Archive for October 18th, 2015
Close down Australia’s cities to save Abyan?
Posted by John, October 18th, 2015 - under Malcolm Turnbull, Nauru, Peter Dutton, Rape, Refugees.
Tags: Abortion, Abuse, Abyan, Asylum seekers
Comments: 1
The one tactic the refugee movement hasn’t tried to date, apart from activists undertaking essentially stand alone actions, is arguing for and then trying to mobilise the thousands who turn out to rallies around a specific call for civil disobedience. My suggestion is that the left begin agitating to occupy the centre of the capital cities until Abyan is bought back to Australia for medical treatment and try to build just such a movement in the next week.
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Abyan: abuse upon abuse
Posted by John, October 18th, 2015 - under Nauru, Rape, Refugees.
Tags: Abyan, Asylum seekers
Comments: none
On Friday evening the Turnbull government chartered a plane and sent Abyan* – a raped, pregnant 23 year old refugee – back to Nauru, without receiving medical care.1