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Bring asylum seekers to Australia! - From the newswire: October 16, 2009 - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he will not be moved by a group of over 250 Sri Lankan asylum seekers moored in West Java, Indonesia. The group were intercepted last weekend by the Indonesian navy, following a personal plea from Mr Rudd to Indonesia's president. The group of ethnic Tamils are staging a hunger strike to highlight their plight - refusing to leave their wooden boat in Merak Harbour. WA Human Rights group Project SafeCom says Mr Rudd "should show some real guts and arrange a rescue flight to Indonesia to pick up the 260 Sri Lankans whose...

WA to introduce unprecedented powers to stop and search - From the newswire: OCTOBER 13, 2009 - WA Police will be given unprecedented powers to stop and search people under a new plan unveiled by Premier Colin Barnett. The new legislation, set to be introduced into parliament in coming weeks, means police can now stop and search people and vehicles in designated areas without having to prove reasonable suspicion that a crime has taken place. Barnett will also move to scrap Labor's cannabis laws and introduce tougher legislation within a fortnight, along with tough new 'anti-graffiti' laws. See Perth Indy stories: Tough Cannabis Laws || Tough Graffiti...

Barnett to introduce tougher anti-marijuana laws for WA - From the newswire: October 13, 2009 - WA's current marijuana laws are about to change. Premier Colin Barnett says the cannabis-related legislation was the first in a series of steps the Government would take to send a clear anti-drugs message to the community and toughen penalties for people who broke the law through drug-related offences. See govt media release The new cannabis-related laws will: - Prosecute those in possession of more than 10g of cannabis - See subsequent offences for possession being prosecuted as criminal offences. - Prosecute people for cultivating cannabis plants. Under...

Peace Activist appears in Court. - Christian peace activist Tyler Culpepper appeared in the Manukau District court yesterday charged with wilful damage and being unlawfully on a building. These charges were a result of a protest action in January this in which Tyler altered the front of an arms component factory so it said ?Rakon Kills?. Tyler had taken this action to express his deeply held opposition against Israel?s invasion of GAZA. The January invasion resulted in the deaths of hundreds of civilians, the targeting of civilian infrastructure and the widespread bombing of heavily populated areas....

Coordinator General?s dam report gets ?thumbs down? -  ...

Climate Camp shuts down Dendrobium coal mine - Sunday AM - 7.05am. Currently,  four people from Climate Camp 2009 have scaled and locked themselves onto the coal conveyor belt at the Dendrobium coal mine near Helensburgh, NSW....

ACC cuts funding for sexual abuse counseling - From October 27 ACC is changing its criteria for covering the cost of counseling for survivors of sexual abuse. Under the new criteria, survivors will only be eligible for ACC covered counseling if they have been diagnosed as having a mental injury, as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV....

Pittsburgh Indymedia meluncurkan media G-Infinity untuk KTT G-20 - Pittsburgh Indymedia meluncurkan media G-Infinity untuk KTT G-20, untuk menyatukan suara-suara akar rumput dan isu-isu yang terkait dengan kebijakan G-20 dari sudut pandang masyarakat luas.G-20 KTT menyatukan para pemimpin nasional dari 19 negara besar yang mengendalikan 85% dari kekayaan dunia untuk menetapkan kebijakan ekonomi dunia. Apakah ini sebuah forum demokratis untuk keputusan-keputusan yang mempengaruhi seluruh 203 negara dan 6,7 miliar orang di dunia? Pittsburgh, sebagai kota tuan rumah, dinyatakan sukses dalam pemulihan ekonomi, dan ekonomi hijau. Pittsburgh Independent Media...

It's not on Roxon - Nicola Roxon?s Media release - 'National Campaign Targets Illicit Drugs', with my comments....

Brimob Tembaki Warga, 2 Orang Kritis - Up Date Kasus Takalar(Takalar, Sulsel 10/8), Sedikitnya 7 orang warga tertembak aparat Brimob dalam kejadian di hari Minggu (9/8). Sebelumnya terjadi ketegangan antara warga Polongbangkeng Utara, Takalar dengan pihak PT Perkebunan Nusantara (PTPN XIV) yang sedang berupaya untuk mengolah lahan warga yang masa HGU-nya berakhir 3 tahun lalu.Ketegangan memuncak dengan aksi provokasi berupa lemparan batu dari arah PTPN XIV, yang disertai dengan deru mesin traktor yang bising. Hal ini memancing perhatian warga yang sejak pagi berjaga-jaga untuk menghalau proses pengolahan lahan tersebut. Baca ...

Emergency for IMC in Athens and Patras (Greece) - For all these reasons we ask you if you can host the Internet sites of the IMC of Athens and Patras on your server. We must preserve them, especially when they are closed or are near to be closed, and to react against censorship and promote freedom of information. Emergency for IMC in Athens and Patras (Greece) A period of State widespread repression and brutality followed after December 2008 Rebellion. During and after the rebellion, the political party of extreme right wing LAOS (Popular Orthodox Party Alert) and the Greek state decided to press the IMC of Athens and Patras, on the grounds...

The Life and Times of Melbourne Indymedia - The Melbourne Indymedia collective met in February after a long hiatus to discuss its future. We decided that we did not have the energy required to continue the project and that therefore the collective had come to an end. We are however keen to help others take up the challenge of producing an activist based, participatory news site, whether that be a Melbourne Indymedia, an Australia Indymedia or something all together new. We feel such a space is very much needed. Several Melbourne Indymedia members expressed interest in mentoring such a project. If this interests you please contact us...

Melbourne Indymedia Suspends Publishing - Open publishing has been suspended on Melbourne Indymedia as numbers in our editorial collective are insufficient to manage the site effectively and responsibly. We realise that MIM has played a vital role in reporting activist news from Melbourne, around Australia and internationally. To this end the present collective will be assessing options for how best to provide an activist news service in the future. If you wish to get involved, please contact us, or subscribe to our mailing list....

Indigenous Elder wins Environment Award - The Australian Conservation Foundation's (ACF) Peter Rawlinson Award was given to 'Uncle' Kevin Buzzacott, an Arabunna elder, on World Environment Day in 2007 for two decades of work highlighting the impacts of uranium mining and promoting a nuclear free Australia. Uncle Kev has been a tireless campaigner for indigenous rights including reclaiming the kangaroo and emu sacred totems from the Coat of Arms from Parliament House in Canberra and accusing the Federal Government of genocide. [Full Story]...