Special Refugee Action Coalition forum
FORTRESS USA, FORTRESS EUROPE, FORTRESS AUSTRALIA:
How the West excludes refugees & the poor
SPEAKERS:
Shaun Harkin (Chicago immigrants’ rights movement)
Speaker from European 'no borders' movement
Monday April 18, 6pm NSW Teachers Federation, 23 Mary St...
REFUGEES, RACISM AND FEAR: HOW CAN WEÂ AVOIDÂ ANOTHERÂ TAMPAÂ ELECTION?
A public forum organised by the Refugee Action Coalition
Speakers:
Riz Wakil (Afghan refugee, former Curtin detainee)
Aaron Hulse (Get Up! campaign director)
Amnesty International speaker
Refugee Action Coalition speaker
As the federal election approaches, the major parties are engaged...
Protests at Villawood and Curtin over Easter
Around 250 refugee supporters rallied outside Villawood detention centre on Easter Monday April 25, to support asylum seekers staging a rooftop protest inside the centre, pictured above.
Over Easter activists in Perth also took a...
Biggest Manus rally yet says hands off Foxtrot
Sunday 6 August has seen the biggest protest so far inside the Manus Island detention centre to stop the closure of Foxtrot compound.
Hundreds gathered at the Foxtrot compound calling for the power to be...
Protest at Villawood
Media coverage:
Report in Fairfield City Champion
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No to the Malaysia ‘Solution’:
FREE THE REFUGEES
Rally 12pm Sunday July 24
Meet at Gurney Road (near Cnr Brown St), Villawood
If you are outraged by the inhumanity of Australia's treatment of...
Palm Sunday Rally April 17
Free the refugees
End mandatory detention
No deportations
No offshore processing
Sunday 17 April, 1pm Sydney Town Hall, marching to Hyde Park
Speakers include:
Iraj Moghadam, Iranian refugee and ex-detainee
Sr Susan Connelly, Mark MacKillop Institute of East Timor Studies
David...
Public forum with Les Murray
Speakers:
LES MURRAY
SBS soccer commentator who (with Dateline) recently returned to Hungary to find the people smuggler who helped his family flee the country in 1956
MIKE GREWCOCK (author of Border Crimes & UNSW Law lecturer)
EDWINA...
Ten refugee medical transfers from Nauru suddenly granted community detention
Remarkably, the ten refugees and asylum seekers who had been held in isolation in the Meriton Apartments in Brisbane for the past four days have been suddenly released and placed in community detention in...
Hundreds of refugees protest on Nauru
Around 300 refugees on Nauru staged a protest yesterday, Friday afternoon, 27 February.
The peaceful protest assembled at Beach House, the accommodation for many of the Australian personnel employed in the detention centre.
However, when the...
The Big March for Refugees
2pm Sunday 15 October, Hyde Park South (Corner Elizabeth and Park Sts)
Download an A4 version of the poster to stick up at work or near where you live
Invite your friends to the...
