tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78026698052137502962024-03-05T07:52:25.501-08:00Idle No More Solidarity SydneyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-8941013750479739452016-06-15T00:10:00.001-07:002016-06-18T06:29:51.728-07:00Idle No More Solidarity with Gomeroi and Right to Protest Defenders<p dir="ltr">Idle No More Solidarity Sydney are supporting our Gomeroi sisters and the Defend The Right to Protest alliance Rally at 11a.m. on Thursday June 23rd at the colonist parliament of N.S.W. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1031950410212595/?ti=cl">https://www.facebook.com/events/1031950410212595/?ti=cl</a><br>
The laws passed recently by the Baird government are designed to undermine our responsibility to protect our mother earth, our land our lakes and our rivers. Traditional law can not co exist with these laws and must take precedence if all people are to have a healthy place life and future. <br>
It is our duty to our past and future generations to uphold our responsibility to care for our mother earth so that she in turn may care for us. It is our honour to uphold that duty. Where that duty comes into conflict with any law or practice then we should ignore that law or practice as I'll conceived. If necessary we should not flinch at breaking that law as all bad laws must be broken. <br>
Idle No More Sydney call on all people organisations and friends to protect mother earth and the well being of all that live- and remove the obstacles to harmonious coexistence. We call on the Baird government to repeal these and similar laws and future governments to rescind them. We ask that government respect existence or expect extinction.<br></p>
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Contact Kealoha Pisciotta (keomaivg@gmail.com)<br />April 7 Response to Governor Ige’s announcement of a construction stand down</div>
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We applaud Governor Ige for stepping forward to take some kind of action in this crisis.</div>
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His call for a one-week halt to TMT’s construction is a victory for the Mauna Kea Protectors, clear evidence that he recognizes the worldwide groundswell of public support we have for halting further desecration of our sacred mountain. Mahalo, Governor Ige.</div>
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However, it is not enough to pause for a week. We need a commitment from the Governor or TMT to stop the desecration until our legal appeals can work their way through the courts to the State Supreme Court.</div>
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We’re grateful for the Governor’s action, but this welcome pause does not mean we’re standing down from our vigil of protection, during which so many people have had an opportunity to experience first-hand and from afar the deepest meanings of aloha and the power of peaceful expressions of protest against injustice and environmental disregard.</div>
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Many Hawaiians participating in the Merrie Monarch Festival are coming up the mountain with pain in their hearts, so our continued presence for them is essential.</div>
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Until there is a commitment from TMT and its international partners to stop their desecration of Mauna Kea, we will stand strong on the mountain to defend it. We are discouraged by the Canadian Prime Minister’s action yesterday to commit his nation’s funds to this lawless project and the desecration of our sacred mountain, and only days after Native Hawaiians were arrested for protecting their mountain. Shame on him!</div>
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We also continue to hold our vigil for our brothers and sisters who were arrested last week and who face criminal prosecution unless the Governor or the County Prosecutor drop these unjust and legally dubious charges.</div>
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Our Deepest Aloha and Mahalo again go out to all the people across the planet who have expressed their support for our mountain and our cause!</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">COMMUNITIES SEND A POWERFUL MESSAGE TO GOVERNMENT.</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /><br />Aboriginal Communities across every state and territory of Australia send a powerful message to the Premier of Western Australia and Prime Minister of Australia.<br />Kimberley Aboriginal Women took the lead with support from their men folk in sending a powerful message to the Premier of Western Australia Colin Barnett after they instigated a call for a national day of support to the wider Australian nation. The call to action held around Australia on Thursday 19th March resulted in a massive show of support registering collectively more than 20,000 people marching in remote communities, towns and cities. The outpouring of support via social media has resulted in a reach of over 1million people worldwide and continues to grow as awareness spreads. This outcome furthers the feeling and sentiments of the Kimberley community that they will not accept Premier Collin Barnett’s plan to shut off essential services to 150 remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia, ultimately forcing them into closure.<br /><br />The sentiments expressed by local Kimberley, Pilbara, Murchison, Goldfields and South Australian people and supported by the actions throughout the state of WA and indeed across the nation, ranged from fear of uncertainty about which communities would be closed, to questions about what criteria the state would use to justify cutting of essential services, to outright objection of the Premier’s plan, saying that they will not be moved off their homelands under any circumstance and citing that his plans would be a step backward in reconciliation and moreover a playing out of historical policies of further marginalising and disenfranchising Aboriginal people again.<br /><br />Local Shire President of Broome Graham Campbell who spoke at the Broome event weighed into the discussion stating that even the local Shires of the Kimberley were not in the consultation process to date and were very concerned about the social flow on effects that may eventuate due to displacement of community people targeted in the direct outcome of the Premier’s plans.<br />Two key messages that came from the Kimberley<br /><br />Aboriginal community were that the:<br /><br />· Government, either State or Federal need to consult and create an open and transparent conversation with Aboriginal people within the State / Region / Communities they are targeting for closure.<br /><br />And:<br /><br />· Current influential leaders of the Kimberley must create solidarity, to unite and be one voice to represent the Kimberley region in order to present solutions to the issues that affect the region, and that these influential leaders must include their strong Aboriginal women leaders in this process prior to engaging in conversations with the State or Federal Government.<br /><br />The Kimberley Aboriginal Women will be meeting with the Local MLA for Labor, Josie Farrer next week to discuss a community closure strategic plan. Organisers across the states (WA and SA) will also work on strategic action to take in order to open the discussion with their local State Government representatives.<br /><br />For All Media Enquiries Contact:<br />Jodie Bell +61418094287(Jodie.bell@gm<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>e.com.au)<br />Janine Dureau +61 419478614 (Janine.hunter6@bigpond.co<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>m)<br />Mitch Torres +61481054829 (mitchtorres@hotmail.com) </span><br />
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In several centres across West Papua on October 16, Indonesian police and army (TNI) have again cracked down violently on peaceful political demonstrations held by the West Papua National Committee (KNPB), resulting in the injuries of several participants, with unconfirmed reports of police opening fire in related incidents against KNPB members in Kaimana.</div>
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The demonstrations, called for October 15 by the KNPB to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the founding of the International Parliamentarians for West Papua, were delayed for a day out of respect for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The rallies were also highlighting the historic speech made by Vanuatu Prime Minister Moana Kalosil Carcasses to the United Nations General Assembly in late September, calling for the international community to take action on West Papua........<a href="http://westpapuamedia.info/2013/10/19/police-again-open-fire-beat-and-arrest-protesters-in-papua-wide-crackdown-on-knpb-demos/">.(MORE)</a> </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-41208262432074140492013-10-19T09:10:00.001-07:002013-10-19T09:10:28.731-07:00‘OTSUS Plus’ a further blurring of Papuan History<span style="background-color: #c4c4c4; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">WEST PAPUA MEDIA: “ All leaders have notes of their mark in history, so I figure this forms mine in the history of Papua.” These were the words of the Papuan Governor Lukas Enembe to journalists following the acceptance of the draft Papuan ‘Special Autonomy (OTSUS) Plus’ legislation. The draft legislation was a result of work by the Cenderawasih University (UnCen) Academic Assistance Team together with the Papuan Provincial Government............<a href="http://westpapuamedia.info/2013/10/19/otsus-plus-a-further-blurring-of-papuan-history/">(READ MORE)</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-27077238224860397572013-10-19T09:07:00.004-07:002013-10-19T09:07:42.234-07:00Bobii: Australian PM’s Words Hurt the People of Papua<span style="background-color: #c4c4c4; color: #333333; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">“People seeking to grandstand against Indonesia, please, don’t look to do it in Australia, you are not welcome. ………. The situation in West Papua is getting better, not worse” were the words of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott on 7 October 2013 after three Papuan citizens scaled the wall and entered the Australian Consulate in Bali(1) .........<a href="http://westpapuamedia.info/2013/10/19/bobii-australian-pms-words-hurt-the-people-of-papua/">. READ MORE</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-80861991214163597222013-10-19T08:40:00.002-07:002013-10-19T09:04:03.308-07:00W est Papua M edia: Police violently break up 3rd Congress <ul style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.2; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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Early reports received from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">West Papua Media</em> stringers have described another serious and violent crackdown across West Papua on October 19 by Indonesian security forces, against peaceful gatherings commemorating the third anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the Third Papuan Congress in October 2011.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-4162297978895580932013-10-06T08:33:00.003-07:002013-10-06T08:33:59.431-07:00#Oct7Proclaim Sylvia McAdam Video Solidarity #IdlenoMore<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://twitter.com/idle_no_more">@Idle_No_More</a> Solidarity Sydney Australia are in solidarity with our indigenous sisters and brothers in Brazil -and Globally. We know that the Guarani Kaiowa People have spent decades being driven from their ancestral lands as profit driven agricultural barons seek ever more land for ever more profit by any means necessary. The indigenous people of Mato Grosso de Sul struggle with not only disposession but with the additional issues of introduced addictions and sickness caused by inability to access and harvest traditional foods we hear their call. Today Guarani Kaiowa People are standing as one with Indigenous People from throughout Brazil to assert their rights to the Freedom so many of us in the Western First World consider they have, despite not once having to fight for or defend it. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b> When Indigenous Peoples of the World Stand to defend their way of life and their very existence we stand in solidarity with them. With their stance as in Brazil, they will be IdleNoMore - IdleNoMore Brazil is uniting the traditional voices and todays understandings using all peaceful means to assert. #Oct7Proclaim #IdleNoMore</b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-48776680915842804702013-04-16T18:27:00.002-07:002013-04-16T18:28:36.120-07:00Corroboree: Aboriginal tent Embassy Apr 27-28 2013<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-90460882993124529772013-02-11T15:56:00.001-08:002013-02-11T15:57:19.253-08:00Canberra Brisbane #IdleNoMore ACTION FEBRUARY 13TH against push for constitutional recognition<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">#IdleNoMore ACTION FEBRUARY 13TH against push for constitutional recognition…</span><br />
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Further Idle No More GLOBAL digital blockades of Canadian Govt and embassies January 16th & 28th</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Following some successes in the initial Global Digital Blockade in which those monitoring reported: </b></span></div>
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<li><b style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">lengthy delays in calling Canadian Embassies in South Africa and New Zealand and Canberra, Australia while the Australian Sydney Consulate closed for the afternoon.</b></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Australian Canadian Embassy website offline for 43 minutes.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>New Zealand Canadian Embassy website offline for at least an hour ten minutes.</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>extremely slow access to UK Canadian Embassy website over a period of three hours.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Following checks and confirmation of these reports by reliable sources and in solidarity with Canadian First Nations Call for the a National Day of Action we have decided repeat our blockade tactic:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">!6th January Global in solidarity with Canada First Nations People. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">28th January </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Global in solidarity with Canada First Nations People.</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Calling for EVERYONE to Call your local Canadian Embassy or Consulate</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Calling for everyone to email their local (or any of the listed) Canadian Embassies Consulates or PM Harper. Send this photo:</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Email for enquiries not related to visas or immigration: sydny@international.gc.ca (please note the absence of the "e" in Sydny) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;">Idle No More January 11th DIGITAL BLOCKADE: Make sure PM Harper has been told </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/492953227413039/?context=create" rel="nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; text-align: left; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/492953227413039/?context=create</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Consulate General of Canada Level 5, 111 Harrington Street Sydney, NSW 2000</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Ask that PM Harper hear and implement Chief Theresa's and other First Nations solutions AND obey the will of the grassroors people in favour of his Party and their Corporate lobbyists.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">WARNING; Using these services to cause annoyance send offensive or obscene messages may be a breach of Australian laws. Your legitimate reason for using these carriage services is to voice your concerns about the treatment of Canadian Native people and their resources.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Telephone: (02) 9364 3000</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Wellington, 6011</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Telephone: (64 4) 473 9577</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Freephone from Auckland: (09) 309 8516</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Facsimile: (64 4) 471 2082</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Macdonald House</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1 Grosvenor Square</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Telephone: 0207 258 6600</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Government of Canada, please contact the Enquiries Centre by calling 1-800-0-CANADA (1-800-622-6232), (613) 944-4000 or (613)944-9136(TTY). You can also send an email: enqserv@dfait-maeci.gc.ca.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"Prime Minister Stephen Harper: By issuing Bill C-45 our government has attacked the Rights of Indigenous First Nations denying them autonomy over their resources. You should have known it was wrong to persecute First Nations people. You did not. You should expect us. Anon Family</span><a a="" class="_hootified" href="http://idle-no-more.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/idlenomore-digital-blockade-of-canadian.html#" opidlenomore="opidlenomore" style="background-color: white; color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: initial;">#OpIdleNoMore</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> is now in force. ' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On January 26th 2013 IdleNoMore Solidarity Sydney Australia and grassroots representatives of The United Nations under Occupation in Australia...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Cordially invite you,original people citizens residents refugees and visitors to join us for</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">THE UNSETTLEMENT OF AUSTRALIA CEREMONY commencing at 8am at Occupy Sydney, corner Elizabeth St and Martin Place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ceremony will make its way to the Ceremony site at 8-30 am sharp. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Ceremony commences with an apology by unsettlers of The Stolenwealth of Australia to aboriginal peoples for past and present injustices by Government businesses and people including but not limited to the misappropriation by whatever means of land air water culture heritage and children and the attempted cultural genocide perpetrated by past and present Federal and State Governments. Unsettlers will derecognise sovereignity by any but grassroots driven aboriginal customary people and call on the Australian Government to make immediate restoration and ongoing reparations in such manner as the grassroots aboriginal people see fit. The Australian Government will be instructed to pay the back rent owed for their time as uninvited tenants.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In return aboriginal people will return to the uncolonisers the gifts Colonisers bestowed on aboriginal people. Drug and alcohol addiction. Disposession. Diseases . Dependency. Child Abduction. Resource monopolisation. Religion. Smallpox infected blankets. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Unsettlers will row off to sea.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The people will depart for Victoria Park where from 11am Indigenous Social Justice Association will be issuing Aboriginal Passports for all non indigenous people. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-29396473431378769302013-01-09T18:44:00.000-08:002013-01-09T18:44:33.437-08:00Listen to Your Tribal Voice: Idle No More<div style="text-align: center;">
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Performed by: Doonooch Dancers<br /><br />We dedicate this song to our First Nations brothers and sisters in Canada in support of the IDLE NO MORE movement.<br /><br />"Listen to your tribal voice, Idle No More"<br /><br />This is a Spirit Gathering song, an original from Warabinda, our brothers in Queensland. We would like to acknowledge the sharing of this song and dance.<br /><br />Respect!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Join Idle No More Solidarity Sydney and <strong>Our Didge & Drum Circle</strong> supported by our <strong> Musical dis-Army</strong> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">from 2pm Friday January 11th at the Canadian Consulate at <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>111 Harrington Street, The Rocks , Sydney, NSW 2000.</strong></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>On January 11th 2013 at 10 am Ottawa Time Hunger Striking Chief Theresa Spence will join a delegation of APN Canada First Nations Chiefs to meet Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. There is caution in the minds of grassroots First Nations People </strong>who have borne witness to countless broken promises at the Government Altar of Broken Schemes. The immediate issue for Many First Nations is the Repeal of legislation which gives First Nations no say in the future of their local water and other resources. It is another assault on Indigenous rights and Canadian First Nations have a list of unrequited grievances which go back 500 years. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> See also The Idle No More digital blockade of the Sydney Canadian Consulate </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span></span><br />
<strong><a href="http://idle-no-more.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/idlenomore-digital-blockade-of-canadian.html">http://idle-no-more.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/idlenomore-digital-blockade-of-canadian.html</a></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-72082690121265629432013-01-06T00:43:00.001-08:002013-01-09T11:58:56.365-08:00Idlenomore GLOBAL digital blockade of Canadian embassy January 11 <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not able to attend The Drum Didge Circle Protest in Sydney in person?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Join the Digital Blockade of the Sydney Canadian Consulate. Or attend in person and ask Prime Minister Harper to implement First Nations solutions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Consulate General of Canada Level 5, 111 Harrington Street Sydney, NSW 2000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ask that PM Harper hear and implement Chief Theresa's and other First Nations solutions AND obey the will of the grassroors people in favourv of his Party and their Corporate lobbyists.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BY PHONE FAX AND EMAIL</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">WARNING; Using these services to cause annoyance send offensive or obscene messages may be a breach of Australian laws. Your legitimate reason for using these carriage services is to voice your concerns about the treatment of Canadian Native people and their resources. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Telephone: (02) 9364 3000</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fax: (02) 9364 3098 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Email for enquiries not related to visas or immigration: sydny@international.gc.ca (please note the absence of the "e" in Sydny) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">Idle No More January 11th DIGITAL BLOCKADE: Make sure PM Harper has been told </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/492953227413039/?context=create" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: left; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/events/492953227413039/?context=create</a></div>
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Join the Digital Blockade of the Sydney or your local Canadian Consulate/Embassy. Or ask them all. You have a right to demand that Canada listen to and act on the decisions of First Nations people. It is NOT illegal to do so<br />
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AUSTRALIA - TARGET IS SYDNEY CONSULATE 2pm-5pm<br />
Consulate General of Canada Level 5, 111 Harrington Street Sydney, NSW 2000<br />
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Ask that PM Harper hear and implement Chief Theresa's and other First Nations solutions AND obey the will of the grassroors people in favour of his Party and their Corporate lobbyists.<br />
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NOTHING TO DO WITH US BUT WE UNDERSTAND ANON FAMILY HAVE ISSUED THE FOLLOWING COMMUNIQUE:<br />
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"Prime Minister Stephen Harper: By issuing C-45 our government has attacked the Rights of Indigenous First Nations denying them autonomy over their resources. You should have known it was wrong to persecute First Nations people. You did not. You should expect us. Anon Family #OpIdleNoMore is now in force '<br />
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January 5th leaving 2pm Healing Circle Flashmob join at Occupy Sydney Martin Place & Elizabeth St<br />
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A statement of support for Chief Theresa Spence's hunger strike backed call to meet with Canadian Prime Minister Harper and support for Canadian First Nations struggle will be made. A call for an end to The Northern Territory Intervention , Welfare quarantining , State Child Abduction , criminalisation ,disproportionate incarceration along the systemic genocide and State Terrorism of Australianaboriginal and indigenous people will also be made at the above and all subsequent Actions<br />
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January 6th IdleNoMore Solidarity @ Lovefest Jacks Bar Erina... Family friendly day out. Enjoy a smorgasbord of musical talents : Gambirra , Novakayn Josh Watoe Watkins and a pow wow about Idle No More as a side serve...<br />
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Wednesday January 9th 6pm Idle No More planning meeting at Occupy Sydney Martin Place & Elizabeth St<br />
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FRIDAY January 11th 2pm IdleNoMore Solidarity Sydney Didgeridoo led Music Circle...byo didge drums etc..outside Canadian Consulate Harrington St The Rocks <br />
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Saturday January 19th pow wow & planning day for UnsettlementvDay at Occupy Sydney Martin Place<br />
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Saturday January 26th Unsettlement Day. ( location to be confirmed) . Unoccupiers will issue a full and unequivocal apology for past and continuing ecovandalism , marine despoilation , genocidal practices, State Child abduction and family destruction.. Oh and the theft and misappropriation of the land and water resources so carefully managed by aboriginal people for millenia.Unoccupiers will call on the Australian Government to pay the rent. Aboriginal representatives will in return hand back the laws diseases deceit discrimination religion drugs alcohol and smallpox infected blankets which the Uncolonists will load into their dinghy before rowing off into the sunset.<br />
This will be the dawning of the Australian age of Idle No More.<br />
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February 14th TJ HICKEY RALLY 10-30am Rally 9th CNR GEORGE & PHILLIPS ST WATERLOO<br />
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MARCHING TO STATE PARLIAMENT TO PRESENT THE PETITION<br />
Anniversary of TJ Hickey's death due to at the least inappropriate Police actions:<br />
9 YEARS IS TOO LONG!!<br />
RE-OPEN THE INQUIRY.<br />
DEMAND JUSTICE FOR TJ AND ALL DEATHS IN CUSTODY. <br />
organised by the Hickey Family and Indigenous Social Justice Association , ph Ray Jackson 0450 651 063 or Raul Bassi 0403 057576<br />
supported by IdleNoMore Solidarity Sydney.<br />
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<span class="messageBody"><span class="userContent">by Amnesty International Canada:<br /><br />Editor’s Intro: In the letter bellow, issued yesterday, Amnesty International urges Prime Minister Stephen Harper to meet with hunger-striker Chief Theresa Spence as her peaceful protest reaches Day 18. Chief Spence is demanding a meeting involving Harper, a representative of the Queen, and First Nations leaders. She wants this meeting to discuss treaty agreements between Canada and First Nations, and dictatorship-style legislation recently passed by the Conservative majorities in Parliament. Such as the amendments proposed by the omnibus budget implementation Bill C-45, which are designed to disempower, exploit, control and marginalize First Nations. So far Harper has maintained a stubborn wall of silence over Spence’s peaceful protest.<br /><br />Amnesty International Canada’s letter:<br /><br />28 December 2012<br /><br />The Right Honourable Stephen Harper<br />Prime Minister of Canada<br />Office of the Prime Minister<br />80 Wellington Street<br />Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2<br /><br />Open Letter Urging a Meeting with Chief Theresa Spence<br /><br />Dear Prime Minister:<br /><br />Amnesty International is increasingly concerned over the health and well-being of Chief Theresa Spence of Attawapiskat. As you are aware, Chief Spence has said that she will continue her hunger strike until you meet with her. She is now in her third week without food.<br /><br />We note that Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister John Duncan has offered to meet with Chief Spence. This, however, is not what Chief Spence has requested.<br /><br />Chief Spence’s hunger strike, and the broader movement of Idle No More protests, were sparked by a federal legislative agenda that goes far beyond the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. Changes to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, the Fisheries Act, and the Navigable Waters Act, along with the proposed Safe Drinking Water for First Nations Act, to name only a few examples, all have profound implications for the rights of Indigenous peoples as set out in Treaties, affirmed in the Canadian Constitution, and protected by international human rights standards.<br /><br />These bills and amendments should only have been brought forward after good faith consultation with Indigenous peoples and only if their rights had been appropriately considered and protected. This did not happen. The responsibility for this serious breach of Canada’s legal obligations toward Indigenous peoples lies not only with the Department of Indian Affairs, but with the Canadian Government as a whole.<br /><br />The Supreme Court of Canada has said there must be “reconciliation” between the power of the state and the prior sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. Laws passed by Parliament must be balanced against the laws, customs and perspectives of Indigenous peoples and “equal weight” must be given to each. Any infringement of the Constitutionally-protected rights of Indigenous peoples must be strictly justified.<br /><br />The government must always deal “honourably” with the established and asserted rights of Indigenous peoples. And in every case, in order to uphold the “honour of the Crown”, there must be good faith consultations to ensure that Indigenous peoples’ concerns are “substantially addressed.”<br /><br />International human rights standards, such as the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, require that decisions affecting the rights of Indigenous peoples be made only with their full and effective participation. And when the decisions concern the lands and resources of Indigenous peoples, the appropriate standard is that of free, prior and informed consent.<br /><br />Prime Minister, we call on you to acknowledge Canada’s responsibility to fully respect and uphold the rights of Indigenous peoples and to ensure their full and effective participation in any and all decisions that could affect these rights. We urge you to meet with Chief Spence as an immediate demonstration of your commitment to building a collaborative partnership with Indigenous peoples.<br /><br />Yours sincerely,<br /><br />Béatrice Vaugrante <br />Directrice générale<br />Amnistie internationale Canada<br />50 rue Ste-Catherine Ouest, bureau 500<br />Montréal (Québec) H2X 3V4<br />+1.514.766.9766<br /><br />Alex Neve<br />Secretary General<br />Amnesty International Canada<br />312 Laurier Avenue East<br />Ottawa, Ontario K1N 1H9<br />+1.613.744.7667<br /><br />Canadian Progressive World (<a href="http://s.tt/1xLkA" onclick="LinkshimAsyncLink.swap(this, "http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http\u00253A\u00252F\u00252Fs.tt\u00252F1xLkA&h=xAQFEGafVAQHd1p0tFCJITo6IiqoPVAKVbSwImBYNjJTLvw&s=1");" onmouseover="LinkshimAsyncLink.swap(this, "http:\/\/s.tt\/1xLkA");" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://s.tt/1xLkA</a>)</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7802669805213750296.post-53538359840194117242012-12-29T10:12:00.002-08:002012-12-29T10:31:50.874-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Welcome to Sydney Australia's small voice in the thunderous outcrying of international voices demanding that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper meet with <a href="http://www.blogger.com/twitter.com/ChiefTheresa">Chief Theresa Spence</a> AND engage in meaningful dialogue aiming to deliver outcomes sought and aspired to by grassroots First Nations Canadian people. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Original <a href="http://idlenomore1.blogspot.com.au/p/manifesto.html">Idle No More Manifesto</a> and site are here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Two known most prominent voices of Idle No More on Twitter are <a href="http://twitter.com/ChiefTheresa">Chief Theresa Spence</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/idlenomore4">@idlenomore4</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Idle No More Solidarity Sydney</b> plan a series of advocacy actions in the very near future.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flashmob Healing Circles: Downtown Sydney locations led by a professional healing leader. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drum Circles</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other Forms of Advocacy urging The Canadian Prime Minister to listen to the First Nations people -not the bureaucrats who have gotten fat off the stolen lamb which is the rightful dominion of First Nations peoples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Please use <a href="http://twitter.com/idle_no_more">@idle_no_more</a> or <a href="mailto:occupysydney@gmail.com">email </a>us to join these activities.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1