The Next rally will be held at Parliament house after the Crime & Misconduct Report [CMC] report is handed down.
The CMC is likely to release its investigation report into policesometime in the week commencing 24 May 2010
A notice will be sent out for the rally.
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On Wednesday 19th May 2010 about 200 people listened at one time or another over 2 hours to speakers concern that justice is yet to be done for Mulrunji, his family and Palm Islanders.
Many petitions were signed which will be presented to the speaker of the parliament tomorrow. Yet Police wanted Sam Watson to apply for a permit for the gathering.
Speakers came from a range of Murri and non-indigenous groups. The media came and went except for Murri journo from the Courier Mail, Mahalia from Lismore. Mahalia stayed to the end to interview Les Malezer from FAIRA.
Aboriginal elders spoke.
Representatives from the Greens, from ANTaR, and from the Socialist Alliance all supported Sam Watson’s call for Police Commissioner Atkinson to be sacked and Hurley and his police mates to be charged and dimissed from the police force.
Click below to listen to Adrian Burrugubba at Mulrunji speak-out at parliament:
Part One
Part Two
Ian Curr
19 May 2010
URGENT
MURRI COMMUNITY NOTICE
RALLY AT PARLIAMENT HOUSE
AT 12 Noon
ON Wednesday 19TH of MAY 2010
On 15 may 2010, the coroner handed down
more findings
of how Mulrunji died.
The Coroner says that Hurley lied.
He says that police covered-up.
Yet there is still no justice for Mulrunji
Deaths in custody continue
Lex Wotton is still in jail
STOP
ABORIGINAL DEATHS IN CUSTODY
NO MORE DEATHS IN CUSTODY
COME TO THE RALLY AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT
( CONTACT SAM WATSON MOBILE – 0401227443 )
Thanks to Ted Rethmuller from the Brisbane Labour History Association for the photos below from the Justice for Mulrunji rally at Parliament House. More photos can be seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/indigenous_struggle/ Ted has a whole archive of photos from labour and social justice movements spanning many years.
Note from Ted
Katy – President of ANTaR
Aboriginal Elder
Andrew Bartlett from the Greens
Jim, Connie and Ewan from the Socialist Alliance
Sam Watson – community worker & Socialist Alliance candidate
Monique Bond from ANTaR
Ian Curr – Editor, Workers BushTelegraph
I recommend an article written by Chris Graham in the National indigenous Times called ‘Deep South Justice in the Red Centre’.
Ian Curr
May 2010
THE BIG READ: Deep South justice in the Red Centre
Thursday, 13 May 2010
When five young white men bashed an Aboriginal man to death in Alice Springs in July 2009, the victim’s family was told to trust the white man’s justice system. CHRIS GRAHAM analyses yet another outrage from the Deep South of Central Australia…READ MORE
Kwementyaye Ryder
Excerpts from Chris Grahan’s article
A group of young men repeatedly kick a defenceless Aboriginal man in the head – at least three times – while he lies on the ground offering no resistance. Another man smashes him over the head with a bottle. And yet none of them intended to cause serious harm?
The fifth offender, Scott Doody, got just 12 months, the same jail time handed down to two black men who stole $23 worth of biscuits from a multi-billion dollar mining company on Christmas Day.
And the Ryder family?
They got life.
* Chris Graham is the former editor of the National Indigenous Times. After nine years with the paper, this is his final feature for NIT.
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