ANTaR Update # 48 (Tuesday 8th September, 1998)

Dear All, A few items of interest, including mailout details. Mailout volunteers please note we won't be collating this evening (Tues 9 Sept), but on Wed and Thurs instead. See below. Items in this update: Update on ANTaR MAILOUT VOLUNTEERING DETAILS: WED & THURS. Community Aid Abroad FREEDOM FROM HUNGER APPEAL, SEPT 12-20. RALLY!! against continuing Genocide, Sept 14. Join the JABILUKA BLOCKADE ACTION: Sept 26 to Oct 3, 1998. 1) Update on ANTaR MAILOUT VOLUNTEERING DETAILS: WED & THURS. Please note we are now collating the newsletter this Wed and Thurs evening (10 & 11 Sep), 7pm - late. Venue: CPSU Branch Office, 28 Lonsdale St, Braddon. If you can volunteer on either evening contact: Cate - 62470164, or David - 62538736 or just turn up at the office after 7pm. Thanks. 2) COMMUNITY AID ABROAD FREEDOM FROM HUNGER APPEAL, SEPT. 12-20. The Annual Community Aid Abroad Freedom From Hunger Appeal will take place in Canberra from September 12 - 20. It will include doorknock collections in suburbs throughout Canberra, as well as collections at shopping centres, work places and other public areas. Money raised will go to support community-level projects in more than 30 countries overseas, as well as in Aboriginal Australia. Please give generously!! VOLUNTEER COLLECTORS STILL NEEDED!! If you and / or friends are willing to give us approximately 2 hours of your time sometime during the appeal (Sept 12-20) to do doorknocking or bucket collections at public places, please call Lorenz Slee on 6257 4472 by the end of this week. It would be a great help! 3) RALLY!! AGAINST CONTINUING GEONOCIDE, 14 Sept. RALLY!! RALLY!! RALLY!! against continuing Genocide of Aboriginal Nations and Peoples in Australia. 12.30 - 2 pm Monday 14 September 1998 outside ACT Supreme Court, ACT Law Courts, Knowles Pl., Canberra City ABORIGINAL GEONOCIDE CASE. Aboriginal prosecutors against Genocide - Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma (Gungalidda), Kevin Buzzacott (Arabunna), Isobell Coe (Wiradjuri) and Robbie Thorpe (Booran) - have begun a court action against Howard, Fischer, Harradine and Hanson and all Federal parliamentarians for complicity in the continuing genocide of Aboriginal Nations and Peoples. For nearly fifty years Australia has failed to keep international treaty obligations regarding 1949 Genocide Convention. Australia has failed to enact domestic law to prevent and punish genocide. Genocide is defined as: Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group This action against further acts of genocide has its foundation in the need for Aboriginal Nations and Peoples to protect themselves and future generations. The concern is that genocide will continue unless restrained by law. There is an unwritten common law right to be protected from genocide. "Genocide has taken on many forms. The land has never been empty. Never been without a system of law. We have our own title to land. We have the law, religion and culture for this land. This is our Sovereignty. We have to be able to control our own lives and live on our own lands again to give our children a brighter future and the quality of life they deserve." - Wadjularbinna Nulyarimma, Gungalidda "The Inquiry (Bringing Them Home) recommended that the Commonwealth legislate to implement the Genocide Convention with full domestic effect. If the Convention had been enacted in the 1950's, most of the harrowing events which were described in evidence to the Inquiry would not have occurred." - Gough Whitlam, Dragging the Chains, 29/8/97 Contact: Ph/Fx: 61-2-6295 0493 Website: www.aboriginaltentembassy.com.au Email:tentemb@cyberone.com.au 4) Join the JABILUKA BLOCKADE ACTION: Sept 26 to Oct 3, 1998. STRONG COUNTRY CELEBRATION: Sept 26 to Oct 3, 1998 - A blockade action. A week of action is being planned from Sept 26 - Oct 3 to highlight Jabiluka as an election issue as well as to co-incide with the visit by World Heritage Bureau officials on October 4. It is your chance to fight along side the Mirrar for land rights, a nuclear free future and the protection of World Heritage areas. A number of non-violent actions have been planned, as well as workshops. >From the 4 -10 October, the World Heritage Bureau will be accessing the impact of uranium mining on the people and the environment in Kakadu. The Strong Country actions are planned so as to highlight to the international community the human rights and enviromental abuses of the Australian govt and ERA. Cost is $400 - includes bus costs, camp fees and food. It is a non profit event. Bus bookings need to be made before the 17th September. For more information contact: ACT JABILUKA ACTION GROUP - Kim on 6247 2424(B/H)/ 6248 3706 (A/H) or Trish on 6248 9355 (A/h) JABILUKA ACTION GROUP MEETINGS are on every Monday - 6pm The Bridge - ANU (above the refectory) Please come along. ANTaR (ACT) Contact Details GPO Box 1323 Canberra, ACT 2601 Phone: Community Aid Abroad(02) 6257 4472 (bh),or Cate Buchanan, ph: (02) 62470164 (ah). e-mail: antaract@interline.com.au websites: http://www.antar.org.au/act (ACT) http://www.antar.org.au (national) National Clearinghouse (Sydney) 02-95556138 ANTaR - Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation *Please forward this message on to other interested people* *****GETTING ON/OFF THIS LIST: If you would like to be included on or taken off this list please email your request to antaract@interline.com.au and it will be done. This page was last modified on Tuesday, 12-Sep-2000 21:11:25 EST