Take a tour of Australia's new high-tech Guantanamo Bay-style immigration detention centre now nearlng completion on Christmas Island. for more information visit the website of the Refugee Action Collective in Melbourne www.rac-vic.org and this posting on Melbourne Indymedia http://melbourne.ind ymedia.org/news/2007 /02/140942.php
Some highlights of a rally outside the County Court, Melbourne, on the day Lex Wotton was due to be sentenced in Townsville. Speakers included representatives of Indigenous communities around the world ...
See http://www.nit.com.a u
News of the sentence - six years imprisonment with a minimum of two years without parole -arrived too late to announce during the rally ...
On 1 November there were protests across Australia and internationally at the trial and conviction of Palm Island Aboriginal leader Lex Wotton - in Melbourne one of the speakers was Aamer Rahman ...
See also http://www.facebook. com/group.php?gid=32 952863226
On 1 November 2008 protests were held across Australia following the conviction of Palm Island Aboriginal leader Lex Wotton on charges of 'riot with destruction'.
This video, which is in two parts, is a heavily edited report on the protest in Melbourne.
(One of the speeches at the rally is posted in full as a separate video -
http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=NTVY5M PLGQ0)
Footage from a protest held at 12noon at the Chilean Consulate in Melbourne, Australia, in support of jailed Mapuche leaders in Chile, especially Patricia Troncoso, close to death after 105 days on hunger strike.
Video of anti-sweatshop action at Australia's largest fashion buying fair, September 2005
Visit website for fuller inf0rmation:
www.fairwear.org. au
This is a re-edited version of a video made in September 2005 from footage taken within the venue and interviews immediately after the action, except for the interview with Annie Delaney, which took place a few days later.
Footage of rally and march in Melbourne on Friday 28 September, one of many such events being held across Australia in response to violent repression by the military government in Burma ...
The march, with MC David Dryden addressing onlookers, and Cheryl from the Indigenous Social Justice Association Melbourne delivering a message from Lex Wotton.
