International Day of Action: Rally 11 am Saturday, 20th December

WE DON'T FORGET, WE DON'T FORGIVE: End State Murder
Solidarity With Uprising in Greece
Remember Those Killed by the State
No More Deaths in Custody
Free Lex Wotton

Anna Vo / Magnoiaceae split 3" CD Launch

An extravaganza of music, poetry, food and more.

All donations collected on the night will go to the Kinaiyahan Unahon Collective in Davao City, Philippines.

Regular Food Not Bombs Serving at 4:30pm at the "I have a dream" mural on King St in Newtown.

Meet at 1pm at Jura Books if you'd like to prepare/cook. Go to sydfnb.tk to get involved.

Regular Food Not Bombs Serving at 4:30pm at the "I have a dream" mural on King St in Newtown.

Meet at 1pm at Jura Books if you'd like to prepare/cook. Go to sydfnb.tk to get involved.

Regular Food Not Bombs Serving at 4:30pm at the "I have a dream" mural on King St in Newtown.

Meet at 1pm at Jura Books if you'd like to prepare/cook. Go to sydfnb.tk to get involved.

The camp for climate action will be five days of inspiring workshops & direct action aimed at shutting down the world's largest coal port in Newcastle, just north of Sydney. If you are concerned about climate change, and want real action instead of more hot air, then we encourage you to come, bring your friends and family and get involved. Whether you are old or young, a seasoned protestor or if you've never been to a protest in your life, if you share our passion for climate action, then climate camp is for you!

Jura will be showing a film and hosting a discussion about this important event.

For more info on the event check out:
http://www.climatecamp.org.au/

National Day of Action – Unite for Aboriginal Land Rights!

STOP THE NT INVASION
LAND RIGHTS NOW!

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 18 10am
The Block in Redfern

Wear Red. bring your banners. flags. your (angry) mob.. grrr. and packed lunches!
March from The Block to Victoria Park where more is happening!

- Restore the Racial Discrimination Act

- Remove Commonwealth “Mission” Managers

- No cuts to Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP)

- Fund community controlled services, not troops and bureaucrats

- End racist welfare quarantines

Speakers from affected NT communities – find out what’s really going on that you’re not being told!!

We write this in solidarity with Indigenous groups who have organised this rally. We want to bring as much of our mob as possible in support of these communities.

If the government, cops and general workings of the Australian state can be so damaging to indigenous people and communities, they can just as easily turn on any other community – women, immigrants, workers, queers, or anybody else.

We work together not (exclusively) out of our good nature, but because we’re interested in seeing the dismantling of the system of privilege and power which works against so many people and for so few.

To download full size versions of these posters go to Files.

Troops out of Iraq, Afghanistan
Stop Global warming: Renewables not uranium & coal
Defend workers' rights: Scrap WorkChoices

US President George W. Bush will be in Sydney in September 2007. He will be joining John Howard and other 21 world leaders at a major meeting of the Asia Pacific forum on Economic Cooperation (APEC).

Their agenda will be to further corporate globalisation as the expense of the livelihoods of workers and small farmers. Wars around the globe, their “anti-terrorism” agenda, terrorism, lifting trade restrictions and climate change will be high on their agenda.

We can be sure that these leaders will not come up with solutions.

While in power, Bush and Howard have presided over a new world disorder. Both have involved their countries in an unpopular occupation in Iraq
which has resulted in the deaths of well over 650,000 Iraqis and thousands of US and British troops, as well as cost over $1 billion per week to maintain. If the US' occupation of Afghanistan is anything to go by, so long as foreign troops stay, Iraq can look forward to years of impoverishment and devastation.

Hyping up the rhetoric of the “war on terror”, Bush and Howard have ignored the far greater threat to humanity posed by climate change. Both have refused to provide support and leadership for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and renewable energy, preferring to promote the nuclear industry.

While trying to convince us that removing our basic civil liberties and legalising torture are the best ways make us secure, Bush and Howard have systematically removed our basic working rights. They have shifted the balance in favour of employers making it harder for employees to have the basic pay and conditions needed to support themselves and their families.

This world view represented by George Bush and John Howard is as destructive as it is unsustainable.

Another world is not only possible – it is necessary! In September 2007 we are inviting you to join the millions of people around the world standing up for peace, democracy, clean energy and the rights of working people everywhere. Add your organisation’s support for this call to action, and to the demonstration and other activities being planned for this September in Sydney. Email stopbushsyd@gmail.com with your endorsement and/or to make a financial contribution to the event.

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

These details come from Jenny Munroe, a local Redfern activist.

Please circulate widely

Wednesday
09-08-06

Anthony Mundine joins
protesters

to fight for The
Block

Thousands of people, black and white, will unite to stop the
NSW Government taking control of the Block at a historic protest tomorrow (Thursday
August 10). Champion boxer Anthony Mundine will address the protest and is
expected to make an announcement about entering politics to fight for The
Block’s future.

The rally will begin outside the state Government’s Redfern
Waterloo Authority (RWA) offices (1 Lawson Square, Redfern) at 6:30pm. Protesters will then march
to The Block, where Isabel Coe of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy will conduct a
ceremony around a “sacred fire” that symbolises unity amongst those in
attendance.

The protest will end with a series of speeches from community
leaders including Aboriginal Housing Company CEO Mick Mundine, Aboriginal Tent
Embassy founder Michael Anderson, and Anthony Mundine.

The highlight of the night is expected to be when Mr
Anderson passes the microphone to Anthony Mundine for the final speech of the
night. The exchange represents a generational change within the Aboriginal
leadership of Australia.
Anthony Mundine, when asked about his political future, said, “I will do
whatever it takes to help my people.”

The protest, planned by the Aboriginal Housing Company
(AHC), Aboriginal Tent Embassy and reconciliation groups, is being held as part
of the fight to get new Aboriginal housing on The Block. 

Mick Mundine and Isabel Coe organised the protest because the
RWA and Minister for Redfern-Waterloo Frank Sartor proposed changes to planning
controls that would halve the amount of housing allowed on the Block. The RWA
also plan to increase the amount of housing the Government can build on nearby
government owned land.

The AHC fears that this is a precursor to the NSW Government’s
aim to take control of The Block away from Aboriginal people and limit the
number of Aboriginal homes that can be built on the land.

Aboriginal Housing Company CEO Michael Mundine said, “The
community, both black and white, should demand equal rights for the Aboriginal
community of Redfern and that control of The Block remains in Aboriginal hands.
The Block is where the civil rights movement in Australia began, and today it is a
modern sacred site.”

“We deserve the same rights as any other Australians and we
should be able to use our land as we see fit. We will not be dictated to, or
stood over by, government ministers like Frank Sartor,” Mr Mundine said.

Ms Coe said the protest was part of the fight for Aboriginal
sovereignty. “We’re going to remind Frank Sartor that The Block was created to
provide proper homes for Aboriginal people.”

“The new paternalism being spread by the Government is what
we have to attack. It’s racism in a new dress. The NSW Labor Government is
adopting the same paternalism that the Liberals use at a Federal level. Enough
is enough,” Ms Coe said.

High profiles members of the Aboriginal community,
Australian Labor Party and Churches are supporting the protest. Organisers will
also draw on the resources of local reconciliation groups, including
Reconciliaction and Redfern Residents for Reconciliation.

Aside from Anthony Mundine and Michael Anderson, speakers
will include Isabel Coe, Mick Mundine, and Geoff Turnbull from REDWatch. The
Bishop of Gippsland John McIntyre, a former Anglican minister in Redfern, is
travelling to Sydney from Melbourne and will also address the ceremony.

Bishop McIntyre said, “We cannot stand by and be silent on
this threatened injustice being perpetrated by the State Government and their
developer mates. If Frank Sartor has legitimate concerns about how the
redevelopment of Redfern will occur he needs to enter into dialogue with the
Aboriginal community.”

Trevor Davies from the Darlington Branch of the ALP said the
RWA is facing significant opposition from local members over their plans for
The Block. He expects that a number of Labor politicians will join branch
members at the protest.

Davies said, “The NSW Government is doing some good things
in Redfern and Waterloo; suburbs which have been neglected for far too long.
But their reluctance to support the AHC on the Pemulwuy Project is a black mark
that will go down in history as a lost opportunity to help build a prosperous
Aboriginal community in the heart of Redfern.”

For further information or media inquiries, contact:

Peter Valilis, Aboriginal Housing Company, 0400 804 022

Isabel Coe, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, 0423 647 695

Trevor Davies, ALP Darlington branch secretary, 0400 008 338

Lyn Turnbull, Redfern Residents for Reconciliation, 0418 655
246

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