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Protesters in Auckland have stormed the Australian consulate on November 11 in protest at Australia's treatment of asylum seekers in prison camps, as well as the detention at Christmas Island of New Zealand citizens. The protest, backed by trade union Unite and Global Peace and Justice Auckland, comes amid an uprising by Christmas Island detainees in the aftermath of the death of Iranian Kurdish refugee Fazel Chegeni. Unite organiser Joe Carolan said <https://nz.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/30064069/christmas-island-the-guantanamo-bay-of-the-pacific-unite-union-organiser/> they were supporting all people in the Christmas Island detention camps -- asylum seekers and New Zealanders convicted of crimes in Australia who are under threat of deportation back to New Zealand, Stuff.co.nz said <http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/73923950/christmas-island-protesters-storm-australian-consulate.html>. https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/60622 -- “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man Under Socialism “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
