JOIN THE FREEDOM RIDE OF GRANDMOTHERS AGAINST THE DETENTION OF REFUGEE CHILDREN (GADRC)

Please download this poster and promote The Freedom Ride. 

This event is significant 

and we need to mass as many people as possible for the sake of the children. 

Australia has gone down a path of shame with the indefinite detention of refugee children - 

no matter what successive Australian Governments have said.

Free the children.

Do your best to overcome Australia's shame.

Freedom ride for refugees - all the way to Canberra

Grandmothers Against Detention of Refugee Children Ballarat are participating - with other Grandmothers groups in...
Posted by Brigid O'Carroll Walsh on Friday, 22 January 2016

Join in the informative and celebratory program for Refugee Week in Ballarat - 13 to 21 June 2015. Access details and publicity material here.

Refugee Week is being celebrated in Ballarat from 13 to 21 June.
Below is the poster for one of the week's major events.
For more information on what is happening in Ballarat
- and to download posters and programs -
please go here to access information and publicity material
at Events - Refugee Week - 2015 - Ballarat

Happy Mothers Day - to mothers in detention everywhere

Please copy this post to 

your Facebook, your Google+, Twitter - 

everywhere you can - 

so that mothers cruelly detained will know 

that there are Australian mothers, parents, grandparents, 

thinking of them and their children on this day.

TYRANTS IN SECRET: Australia hides behind secret information from foreign governments - which may well be tyrants and truth slayers!

Walking for Freedom are at it again! 

We will be walking for 30 hours for the 30 ASIO negative refugees who are still indefinitely detained in Australia. So get your walking shoes ready and join us this May! 

We will be walking in Melbourne CBD starting at the ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) offices, and walking down the city streets (walking route to be announced closer to the date!) And just to be clear, we are not requiring anyone to walk the entire time! We will be walking in shifts!

Australia has found these 30 people to be refugees fleeing war and persecution. However, ASIO have given these people negative clearance assessments- claiming that they may be a security threat to Australia. ASIO do not have to inform the people of why they think they are a threat. The refugees are not given any chance to dispute or explain the claims against them.

As they were granted refugee status, Australia cannot deport them to their home countries and because of their negative assessments from ASIO, they cannot be released into the Australian community.

For some it is now the beginning of their sixth year in detention. Six years of their lives have been taken from them. No one knows when they will be released.

This is will be a peaceful event, conducted in the spirit and tradition of nonviolence. Feel free to come and participate for however long you are able!