Anti-racism
Youth candidates to witness NT intervention
In July, Socialist Alliance election candidates will be taking a trip to the Northern Territory to personally witness conditions under the federal government's intervention into Aboriginal communities.
Indigenous Justice Rides 2010!
In July, people will be travelling from NSW and Qld on a trip to Alice Springs to attend a convergence for Aboriginal rights. Aboriginal communities in the NT are fighting to defend their land, law and culture against racist policies and government land grabs.
The Justice Rides are about exposing the realities of life under the NT intervention, and supporting Aboriginal people's fight for justice.
Indigenous and non-Indigenous people will travel together and demand:
- End the intervention: Aboriginal control of Aboriginal affairs
- Reinstate the Racial Discrimination Act: Abolish income management
- Real jobs and real wages: No Basics Card scam
- Stop black deaths in custody
- End uranium mining on Aborigianl land: full land rights now
Along the way, the buses will be stopping at a number of significant places where Aboriginal communities have been involved in long land rights struggles against mining corporations and racist state and federal governments. This includes Mutawintji, Ampilatwatja and Roxby Downs.
If you'd like to come along, or for more info email: justice.rides2010@gmail.com
Why capitalism needs racism
Why capitalism needs racism
The recent murder of Nitin Garg highlighted continuing violence against Indian students. It has led some to ask “Is Australia a racist country?†and put others on the defensive about Australia’s racist image. The ongoing Northern Territory intervention, which required the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act, and the demonisation and persecution of refugees by both government and opposition politicians suggests that racism is alive in Australia. The following article is from the new and updated What Resistance Stands For, which Resistance branches around the country will launch in coming weeks. To find out more, order your copy, or attend a launch near you, visit www.resistance.org.au.
Indian student attacks: Denial of racism will lead to more attacks
Stop
the Attack on Indian Students
Deputy
PM Julia Gillard’s different reactions to two media controversies
say a lot about the denial of racism in Australia. After performers
on the television show Hey
Hey It’s Saturday
did a blackface skit Gillard was insistent that “obviously I think
whatever happened was meant to be humorous and would be taken in that
spirit by most Australiansâ€. However,
Gillard failed to see the humour when the January 5 Delhi Mail
Today
published a cartoon depicting a Ku Klux Klan type figure wearing a
Victorian police badge saying: “We are yet to ascertain the nature
of the crime.â€
The cartoon referred to the January 2
stabbing murder of Indian university graduate Nitin Garg as he walked
to his workplace: a Hungry Jack’s restaurant in Melbourne’s
western suburbs. Gillard reacted furiously and said, “Any
suggestion of that kind is deeply, deeply offensive to the police
officers involved and I would absolutely condemn the making of a
comment like that.†Both comments, and other statements by the
government regarding attacks on Indian students, deny, and
consequently refuse to deal with, the racism that exists in
Australia.
Rally Against Racism
A fascist group has called a rally in Melbourne "against immigrants and against Islam" for 12.30pm on the steps of Flinders st station on Friday 9 April. We have endorsed a peaceful rally that is happening in the same day and place to stop the racists. Come to the rally.
