Eureka remembers David Hicks : Melbourne Indymedia

"David Hicks is an Australian citizen and a great great grandson of a Eureka stockader," said the Dawn Walk producer Graeme Dunstan of Peacebus.com .

"In the 5 years since he was abducted in Afghanistan and ransomed to the US military, he has been tortured, incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, held in solitary confinement, stripped of all rights and liberties, denied a fair trial, declared an outcast and abandoned by the Australian government," said Mr Dunstan.

"John Howard PM (and to his ever lasting shame) may have abandoned David Hicks," he said. "But we, who hold that the Eureka "fair go" tradition is core to what makes us, as Australians, an honorable nation, will never abandon him."

The Eureka152 Dawn Lantern Walk (the ninth annual) will assemble:

3.30 am Sunday 3 December 2006
in Alfred Deakin Place off Camp Street Ballarat
(behind the old Mining Exchange).

Candle lit lanterns will be provided.

The lantern lit story telling Walk will follow the 2.5 km route taken by the British soldiers in their fateful dawn attack of 1854.

The Walkers will arrive at the Eureka Stockade Memorial for the Dawn Oration and join others, such as Dr Joe Toscano and his Reclaim the Radical Tradition of Eureka project, commemorating the 152nd anniversary of the blood sacrifice and the "times changing courage" of the Eureka Stockade.

Come carry a light for David Hicks.