for Refugees
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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Richard Franklin
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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Writer, film director, and musician Richard Franklin spoke to the crowd and played a song or two.
Richard Franklin stood for the One Voice Party as a candidate for the Victoria for the Senate.
Flag of many dimensions
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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Jaara Elder Susan Rankin
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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Jaara Elder, Susan Rankin, spoke on Genocide charges to be issued in regards to religous persecution and crimes against humanity by Queen Elizabeth the 2nd as head of the Anglican Church and the Crown and the Vatican as head of the Roman Catholic Church
See Press Release:
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/101099.php
Brian Walters, President Liberty Victoria
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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Brian Walters, President of Liberty Victoria, attacked the Howard Government for
* the mandatory detention of refugees,
* the deportation of a non-violent peace activist, Scott Parkin, and refusing to disclose the factual basis of the negative security report.
* for not defending the rights of an Australian (and now the only westerner), David Hicks, tortured and incarcerated by the USA on evidence so flimsy that it would not stand up in an American court of law.
* Sedition laws revamped with increased penalties that can target and criminalise dissent
* New extended powers for ASIO
See Eureka Dawn Lantern Walk in which Walters was the Leading Light in 2005:
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/100894.php
Parkin dismisses ASIO investigation
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/101107.php
Free the Pine Gap protestors
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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"Christians Against All Terrorism" ARRESTED at PINE GAP
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/101263.php
MEDIA RELEASE: CHRISTIAN PACIFISTS ENTER PINE GAP
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/101215.php
Christains Against ALL Terroism set to reform Pine Gap
http://melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/12/100969.php
People for Constitutional Human Rights
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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What can a Citizen Do when the State Declares War on its Citizens?
http://www.melbourne.indymedia.org/news/2005/10/97700.php
On the march
by Takver
Sunday December 11, 2005 at 02:46 PM
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Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Dr
by Yeramba Aroona
Tuesday December 20, 2005 at 04:27 PM
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Human rights have never existed for real Australians. They exist to protect the white faced Christian colonialists. So are only enforced to protect them.
The Australian government is a Nazi white supremacist government with an agenda to crush all descent.
The Australian flag is a foreign white faced Christian Flag and it means nothing to the real Australians.
Australia’s position should be with its Islamic neighbours to the North, not with the English on the other side of the world.
It’s time for Aboriginals to disassociate ourselves from the evil actions of those who stole our land. The colonialist onslaught against Australia’s Islamic citizens is just part of the onslaught that began when the English first stole the Land from the Aboriginals, and it will end only when the Aboriginals get back the Land and the English go back to England!
www.geocities.com/aboriginalresistance
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