Archive for 'Refugees'
Manus demonstrators converge on Australian cities
Posted by John, November 27th, 2017 - under Asylum seekers, Independent Australia, Manus Island, Refugees.
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As the brutalisation of refugees on Manus Island becomes obvious, more and more Australians want them brought here, I write in Independent Australia
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Illegals invading Parliament
Posted by John, July 28th, 2017 - under Asylum seekers, Politicians, Refugees, Uncategorized.
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Have all the illegals invading our Parliament been sent back to where they came from yet?
Another Manus refugee dies as Turnbull dishes out hypocrisy to the homeless
Posted by John, January 2nd, 2017 - under Asylum seekers, Homelessness, Independent Australia, Refugees.
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‘Turnbull “humbly” served lunch to the very people he victimises. He then instructed the rest of us to “hug” them.
‘At the same time, he refused to acknowledge that his government’s policies have murdered yet another refugee, who came to us seeking sanctuary from murderers in his homeland.’
Refugee protests – democracy at work
Posted by John, December 2nd, 2016 - under Asylum seekers, Democracy, Parliament, Refugees.
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The refugee protest at Parliament House was a great display of democracy, bringing the voice of voiceless refugees to the attention of the wider public. It interrupted for a few minutes the daily posturing of the wafflers and trough sniffers in Parliament and highlighted the lives permanently interrupted on Manus Island and Nauru. This is what democracy looks like.
Ban bigots, not refugees
Posted by John, October 31st, 2016 - under Asylum seekers, Refugees.
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I have argued for some time that the refugee movement must radicalise and, for example, close down the centres of major cities to win the campaign to bring them here. Otherwise we are, like Sisyphus, trapped in the eternal boulder rolling of defeat.
Australia tortures asylum seekers
Posted by John, October 18th, 2016 - under Amnesty International, Asylum seekers, Refugees, Torture.
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Stopping the boats (itself a lie) is built on starting the torture. Turnbull, and I should add, Shorten, feel confident in their brutal refugee policies. How do we challenge them? History shows that civil disobedience has been a key weapon in the armoury of those fighting for civil rights. Stop the cities to stop the torture. Occupy to free the refugees from the concentration camps and bring them here.
Immigration Minister Peter Dutton should resign
Posted by John, August 11th, 2016 - under Asylum seekers, Peter Dutton, Refugee Action Coalition, Refugees.
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The Immigration Minister, Peter Dutton, has once again shamed himself and disgraced his office with unsubstantiated, ill-considered and offensive claims about refugees says the Refugee Action Coalition Sydney.
The other Rio refugee story
Posted by John, August 8th, 2016 - under Olympics, Refugees, Rio de Janeiro.
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In an article written in Nation before the Olympics began, Nation columnist Dave Zirin points out that there is another side to the story of the all-refugee team at the Rio Olympics. It was re-published in Socialist Worker US. ‘We all have heard the phrases “greenwashing” when a company or government hostile to environmental issues puts up a phony front to win undeserved public support. I don’t know if “refugee-washing” is a word but maybe it should be.’
How about Four Corners go to Nauru next?
Posted by John, August 3rd, 2016 - under Abuse, Asylum seekers, Concentration camps, Gulags, Nauru, Refugees, Torture.
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With news coming through that Nauru refused to provide visas to Amnesty International to investigate the appalling conditions in our gulag there, maybe the time has come for the ABC’s Four Corners to apply for visas to travel to the Island.
Feminists like Turnbull and refugee women on Nauru
Posted by John, June 7th, 2016 - under Asylum seekers, Feminism, Malcolm Turnbull, Refugees, Women's oppression.
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If Malcolm Turnbull really is a feminist why is he locking up innocent women and girls on Nauru and Manus Island and subjecting them to rape, torture and other abuses?
Bring them here. Let them stay. That is what a feminist would do.