geert on Tue, 26 Mar 2002 22:42:02 +0100 (CET) |
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[Nettime-bold] Help Australians Organize Migration Politics Protest |
(this weekend there is a very special demonstration coming up in woomera, in the desert, thousands of kilometers away from australia's major urban centres. there are an amazing amount of people starting to make their way. nik will be nettime's special reporter from there and he will send a daily digest from woomera. /geert) From: <info@interactivist.net> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:37 AM Subject: Help Australians Organize Migration Politics Protest jim@autonomedia.org sent you this story from the Interactivist Info Exchange Help Australians Organize Migration Politics Protest Help Australians Organize Migration Politics Protest Join the Global Fax Jam by "Boat People" March 29, 2002 ACT GLOCALLY A government-sponsored xenophobia disaster is enveloping Australia and WE NEED YOUR HELP. In contravention of UN conventions on refugees, Australia incarcerates asylum seekers in detention camps around the country, run for profit by American private prison corporations. The suffering of the imprisoned refugees, many of whom are children, is a matter of record. Our government seems to believe that we are so far away from everyone else that they can ignore UN obligations without censure from the rest of the world. We call upon artists/activists everywhere to help us agitate for change. Let the Australian government know that the world IS watching. On March 29, 2002 we are mobilizing across Australia and your solidarity is requested. We ask you to send the fax attached here to your closest Australian embassy, and ask your friends and colleagues to do the same. If you have other things to add, please write them on the sheet. Fax numbers for many embassies are at the end of this post. Read the rest of this story and post comments at http://slash.interactivist.net/article.pl?sid=02/03/26/1734252 _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://amsterdam.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold