Over 1500 join World Refugee Day protest
At least 1500 people took to the streets for the World Refugee Day rally in Sydney on June 19. Thanks to all those who endorsed (full list below) and helped promote the rally. There...
Forum: Eyewitnesses from inside Australia’s remote detention camps
6pm Monday, May 9, NSW Teachers’ Federation Building,
23–33 Mary St Surry Hills, walking distance from Central Station
This public forum will hear reports from recent visitors to Australia’s remote detention network. On the Easter...
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...
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...
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...
Footage from protest at Villawood last week
Protesters approach the detention centre as detainees take to the roof
Greens Senator-elect Lee Rhiannon speaks at the rally after visiting detainees on November 17
PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY IN CANBERRA
AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT
Tuesday, 28 September, 12.30—1.30pm
We will assemble on the lawns outside Parliament House, Canberra, to call on the new federal parliament to introduce humane refugee policies and stop using...
Rally Oct 23, 2010
See media report on the action here (although it underestimates the size of the rally, which was attended by about 250 people http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/refugee-group-rallies-in-sydney-20101023-16yeh.html
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STAND UP FOR REFUGEES PROTEST
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1pm Saturday October 23 @ Sydney Town hall
Close...
Rally to support Darwin asylum seekers
End mandatory detention
End offshore detention
Outside Dept of Immigration
Lee St (next to Railway Square, Central)
12.30 Friday 3 Sept
Speakers include Sylvia Hale (NSW Greens), Ian Rintoul (RAC)
“We strongly condemn the refusal by the police and the...
