TJ Hickey
8 years since his death - Still no justice!

Demand a memorial place in the Block to remember TJ and all other Aborigines who die in custody

TJ died in Waterloo in February 2004. His bike was rammed by a Redfern police vehicle driven by then Constable Hollingsworth. There has been a Coronial inquiry cover-up, police and government cover-ups, and continuous protests, but 8 years later still no justice for the young Aboriginal man and his family.

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody in 1991 made 339 Recommendations to stop Deaths in Custody. Not one of them has been implemented. Hundreds of Aboriginal people died before and hundreds of Aboriginal people have died since.

Join us to demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody!

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is speaking in Sydney at a UNSW School of Business "Meet the CEO" event at City Recital Hall, Angel Place (http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/events/pages/)

Joyce is a clear symbol of the greed and ruthlessness of the 1% - join our protest outside the meeting to show him how we feel, and demand that Qantas meets workers' demands to keep their jobs and have decent wages that keep up with the cost of living.

Joyce, whose salary $5.1 million a year, is trying to cut jobs and conditions from workers on as little as $38,000 a year. He wants to cut 1000 jobs, outsource baggage handlers' jobs, and employ new staff on lower and wages and conditions than the rest.

Yet Qantas is making booming profits from those workers - $552 million in the last year, plus another $169 million from the wholly-owned subsidiary, Jetstar.

Joyce locked out his entire workforce in late October, and succeeded in winning a termination to all industrial action to fight his profiteering. Lets build support for the Qantas workers and send a message that we won't stand for this at Qantas or anywhere else.

Human need not corporate greed!

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=522071467#!/events/191486417596747/

March to State Parliament, Macquarie St, to hand over 15,000 petitions against CSG to Premier Barry O'Farrell!

Speakers include: Drew Hutton (Lock The Gate president); Jess Moore (Stop CSG Illawarra) + other community speakers

Over 15,000 residents of NSW have signed a petition for:
* An immediate moratorium on all CSG projects;
* A Royal commission into the full impacts of CSG; and
* An immediate ban on fracking.

Premier Barry O'Farrell has pledged that any petition with over 10,000 signatures will trigger a debate in parliament. Be there when the voice of more than 15,000 people from across NSW is presented to Barry O'Farrell in person! Demonstrate community opposition to CSG, help ensure the spotlight is on this debate and remind the government who they work for!

Please spread this event and spread the word to make this a huge "peoples convergence" on parliament to handover the petitions and increase the pressure to Stop CSG!

www.lockthegate.org.au

https://www.facebook.com/events/274245552612757/#!/events/216985828371159/

-> Re-Occupy Sydney rally and march, meet at 12pm Saturday 5 November, at Town Hall square.

A global movement is growing. From Egypt to Spain, from Greece to the United States, hundreds of thousands of everyday people are occupying. Occupy Sydney began on 15 October, with hundreds of people reclaiming Martin Place. Flanked by the imposing towers of the financial and political elites, where a handful of people make decisions which affect the whole society, a new democratic space was established.

Occupy Sydney created a non-hierarchical forum for open debate, where people began to have discussions and make decisions about things which affect our lives and communities. The occupy movement democratises the dominated and elitist spaces in our cities. Even if it is partly symbolic, it is immensely dangerous to the status quo. And although the structures of participation are in their early stages, this is still an extremely significant project - a playground of anarchism and democracy.

For the first time in years, the occupy movement has legitimised an anti-capitalist discourse - usually submerged in society and stifled by the media.

At Occupy Sydney, people developed relationships based on mutual respect, and voiced our shared outrage at the greed and illegitimate power of the 1% who rule us. People from diverse walks of life visited the occupation, painted signs, donated food and participated. Between 50 and 100 people stayed overnight for 8 nights.

In the early hours of Sunday 23 October, the police forcefully evicted Occupy Sydney from Martin Place. It was a clear reminder that State repression goes hand in hand with capitalism. Police took action to recapture the space for elites - symbolically and physically.

But within hours, an emergency meeting was organised, attended by over 200 people. And we made the decision to re-occupy. Occupy Sydney continues.

Who are we? We are the workers; we are the indebted; we are the immigrants and the indigenous; we are the homeless; we are the students; we are the unemployed; we are the under represented people of the world. We are the 99%.

And we invite you to join us.

At 12 midday on Saturday 5 November we will meet at meet at Town Hall and march to re-occupy. The Occupation is not over. It has only just begun.

Reclaim the night! Stop violence against women.

Rally at Town Hall then march to Martin Place for an evening of wonderful women speakers and performers canvassing issues of violence against women.

After the High Court decision, we need to keep up the pressure ...

RALLY for REFUGEES!

**NO to the Malaysia solution! NO to Nauru!
**NO to offshore processing
**END Mandatory Detention

Where: Sydney Town Hall
Time: 12 Noon

Organised by Refugee Action Coalition Sydney
(http://refugeeaction.org.au/)

For more info call Ben: 0400 878 322 or Josh: 0408 885 622

Protest 10 years of US-led war and occupation in Afghanistan with Stop the War Coalition and others. Occupying forces haven’t even bothered to keep count of all the innocent Afghan civilians who have been killed by this war of terror, but the numbers either dead or displaced run into the millions.

October 16th is the National Day of Action themed ‘Defend our water’ against Coal and Coal Seam Gas.

The rally looks like being an important event where communities from around Australia will be holding their own events with Sydney hosting a ‘tally’ from around the nation to show our united opposition to the encroaching CSG interests that pose a threat to our water, land, health and communities. We are expecting several thousand people to attend, and will have speakers, bands, and several activities throughout the 2 hour period while the numbers from the events around Australia are sent to the Sydney Rally.

Please stay tuned for more details.

We are YOU. We are everyone. We are the ones who care about you. We are a peaceful, nonviolent movement.

Occupy Sydney is here to protest and fight the abuse, repression, thieving and infiltration by the Corporate Elite in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the country and indeed, the world.

Our financial system should not be in the hands of private organisations or cartels. It belongs to us, the people. It is time to TAKE BACK WHAT IS OURS. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, OUR MONEY.

We gather together in solidarity to exercise our human right to freedom of peaceful protest and freedom to peacefully assemble. We will not be intimidated.

We welcome support and unity from our fellow citizens across the nation and the world.

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Our Explanation:

• We are the 99% of humanity. We are the human class. This is bigger than class politics and political factionalism.

• We seek the disempowering of Corporate Criminals, the 1% Global Elite. We hold them accountable for their crimes against humanity and the Earth.

• The Reserve Banks, International Monetary Fund (IMF), oil companies, major media houses, Macquarie Bank, the Federal Labor and State Liberal Governments who are puppets to these fraudsters, have proved to be the enemy of humanity and the Earth.

Our Enemy, 1% Elite:

• They orchestrated the Global Financial Crisis and are profiting from it (while people lose their jobs, face wage cuts, and lose their homes).

• They fund both sides of war and profit from it (while our brothers and sisters die).

• They destroy the Earth environmentally and profit from it.

• They control our media and the information we can access.

• They see YOU and I as mere masses to control, experiment on, refuse rights to, repress and thieve from.

Target:

Reserve Bank
Merchant Banks
Macquarie Bank (the bank that swallowed Sydney)
Federal Labor
State Liberals (for their new anti-worker laws)

Our Urgency:

This is about NOW and any chance of legitimate human liberty for our future in Australia and globally.

IMPORTANT WEBSITES

https://www.facebook.com/p​ages/Occupy-Australia/1203​25891405931?sk=info
http://www.occupysydney.wo​rdpress.com/
Ihttp://www.occupywallst.or​g/
http://www.15october.net/
http://www.october2011.org​/
http://nycga.cc/
http://www.occupytogether.​org/
http://www.facebook.com/Oc​cupyTogether
http://twitter.com/#!/Occu​pyTogether

WAYS TO HELP

1. Get down to the occupation site on the 15th October and peacefully participate.

2. Post any talents or interests you have that may be needed and of use.

3. Stay informed, find out what is happening on Wall Street through www.occupywallst.org and locally through the array of pages on Twitter.

5. Do NOT depend on major media outlets. They’re already blocking us, presenting misinformation or not sharing information at all.

4. Just spreading the word helps. There has been a huge media blackout that others are just beginning to shine some light on.

5. Make and bring banners, flags, megaphones, musical instruments, blankets, tents, food, water, peace, love, an informed attitude, family and friends, work colleagues, sports teams, unions, church / synagogue / mosque / temple family, surf clubs, political party members, activist groups, charity organisations etc. Remain anonymous or be yourself.

WE ARE THE 99%. WE ARE YOU.

Contact: OccupySydney[at]hotmail.com

Plan: Meet outside the Reserve Bank, corner Macquarie St and Martin Pl, City. Conduct our protest peacefully. We can always move toward Hyde Park. Remember - represent the cause and yourself with respect, peace and openness. Stand tall.

******* WHAT YOU WILL NOT SEE FROM US *******

No requests for donations.

Volunteers only.

We exist solely to organise and increase awareness for this cause.

CRITICAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT::

We acknowledge the Traditional indigenous Eora peoples' custodianship of the land upon which we now live and work – the place the world knows as Sydney – and the genocide perpetrated against that people by the colonists from whose occupation the current governments claimed right to govern descends. We also acknowledge that such #humanrights crimes of genocide continue to be committed against aboriginal peoples across Australia today- in particular the Northern Territory Intervention, a racist bilaterally supported denial of #humanrights and cultural genocide which continues today.

ALSO: http://occupysydney.wordpr​ess.com/

Please email us at OccupySydney[at]hotmail.com if this page is hacked or deactivated.

CRITICAL VIEWING FOR THE GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE:

https://www.facebook.com/p​hoto.php?v=101503352100980​73

Facebook event - https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122116297893189