National Day of Action
Endorsed by Refugee Action Collective, ACTU and NUS
In Victoria, endorsed by: Victorian Trades Hall Council, Ethnic
Communities' Council of Victoria, Australian Arabic Council, Victorian
Council of Social Service, Justice for Asylum Seekers, Victorian TAFE and
Apprentices Network
Free the Refugees
RALLY
1pm, June 3
State Library(cnr Swanston and Latrobe sts)
march to DIMA and then Flinders Street Station
Speakers include:
MC: Rod Quantock
Usama, Refugee
Sharan Burrow, ACTU
Barbara Rogella, nurse from Woomera
George Lekakis, ECCV
Kate Davison, NUS
Judy McVey, RAC
a.. End mandatory detention
a.. Full rights, not temporary visas
a.. Funding for settlement, not detention=20
a.. Stop racist scapegoating
Refugees fleeing persecution, torture and the fear of death arrive in this
country seeking safe haven. Instead they are locked up in remote and
inhospitable desert compounds surrounded by razor wire - what the Bishop of
Perth has rightly called "concentration camps". End this disgusting racist
policy.
Please bring a contingent of friends, workmates, classmates, neighbours-and
bring a banner, lots of noise, singing, chanting, effigies, etc.
Posters available at Trades Hall bookshop, cnr Victoria and Lygon sts
For more information: phone 0418 347 374 OR 03 9386 4815. Email:
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Website: www.vicnet.net.au/~rac-vic RAC meets every Tuesday 6pm at Trades Hall
RAC-Vic Steering Committee: Michele O'Neil (Secretary Vic Branch Textile,
Clothing and Footwear Union, Vice-President Trades Hall Council), Brian
Pound (Secretary Vic Branch Media, Entertainment & Arts Alliance), Michal
Morris (Ethnic Communities' Council of Victoria), Chris Chaplin (State
Secretary, Australian Greens-Victoria), Judy McVey (Socialist Worker),
Tahir Cambis (filmmaker and activist), Eve Bodsworth (President University
of Melbourne Student Union), Kate Davison (National Education Officer,
NUS), Professor Judith Bessant (Director Social Policy and Advocacy
Research Centre, Australian Catholic University), Nabil Sulaiman
(Australian Arabic Council)
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