What a surprise? Former military personnel (looking much like bikies) display racist, Islamophobic behaviour in the company of Pauline Hanson

This picture from The Guardian
Please read the article that goes with the pic for more info

Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC)

We share your disbelief.

Wilson Security Nauru Detention Centre Emergency Response Team pictured here with Pauline Hanson at Anti - Muslim, racist "Reclaim Australia" Rally.

Remember the Abbott Government wants to give guards in detention centres the right to use physical force against asylum seekers with total impunity. Imagine that. What do you think?

The men have been temporarily suspended (because it's become public). 

Here's the source, the Guardian newspaper

(which has named these people in the photo):

 http://www.theguardian.com/…/detention-centre-guards-suspen…

P.S Wilson Security is the same company that owns and runs Wilson Parking.

You may not have personal contact with Wilson Security

but it is not difficult to have personal contact with Wilson Parking.

Please consider before becoming a customer of Wilson Parking.

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!

MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD ON THE CRISIS FACING ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES. ACT TO STOP THE FORCED CLOSURES

The text below is from www.concernedaustralians.com.au.

Will You Help to Prevent a Crisis? 

The Commonwealth’s commitment to Homelands and Outstations was surely sealed by the 1967 Referendum. How can it be then that the federal government can consider abandoning their long-held responsibilities by cutting essential funding to these especially vulnerable areas? 

What is clear is that the Commonwealth knows full well that the consequences of the cuts will fall with brute force onto Aboriginal communities least able to defend themselves. Such behaviour is contemptible. 

It is quite clear that state governments do not have the resources 

to simply replace Federal funding.

Mr. Barnett in Western Australia has responded by indicating that he will close up to 150 remote Aboriginal communities by simply cutting off their essential services – water, power etc. Arrangements with the South Australia government are still to be determined but at this stage the outstations fear their fate will be similar to those in the West. 

The results of such actions are perhaps too great to contemplate, just as there is no real attempt to understand the cultural implications of moving people from their traditional homelands. 

What does closure mean? 

The relationship between Aboriginal peoples and their lands is acknowledged but little understood. The connection to land is the embodiment of Aboriginal cultural identity. It totally embraces a sense of belonging without which there is a life long sense of grieving and loss. 

It is only on your own land that you have rights – once you move these rights are lost and you become simply a squatter on somebody else’s land. Forced removals in the past have proved devastating and costly, not only to the communities themselves but also to the surrounding communities responsible for resettlement. Nearly all outback Aboriginal communities are under-resourced, have inadequate infrastructure and are grappling with social problems. 

To burden these communities further is unthinkable. Such action would place Australia in conflict with international law. "...forced evictions are ... incompatible with the requirements of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and could only be justified in the most exceptional circumstances...." UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, General Comment No.4, (1991) 

Pope Francis warns Australia of socio-economic disaster when he states, “severing the ties of Aboriginal people from their land and thus their culture, spirituality and very foundation of their being, is unethical, immoral, un-Christian and heartless.” 

We strongly believe that the Federal funding decision should be reversed. 

For this we need your urgent help. 

Can you either send letters or telephone Tony Abbott and Nigel Scullion and tell them that it would be totally unacceptable for funding to Remote Communities to be cut. The Uniting Church, guided by Congress and local synods, opposes the closure of communities and forced removals. Many of the points they have made are included in the list below as a help for those who wish to write letters. Contact details of the Prime Minister and the Minister for Indigenous Affairs are also below.  

Points for Letters –Writers Opposing Remote Community Closures: 

(you may like to focus your letter on one or more of the below points) 

• The unconscionable failure of the Federal Government to maintain its responsibility for the safety and future of Aboriginal Peoples from Outstations/Homelands.

• To close communities will create a wave of dispossession denying people the ability to stay in touch with their land and their culture. 

• There has been no attempt by government to understand what such forced community closures and movement of people means for people’s social, mental, spiritual and physical life. 

• There has been no consultation with Aboriginal people or the organisations which represent them regarding alternative solutions, and 

• The movement of so many people would put enormous pressure on the communities they go to – housing, education, health facilities, and community relationships. Nothing has been done to plan for and deal with such impacts. 

Hon. Tony Abbott: 

Parliament House, 

PO Box 6022, 

Canberra ACT 2600 

Tel: (02) 6277 7700 

Electoral Office: 

PO Box 450, Manly, NSW, 2095 

Telephone: (02) 9977 6411 

Hon. Nigel Scullion: 

Parliament House, 

PO Box 6100, 

Canberra, ACT 2600 

Tel: (02) 6277 7780,  

Electoral Office: 

Unit 1, 229 McMillans Road, 

Jingili, NT 0810 

Telephone: (08) 8948 3555 

Telephone Calls to Oppose Remote Community Closures: 

If you decide to telephone your concern to the offices of Mr Abbott and Mr Scullion please give your name and address while leaving a message stating your strong objections to these funding cuts that will lead to the closure of homelands/outstations. Demand that the decision is reversed. If you have the energy, please do also inform your Local Member of your concerns.  

The historic role of Muslims in the development of Australia. Something for those who pursue hate against Islam to think upon.

Cross-posted with Beside The Creek

The ABC program, Compass, last night and to-day, broadcast a wonderful program about the role of Afghan cameleers in opening up The Outback of Australia in the 19th century.

The program, By Compass and Quran, will be available on ABC iview until 7.30pm on 26 April 2015.

It is a wonderful insight into another world.  The cameleers married Australian women - white women, Aboriginal women.  Their descendants speak strongly and fondly of their Afghan forebears. There is also film of original mosques in which the cameleers prayed. And there is also a comment on why camels are now a plague in outback Australia.

This Q&A is now closed. Thank you for all your questions. 

Thank you very much Kuranda.-------Please give a warm...
Posted by Compass on Sunday, 12 April 2015

The Outback so often in reality becomes The Outback Outofmind. Forgotten - economically, socially, politically.

Time and time again, remote Australia is ignored and forgotten --- and yet so much of our wealth has come from there. Even those corporates who grow fat on The Outback tend to ignore it too.  I have spent a fair slice of my life in remote Australia on the Barkly Tableland - on both Queensland side and Territory side.  Its spirit is embedded in me, a part of me, a part of my persona.  

Thank you, Paul Quinlan for this poem.  

Hope you are keeping well and busy.  

The photo below is by Keith Vipond

and is published on Tennant Creek Friends.

Tennant does have some wonderful sunsets

and this site is one of the best places to view them.

Paul Quinlan posted in Tennant Creek Friends Paul Quinlan 11 April 20:53 LET'S GET IT RIGHT. It's not the town that makes the people, but the people that make the town, I've seen them come, and also go, and the weak ones left with a frown. Some have lived here more than 50 years they have seen happy times , and also the tears not like those that pack up, and leave they work for the town in which they believe. Some came with only the shirt upon their back looking for a fortune somewhere up the track they stopped at this oasis , known as Tennant Creek' met some of the locals, and stayed a bloody week. They found some work, and said "I think I'll stay". then in no time had their own business on the way Electricians, plumbers, fencers, welders, and the like along with their women, didn't cheat or pike. A fair days work for what it was worth these ones were the salt of this earth some of them you'll never know they sadly passed on some time ago. There's still many friendly people living here that hold this little town so dear so if you find yourself down, and out one day befriend a local , and you may even stay. Quino 2006

Women and the corporate world in Australia - all push and no give

Picture from here

This was in The Age this morning. http://goo.gl/kJAPoQ - 

so I want to put the bleeding obvious out there 

which is constantly and consistently overlooked.

1. Australia has had a Sex Discrimination Act since 1984 - as part of Australia's ratification of United Nations Human Rights and the Convention to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)

2. A decision was made - which has turned out to be less than really useful - to encourage Australian employers to do the "right thing" by a carrot and stick method which has proved, over time, to be almost completely ineffective.

3. At this stage in time we should not have targets like wouldn't it be nice to have 30% of women on boards. What would make more sense to me would be to have 50% of boards with only 30% of men on them.

I can see that Nicola Wakefield Evans and the @Australian Institute of Company Directors http://goo.gl/Uiee57 might want to do the right thing - but they are merely setting themselves up for yet another failure to effect any meaningful change. In fact, it is all too little and all too late. If someone wishes to make an argument for gradual change, so be it. But what is it worth after more than three decades of failure?

New target set: 30pc women on boards by 2018

The Australian Institute of Company Directors wants ASX 200 companies to voluntarily meet a target of 30 per cent of board seats to be filled by women by 2018.

THEAGE.COM.AU

Green Left Weekly Activist Calendar - 2015-04-08

Green Left Weekly Activist Calendar April 8, 2015 Rally: Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal communities Friday, April 10, 4pm. A callout to hit the streets and voice your outrage at fascist Colin Barnett and the imposter governments forced closures of First Nations communities in Western Australia. National protests are being run around the country against this ongoing, slow motion genocide of our people. Flinders Street Station, City. Book launch: A Short History of Social Democracy Tuesday, April 21, 6:30pm. John Rainford's book examines social democratic attempts to civilise capitalism: from its origins in the socialist movement,  to its high point in the post World War 2 boom, and its surrender to neoliberalism in the 1980s and beyond. Speakers: John Rainford (former union official & director of Radical Wollongong) & Sue Bolton (Socialist Alliance councillor for Moreland). 6:30pm. Entry by donation. Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth st, City (opposite Victoria Markets). For more info ph 9639 8622. This is the regular Melbourne activist calendar compiled by Green Left Weekly. Emailed to subscribers each Wednesday fortnight, it is a one-stop listing of the main left and progressive events in Melbourne and Geelong. Since it began in early 1991, Green Left Weekly has offered an indispensable alternative to the lies of the big-business media and has helped build the various movements for social change. To subscribe toGreen Left Weekly, visit our secure online website for rates and payment or call our national hotline on 1800 634 206. You can also contact us at the Resistance Centre, 5th floor, 407 Swanston St, City; ph 9639 8622. In Geelong we are at the Activist Centre, Trades Hall, 127 Myers St (opening hours: Mon 2-4:30pm, Fri 10am-4:30pm); ph 5222 6900. New email address? Not already receiving this calendar regularly? Want to subscribe someone else? Let us know at Greenleft Melbourne. Wednesday, April 8 Rally: 6 hours for 6 years. Demand freedom and permanent protection for indefinitely detained ASIO refugees. The Department of Immigration has kept these refugees locked up indefinitely on the basis of ASIO's secret assessments. In recent months, many have at last received security clearance, but they are now denied permanent protection and family reunion due to new migration laws. Speakers: David Manne (RILC), Trevor Grant (Tamil Refugee Council), Olivia Ball (Remedy Australia), Elizabeth O'Shea (social justice lawyer), Van Badham (social commentator), Jasmine Pillbrow (Walking for Freedom), Daniella Olea (long term detention centre visitor). 12-6pm. Immigration Department, cnr Spring & Lonsdale Sts, City. Speeches will start at 12.30pm and the day will end with a candlelit vigil from 5pm. Thursday, April 9 - Saturday, May 2 Exhibition: Ancient cultures, new futures. A photographic exhibition for Sri Lankan reconciliation. Photographs by Stephen Champion, Dominic Sansoni, Sivathas Sivasubramanium & Paul James. Mon-Fri 11am-5pm; Sat 11am-3pm. Opening night: Thursday, April 9, 6:30pm. RSVP Global reconcilliation. Walker St Gallery One, Dandenong. Facebook event Thursday, April 9 Gathering: Families, Friends, and Feminists Against Detention. This is our first public event, a group discussion about different concerning aspects of detention and then collectively decide on how we will enact solidarity around these on the day.10.30am. Coles Fountain, Parliament Gardens. Friday, April 10 Rally: Stop the forced closures of Aboriginal communities. A callout to hit the streets and voice your outrage at fascist Colin Barnett and the imposter governments forced closures of First Nations communities in Western Australia. National protests are being run around the country against this ongoing, slow motion genocide of our people. 4pm. Flinders Street Station. [Note change of venue and time.] Saturday, April 11 Rally: Stop the super trawler. Don't let this super trawler decimate out fishstocks and kill our marine wildlife. Hundreds of protected seals, dolphins and sea birds will be killed by this factory of death ship along with 16,556 tonnes of fish. 11am. Southern Beach reserve, St Kilda. Organised by the Victoria Marine Animal Defenders Conservation Society & the Trawler Alliance. Rally: Hands Off Venezuela! On the 13th anniversary of the defeated military coup against Hugo Chavez, join the community gatherings in solidarity with Venezuela to demand No more coups! End foreign intervention! Respect Venezuela’s revolution! Peace in Latin America! 12pm. State Library, cnr Swanston & La Trobe Sts, City. For more info ph Daniela Segovia (02) 6290 2967. Protest: Rally for kidnapped Hazaras in Afghanistan. Dozens of Hazaras have been kidnapped recently in Afghanistan. The government has been mysteriously silent on this issue and Afghan military has not taken any action. Demand that the Afghan government takes serious  action to free all the hostages alive. We also request UN and human rights organisations to take serious actions in this regard. 2pm. Federation Square, Swanston St, City. Comedy: Political Asylum late night riot. Melbourne International Comedy Festival gets invaded by outrage (and outrageousness) as Political Asylum returns once more! Featuring a fantastic line-up of smart and acerbic stand-up comics, this is the night for Abbott denialism, Labor lamentations and Palmer Party prophesising, all wrapped up in a flaming bundle of hilarity. 11pm. Town Hall, Supper Room, cnr Swanston & Collins Sts, City. $25/$20. To book visit Late night riot. Monday, April 13 Public meeting: Stopping deportations & the fight for refugee rights. The Abbott government is stepping up efforts to deport refugees to danger. Last year it forcibly deported asylum seekers back to Afghanistan for the first time. In December a deportation from Sydney was successfully prevented when the asylum seeker on board, in conjunction with passengers who stood up, demanded the deportee be removed from the plane This forum will hear about recent protests as well as past anti-deportation action, and will discuss their role in the broader refugee rights campaign. 6:30pm. ANMF Building, 540 Elizabeth St, City. Organised by Refugee Action Collective. Tuesday, April 14 Forum: Syria: Background to war; working for peace.  Speaker: Susan Dirgham (National Coordinator of Australians for Mussalaha (Reconciliation) in Syria). 6:45pm (for 7pm start). $5.To confirm your place on the night please call 9662 3744 or email NIBS. New International Bookshop, Downstairs, Trades Hall, cnr Victoria & Lygon Sts, Carlton South. Wednesday, April 15 - Saturday, May 2 Theatre: Beautiful One Day. A theatrical documentary about the irrepressible life and times of Palm Island; now touring Victoria. On Palm Island, 2004, an Aboriginal man dies in police custody. Members of the Palm Island community make a direct challenge to police power and the police station is torched. Eleven years later, the people of Palm Island continue to demand real justice, and all the while life continues. For metropolitan and country dates, venues and bookings see IlbijerriTheatre Company. Friday, April 17 Forum: The Kurdish freedom struggle today.  Discussion of the radical changes happening in the Kurds' long struggle against oppression in four countries. Speakers: Rob Pascoe (Professor of History VU), Seval Ulus (VU student, Kurdish Association), Rob Stary (civil liberties lawyer). 12 noon. Room E319, Victoria University, Footscray Park campus. Organised by Australians for Kurdistan. Saturday, April 18 Public meeting: Lex Wotton. A panel featuring veteran Palm Island leader Lex Wotton will discuss Indigenous liberation, leadership and what it will take to put an end to deaths in custody. The panel discussion will be followed by a social and reception for Lex. Start time TBA. Town Hall, 233 Sydney Rd, Brunswick. Organised by Indigenous Social Justice Association. Ayotzinapa Resiste: Lunch in solidarity with missing Mexican students. Six months ago, 43 students from Ayotzinapa, Guerrero, were kidnapped by state forces and six more were killed. Six months later, the state insists in closing the case. Six months later we must keep demanding justice. Come along and support this event in solidarity with the missing Ayotzinapa students, their classmates and courageous families. Entry $10/$5; lunch $15 ($10 for children). Plus aguas frescas, beer, tea & coffee. MUA hall, 46 Ireland St, West Melbourne (near North Melbourne train station). For info ph Lulu on 0421 957 341 or Francisco 0432 565 470. Sunday, April 19 Rally: Legalise medical cannabis. Come and join us at our next event, as we celebrate 4:20 with speeches, music, comedy, prize drawers and freebies, and help weak and ill children and people everywhere access medical cannabis. 3pm. Treasury Gardens, 2-18 Spring St, East Melbourne. Monday, April 20 Public meeting: What is the future of Anzac Day? A century on from WW1, Anzac Day marches and pilgrimages to Gallipoli are attracting record crowds.  But it hasn't always been that way.  Will today's patriotic fervour continue to grow? Panellists: Michael Brissenden (ABC journalist ); James Brown (defence analyst); Carolyn Holbrook (historian); Celeste Liddle (trade unionist & Indigenous activist). 6pm (doors open 5.30pm). Deakin Edge, Federation Square, City. Free event but bookings essential. To book email Conversations or call 9658 9965 during business hours. Tuesday, April 21 Book launch: A Short History of Social Democracy. This new title from Resistance Books examines the social democratic attempt to civilise capitalism: from its origins in the socialist movement,  to its high point in the post World War II boom, to its surrender to neoliberalism in the 1980s and beyond. Speakers: John Rainford (former union official & director of Radical Wollongong); Sue Bolton (Socialist Alliance councillor for Moreland). 6:30pm. Multicultural Hub, 506 Elizabeth St, City (opposite Victoria Markets). For more info ph 9639 8622. Presented by Green Left Weekly and Socialist Alliance. Wednesday, April 22 National day of action: It's time to divest! Join us as we deliver a massive petition signed by students, staff and members of the community and a second petition from alumni calling on the University of Melbourne to divest from fossil fuels. 12pm. South Lawn, Melbourne University. Thursday, April 23 Public meeting: War and peace in Moreland. Along with other parts of Australia, Moreland sent men to fight in the Great War. Some 700 would not return. The argument over the war was particularly strong in Moreland, with Frank Anstey, Frank Hyett and John Curtin leading the opposition to conscription. Stuart Macintyre, a professor of history at the University of Melbourne, will relate the wartime experience and its affects. 7:45pm. Brunswick Library, cnr Dawson St & Sydney Rd, Brunswick (enter via Dawson St). Friday, April 24 Vigil: Rana Plaza anniversary. Mourn the dead, fight for the living. Vigil for the workers who were killed in the name of greed in Bangladesh's Rana Plaza disaster. 4:30pm.  8 Hour Monument, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton South. Organised by Australia Bangladesh Solidarity Network. Sunday, April 26 These Machines Cut Razor Wire 2015. Fifth annual music fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre  Performers: Jeff Lang, Kavisha Mazzella, Les Thomas Band, Little Foot duo and more. 6pm. Ding Dong Lounge, 18 Market Lane, City. Tuesday, April 28 May Day film night. 7pm. Democritus Workers League, 583 High St, Northcote. Wednesday, April 29 Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Jam Factory, 500 Chapel St, South Yarra. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities. Thursday, April 30 May day wreath laying. 5pm. 8 hour monument, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton South. May day Multicultural event. 5pm. Trades Hall Old Ballroom, cnr Lygon & Victoria sts, Carlton South. Book launch:  Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that the public is now convinced that 'growth' is the natural solution to virtually all social problems — poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by growth in the first place. Warnings from scientists that we live on a finite planet have been ignored or even scorned as bogus predictions of doom and systematically resisted by economists and the corporate sector. Author Kerryn Higgs will discuss these and other themes and their importance for left politics in the 21st century. 6:45pm. New International Bookshop,  54 Victoria St, Carlton South. Friday, May 1 Book launch: Robbed of Every Blessing. John Tully's new novel is a dark tale set in Ireland and Van Diemen’s Land in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars; The title is taken from a traditional song about transportation to the Tasmanian penal colony. Speaker: Bronwyn Cran (Dean of the College of Arts, Victoria University). 6pm for 6:30pm start. Readings Bookshop, Lygon St, Carlton. Concert: I’ll Be There! Songs and stories of solidarity. The Victorian Trade Union Choir’s hit show, I’ll Be There!, brings to life inspiring moments of the trade union, labour and social justice movements. 7:30pm. Footscray Community Arts Centre, 45 Moreland St, Footscray. Booking I'll be there. Sunday, May 3 Join with Socialist Alliance at a May Day toast.  Breakfast from 10am; speeches 11am. Resistance Centre, Level 5, 407 Swanston St, City (opposite RMIT). For more info ph 9639 8622. Rally: May Day march. 1pm. Trades Hall, cnr Lygon & Victoria Sts, Carlton South. Friday, April 10 TORQUAY Film screening: Isolated. When five surfers travel to West Papua in search of untouched waves, they discovered a lot more than just surf. The movie Isolated is the story that had to be told, of genocide and exploitation. Introduction from West Papuan Ronny Kareni, performances by The Black Orchard Stringband and Q & A from Greens Senator Richard Di Natale. 6:30pm. Beer & Mexican food available. The Usual Suspects Coffee Co,  4 Baines Crescent, Torquay. Monday, April 13 GEELONG Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Village Cinemas, 194-200 Ryrie St, Geelong. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities.   Thursday, April 16 GEELONG Film screening: India's Daughter.  Leslee Udwin's documentary is based on the 2012 Delhi gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman student. The film includes a confrontiong interview with one of the rapists. The government banned the film in India and the attempted to block it on YouTube. 6:30pm. Percy Baxter Theatre, Deakin Waterfront Campus. 6.30pm. Presented by Deakin Young Socialist Alliance & the Deakin Anthropology Department . For more info  ph 5222 6900. Friday, April 17 GEELONG Red Cinema: This Land Belongs to the Army. Highlights the post-civil war landscape in Sri Lanka, the government's policy of Sinhalisation and land grabbing through a brutal army of occupation. 7pm (dinner from 6:30pm). Downstairs, Trades Hall, 127 Myers St, Geelong. Entry by donation. Presented by Socialist Alliance. For more info  ph 5222 6900. Sunday, April 19 ANGLESEA Book launch: 'The Coal Face' by Tom Doig. The February-March 2014 Hazelwood mine fire was one of the worst industrial pollution events in Victoria's history. It may turn out to be one of the worst public health crises the state has ever seen. Speakers: Tom Doig & Wendy Farmer (President of the Latrobe Valley community group Voices of the Valley). 2:30pm. Community Hall, 5 McMillan St, Anglesea. Organised by Surf Coast Air Action. Wednesday, April 22 MORWELL Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Village Cinemas,  Mid Valley Shopping Centre, Princes Drive, Morwell. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities. Wednesday, April 29 BALLARAT Film screening: Frackman. 7pm. $20. Bookings here. Regent Cinemas, 49 Lydiard St North, Ballarat. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities. WARRNAMBOOL Film screening: Frackman. 6:30pm. $20. Bookings here. Capitol Cinema, 54 Kepler St, Warrnambool. Promoted by Coal and Gas Free Communities.  Australia Kurdistan Solidarity. Meets regularly to build solidarity with the Kurdish freedom struggle in Rojava (liberated zone in northern Syria), Turkey and elsewhere. For campaign and open letter to have the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) removed from the Australian list of terrorist organisations see Lift the ban on the PKK. For information ph Gulay 0412 926 706 or Aran 0410 197 814. Australian West Papua Association (AWPA). Struggles against the Indonesian occupation of West Papua and against environmental destruction and resource theft. For info 9510 2193 or email AWPA. Climate Action Moreland. Meets regularly to develop action on climate change in the Moreland area. For information ph Andrea on 0424 508 535 or email CAM. Friends of the Earth's Anti-Nuclear & Clean Energy (ACE) collective. Meets every second Tuesday. FoE office, 312 Smith St, Collingwood. For meeting times & more info email Zin. Indigenous Social Justice Association. The Indigenous Social Justice Association was established in January 2005 campaigns to permanently stop Aboriginal deaths in custody. During 2013, ISJA will meet the first Thursday of every month. For more info visit ISJA. Quit Coal: No New Coal Power for Victoria. A Melbourne-based collective which campaigns against expansion of the coal industry in Victoria. We believe this is important because building new coal infrastructure locks in decades of dirty, old technology, when we should be moving towards clean, renewable energy. Quit Coal meets each Wednesday at 6pm, at FOE, 312 Smith St, Collingwood. For more info visit Quit Coal or email us. Refugee Action Collective. Established in 2000, RAC is a democratic, grassroots activist collective, representing a broad cross section of the community. It aims to mobilise opposition to Australia's inhuman refugee policies. For more info ph 0413 377 978 or visit RAC. Timor Sea Justice Campaign. For info visit TSJC, email Tom Clarke or ph 0422 545 763. Victorian Climate Action Calendar. Online updates are available at http://vcac.org.au/calendar/. 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