Thursday, July 25, 2013

Emergency Protest – Rally for Refugees – and The Worst of Woomera

 
* 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

* Stop deportations to danger



1:00pm Saturday July 27 at the State Library, Swanston & Latrobe St. CBDRudd has slammed the door shut to refugees. The ALP government is deporting every single asylum seeker who arrives in Australia by boat to PNG and will also deny them the right to resettle in Australia. Not even Howard implemented such draconian anti-refugee policies.
Now is the time for us to take a stand and fight for human rights!
 

  
The Worst of Woomera

 
The Worst of Woomera by Dave and Cherry Mckay
Published by the Refugee Embassy
48 Pages – English
Originally Published in 2002.
This booklet discusses the difficulties of the refugees detained in Woomera Detention Centre in the early 00s – the ones who remained or were recaptured after the breakout, which the authors participated in, until its closure in 2003. It contains both the background stories of the refugees and the experiences they had in Australia’s most notorious mandatory detention centre while waiting for a visa.
 Link: http://www.bastardarchive.org/?p=213