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2004-12-06 11:57 AM +0800 |
WIKINEWS - Indymedia Platinum? |
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"WIKINEWS" is a new project which aims to collaboratively report and summarize news on all subjects from a neutral point of view. There will be Wikinews communities in many languages. The precise implementation of the Wikinews requirements is left up to these individual communities. We seek to promote the idea of the citizen journalist, because we believe that everyone can make a useful contribution to painting the big picture of what is happening in the world around us. The time has come to create a free news source, by the people and for the people. We invite you to join us in this effort which has the potential to change the world forever...
WIKI NEWS:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikinews seeks to create a free source of news, where every human being is invited to contribute reports about events large and small, either from direct experience, or summarized from elsewhere.
While Wikinews aims to be a useful resource of its own, it will also provide an alternative to proprietary news agencies like the Associated Press or Reuters; that is, it will allow independent media outfits to get a high quality feed of news free of charge to complement their own reporting.
Wikinews follows key principles which have made Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites what they are today: neutrality, free content, and an open decision making process.
Wikinews manifesto
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From the Newswire |
2004-12-04 2:09 PM +0800 |
HUNGERSTRIKE ENDS for BAXTER SRI LANKANS! |
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From the newswire... END TO HUNGERSTRIKE FOR BAXTER SRI LANKANS: Officials from the Department of Immigration at Baxter Detention Centre met this afternoon with Sri Lankan asylum seekers and agreed to reexamine their cases for asylum. The Sri Lankan men, who had been hungerstriking, will meet with DIMIA representatives individually next week and be able to present new information about changes to their country situation which have a direct bearing on their cases for asylum... [3dec04]
The eleven Sri Lankan men agreed to end their hungerstrike and expressed their gratitude to DIMIA representatives who undertook to reexamine their cases and forward them to Minister for Immigration, Amanda Vanstone. Three of the men returned from hospital early this morning, but three more were admitted later today-leaving four of them in hospital.
The remaining seven will wait for their friends' return before, expected to be later tonight, before breaking their fast. A representative for the Sri Lankans said: "We had lost hope for our situation and we now can see some future for ourselves. And we would like to warmly thank all of our Australian friends who have given us friendship and support - especially members of the writers' group PEN who stopped eating for us"
Mira Wroblewski, from Rural Australians for Refugees, welcomed the DIMIA decision " I am so relieved that this decision has been reached. These men have many friends in Australia who care about them and we are so happy to hear that they will now be able to rebuild their health. I think it is a positive step that DIMIA will take into account the changes in Sri Lanka and reassess their cases.The current visa determination process is long and unwieldy and the situation in many countries can change significantly in the meantime. This must be taken into account in assessing asylum seekers' claims, and the Minister for Immigration is doing that for a number of nationalities."
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Audio: Tune in to next weeks [7/12] Perth Indymedia Radical Radio Show - Tuesday nights at midnight to listen to one of the Sri Lankan men discuss their predicament.
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Animal Rights |
2004-12-01 4:07 PM +0800 |
BAN SOW STALLS: WA Animal Rights Advocates Piggery Action |
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From the newswire:
Animal rights activists have broken into a West Australian piggery for the second time in five weeks to protest against alleged cruelty to animals. On Monday morning the Animal Rights Advocates group descended on a Pig Farm in Gin Gin - Story and Photos...
Activists in WA have joined a major Australian campaign to ban pregnant pigs from perpetual confinement in individual sow stalls, "so small they cannot even turn around". The "BAN SOW STALLS" actions are being undertaken by animal rights campaigners throughout the country to highlight the plight of these breeding pigs who are kept imprisoned for most of their lives. Jonathan Hallet of Animal Rights Advocates says the animals are confined in small cages that breach the code of conduct for pigs.
"...Animal Rights Advocates is a non-profit volunteer-run animal rights organisation based in Perth, Western Australia. We are committed to exposing and abolishing all forms of cruelty and exploitation perpetuated by humans against non-human animals. We do this through a combination of public education, political lobbying and non-violent direct action. Our core philosophy is one of compassion, justice and sustainability for all life on Earth..."
Animal Rights Advocates WA
Intensive Piggery Investigation unveils illegal activity:
Pigs suffer greatly during the rearing, slaughter and transportation process to arrive on the consumer’s plate. Sows spend their pregnancies in individual sow stalls, separated from each other by metal bars. It is still legal to chain a sow to the stall by a collar around the neck or stomach. If someone kept a dog in this way they would be prosecuted for cruelty.
animalactivism.org
Intensive Pig Farming 5 MILLION PIGS ARE SLAUGHTERED EACH YEAR IN AUSTRALIA.
More than 95 per cent of pigs are kept in intensive conditions for their entire lives.
Intensive means to be born in a shed in a bare metal farrowing crate without bedding, and "finished" rapidly in a group pen until the required economic size for slaughter is reached. Intensive means never going outdoors and never being able to engage in normal pig behaviour such as ranging widely and rooting around in the ground for food, wallowing in mud, and making a nest in which to give birth.
Sows have only limited contact with their piglets in barren surroundings. Intensive husbandry is a system of farming to which animals cannot adapt and so they suffer both mentally and physically.
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Palm island violence. |
2004-11-28 3:46 PM +0800 |
Indigenous Riot on Palm Is highlights racism in Queensland |
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"On the 19th November 2004, on Palm Island a community just off the east coast of Townsville, Queensland, Australia an
Aboriginal man by the name of Cameron Doomagee was arrested for singing a song on a street in the Palm Island
Community, just over an hour and half later he was dead in the police cell." National Indigenous Human Rights
Congress Australia from the Melbourne Indymedia
Newswire
Palm Island, home to over 4000 indigenous Australians has turned into a crucible for bad race relations in Australia
after the death in police custody of indigenous man Cameron Doomagee this week. Last Friday the shock and anger in
the community erupted into a 'riot' after release of an autopsy finding that Doomagee death, of "intra-abdominal
haemorrhage caused by a ruptured liver and portal vein... (with) four broken ribs" was "accidental", the result of a
'fall' outside the watchouse [Townsville Bulletin
article] . The police station, court house and police residence were burnt to the ground as local expressed their
disbelief and anger at the judicial system. An eyewitness reported by SBS to have "been in a watch-house cell and
seen an officer strike Mr Doomadgee as he was being led out of a paddy wagon"
Queensland has the highest rate of deaths in custody of indigenous people with 19 deaths in 2003 [Source: Aust. Inst. Criminology]. Police
/ community relations were so bad that the Palm Island Doomadgee's arresting officer, Senior-Sergeant Chris Hurle, was
first to flee the island on November 22, soon followed by non-indigenous journalists, teachers and other government
employees.
Many Indigenous people are living in third world conditions in Australia: with less access to health care, education
or employment prospects leading to a life expectancy 20 years less than non-indigenous people. The social
stigmatization in rural Queensland associated with being indigenous has often led to open racism in the past, with
Queensland being the last state to repeal the forced separation of indigenous mothers from their mixed race children
and the ghettosiation of Aboriginal people into reservations in 1971; in 1974 200 Murries protesting against
Queensland's racist legislations, were suppressed by the Bjelke-Petersen government, who accused them of being
terrorists who wanted to kill him; in 1982 in the lead up to the Commonwealth Games, tent embassies in King Geroge
Square in the city center were fire-bombed and protestors brutalised by police; in 1993 4000 people protested the
death of Daniel Yock, claimed to have been beaten to death by Queensland police; in 1998 the success of the One Nation
party running on a platform that increased division between indigenous people and migrants. Racism in the army at
Townsville, from which Palm Island is just 40 kms offshore, was highlighted by the November 11th release of a photo of
20 soldiers posing as Klu Klux Klansmen and the subsequent revelation that racism caused one indigenous soldier to
commit suicide [ABC story]
In recent months the abolition of peak indigenous elected body ATSIC, and top-down modes of control by both state and
federal governments introducing alcohol bans in some communities and Howard's threatened welfare penalties to parents
who do not force their children to attend school, have exacerbated race-relations Australia-wide, indicating a new era
of government paternalism towards indigenous people which has been described by indigenous activists as "having a
great white god watching over us and teaching us to wipe our kids' noses" and denigrating the Aboriginal community,
creating apartheid within Australia. [Related opinion
piece here]
The Queensland Police Union of Employees acting general president Denis Fitzpatrick labelled the riot as
"un-Australian".
National Indigenous Human Rights Congress Australia
is calling for a UN enquiry
[ Wikipedia article: Palm Island.
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From the Newswires |
2004-11-24 2:53 PM +0800 |
BAXTER: Asylum Seekers Clash With Guards |
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Update - Hunger Strike Continues
"The temperature in Port Augusta was 39 degrees yesterday The hunger-strikers are drinking some water - but their salts are not being replenished, so the effects will be serious..."
Advocates warn of detention centre riot risk ABC 25/11/04 ]
From the newswire...
November 24, 2004
Following the forced deportation of a Sri Lankan man on Monday night, asylum seekers have clashed with guards at the Baxter Detention Centre in South Australia as refugee support groups maintain that tensions within the outback facility are at "boiling point". [ STORY ]
The deported Sri Lankan, kept in isolation, was suffering from major depression and required treatment as an inpatient in a hospital. He had been on a hunger strike last month and weighed only 51kgs. He also has a condition affecting his hands and feet where the "fingers and toes are permanently swollen and the nails are lifting off". Although he has been in detention, this condition had been untreated. Respected medical practitioners have advised against this and referred him for further treatment. Now he has been Deported.
Refugee Rights advocates say Sri Lankan detainees at Baxter have now begun a hunger strike.
DIMIA says the incident was sparked by concerns among detainees over recent changes to the dispensing of medication, although he would not detail what the changes were. According to News.com The disturbance began in the medical centre but moved to two nearby compounds where there was some property damage, including a number of smashed windows. Refugee supporters said tensions within Baxter remained near boiling point. Inmates and Activists are concerned about the supply of medicine and a recent deterioration in the quality of food.
Project SafeCom spokesman Jack Smit said it appeared the Baxter operators were cutting costs, which had caused problems at the Woomera Detention Centre.
"This aggravation of the situation at Baxter, where many who fled persecution in their home country are awaiting deportation under the merciless regime of the Australian Government, shows that mandatory detention is not working because of the damaging institutional culture it creates," he said.
"International organisations, Australian lobbyists, as well as politicians, have repeatedly called for a more humanitarian assessment which includes a clear system of secondary determinations, especially for those who fall through the cracks of the narrow United Nations refugee assessment system."
Message from Nauru asylum seekers
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PSF - Open Space Forum
Monthly Open Space Forum
Wednesday 8 December
The Outback Centre/ Earthwise
315 Bagot Road, Subiaco
from 6pm; with the open space forum commencing at 6.30pm. Dinner at 7:30pm
As always the event will be held at the Earthwise Centre, 315 Bagot Road Subiaco. We commence at 6.30, but you are welcome to come for a coffee or tea and listen to some live music form 6.00. A vegetarian meal will be served at 7.30
With momentum now building toward the amazing Perth Social Forum on march 19 to 21 2005, the general discussion theme for next Wednesday's Open Space will be - "Building the Social Forum in Perth".
Please come along and share your ideas on how we can make the March 2005 Perth Social Forum a truly memorable event.
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2004-12-08 18:00:00
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SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE FILM NIGHT
SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE FILM NIGHT
3 inspiring pilgrimages, walking the sacred land for peace and justice
12 Dec, Sunset -> late at City Farm
[cnr Brown and Lime st East P.Earth]
$15 waged
$10 unwaged
All proceeds to the Vivienne Elanta Memorial Fund
[funds for activism]
Smoke and alcohol free event.
Phone 9284 2819 for more info.
Phone 9284 2819
2004-12-12 18:00:00
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SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE FILM NIGHT
SEEDS FOR THE FUTURE FILM NIGHT
3 inspiring pilgrimages, walking the sacred land for peace and justice
12 Dec, Sunset -> late at City Farm
[cnr Brown and Lime st East P.Earth]
$15 waged
$10 unwaged
All proceeds to the Vivienne Elanta Memorial Fund
[funds for activism]
Smoke and alcohol free event.
Phone 9284 2819 for more info.
Phone 9284 2819
2004-12-12 18:00:00
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United Kingdom G8 Protest
You are invited to join a Festive Protest against the United Kingdom G8 Summit
Venue; United Kingdom, Gleneagles in Perthshire, Scotland (around 40 miles north-west of Edinburgh).
Info; www.Dissent.org.ok
Bring Friends; Food and Drinks (and a Tent)
Dress Code; Party Hats and Mask.
SPREAD THE WORD - It's an Open Invite.
www.Dissent.org.uk
2005-07-06 08:00:00
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