LL:INFO: New anthology: Many Faces Many Lives
Bear in Mind is a self-advocacy, support and community education organisation for people with an Acquired Brain Injury. After a series of writing/storytelling workshops, Bear in Mind West has recently launched an anthology-- and we're very proud of it smile See below for a general blurb. I've attached some quotes for your reading pleasure, and flyers to distribute around your networks. If you want these and don't receive them, or have any questions about the process-- just ask. - Ria - MANY FACES MANY LIVES I am different. But sometimes it crosses my mind, that maybe I am fortunate to have had, in one lifetime, two different ways of being me. MANY FACES MANY LIVES is an exciting new anthology by 10 very different writers- all living with an Acquired Brain Injury. There is life after ABI. MANY FACES MANY LIVES reflects (some of) the challenges, (some of) the possibilities- and (some of) the struggling, striving, diverse, creative glory. Copies now available for $10, plus postage. For more information, contact Ria at Bear in Mind West on 9329-3039 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Sub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsub: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
LL:INFO: Looming black budget
Found on the OZADVOCACY list. Sue Egan is from the Physical Disability Council of Australia. = -Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:54:57 +1000 From: Sue Egan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: looming black budget! Dear all Further to comments sent out over the last few days on cutbacks to programs and disability support pensions in the next Federal Budget, many people have contacted me through these lists and off lists stating their concerns about the looming budget and what it will possibly contain or rather take away from people who are already struggling to make ends meet and who want to live some kind of quality of life. This includes the negotiations that are taking place for CSDA, which will affect the services provided from States and Territories. We as a sector that will be hard hit, need to do something about this. So far the suggestions have been: 1.. Organise protests across Australia 2.. Send lots of letters to the Treasurer, Prime Minister,Opposition and politicians of all parties to let them know we are not happy with what is happening. Both of these suggestions are excellent ones, but I cannot do this alone so need help from you the readers and you the people that will also be affected. What are you prepared to do about it? This is our country too, we have rights to a decent life. We also vote and pay taxes every time we spend money, go to work, spend a day in the community, and we provide employment etc, so we have a large stake in this and should have a large say in where these funds do and don't go! After all we are constantly told how many there are of us (20% of the population or thereabouts these days) so why are there so few voices being heard? We could talk about the disimpowerment of people with disabilities, we could talk of the disenfranchisement of people who are reliant on support systems and people to live through a week. All of this is factual, but it changes nothing other than builds on the real needs of people with disability in our community, which we already know, so we would be preaching to the converted! What we really need to is to be noticed! To have a huge loud voice that says, we are not going to take this, we will not be put aside for the sake of dollars, we will not be ignored any longer. Our needs are as important as anyone else's! We make up 20% of the population of this country and therefore should have a considerable amount of power that comes with numbers (after all we are talking about numbers here aren't we $ or people!) Let me know what you want to do, I will help in every way possible as will Physical Disability Council of Australia. We want you to help and to suggest ways we can all confront and attack this, tell me what you can do personally, lets raise the profile the energy and the voices! I will add email contact addresses at the bottom of this message that you can start sending messages to stating your concerns etc. LET'S HEAR IT FROM THE PEOPLE! Using the words of a few of my friends and colleagues as an indication of the energy out there. People with a disability in Australia have a HUGE voice! You are correct in saying that we could have incredible power if only we all banded together! and Wouldn't it be terrific if all of the Australian disability movements responded to these upcoming challenges by banding together, ...and speaking with a united voice? and Count me in and It seems that we need a NATIONAL PROTEST, with lots of press coverage, to voice our dilemma, re these cuts etc. Maybe an organized peaceful sit-in, at each State Government Parliament House, in unison preferably, could be arranged. . If we don't do SOMETHING, we will lose the precious little we have now. We can't let the Government get away with this. Prime Minister John Howard email contact: http://www.pm.gov.au/your_feedback/feedback.htm Peter Costello Treasurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] I also have the email addresses for all MP's, Opposition and Senators and am happy to provide individual addresses if you want them or provide a list. Website for party offices: Liberal http://www.liberal.org.au/ Labor http://www.alp.org.au/ National http://www.nationalparty.org/ Democrats http://www.democrats.org.au/ Greens http://www.greens.org.au/ -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:URL: Petition for an Adequate Standard of Living
The National Coalition Against Poverty (Australia) is distributing a petition for the Right to an Adequate Standard of Living. The petition is available on the NCAP website: http://go.to/ncap Further information about poverty in Australia is coming soon. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Ria Strong Melbourne, Australia *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:QUERY: Homelessness-- organising for change?
Is anyone interested in organising for change (or establishing self-managed
projects) around homelessness issues?
Here in Melbourne, we are in the midst of consultations around the
Victorian Homelessness Strategy: http://hna.ffh.vic.gov.au/vhs/index.htm
(I have been invited to join the working group looking at input from
homeless and formerly homeless people.)
In Sydney, of course, homeless people are being swept off the streets--
can't have them visible during the Olympics, you see...
(A similar clean up of homeless people in the lead-up to the Goodwill Games
in Seattle in 1990 lead to the formation of SHARE, and a whole network of
self-managed projects: http://insideshare.hypermart.net/history.html)
There are several "international" lists looking at homelessness activism
and organising. These include:
HOMELESS (open to all interested people):
http://csf.colorado.edu/homeless/info.html
The Homeless Peeople's Network (restricted to homeless and formerly
homeless people): http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/
http://projects.is.asu.edu/pipermail/hpn/
These lists, I've found, are *very* US-dominated. I'd like to link up with
other Australians-- *especially* others with direct personal experience of
homelessness.
Interested?
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Ria Strong
Melbourne, Australia
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LL:INFO: Help human rights register
Original message from: David Morrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all, The Melbourne Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace (CCJDP) is again running its national register of domestic human rights developments. They started in 1997. The Human Rights Register is the most comprehensive annual 'grass roots' report card on Australia's compliance with its human rights obligations to date. It has never been more important than in this year, when our government has brought us such honour in East Timor, and such shame over mandatory sentencing and other matters. The deadline for this year is May 13. So far there are only 1 or 2 disability entries, and none from South Australia. Liz Curran, the E.O. of the CCDJP, is VERY keen to hear from disability organisations and individuals. The Commission believes that this year's Register could be 'pivotal' given the antics the Federal government is up to re mandatory sentencing. You can email directly to her at; [EMAIL PROTECTED] or, IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA ONLY, send contributions to me at; [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wonder how this could be relevant to people with disabilities, perhaps you could look back at the communique on human rights from the National Caucus of Disability Consumer Organisations posted to HotNewsSA a few days ago. And only today I discovered that people with intellectual disabilities are being imprisoned in New South Wales ten times more often than the general population. A few years ago Disability Action did research which strongly suggested that 80% of people in the Adelaide Women's Prison could have a mental illness. One has to wonder what impact mandatory sentencing might be having on such people in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. There is a description of the Register taken from the 1997 media release which launched it at; http://www.melb.catholic.aust.com/topics/humanri8.html I've reproduced it below. + "Statement of Liz Curran, Executive Officer, Melbourne Catholic Commission for Justice Development and Peace (CCJDP). The CCJDP wishes to announce the establishment of a central register for recording developments in human rights to be operated by the Commission compiling information from the different State jurisdictions and from the Commonwealth jurisdiction. The CCJDP is seeking information from over 120 NGOs in order to make the register comprehensive. Churches, disability advocates, ethnic communities, community legal centres, and law societies and others have been asked to participate. Ms Curran stated, "In light of the significant retreats from justice in recent times the CCJDP thought it timely to establish a register of both positive and negative developments in human rights. It will take into account Australia's obligations as a nation under both domestic and international human rights obligations." The Victorian Human Rights Working Group (which also has some representation from national NGOs), has increasingly raised concerns about the cuts to the Equal Opportunity Commission, its restructure and other legislative initiatives. The CCJDP feels the establishment of such a register is imperative. The focus of the register will be domestic but can incorporate Australia's signing or refusal to sign Conventions on human rights or human rights clauses in trade agreements. Ms Curran stated, "We hope the project will create information sharing between the states and will raise public awareness on recent developments on human rights in each state and federally, perhaps leading to public meetings or forums/seminars on a State by state basis." HOW THE AUSTRALIAN HUMAN RIGHTS REGISTER WILL OPERATE The Register will be a large book like the old ledgers in offices in the 1960s and hence attractive to media as a photo opportunity. We will divide the book into a Federal section at the front and from the back upside down into each state jurisdiction. NGOs have been invited to complete information sheets noting the human rights development, the issues surrounding the development and whether it pertains to a Federal or state jurisdiction. The details forwarded to our office would then be entered by date into the register in nice hand writing. Entries for the register can be backdated to 1 September 1997 and the register will be launched in the first week in May 1998. This means significant developments such as the introduction of the Anti-Teoh Bill, the Human Rights Legislation Bill 1997, the impact of mandatory sentencing and the Native Title Bill could be incorporated m the register." David Morrell Disability Action Inc. Rights, equity and empowerment for people with disabilities Web site: www.ozemail.com.au/~disactn Phone: +61 8 8352 8599 Freecall: 1800 805 495 TTY:+61 8 8352 8022 Fax:+61 8 8354 0049 Postal: 62 Henley Beach Rd., Mile End SA 5031, Australia Disability Action is funded by the Commonwealth government's Department of Family and Community
LL:DDV: Day of Action: Young People in Nursing Homes
DAY OF ACTION: APRIL 1 YOUNG PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES? YOU'VE GOT TO BE JOKING! We should all be able to get the support we need, in the place we want to live-- but many young people with disabilities are living in in aged care nursing homes because there is nowhere else for them to go. People with disabilities need housing. We need support. And we need choices-- real choices. JOIN THE DAY OF ACTION Meet at the Melbourne GPO at 1pm on April 1st. We will then march to Parliament House. Travel costs may be reimbursed-- and taxi vouchers are available. For more information, contact Victoria Chipperfield at Headway Victoria: Phone: (03) 9642-2411. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LL.VD -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:URL: thehungersite.com
http://thehungersite.com/index.html Click the "donate free food" button on the site-- and site sponsors pay for food, donated to the hungry via international relief agencies. You can make one donation of food per day-- so visit daily! -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:REM: Community Networking conference
http://www.civ.org.au/cn99/ Community Information Victoria the Australian Community Networking Alliance Engaging Regionalism Conference: 29 September - 1 October, 1999 Ballarat University, Victoria, Australia -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:URL: Community Organising and Development
http://uac.rdp.utoledo.edu/comm-org/ COMM-ORG, the Online Conference on Community Organising and Development -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
LL:DDN: Conference: Human rights, disability and education
From: Ann McCutcheon [EMAIL PROTECTED] CALL FOR PAPERS The Social Relations of Disability Research Network the Australian Human Rights Centre invite you to participate in a Conference Human Rights, Disability and Education.c.Rights, Disability and Education; to be held in Sydney on 17th September 1999 Papers are invited addressing the conference themes: Education as a human right for people with disabilities Equality in education for people with disabilities Human rights education for the broader community about the human rights of people with disabilities Papers relating to any aspect of the general theme will also be considered. Abstracts of 300 words are to be submitted by June 30th. We will confirm acceptance of papers on July 31st. Enquires should be addressed to Ann McCutcheon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) SPONSORED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ,AND THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES Ann Mc Cutcheon Social Relations of Disability Research Network School of Social Work, Rm 1528, Matthews Building University of New South Wales Sydney, 2052 Australia Tel +61 (2) 9385 1870 fax +61 (2) 9662 8991 LL.NI -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
