| oceania :: features |
| GenSan Bombing Raises Concerns over Possible Rights Violations |
| by QC IMC
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14 Dec 2004 |
| The Socksargen chapter of Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights) has voiced concerns that the police and military investigations of the Dec. 12 bombing of General Santos City may lead to a spate of human rights violations. This developed even as the human rights group registered strong condemnation of what it called a terrorist attack that has left 14 dead and more than 60 others injured as of Dec. 13. |
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| oceania :: features | :: manila |
| Environmentalists to Defensor: scrap disastrous DENR Order 2003-30 |
| | 14 Dec 2004 |
| SAVE OUR FORESTSAlarmed by the horrible and countless deaths in Luzon caused by man-made disasters, Mindanao-based environmentalists urged Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Michael Defensor to scrap DENR Administrative Order (DAO) 2003-30 which places the environment at risk and spells more ecological disasters.Environmentalists to Defensor: SCRAP DENR Order 2003-30 or else face more ecological disasters “This new order is a step backward in environmental protection and management that rather places our upland watersheds in wanton exploitation from development |
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| oceania :: features |
| Activists expose US Torture transportation |
| by Melbourne Indymedia
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14 Dec 2004 |
 from www.indymedia.org:
The scale and significance of US military use of Shannon airport in Ireland has taken on a new dimension with the revelations that Shannon has become part of the illegal movement and torture of prisoners, and the airport's increasing level of use by US military and civil leaders. This begs the question, has the Irish Government done a secret deal with the United States, granting US citizens immunity from arrest and procecution under the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court? |
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| oceania :: features | :: perth |
| Crisis in Detention: Baxter Iranians start second week of hungerstrike |
| | 13 Dec 2004 |
| [ URGENT CALL TO ACTION ] From the newswire...Via Project Safecom: The hunger strike at the Baxter detention centre has entered its second week, and as the Iranians slowly loose their mind and their physical strength. Refugee Rights advocates state that the reasons for this hunger strike point to Immigration Minister, the Howard government and its "deals" with the Iranian Mullahs. They say "the Howard government is trying to forget its obligations under the UN Refugee Convention..." Jack Smit of Project Safecom says that "All Iranians currently in detention have a well-founded fear of |
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| oceania :: features |
| Dredging a disaster: Port Phillip Bay Channel Deepening |
| by Melbourne Indymedia
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13 Dec 2004 |
 The Panel investigating the Environmental Impact of the Channel Deepening Project closes next week. Evidence to the Port of Melbourne Enquiry over the last six weeks has highlighted the damage the deepening will do to the Bay and discredited many of the supposed benefits. The work will take about 2 years of noisy, continuous, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week operation. Contracts for the work have already been signed. On Saturday December 10, Bayside residents distressed at Channel dredging protested on their local beaches by wearing something red. |
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| oceania :: features | :: darwin |
| Right to 'riot' |
| | 12 Dec 2004 |
| Queensland Police challenge 'police-friendly' Coronial findings... Aboriginal man Cameron Doomadgee was killed in police custody, on the 19th November 2004, on Palm Island off the east coast of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Cameron was dead after only one and half hours in police custody. The forensic pathologist found that 36-year-old Cameron Doomadgee died from a ruptured liver (spleen in other reports) and portal vein (intra-abdominal haemorrhage) as well as receiving four broken ribs and a punctured lung. (More injuries reported: Yanner) Queensland Police Commissioner |
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| oceania :: features |
| Treatment of David Hicks raised at Eureka Commemoration |
| by Melbourne Indymedia
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11 Dec 2004 |
 The appointment of Terry Hicks as the 'Leading Light' of the 2004 Eureka Dawn walk stirred up debate on current civil liberties. Terry Hicks is the father of David Hicks who has been tortured and imprisoned by the US military for 3 years in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. |
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| oceania :: features | :: manila |
| Human Rights Day |
| | 10 Dec 2004 |
| DECEMBER 10 HUMAN RIGHTS DAYAs the world celebrates for International Human Rights Day, numerous cases of human rights violation in the Philippines lingers like wild howls in the night, horrible and sad. This year alone, under the re-elected Arroyo regime, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP) have documented figures of human rights atrocities: 13 Journalists killed, 21 victims of Political killings and 14 Farmers killed from the previous Hacienda Luisita strike. This also includes 243 political prisoners still incarcerated in local jails, suffering various ways of tortures from |
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| oceania :: features |
| Police suppress media at Anti-Bypass march |
| by 176 multimedia + assorted imcistas
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10 Dec 2004 |
| Over 100 protesters marched through busy Wellington streets at Midday to challenge the construction of the Te Aro 'Bypass'. The mood of the protest was buoyant and defiant. As the march approached Tonks Ave, it became louder as police rapidly moved to obstruct protesters from walking through to Tonks Ave. As pushing escalated between police and protesters, the police quickly arrested the media who were closest to action. |
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| oceania :: features | :: perth |
| Open Letter to the PM for Referendum on All Aboriginal Issues |
| | 9 Dec 2004 |
| READ IN FULL HERE on newswire..."The SWAN VALLEY NYUNGAH COMMUNITY ABORIGINAL CORPORATION have issued an open letter to the Prime Minister, John Howard, calling for A REFERENDUM ON ALL ABORIGINAL ISSUES CONCERNING THE NATION OF ABORIGINAL PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA Below is an edited version. In the letter they state: "We, the Aboriginal Nation who carry the Sacred Knowledge of Australia since the Beginning of Time are forced to ask you as Prime Minister John Howard of Australia and the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Amanda Vanstone under you, who are descendants of the British invaders who know |
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| oceania :: features |
| Civil Union bill passes |
| by indy nomads
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9 Dec 2004 |
 The Civil Unions Bill was passed by parliament today by 65 votes to 55. |
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| oceania :: features |
| Everybody's fight |
| by QC IMC
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9 Dec 2004 |
| In solidarity with Filipino journalists condemning the wanton murders of our colleagues, Indymedia QC shares this pooled statement of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines: |
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| oceania :: features | :: perth |
| CRISIS in West Papua - Immediate Action Required |
| | 9 Dec 2004 |
| WEST PAPUA : 15,000 FLEE MILITARY ASSUALT ON HIGHLAND VILLAGES The Indonesian military has been attacking villages in the heavily forested highland district of Puncak Jaya. Dozens have already been killed; either directly by bullets from helicopter gun ships or from starvation in the crowded makeshift camps that now adorn Pancke Jaya the highest mountain in Australasia... The military assault follows guerrilla attacks attributed to around 50 OPM/ T.P.N. warriors - The Liberation Army of Free Papua Movement (Tentara Pembebasan Nasional Organisasi Papua Merdeka - TPN/OPM) in mid October. Six |
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| oceania :: features |
| Creative Obstruction to Te Aro Destruction |
| by Tony McPhail
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7 Dec 2004 |
| Te Aro residents gathered in Buller St this afternoon and replaced the earth mercilessly overturned by Fulton Hogan as they attempted to start construction of the inner city 'bypass.' Shovels, buckets and eager hands were put to good use in a lighthearted and non-violent display of opposition to the start of road-building. The festivities were accompanied by lively drumming and toots from supportive motorists. Police arrived at the scene but no arrests were made and the group left peacefully. More creative resistance is planned for this Friday 10 December, with a march leaving from Civic |
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| oceania :: features | :: manila |
| "Did Someome said FOOD?!" |
| | 6 Dec 2004 |
| Punks,Queers,Vagrants,Homeless,Junkies get together 2 celebrate what can only be called d "Paper Bag" phenomenon. A distribution of goods to the disaffected youths in Crossing, Calamba in Dec 5 2004. An outburst of frenzy came in when the local markets- as affected by the typhoon in the past couple of days-shelled out sacks of Corn,Rice, and Vegetable of what can only be considered one of the most festive event in punk counterculture community in the country. Another typical feeding by the poor slobs who refuse to play the role of charity group in giving away "Free Food" to the community- more |
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