Emergency Protest – Rally for Refugees – Stop Rudd’s PNG Plan
* Don’t let Rudd dump refugees on PNG.
* Welcome refugee boats – Let them land, let them stay
* Increase refugee intake from Indonesia to save lives
Now is the time for us to take a stand and fight for human rights!
Endorsed by – Refugee Action Collective (Victoria)- Raaf Activists- Labor for Refugees- ChilOut-Brigidine Asylum Seeker Network- Tamil Refugee Council- Shamama Victoria (Hazara community group)- United Voice- NTEU Vic Division- Wikileaks Party- Wikileaks Australia Citizens Alliance – Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre -RISE (Refugee, Survivors & Ex-detainees- Melb Uni Campus Refugee Rights Club- Monash Refugee Collective -KommonGround- Global Intifada (3CR Community Radio- Melbourne Street Medic Collective- Radical Women- Freedom Socialist Party- Counter Act- Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA)- Free Media Collective – Mildly Amusing Action Squad (MAAS) – These Machines Cut Razorwire (Musician)- The Conch (Musicians) – The Socialist Party – Socialist Alternative – Red Flag Fortnightly Newspaper – Keep Left (poetry night) – Robbie Thorpe (Activist and First Nations Elder)- Treaty Republic (Indigenous website) – UnderThe Hammer(Activist, Arts Space) – Aunty Barbara Williams-Weston (Yorta Yorta Elder from the Cummergunja Mission)- James Connolly Association Melbourne – Indigenous Social Justice Association – Melbourne Industrial Workers of the World – Melbourne Branch – GRRL FEST Official (Musicians)- Socialist Alliance – The staff of Bar 303 (Bar) – Save Public Housing (campaign group) – Australian Mental Health Human Rights and Law Reform Coalition – Unite, Fight Back & Stop the Privatisation of Public Housing- Students for Palestine – Hollaback! – Melbourne – Cherchez la Femme- SlutWalk Melbourne- The Nerve (Band)- Ezekiel Ox (Musician) – Suwa Squatters Airwaves – FightDemBack (Aust & NZ anti-racist internet group)- The Oppositional Disobedience Disorder Support Group – National union of students education officer (Clare Keyes-Liley)- Akm Avustralya (Anatolian Cultural Centre Australia) – Solidarity- Alliance for Workers’ Liberty – The NUS Queer Officers (National Union of Students)- Australian Jewish Democratic Society- Progressive Law Network
Freedom Flotilla to West Papua
Hi, our supporters in Melbourne look forward to join the rally on Saturday, as a group of many West Papuan refugees including that have grown up as refugees in PNG we are horrified by this new disgraceful policy. If you would like to add our endorsement to this rally you are welcome, we’re sure you’ve already many speakers but if you would like we would be able to organise speech from our brother Jo who grew up as refugee in PNG. We are also currently submitting opinion article to news on this issue. In short if we are able to strengthen this campaign in any way we will do our best!