Archive for 'Manus Island'
A Christmas message from Manus
Posted by John, December 24th, 2017 - under Manus Island.
Tags: Christian reaction, Christianity, Christmas
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Manus demonstrators converge on Australian cities
Posted by John, November 27th, 2017 - under Independent Australia, Manus Island, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers
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As the brutalisation of refugees on Manus Island becomes obvious, more and more Australians want them brought here, I write in Independent Australia
Josh Frydenberg and the Manus Island concentration camp
Posted by John, November 6th, 2017 - under Manus Island.
Tags: Concentration camps
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Manus Island shows us there can be no “business as usual” anymore. Shut down our cities to shut down the concentration camps. Bring them here.
Enough! – a poem
Posted by John, November 2nd, 2017 - under Manus Island, Poems.
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Enough! The island is quiet, tonight The overlord stalks the fence Enforcing the peace that is not Through water, food, Electricity, and denial Despair remains And determination To fight, to dream, to win We see you from our balconies Of love and fear We are not there But here And nothing changes, yet […]
The deceitful dogwhistling of Peter Dutton and Australian Values
Posted by John, April 26th, 2017 - under Lies, Manus Island, Peter Dutton.
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Apparently, it is Australian values to blatantly lie and incite hatred towards asylum seekers, I write in Independent Australia
Behrouz Boochani on what happened on Manus Island
Posted by John, April 15th, 2017 - under Manus Island.
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This is a Facebook post from Behrouz Boochani on what happened on Manus Island. Three refugees and some Australian officers have been injured seriously. A refugee from Sudan has been injured in his head and another Sudanese man injured in his chest. A Pakistani refugee has been injured in his stomach and is urinating blood. […]
Snap action Immigration Department Canberra Friday: Bring them here – let them stay
Posted by John, April 28th, 2016 - under Manus Island, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers
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We demand that those on Manus and Nauru all be brought to safety, to the Australian mainland, to be processed fairly in the community.
Of course Manus Island and Nauru detention centres are concentration camps, Mike Pezzullo
Posted by John, March 11th, 2016 - under Immigration, Manus Island, Nauru, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Department of Immigration and Border Protection
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Even a slight familiarity with history would help the head of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection Mike Pezzullo and others understand that the offshore and onshore detention centres are in fact classic examples of concentration camps. Pezzullo is not about historical truth; he is about denying the truth of history. If we as a society were to call these detention centres what they are, concentration camps, then the reality of Australia’s actions would become clear.
Lady Cilento Hospital staff lead the way with direct action to Let The Refugees Stay
Posted by John, February 13th, 2016 - under Lady Cilento Hospital, Manus Island, Nauru, Refugees.
Tags: Asylum seekers, Concentration camps
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The Refugee Action Committee in Queensland has called a solidarity protest in support of the brave staff at Lady Cilento Hospital for 12 pm on Saturday. If you are in Brisbane get along to this most important protest to let the 267 men, women, children and babies under threat of deportation to Australia’s concentration camps on Manus Island and Nauru stay and to begin the campaign to close down Manus and Nauru. Let’s spread the protests and build a people’s movement for the refugees. Make sanctuary a reality.
Nauru: the horrific war on refugee women
Posted by John, October 15th, 2015 - under Manus Island, Nauru, Refugees, Solidarity magazine.
Tags: Asylum seekers
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With news coming through that Immigration Minister Peter Dutton today said that ‘the federal government would not be “blackmailed” into allowing pregnant asylum seekers at Nauru’s detention centre into Australia for medical treatment’, I revisited Ian Rintoul’s article on the war on refugee women on Nauru. Writing a week ago in the magazine of the revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity, Ian says, among other things:
‘The shocking ABC 7.30 story highlighted just two rapes of Somali women. There are many more. Women freed to live in the community are now the victims of a reign of terror supported by the policies of the Australian and Nauruan governments. There were serious illusions that new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull would at least modify offshore processing—but the gloss is quickly wearing off… Nauru is not even a gilded cage—it is a house of horrors. Both Manus and Nauru must be closed.’
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