Tag: Aboriginal deaths in custody
To burn or not to burn?: The Australian flag on Invasion Day
Posted by John, January 29th, 2017 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, Aboriginal community closures, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aboriginal Embassy
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The Australian flag on Invasion Day: To burn or not to burn?
Despite burning the Australian flag not being a crime, a heavy-handed police reaction has helped the authorities and the media to vilify and prosecute peaceful Australia Day protesters in Sydney, I write in Independent Australia. To read the article click here. The Australian Flag on Invasion Day: To burn or not to burn?
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Stay, Adam; resign now Bronwyn
Posted by John, July 30th, 2015 - under Racism, Racists.
Tags: Aboriginal community closures, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aborigines, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Adam Goodes, Bronwyn Bishop
Comments: 1
It says much about the state of Australian society today that we have a great footballer very possibly being hounded out of his job because he is black while a sleazy untrustworthy and biased politician who has allegedly abused entitlements for decades will in all probability keep her job of throwing Labor politicians out of Parliament.
Sam Watson on deaths in custody and flag burning: Six pieces of coloured cloth have more value than four Aboriginal lives
Posted by John, November 17th, 2014 - under Sam Watson, Socialist Alliance.
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody, Flag burning
Comments: 1
Why didn’t Tony Abbott make a speech about this death, in custody?
Posted by John, October 25th, 2014 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody
Comments: 1
She had broken ribs, bleeding on the lungs and was in excruciating pain. Locked up for days without proper medical attention over $1000 in unpaid fines – at just 22 years of age, my granddaughter died in her cell as a result of her injuries. She begged for help.
Justice for Julieka. Sign the petition here.
Lest we forget – the war against Aborigines has never ended
Posted by John, April 25th, 2014 - under War.
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aboriginal Embassy, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Aborigines, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, ANZAC day, Genocide
Comments: 4
ANZAC Day, the supposed symbol and celebration of the ‘nation’ denies this most obvious truth – Australian society was founded on the genocide of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders and that genocide continues today. Let’s unite and fight to stop the brutal war against Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders now.
Police brutality and racism in Queensland
Posted by John, February 13th, 2014 - under Police, Queensland.
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aborigines
Comments: 3
Dozens of Brisbane Murri community leaders gathered on Tuesday night in the southern suburb of Logan to organise support for Sheila Oakley, who was viciously tasered by police on the doorstep of her home on 6 February write Kaye Broadbent and Sarah Jean in Red Flag. A rally has been called for Saturday 15 February at 11am, assembling at 26 Jacaranda Avenue, Kingston. Speeches will be followed by a march to the Logan police station. After the rally there will be a BBQ fundraiser to support Sheila and her family in their time of need. Everyone who wants to stand in solidarity with Brisbane’s Murri community needs to be there.
Dear Adam
Posted by John, January 27th, 2014 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aborigines, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders
Comments: 4
Adam, as an Aboriginal Australian and Australian of the Year, you are in a special position to challenge the systemic racism and genocide that is Australian capitalism. Make the most of it.
Nova Peris and the bankruptcy of Labor
Posted by John, January 28th, 2013 - under Invasion day, Nova Peris, Racism.
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody, Aboriginal Embassy, Aborigines, Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, Genocide, Idle no more
Comments: 13
A treaty, recognising prior ownership and sovereignty, paying the rent to the indigenous owners of the land and allowing Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to run their own affairs is a set of systemic solutions to the systemic problems of dispossession and disempowerment, systemic solutions to the past and ongoing genocide against the indigenous peoples of this country.
That would require an attack on capital in Australia and its interests. Labor won’t do that. Far better from the point of view of Gillard as the captain of the second level of capital to pick Nova Peris to open the batting in the battle for the Senate than actually take on capital to address the real issues. Nova Peris will be a willing accomplice to Gillard’s anti-Aboriginal agenda.
The Invasion Day protests, the burgeoning Idle No More indigenous peoples’ movement in Canada which is spreading across the globe, the campaigns against the Intervention and deaths in custody, all offer an alternative approach to winning better lives for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. They are movements from below, not machinations from above. That way lies the future, not one bum on one seat for a Gillard puppet in the Senate.
Of police and other deaths
Posted by John, December 8th, 2012 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: ABCC, Aboriginal deaths in custody, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Building industry, Building unions, Building workers, CFMEU, Deaths at work, Deaths in custody
Comments: 10
Perhaps the difference in treatment in death is that police protect the profit system, whereas workers don’t. We workers make the profit for the bosses. We are expendable and our deaths at work are nothing to them compared to the death of a police officer.
By their eulogies shall ye know the bosses and their system.
Justice for Kwementyaye Briscoe – lay charges against police now
Posted by John, October 11th, 2012 - under Uncategorised.
Tags: Aboriginal deaths in custody
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On 4 January 2012, Kwementyaye Daniel Briscoe joined the ranks of hundreds of Aboriginal people who have died in police custody in Australia. Yet with well over 200 deaths in police custody in Australia, in only two cases have police officers been charged with a criminal offence, and none convicted. We the undersigned support the […]