Brisbane Community Action Network (BrisCAN) – G20
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Visioning another world
Brisbane G20 Peoples Convergence
Nov 8-16, 2014
Global Call to action
Dear Friends,
The G20 Leaders Summit will bring the leaders of the worlds’ 20 largest economies to Brisbane in November this year.… Go to Article
… Go to ArticleThis is a powerful account by South Australian ABC reporter Peter Goer who has just returned from a trip to occupied Palestine.
… Go to ArticleThe National Indigenous Human Rights Awards will be launched at NSW Parliament in late June, with nominations now open. The Awards will be Welcomed in by NSW parliamentarian, Linda Burney and launched alongside Yalmay Yunupingu and Gail Mabo and will include awards named after Dr Yunupingu and Eddie Mabo.
Dear friends,
… Go to ArticleYou are invited to join us in developing and advancing community generated answers to world economic, social and environmental problems.
… Go to ArticleFormer FACS worker joins national protests to condemn ongoing Stolen Generations on Sorry Day
Former Family and Community Services (FACS) caseworker and delegate to the FACS NSW Aboriginal Reference Group (ARG) has joined national protests on Sorry Day to condemn, what many are calling, “the ongoing Stolen Generation”.
the attached documentation from michael anderson, aka ghillar, on behalf of the sovereign rights of the traditional owners of the aboriginal lands, again highlights the problems of the invader governments in recognising our rights to our lands.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: From time to time WBT receives articles and comment that risk prosecution. Recently threats were made by DOCS about an attempted interview with a DOCS officer.… Go to Article
On 23 May 2014, Magistrate Costello found Wayne Wharton and Hamish Chitts ‘not guilty’ of ‘obstruct police’. In April 2013 Brisbane City Council officers asked police to assist them in putting out the sacred fire in Musgrave Park.… Go to Article
Momentum is gathering toward the National Day of Action on Sorry Day this Monday calling for a STOP to Ongoing Stolen Generations!!… Go to Article
[Editor’s note: WBT does not usually post academic articles. However this article by Griffith University academic, Clare Tilbury, is helpful in understanding the level of aboriginal child removal since the Bringing them home report (1997) into the Stolen Generation.… Go to Article
Get Ready, Get Set, Get On the Road to Ground the Drones
May 21, 2014Walk with us part of the 165 miles from the Boeing corporate headquarters in Chicago (where the manufacture of drones and conventional war planes are managed and designed) to the Michigan Air National Guard Facility at Battle Creek, control site of armed drones.… Go to Article
Sorry Day rally at speakers corner at parliament house in George Street Brisbane 11 am on 26 May.
The rally and march to DOCS is organised by the Brisbane Sovereign Grannies Group which is part of National Sorry Day activities (See the national statement attached )
There is a forum and get together after the rally and march from 2 pm at the New Farm Neighbourhood Centre 967 Brunswick Street New Farm QLD 4005.… Go to Article
[Editor’s Note: Combined here is an extract from an article published in the Journal of Political Ecology and a talk given by one of the authors, Ack Mercer, at Brisbane Free Uni.… Go to Article
Industrial Relations Laws enacted by the Newman government have been described as “WorkChoices for Queensland”. The laws strip back Awards, contain significant attacks on public sector and local government employees and allow the employer to take away the right to protected industrial action.… Go to Article
… Go to ArticleGood people, from Gerry
Attached is a photo of 4 of the children with me last night in Perth’s outskirts, in bush off a major highway.
on monday 26 may, 2014 a national day of action has been called for by the grannies from gunnedah, stics and other support groups, including isja.… Go to Article
Sorry Day events in Brisbane
Monday, 26 May 2014
11 am Rally Parliament House, George Street
12.30 pm March to DOCS at 111 George Street
2 pm Forum & Yarning, New Farm Neighbourhood Centre
967 Brunswick Street, New Farm
Brisbane Sovereign Grannies Group
The inaugural meeting of the Brisbane Sovereign Grannies group was held at Jagera Hall on 27 Mar 2014.… Go to Article
Pls Note: BASE = Brisbane Aboriginal Sovereign Embassy or Tent Embassy (for short)… Go to Article
The easiest way you can help with a simple 5 min phone call. The NSW Premier is getting a lot of calls asking him to respect community democracy, to call off Operation Stapler, a police plan to break up protests stopping the wonderful Northern Rivers region becoming a gasfield.… Go to Article
Unemployed workers under 30 years of age will have to wait six months before they can apply for the dole.
And then they will be forced to do 25 hours work for each dole cheque.This… Go to Article
Governments are cracking down on public dissent, spin-masters are becoming craftier, the mass media has sold out to big business, and Brisbane hip-hop/folk band Rivermouth is celebrating the launch of two unashamedly political tracks with our first ever gig at The Zoo.… Go to Article
Dear all,
National Sorry Day is less than two weeks away and Aboriginal rights groups across the country are preparing to protest!!… Go to Article
National Statement – 26 May 2014
Say NO to Continuing Stolen Generations | Aboriginal Control of Aboriginal Welfare
Returning children must be the priority | No forced adoptions | Support and services to prevent removals
We, as Aboriginal Grandparents and parents, have called protests across the country on May 26 demanding the return of our children who have been forcibly removed by child welfare agencies.… Go to Article
Dear BFUers,
As you probably know, refugee policy is a fiercely contested field of Australian political discourse. The major parties use politicised, dehumanised language to talk about some of the most marginalised and vulnerable people in the world – those who are seeking asylum.… Go to Article
The NSW Police have a plan called Operation Stapler to break up the broad and successful Bentley Blockade, a community-based stand to stop the gorgeous farmland of Northern Rivers becoming a gasfield.… Go to Article
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