{"id":2633,"date":"2013-04-30T17:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T07:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=2633"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:51:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T02:51:54","slug":"world-refugee-day-rally-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/?p=2633","title":{"rendered":"World Refugee Day Rally 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who made it to the World Refugee Day rally on Sunday 16 June. There were about 400 or 500 in attendance, a really determined crowd in the face of the worsening demonisation of refugees we are seeing in the lead up to the election.<\/p>\n<p>There are some good photos from the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.535287176508756.1073741827.141579799212831&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.496509643754021.1073741828.201833689888286&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. There were also rallies on the day in Perth and Melbourne, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/world-refugee-day-rally-draws-1000-20130616-2ocp0.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers included:<br \/>\nLes Murray (SBS\u2019s \u2018Mr Football\u2019)<br \/>\nSarah Hanson-Young (Greens Senator)<br \/>\nIan Rintoul (Refugee Action Coalition)<br \/>\nHayley Byrnes (Former Manus Island detention centre worker)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/WRD-2013_colour2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2639 alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"WRD 2013_colour2\" src=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/WRD-2013_colour2-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/WRD-2013_colour2-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/WRD-2013_colour2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>By June, the federal election will be just three months away. Join us to help break the downward spiral on refugee and asylum seeker policy<\/p>\n<p>Close Manus Island, Close Nauru: End Pacific Solution 2.0<br \/>\nReinstate bridging visa work rights<br \/>\nNo deportations to danger<br \/>\nEnd mandatory detention<\/p>\n<p>Endorsed by Refugee Action Coalition, Chilout, Labor for Refugees<\/p>\n<p>Invite your friends to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/505009752890224\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook event here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WRD-2013_colour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download a poster here<\/a> to stick up at work, uni or near where you live<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/WRD-2013-leaflet.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download the leaflet design here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who made it to the World Refugee Day rally on Sunday 16 June. There were about 400 or 500 in attendance, a really determined crowd in the face of the worsening demonisation of refugees we are seeing in the lead up to the election. There are some good photos from the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311091,"featured_media":2634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-past-actions"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/311091"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refugeeaction.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}