Dear List, Is anyone willing/able to help here? Liz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave/Cherry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:49 AM Subject: site update 3 April
> Dave here, 3:30am Wed. 3 April. > > I'll keep this brief. Thanks, everyone for the phone calls and other > expressions of encouragement. I think Telstra to Telstra mobile > calls are free after 9pm each night, so we will try to stay up for > such calls if any of you have Telstra mobiles. Our number, once > again, is 0407-238805. We can now phone out as well as receive > calls, and our email is starting to work better. > > Our email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was returned yesterday. Can > anyone spot an error in how we typed that, so that we can correct it? > > I (old man that I am!) am on three prescription drugs, and I did not > bring extra with me. Zantac and Zocor are not urgent pills (although > if someone has a few they can spare, it would be nice). However, I > also takes Vioxx for arthritis, and without it, I am finding it hard > to move around. Unfortunately, other arthritis medication has > resulted in ulcers, so that Vioxx is all I can take at the moment. > If you have any, can you send it care of Ross Parry, post restante, > Woomera? (I am not allowed to pick up mail, or to go to the > hospital/doctor in Woomera to get the above medication because of the > bail conditions.) > > We're gradually getting ourselves set up at the Pimba roadhouse > (Spud's), which seems the best place to have lots of contact with the > public. All banners were confiscated by the police, so we have to > start over with paint and some blank canvas that was donated to us on > Monday. We'll try to keep things really compact, making the bus > itself the "base" here, and letting tourists, etc. pop in to discuss > the issues. We're thinking of calling it the "Refugee Embassy", and > of printing up the article by Hugh MacKay from the SMH about how we > are going to explain it to our grandchildren if we DON'T act now. > > We hope the more militant demonstrators do not mind, but we are going > to try to project a really straight image to counteract the > distortions that the media has been operating on so far. > > Ross put in a written application to the area administrator > yesterday, asking permission for us to go to the gate to seek > clearance to visit detainees. He was told that the administrator is > "busy", but that he can return this afternoon (Wednesday) We will be > embarrassed if we DO get permission (not likely!), because we do not > have any names and ID numbers of actual detainees. PLEEEZE, does > anyone have names and numbers that they can send to us? If so, can > you do it asap? We will then have to write to those people and get > letters from them asking us to come and visit them. Remember, we're > just representatives here. We are counting on you guys to come up > with some of this information for us, through your many contacts, etc. > > A correction to our earlier update. We did not technically have > permission to be on the site in front of the detention center, but we > DID have permission to be on the local disused footy oval, and we had > it until April 3rd (today). We had assumed that permission for the > one locality had been shifted to permission for where we all finally > camped, on the basis of the fact that they let us stay there for > three days. Police showed us a written statement saying that we > needed permission to stay there, but they had deleted the reference > to the Newman Oval. We feel that constitutes deception on their > part, and that we should have been told to move to the oval (if, in > fact, it was necessary for us to move at all). Instead, they just > told us to clear out altogether. > > Our money is going fairly quickly at the moment, but we are hopeful > that this will ease as we become more settled. If anyone wants to > help financially, they could send a phone card. If we get more than > we need, these can easily be passed on to detainees, who are always > in need of them. Remember to send all mail to Ross Parry, Post > Restante, Woomera. (Sorry, I don't have the postcode at the moment.) > > We are hoping to get a cheap price for the use of a tiny room at the > roadhouse, which we can use for electricity to run the laptop, charge > the phone, etc. as well as showers, washing clothes, storing > perishables (in a real fridge), etc. > > If anyone writes, it would be nice to get some press clippings too, > as we saw almost nothing of the coverage over the weekend, and the > only local paper is the Adelaide Advertiser. > > We had two ABC radio interviews yesterday... the Paul Bevin Show in > NSW, and another in Melbourne in the afternoon (4:15pm Melbourne > time). The morning interview went very well, but the afternoon one > was cut short and said very little. > > If you have email addresses for any media (but especially radio > stations and specific radio programs), could you please send them to > us. Radio is our best bet in this situation, because they can do > phone interviews quickly and cheaply, without the expense of sending > someone out here. > > To summarise, things we need are: > Detainee names and ID numbers > Media email addresses and phone numbers (especially radio > programs and stations) > Email addresses of people to add to our update mailouts. > Phone calls of encouragement > Medicine: Zantac, Zocor, but especially Viaoxx. > Press clippings (from day one onwards) > Phone cards > > Till next time! > > Ross and Dave > -- > visit our website: http://www.jesuschristians.com > > -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit <http://www.acegraphics.com.au> to subscribe or unsubscribe.
