Details of the National Day of Action, this Saturday July 14th. A media release from the Black GST campaign is also below.
Rallies are happening in:
Alice Springs
Melbourne
Brisbane
Sydney
Perth
Canberra
Wellington
Auckland
Alice Springs
Alice Springs Council Lawns
Saturday July 14th
12:30pm
For information, contact Hilary on 0419244012
Kulin Nations (Melbourne)
• Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land!
• End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
• Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
• Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
• Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law!
• Social well-fair, not social control!
• Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Saturday 14 July, 12:30 pm
City Square, corner of Swanston and Collins Streets
For more information:
David Dryden: 0419-662-812
Cheryl Kaulfuss: 0401-806-331
Kanga Menzies: 0429-860-006
ISJA – Melb: 9388-0062
Initial endorsements: Australia Asia Workers Links, Black GST, Camp Sovereignty, Chilean Popular and Indigenous Network,Conscious Collaborations- Global indigenous network, Freedom Socialist Party, Indigenous Social Justice Association – Melbourne, Lasnet, Ongoing G20 Arrestees Solidarity Network, Radical Women, Resistance, RMIT Student Union, Socialist Alliance, Socialist Alternative, Socialist Worker (Aotearoa),Solidarity Union, Te Ata Tino Toa, Your Voice (list in progress. To add your endorsement e-mail Alison -
[email protected] ... or call Solidarity Salon on 9388-0062)
Turrbal country, Brisbane
Rally: National day of action for Aboriginal justice
Brisbane
Start: 14 Jul 2007 - 11:00am
Stop black deaths in custody. Oppose Howard's racist treatment of Aboriginal communities. 11am Queens Park (Cnr George & Elizabeth Sts) Ph Sam 0401 227 443.
Gadigal Eora Nation, Sydney
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
Rally at 10:00am at the Block (next to Redfern Station) for the march
Canberra
Aboriginal Tent Embassy
Saturday 14th July 2007
Saturday 11.am
Join us in a march from the Tent Embassy to Garema Place, Civic.
How can we celebrate NAIDOC when the government occupies Aboriginal Communities with armed forces? Invasion is happening again in Australia. The Howard regime similar to Hitler's regime has occupied communities. While they say it's in the best interest of the Aboriginal people we know it's a land grab. Fight for Justice for Aboriginal people.
Noongar country, Perth
Aboriginal Rights: National Day of Action - PERTH
Stop Aboriginal deaths in custody
Jail police who kill
RALLY 1pm SAT JULY 14 - Wesley Church
Implement all recommendations from the 1990 Royal Commission, and open a new Royal Commission into all deaths since - including Mulrunji's death in the Palm Island watchhouse.. .
Fund health, housing, education & jobs for Aboriginal communities NOT troops, cops and racist laws
Black control of Black affairs & land
Land rights not nuclear waste dumps
RALLY 1 pm SAT JULY 14
Wesley Church
Corner Hay and William Streets, Perth
Phone 9218 9608
Wellington Aotearoa NEW ZEALAND
Rally and march in solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia's Northern Territory !
12-2pm Saturday July 14th, rally and march from Midland Park to Te Aro park
Central Wellington . Please show your support by joining the rally.
We aim to
- Send a loud and clear message of solidarity to the indigenous peoples suffering from Howard's racist attacks on human rights.
- Raise awareness of issues concerning colonisation and stolen land, racism, family violence, and how indigenous peoples throughout the South Pacific face further loss of land to big mining companies.
- And raise some money for communities which are suffering from Howard's policies.
Also the day before the solidarity rally, please come and protest Australia's racism at the Australian embassy.
12:30-1:30 pm Friday July 13th, demo at Australian Embassy
(Hobson St, Thorndon). Meet at the park over the road from 12:15pm.
For further info email Mark
[email protected] com or ph 021 2333 424.
Auckland , Aotearoa NEW ZEALAND
He karanga tenei ki nga hau e wha
Hei tautoko i te iwi Moemoea no Ahiterairia.
Na te mahi whakaware o te Kawanatanga me nga Kaporeihana e whai putea ana e whai raupatu ana, kei te noho whakawhuia nga tangata whenua he pouri tenei ahuatanga me kaati ra
Ko te tohenga ma ratou te iwi Moemoea ki te whai i ou ratou ake tino rangatiratanga kia hapaitia e ratou te mana motuhake kia kaha ake kia whawhai tonuna reira
Tautoko atu a wairua, a hinengaro, a tinana hoki
Kaati noa ra, ko tenei te wa ki te tu rangatira, tu kotahi i te kawau maro, o tenei kaupapa.
Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
Tamaki/Auckland Tautoko for this kaupapa:
Tia Taurere 021 311 815
Joe Carolan 021 186 1450
Kia ora whanau
Endorsements for this rally from Aotearoa to date are:
Whakaminenga o Te Paatu
Te Ata Tino Toa
Conscious Collaborations- Global Indigenous network
Mana Wahine
Solidarity Union
Socialist Worker (Aotearoa)
Human Rights Project Aotearoa
Wellington Wildcat Anarchist Collective
Aocafe (Aotearoa Cafe)
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Radical Youth (Auckland)
IA ImagineNative Action
Citizens Against Privatisation (Auckland)
If your roopu, group or collective (from Aotearoa) would like to add their tautoko for this rally please mail me asap uriohau(at)gmail. com.
Much thanks to Tia Taurere & crew for the shout out in Te Reo.
In Struggle & Solidarity, Respect & Regards to all
Sina Ana Brown-Davis
(Te Roroa, Te Uri o Hau, Ngapuhi, Fale Ula & Vava'u)
MEDIA RELEASE
Black GST
The Howard Settler Governments invasion of the Northern territory is land-grabbing racism nothing more. This invasion is part of the neo liberal structural adjustment programme of Intuitions such as the World, Bank, the IMF & APEC to diminish and extinguish Indigenous rights forever.
It is no surprise to see that the four countries that are blocking the passage of the Draft Declaration of indigenous rights through the United Nations, Australia, New Zealand, United States & Canada, they are the same four states that as part of APEC are raping the marine ocean environment in the Pacific, and are further oppressing & eroding the hard won rights of their Indigenous Nations & Peoples through out the world and within their own countries.
What is happening to our brothers and sisters in the NT, is part of that process, part of that genocide.
On the 14th July Indigenous peoples worldwide stand united in their opposition to these agenda's, invasions and to the unending dispossession & disrespect shown to our peoples.
To my Brothers & Sisters of the Four winds, who replied to our call for Unity & Solidarity. United and strong, together we can defend what is ours for our generations to come. Deepest respect.
As the Indigenous Peoples of Australia, we weren't afforded civil rights and as such we weren't recognised and we've missed that process for the last two hundred years. I don't think you can have any laws that are appropriate for Aboriginal people in this country until you have a treaty, which ends the war. Before you have a treaty you have to have an end to hostilities. Before those processes take place, you can't talk about having a civil rights society.
One of our rights being breached is the right to consent. Aboriginal people haven't consented. If you do things without consent, it's considered rape. Now, a lot of crimes have been committed against Aboriginal people. There is a history of denial, which has gone on, and these crimes are continuing.
They won't take the fundamental steps towards establishing a civil society. They need to have a treaty; they need to end the war against the Aboriginal people. We know we've had a war here, but they can't tell you what day it ended. That may be the national day this country could celebrate.
Until they have that treaty with Aboriginal people we can't talk about making laws for Aboriginal people or applying it to them. The treaty will give them that basis of law to do it.
They've had 200 years in isolation from the rest of the world to do exactly what they wanted to do. They've lied all the way - terra nullius - they've said they lied about that. They've admitted that they stole children: that's article (e) of the Genocide Convention. They've had an inquiry into the deaths in custody, killing members of the group. They've caused mental stress on Aboriginal people - and everything that's in the Genocide Convention, Australia's breached. I can't believe that it gets swept aside each time. It's like you're talking to a brick wall.
Well, the treaty gets written by our people, and signed by white-fellers. Our elders are to put it into place. Our people write the treaties, and the white-feller signs it because he's on our land, and that's the deal. We write it. We write it in aboriginal language, we write it in white-fella language, and we write it in Latin if you want it. We'll get the interpretation deadly, because we'll do it. We'll interpret it; it's our treaty. We're allowing it to happen; it's up to us to consent to this. You know what I mean? Otherwise they'll remain the illegitimate bastard-child of England, Australia. That's what they are.
"Today we are remembering our eldest elders, those who initiated the long struggle of resistance against the arrogance of Power and the violence of money. They, our ancestors, taught us that a people with pride are a people who do not surrender, who resist, who have dignity." - from Our Word Is Our Weapon
Robbie Thorpe: Black GST & Camp Sovereignty
Robbie Thorpe: 0437 967 039
Robbie Thorpe is from the Krautungalung people of the Gunnai Nation, the traditional owners of Lake Tyers
Stop the Genocide on Stolen Aboriginal Land
•End Aboriginal deaths in Custody! Justice for Mulrunji and all killed in custody.
•Implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody!
•Land rights not mining rights! No new mines, no new dumps!
•Fund community controlled services, not troops, cops and martial law! Social well-fair, not social control!
•Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs! Treaty NOW!
•International Day of Action
Saturday July 14th Kulin Nations (Melbourne Australia)
International Indigenous Unity
Aboriginal Australia
Black GST
Camp Sovereignty
Aotearoa
Te Ata Tino Toa
Conscious Collaborations - Global indigenous Network
Mana Wahine
Komiti Pasifika
Whakaminenga o Te Paatu
Aocafe (Aotearoa Cafe)
IA Imagine Native Action
Indiginz
Hone Harawira, Maori Party MP Te Tai, Tokerau
Te Ururoa Flavell, Maori Party MP, Waiariki
Metiria Turei List MP Green party Aotearoa/NZ
Great Turtle Island
American Indian Movement
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
MNN Mohawk Nation News
Mapuche Solidarity Coalition