[Nettime-bold] FW: solidarity & freedom @ woomera2002

[ben moretti <bmoretti@chariot.net.au>]

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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: woomera-announce@lists.southspace.net
>
> - please circulate -
>
> Call for global solidarity
> Freedom @ Woomera2002
> http://woomera2002.com/
>
>
> What is Woomera?
>
> Woomera is located 500 kms from the nearest city of Adelaide, in South
> Australia.  It is best known as the location of Australia's largest 
> onshore
> internment camp, and the scene of the most determined resistance to
> Australian Government policies of automatically and extrajudicially
> interning people who arrive in Australia by boat and without papers.
>
> Thousands of people are detained in prison camps around Australia for 
> months
> and sometimes years - and since the establishment of a military 
> blockade of
> Fortress Australia some months ago, on Pacific Islands and in 
> Indonesia, in
> camps funded by the Australian Government.  This policy has been met 
> with
> ongoing and protests by those who have been interned, generating a 
> growing
> movement of opposition outside the camps.
>
> The town of Woomera was built by UK and Australian military forces on 
> land
> seized from indigenous peoples, who have since waged a struggle against
> nuclear weapons testing, uranium mining, and (more recently) the 
> proposed
> toxic waste dump.  Woomera is situated in a vast military prohibited 
> zone,
> under the control of the Department of Defence.  Close by to Woomera are
> also three uranium mines, and the US-CIA/Australian Spy Base, Pine Gap,
> pivotal to the proposed US's 'Missile Defence Shield'.
>
> : woomera2002 : festival of freedoms : autonomadic caravan : direct 
> actions
> :
> 28 March - 2 April, 2002
>
> This Easter hundreds, possibly thousands, of people from around 
> Australia
> will make the journey to Woomera to make the connections between the
> enclosures, colonialism and war.  We hope you can join with us in your 
> own
> way, no matter where you live in the world.
>
> "We are making the journey to refuse the death, pain and confinements 
> that
> are manufactured in the name of The Economy.  We refuse the caging 
> behind
> razor wire and the new world borders fashioned so that capital, by 
> reserving
> for itself the 'right' to move around the world, can better enforce
> austerity, misery, the earth's destruction and the 
> 'race-to-the-bottom'."
>
> To read the rest of the call to action, and for more information on the
> issues, go to http://woomera2002.com/
>
> Solidarity
>
> We have been heartened by the many messages of support from around the
> world, and from those unable to make the trip.  Many have asked how 
> they can
> help.  Below you will find a few suggestions.
>
> We would also like to note that while no other Government practices
> mandatory and extrajudicial internment of sans papier, and while the
> struggles of the invisible here are amongst the most determined, we hope
> that not only will people support woomera2002, but they also take the
> opportunity to draw the connections with their own struggles, the 
> struggles
> of sans papier, and against the terror of the enclosures and 
> dispossessions.
>
> March 30th
>
> Of course you can show your solidarity at any time; but we envisage 
> that as
> the protests in Woomera gather by the 29th, the authorities might well
> respond severely to protesters, including those inside the internment 
> camp -
> as they have done time and again when those behind the razor-wire have
> called for freedom - including with tear-gas, water-cannon and beatings.
> Above all, we would ask you to respond to this.  Here are some 
> suggestions
> of things you can do:
>
> - Send faxes to the Australian Government and Opposition - the policy of
> mandatory and extrajudicial internment is a bi-partisan one.  See below 
> for
> fax and emails.
>
> - Make a noise in front of the Australian embassy or consulate near you.
>
> - Organise protest at one of the other detention centres in Australia:
> Maribyrnong, Villawood, Port Hedland, Curtin and Perth.  Or create some
> direct action at a detainment centre, department office or estate near 
> you.
>
> - Protests for the rights and freedom of sans papier everywhere.  The
> Australian Government has established offshore internment camps in the
> Asia-Pacific, and there are also a number of detention centres in 
> Europe and
> the USA.
>
> - Participate online in woomera2002 - details on how to do this will be 
> up
> shortly on http://www.woomera2002.com/
>
> - Get involved in noborder actions near you, or get them going.  See
> http:noborder.org/ and http://antimedia.net/xborder/ for links to 
> numerous
> noborder groups and events around the world.
>
> - Help us out with funds and/or skills.  See the woomera2002 website.  
> There
> are specific actions and events listed at the woomera2002 website which 
> you
> might also like to support.
>
> http://woomera2002.com
> email: infodesk@woomera2002.com
>
> ===================
> Fax numbers and email addresses:
>
> Prime Minister, John Howard
> Fax: +61 26273 4100
> Or submit an email at:
> http://www.pm.gov.au/your_feedback/feedback.htm
>
> Leader of the Opposition, Simon Crean
> Fax: +61 26277 2307
> Email:  mailto:s.crean.mp@aph.gov.au
>
> Minister for Immigration, Philip Ruddock
> Fax: +61 26273 4144
> Or, submit an email at:
> http://www.minister.immi.gov.au/general/contents.htm
>
> Shadow Minister for Immigration, Julia Gillard
> Fax: +61 26277 8457
> Email: mailto:julia.gillard.mp@aph.gov.au
>
> Regular mail address for all politicians:
> Parliament House,
> Canberra 2006
> Australia
>
> =======================
> :: woomera2002 ::
> ----infodesk-----
>
> - message ends here -

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