Building Bridges Festival
Featuring the Herd, Watussi, Dog Trumpet, Ember and ROSiE
6pm through to 12am Friday, May 18
The Standard, Darlinghurst
$30 plus booking fee or $20 concession plus booking fee.
For more information and to book go to www.wearethestandard.com.au.
The...
2012 Easter convergence on refugee detention centres
Over Easter refugee activists from around the country converged on Darwin to refocus attention on the reality behind the wire of mandatory detention. Darwin is rapidly becoming Australia’s detention capital, with three detention centres...
Fundraiser film screening
Le Havre
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his profession as a shoeshiner. His path crosses with an underage illegal...
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...
PROTEST CALLS FOR END TO OFFSHORE PROCESSING AND MANDATORY DETENTION
COMMUNITY PROCESSING MUST START NOW
The Refugee Action Coalition is calling a protest outside the Sydney offices of the Immigration Department, 26 Lee Street, 12.30, Wednesday 26 October. Speakers at the protest will include Dr...
Rally at ALP conference
Sunday December 4
Meet 12pm Sydney Town hallÂ
Speakers 1pm Darling Harbour convention centre outside ALP conference
Speakers: Ged Kearney (President, ACTU)
Shane Price (NSW Co-convenor, Labor for Refugees)
Ian Rintoul (Refugee Action Coalition)
Hazara and Tamil refugees
Initial endorsements:...
Forum with Malaysian refugee rights activist Angeline Loh
Why we must REJECT Gillard's Malaysia deal
Angeline Loh works for the Malaysian human rights organisation Aliran, which has published the independent media magazine Aliran Monthly for over 30 years, surviving numerous government attempts at...
Refugee activists confront Chris Bowen
Refugee rights activists converged on Immigration Minister Chris Bowen's office on Saturday to protest the government's efforts to push new legislation to revive its Malaysia refugee deal and expand offshore processing. About 50 people...
After the High Court decision…
RALLY FOR REFUGEES
No to Malaysia, No to Nauru: No offshore processing
End mandatory detention
12pm Saturday October 15, Sydney Town Hall
Speakers include:
Sarah Hanson-Young (Greens Senator), John Menadue (Founding Chair, Centre for Policy Development, former head...
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...
